The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-10-12
Good Chances of Democrats
Carrying Next House
Truth About the seth
Congress.
MeSsrs. Editors:

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senttatives on November 9th,
next, is good. When we started
out in this campaign nobody ex.
pected to win the House and it
looked like a herculean task to
overcome the ia majority.
1t looked like a wild stretch of
Imagination for any man to claim
that we could overcome this ma
jority. | am not claiming it now
but | do say that the prospects
look good. not only to wipe it
out but 10 leave safe, working
Democratic majority in its stead.
Ii looks to me very much as
though the people of this country
were coming to their senses con.
corning Roosevelt, that they
want change and intend to
evince their desire by electing a
Democratic House of Represent
atives. The people know that
something is wrong but they do
not know exactly where to place
the blame. can tell them hon
estly that the bug under the
chip, the negro in the wood pile
is this Roosevelt administration.
If they will get that safely lodged
in their heads they will swat the
administration one awful swat
on Nov EN- Der 9th, by electing a
Democratic House. They could
not hit Roosevelt a harder lick
than to do Just that very thing.
He knows just what a Democratic
House means for him and his adj
ministratiOn. 1t means inveSti-
gatiug committees, digging and
n0slng into every department and
men on those committees who
Will investigate and go to the
bottom Of every rotten transac-
ton, no matter how loud it NAV
smell 1t is that which fIightens
the souls of our Republican adj
versaries. Congre $ sman j m
Sherman, of New York, Chair
man of the Republican Congress
sional Committee, in newspaper
interview some time ago, con
cedes that they will lose forty
seats in the next House. We only
need fifty eight seats to win the
House aud if the landslide to
wards Democracy means loss of
forty seats to them, why should
they assume that it will stop
there and no. continue to a
finish? We are hearing good
reports from almost every State
aud section in this country which
indicates that the people are ripe
for revolt and want a change that
leans more towards equality
under the law and the chance for
poor man. | am not setting
myself up as a prophet, but in
the last four years | have fore
casted many political events and
every Que has arrived on SEIZED
ule time and justified and cOrr0b
Grated my statement.
President Roosevelt says that
the 18th Congress at its first SEES
sion effected more good legiSla-
tion than any other Congress in
many Years. The truth is that
it effected nothing of any perma-
nent value, while it rejected more
good measures and adopted more
bad ones than any other Congress
in the history of the United
States.
1t rejected the Tillman Bill to
prevent contributions by corpo,
ratlonS to party campaign funds,
although that excellent bill pass
ed the Senate.
1t rejected the Williams Bill
to reduce the tariff on all articles
on which the duty now exceeds
100 per cent. the Philippine Tar
if Bill, and all other tariff prop
OSitiOnS.
1t rejected the anti-injunction
bill, which had passed the House
af Representatives unanimously
on May >, 1902.
1t rejected the eight hour bill.
after the Committee on Educa.
tlon and Labor had reported it
favorably.
1t rejected the bill relating to
suits brought by employees of
railroad and mining corporations.
1t rejected the bill relating to
contempts in Federal Courts and
providing for trial by jury in
cases of indirect contempt.
1t rejected the prison contract
labor bill.
1t rejected the bill relating to
hours of labor of the railroad EN-
ployees.
1t rejected the La Toilette
Amendment to the Railroad Rate
Bill, a proposition endorsed by
organized labor, defining the liza
billty of employers for injuries
to employees while engaged in
the performance of duty, and
passed a sep rate bill, opposed
by organized labor. deceitfnllY