The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-25
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NO QUESTION AS, TO WHO STRUCK TOM PATTERSON.
BaiIeyss BIoyv Was "a Devil of Lfck,1 Acc0rding to Savoyard-Mr. stea- icy's "Fsventy Years in the
 Press Gallery.
By Saxoyard.
washington, Feb.

| he gave him a devil of a lick It was HI about conscience in politics, and
 lnSidassntaily the question also arose arose ocratic party in Congress 10 furnish the Roosevelt administration with the requisite number of voters 1t requires 10 carry out its wishes. It seems that mere was Democratic caucus of Senators the other day and they re- solved by more than a two-thirds ma lority that there is a Democratic par ty in the country. notwithstanding
 that 1t has been lost strayed or stolen
 for more than dozen years, except
 mas,nao,.ss mnem Mcsikipiey or Roosevelt needed de
 caucus also resolved that to be Dem-
 ocratic Senator, ] member of that au-
 gust body must vote with his party
 pact to the enemy.
 MT. Tom Pattel son. Senator from Colorado, labeled a Democrat, declar- ed his Independence of the caucus and cans were delighted. Having no con
 science of their own to parade they
 ss tg seize th oPPp%Srtunity oP %
 sons conscience. Henry Cabot Lodge
 prepared "a resolution but MT. Pat
 te terson on fforestalled him with string terson and his Republican sympa- thizers. It seems that MT. Patterson,
 having bolted Cleveland in 1892, is
 ambitious to be Roosevelt Democrat
 MT. Roosevelt is in need of four
 Democratic votes in the Senate to vii
 talize ts his policy of making this eoun,
 republics to the south of us to satis-
 fly the monstrous claims of Shylocks everywhere eve vs5y,whr The Republicans are
 makes 1t party issue. It Is true they held no caucus. They don't have to What is the use of caucus when there is Roosevelt to order them what to I0Y The DamnprQfa aNrpnta6 fhQ challenge. They argued that the Re- publicans were solid all the. time and the time. ana they resolved that this was one of the times when the Demo- cratic party would be solid. or know the reason why The result was the caucus order to oppose the San Domin-
 MT. Pattersons conscience rebelIed, and in 1892, he seeded, He made a Science and tn the RepuSiicans " we're we're greatly struck. with 1t, for they found themselves very much In need of Mir. Patterson's conscience at that time, Democrats conscience
 When MT. Patterson concluded, Joseph w. Bailey rose and in. five min of cards. He showed how fiimsy 1t was, and then stated the correct position. Patterson had been elected to the Sen ate because he was the nominee of a
 
 party without a caucus than you can chop down tree with a handle with out an axe. Mir. Bailey argued with great force that nobody was bound by the action of the caucus to violate his conscience. If Mir. Patterson's con science would not permit him to obey the Democratic organization, his duty was was clear Let him do as he did in 1S92-get out of the party.
 Bailey Is the oldest constitutional lawyer In the Senate--.the strongest Pattersor's position was absurd. He is not so brilliant a man as Carmack, not nearly so accomplished. He made his hearers pity Patterson; Carmack Patterson. Bailey covered his adver- sary with a consciousness of absurd ity; Carmack would have made him
 But the best of the whole thing is that it shows that there is a Democratic party in the Senate, and that it Is re- solved that there shall be no more non sense. The caucus meant this. If a Senator's conscience requires him to vote for Roosevelts policies, he must | get out of the Democratic party and | It is the first. act of virility of which | the Democratic party has been guilty | since 1892. have more hope of the | old thing than I have had in more than | Hams will take my advice he, too, will resort to a caucus at the south end of the Capitol.
 MT. Q. O. stealey, the veteran cor of The Louisville Courier Journal, Is the author of a most val table book and I may say indispen- table to every American citizen who expects to be(a public man and hopes Q be a Congressman. The title of 5rssy he w9Tk oi;,dsv is Twenty Years in the Con ngressional Ie gisIation from the For y-eighth to the Fifty-etghth Congress, r. 'oth inclusive. Thus the man who is politics for twenty.two years will find 1t h re. One of the lame Ii ,laces in the American Congress is the nen in regard to and concerning Ameri an political history. It is a rare Con- sressman who could tell you in 1906 what were the political issues in 1886. Adams that he knew all American his ory. That Is what made him the old ruiser he was in Congress the last would say to every ambitious young nan who expects some day to thunder n Congress, read American politics, nd MT. Stealey's book is a very im- ortant and very valuable contribu-
 MT Henry Watterson. the accom- lished editor of The Courier-Journal, ook: and did 1t in his, characteristic nd inlmitable style. and supplemental 3 Mir Stealeys narrative of nearly 200 ages are sketches of some four score f the leading public men who have ppeared in Congress the past twenty ears. These sketches were written v Washington correspondents-all but ne Senator Carmack, himself a news aper man second to none, wrote the hapter on the late Isham C. Harris
 is in his brilliant vein and a labor f love, a tribute to his friend and lonitor All the other sketches are by IT, Stealoys fellow correspondents nd friends. Some of the public men { nus pictured are Nelson w. Aldrich lillian B. Allison, Joseph w. Bailey, homas F. Bayard, J. c. $. Black ] urn, w J Bryan, Joseph c. Cannon, . w. Carmack, Champ Clark, Charles ! . Crisp, Vice President Fairbanks, A. 1
 German, Benjamin Harrison, Thom- $ A. Hendricks, David B Hill W.
 Holman, J. J. Ingalls,, l.. A A Nor I an, William R. Morrison, Samuel J andall, Thomas B. Reed, John Sher- il ian, Allen G. Thurman, John Ran t nIph Tucker. George G. Vest. n. W. V oorhees. William L. Wilson, John 4 harp Williams and many others. d It is not only a valuable history. il Inf if is full of interesting personal a ossip It is the Congressional his ,ry of twenty years.
 I'm Too Much of a Hurry.
 Journal T The Englishman's view of his govern fl ent is more rational than ours He ~ ever expects 1t to work miracles On I 10 other hand he always expects if e.