The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-03
VICTIMS OF PEOPLES BALLOTS
nEEEAJED RUPUBLICANS LIMP
ING INTO CONGRESS.
w,dsu ortn's Political Equilibrium Upset by
y . -standpatter MctIesry, Lacey.
Iandis. BabcOck. wharton. Michalek
and Many others Left Out IN the COId.

Ianiis. RabcOck. wharton. Michalek
snd Many Others Left out IN the Cold.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1.-The lame ducks,
manned in the recent Congressional shoot
ing match. are limping into Washington
n get what solace may be derived from
three months more of public career. There
i.a large bag Of them .lnearly all Repubi-
cans. and many who have been counted
"a the choicest birds Of Uncle Joe's prize
oovev. The peoples ballots winged some
beautifully feathered birds in their political
flight and brought them down to the level
OF mundane creatures whose means Of
ocomotion ia not by p%inions. Il 10 a
sreyious disappointment to soar proudly for
asht. ten or. IA in some instances, sixteen
and eighteen years in the Congressional
armament and then be forced TO come
down and give place to some duckling
shope political pin feathers are just sprout-
ing. but this has been the fate OF two score
Of those who constitute the present men,
bership of the House.
Among those with whom fate dealt 90 I'M
Kindly there probably Is no more disap-
pointed man than James W. Wadsworth
OF New York-~fsrmer Jim--the chair
man Of the House Committee on Agricul-
t,ire, who with a majority Of $1,000 back
Of him two years ago felt secure in his belief
tina, he would be able to round out tw enty
years in the lower house. Like Mrs
oTeary's cow. which upset the lamp M
caused the destruction Of the city Of Chicago,
It was a sister bovine which upset Wads-
worth's political equilibrium and destroyed
his career as a public man. Before the
meat inspection bill came up and the chair
man Of the Committee on Agriculture
proved himself a ready letter writer, there
was no man whose prospects for a return
20 Congress were brighter. His opponent,
Peter Porter, used the COW as his emblem
and rode to victory with the assistance
Of Democratio Endorsement with a ma
'ority OF more than 5000 votes. The joke
Is on the Democrats, however, for Porter
has declared himself a Republican and
the Democrats might by reason OF the
division Of the Republican vote betw cen
Wadsworth and Porter nave elected their
own candidate.
Another whose cha9rin over defeat 10
deep is the Hon. James T. McCleary, mem
Der Of the Committee ON Ways and Means
and the standpattest OF the standpatters,
whose downfall was brought about through
no other reason than that he had made no
change in the sacred Dingley schedules,
An ungrsteful constituency decided that
was not what IL wanted, and accordingly
voted TO send q low tariff man to represent
the district in the House. Mr.. McCleary's
majority two years ago was more than
1000. and he is surprised at the result of the
recent contest.
Major John Fletcher Lacey of Iowa, who
has had many a hard fought battle to retain
his seat in the House for sixteen years,
was caught between the upper and neither
millstones of the Cummins n anti-Cum-
minsites and had his political life ground
out. The Republicans of Major Lacey's
district were badly divided between the
friends and enemies OF the Governor, and
as the candidate for Congress was not able
TO take sides with both factions he suffered
accordingly. Two years ago his majority
was 10, 900.
Then there is the Hon. Joseph W.. Bah
cock, who for six successive terms plotted
the House Republicans to victory in Con-
gress campaigns. He found it impossibla
however, as soon as he relinquished the
Craftsmanship OF the Congressional COM
mittee, to steer his own bark away from the
reefs. Two years ago he pulled through
by 200 majority. but this time his scalp is
dangling at the belt of his long time enemy,
senator Robert Nj. La Toilette, and In the
Sixtieth Congress Mr.. Babcock's district
will be represented by a former kentucklan
Of the name of Murphy.
The Hon. Frederick lands, too, has
come in with a pitiful fiutter. He Is a lame
duck of the little teal variety and expected
, defeat this year no more than he did an
election TO Congress five OF six years ago,
when he was an underpaid newspaper
reporter in Washington, picking up grains
u news scattered upon the Congress helo.
He was elected first in 1902, and two years
ago an admiring constit uency sent INN
here by 5000 majority: his year MS OPP
ponent had 1000 majority,
Another limpinR one is the Hon. Edmund
spencer Blackburn OF North Carolina ehe
victim of an unfortunate political feud
between the rival Republicans OF the Tar
heel State. Federal oficeholders slangh-
tered Blackburn because OF a row over
patronage. He will contest the seat.
The wheel OF fortune which turned 30
unexpectedly two years ago in favor OF
that youthful statesman the Hon. Charles
y Wharton of Chicago revolved again TINS
year, as the result of which the kid OF the
House, as he il called, drew an unlucky
nnmber. and after the three months ses-
sion he will return TO his stock yards. The
killing there is humane beside the slaughter
which he met on election day. wharton
says that during his campaign he was
thrown out of one establishment seven times
through seven different exits. He returned
20 Washington to find the main exit OF the
House omen TO him without distinctions.
His colleague, the Hon. Anthony Mlchalek
The first man OF Bohemian blood ever elected
10 4 OngreSS ana VINO aDanuOueu IN ALOOoiy
business TO become a legislator. VIII now
have an opportunity 10 return 10 his counter.
A sorry looking fock OF lame ducks are
those which come from Missouri. They
are birds of the %barnyard variety. where
the water in the pond is muddy. they are
not inclined TO quack much, az each ex-
pected defeat, and the only one who came
10 on the Roosevelt wave OF two years age
10 survive the storm this year " Edgar
Clarence Elise of Kansas City. There Il
Slepper and Fulkerson, Melbourne a1d
don one rsra ayt,, the Hon. Arthur Phillips
Murphy. Murphy was q game bird; ~
even defed the master Of the mock, Onclt
Toe. and fought Increasingly for Okiahomf
statehood, going TO the extent OF boitine
from the remainder of his kind and Hooking
with the opposition. -
Then there is a long list OF others bnl
prly two or three in the Democratic mock
Among these are Hopkins Of Kentucky
Who vigorously opposed immigration ant
ooasted Of a constituency purely American
Despite his laudation Of their AnerlcanisI
they voted 20 retire him to private. ln'
after one brief term. Richardson OF IN