The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-07-13

bv his colleagues. 1t will be mid win
ter in South America while he is there,
and that is much to be preferred to
midsummer in Washington.
1t is given out that Mr.. Roosevelt is
to have summer of real rest, and that
Il quarantine against visitors has been
established at Oyster Bay. Sycamore
hill will be as hard to approach as the
inside of German. fort. Whoever de-
sires to see the president must have
business of such tremendous importance
that it cannot be handled by the de-
partment heads in Washington nor yet
by Secretary Loeb at the temporary exc
cutive offices in Oyster Bay town. In
stances of such vitality important bus
mess. it is believed, will be few and far
between. Mr.. Roosevelt admitted, just
before he left Washington, that the re-
cent session of congress had gotten on
his nerves. and he feels he is entitled
to long rest something he has not
had in more than four years. There is
no disposition in any quarter to deny
this is the presidents due. The sug-
gestion is made, however, that more than
likely Mr. Roosevelt also got on the
nerves" of congress. He certainly gave
Capitol Hill statesmen Il busy winter
and kept them pretty well in a state OF
guessing from December until July.
Yet the members of congress have no
chance to seek rest in seclusion-at least
the great majority of them nave not.
The country must be saved again this
year. and in the mind of the average
congressman its salvation depends in no
small degree upon his reelection.
Sunny jim" Griags of Georgia, chair
committee, is already hard at work i'll
his efforts to capture the next house of
committee had headquarters open, i'll
fact, Il month before congress adjourn
ed, but campaign work began in earnest
last Monday morning. The committee
will maintain headquarters i'll Washing
ton, with branch in Chicago, the cam
paign in the western states to be con-
Quoted from the latter. Congressman
Lloyd of Missouri and Rainey of Illinois
will be in charge of the Chicago head
quarters and will have full authority in
directing the western fight. Judge
Griggs will remain in Washington, as
will also Congressman Bowers of Mis-
sissippi, who is chairman of the cam
paign committee of eleven having direct
charge Of the contest. The committee
this year has very ornate quarters in
the Munsoy building, one of Washing
toms new sky scrapers, and there a force
OF clerks and stenographers is hard at
work. Everybody connected with the
campaign is deeply convinced that this
is the year of democratic opportunity.
They recount the republican sins of
commission and omission in the session
of congress Just ended and are unable
to see anything else but a democratic
majority in the next house There isn't
much money in sight to pay campaign
expenses, but Chairman Griggs has an
abiding trust in Providence and is serene
III confidence that the ravens will not
overlook the needs of his committee.
As yet the republicans have made no
move in the campaign. Congressman
Sherman of New York, who is chair
man of the republican committee, says
headquarters will not be opened before
Aug. i. As usual, the republican head
quarters will be in New York with a
branch in Chicago. The republicans,
this year, are up against the same
proposition that their democratic OPP
ponents have wrestled with in recent
congressional campaigns isn't any
money in sight. Democrats have become
hardened to this chronic state of cam
paign poverty and are much less troubl-
ed therefore, than are the republican
managers. 1t appears to be the accept
ed belief that the Frosted mitt" instead
of the glad hand" will be extended to
this years solicitors of campaign CON
tributions. Certainly, many of the old
sources of revenue are forever cut Off
and unless new sources can be located
there isn't going to be much doing in the
way of campaign funds.
The first session of the Fifty-niuth
congress was remarkable for the mum
Der of personal clashes that occurred be-
tween members i'll both the senate and
house. Senator Bailey of Texas was the
stormy petrol of the session. Senator
Bailey had his fighting clothes on from
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