The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-06-01
CONGRESS NOT A KINDERGARTEN

statesman from Ponca, Dixon county,
Neb., who has been for three years
past, is at the present time, will inev-
itably be until next year and would
like to be for many years yet to come,
representative in congress from the
Third district OF Nebraska) in nam
ing the reasons why he believes he is
entitled to be returned for the third
time to the halls of legislation In
Washington at the expense of the peo-
pie of this district, gives the fact that
he has not yet had much Of an oppor-
tunity to do anything for his constitu-
ents and insists that he be sent back
again so that he may take another kin.
dergarten course, preparatory to one
day rendering service to his coun
trymen and thus accomplishing things
for his district that are constantly be-
ing accomplished by other congress-
men for their districts, and which the
republicans who sent him there the
first time know all too well he has
failed to do In his initial four years.
Mr.. Mccarthy takes the attitude that
he has been abused by the people OF
the Third district who seem to have
expected that he ought to have identi-
fed himself with some purpose, good
or bad, down at Washington, and, with
half injured pride and half apologetic
tone of voice, he begs just another two
years chance in Washington so that
he may get started trotting in the
class of real law makers.
While we must agree with Mr. Nc
Carthy in so far as he insists that he
has not done anything yet to speak
Of, yet we are forced to take issue
with him on the point that 1t is neces
sary for congressman to be in Wash
lngton for a half dozen years before
he can get down to business. And we
must insist that If representative
after four years of experience in con
gress, and with the advantage of be
longing to the majority party, has
failed to make good, 1t is an unmis
taxable sign that he can never become
the real thing, though he be sent tC
Washington for generations to come.
We do not want to discourage Mr.
Mccarthy in his ambitions to become
statesman, but heartily believe tina
after man has spent two terms il
congress, under favorable conditions
he ought to have positively identifie,
himself with some one principle a
least and to have done something tc
ward pushing at least that one prime
pie along But so far as we have bee
able to learn, Mr.. Mccarthy of Ponc
, has as yet failed to connect himsel
in any slightest degree with any mei
) sure, good or bad, that has come u
: before the American public during hi
: term of luxury at the Third district
= expense Unlike Buster Brown, M
. Mccarthy has not even so much, S
u far as we can learn, as resolved to q
II anything worth while, to say nothir
II of doing It.
5 And so for this reason, If there wei
no other, the people of the Third di
. trict of Nebraska as a whole, and Il
T. republicans of this district in parti
Is ular, have right to demand that NJ
e. Mccarthy, having been given ia
e chance and having failed to accept h
II opportunities, now step down and o.
IL and allow some other man to get in
~ the harness for the sake Of this di
III trict's rights.
T. And, although Mr.. Mccarthy al
Is his friends insist that four years
e not long enough for a man to ha
e. gotten start toward accomplishil
IL things In congress, we wish to tu
'o' back the pages of history for a fe
'' years at the most, and to call up
rs fore the minds Of the people Of t
III Third district of Nebraska the recor
er of two men who went from Maids
county under unfavorable crcu
Sc stances and either one Of whom d
ne almost every day of his life at Wa.
10 ington, more than Mr.. Mccarthy b
Oh done during his entire two terms
ta' service. And we believe that we
lat tray no loyalty to republicanism VIII
ht- we select for this contrast as two m
rus who did things, a representative a
IFS United States senator who W,
nd chosen from the ranks of our politi
o. opponents. Indeed, with such recol
OF as these men have made, belonging
on the minority party in congress, tn
nat is all the more reason why a rep
zen lican from this district should h;
me succeeded eminently as we'll
all Let us glance at the record of
uiu late John S. Robinson of Madison, v
w went into congress as a minority m,
ber and who, despite that handle