Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-04
NOT FOR Mr.. BABCOCKI
The Charge of the Next Con-
gresSionaI Campaign. !
THE "0LD GUARD" TO REST
His Lieutenants Indisposed Without
His Help. ,
TAWNEY MAY BE SELECTED
Republicans Expect to Lose at Least
Forty Seats In the House and
May Be More.
TAWNEY MAY BE SELECTED

Can Representative Babcock and his old
| time victorious stan of assistants be coerced;
| into making another fight for election of a
| republican House of Representatives? This
| is question which the wise old politicians
IN the House are asking each other nov-a
Ihe answers are not altogether affirmativ4j
i won't play unless Bah does" SAYS
Jesse Overstreet, long time the competent
secretary of the committee.
They won't get me into the game unless
Bah and Jesse are there" says GOV. Hun.
vice chairman and all around hustler OF
the committee
be too busy" says Jim" Sherman
OF New York, unless Bah and Jesse and
Gov Hull sit in the game" And so IT goes.
AS Tor Bab he swears up and down ha
VIII nave no more of 1t. He thinke he has
served a. ms term in the service of the COM
hit'ee de has won six successive congress-
slonal victories, and some of them wera
gained at the expense of much labor ann
mental and physical strain.
"Bab" Himself Rather Spiritless.
On. but over and above all that. Mr. Rah-
COCKS friends know that he Is rather spirit
less over the situation anyhow He is said
10 feel that he is not wholly In touch with
the administration In the House He has
oeen an insurgent' all through this Con-
gress. He fought the statehood bin and
me Philippines tariff bill. He is not a tarsr
standpatter and is a pretty indenendenr
sort of citizen all around
he feels, 1t is said kind of like felIfn,
mem an 70 take a running jump and go
piuiiip Pun 10 thunder The opposition is after
MIN In his own district and he saws whar
is the use of working to make a Republican,
House and lose fellows own district
lhere is Jesse Overstreet, declared TO be
the most faithfal secretary the republican
congressional committee ever had Twelve
years OF hard work aiding Chairman Bab
cock to get republican majoriiies in the
House at times when the great policies or
the republican party were hanging upon a
working majority in the lower branch of
Congress. .a..s
What's the result" said Mr.. overstreer
to friend the other day, '.the administra-
ton took the last shirt off my back and
gave Ii to Beveridge," referring to the only
political appointment of importance in the
Indianapolis district, which went TO Sena-
tor Beveridge not long ago.
SO it seems that the "old guard" ara
likely to sit by the freside In the coming
campaign and smoke the pipe of content-
ment, allowing others to wage the battle
Everybody in the republican ranks is
agreed that 1t is going to be a great old
Hsht, this coming campaign for Congress.
some OF the wise ones have already fig
ured out the possibility of losing about
forty districts. That means change of
eighty votes OF course that won't wipe
out the republican control of the House.
Tor the majority Is now liz. But some OF
the tfmid ones say that IL conditions are
such that they may lose forty, who knows
how many more will go?
Tawney Favored by Administration.
The administration is said to favor Rep
resentative Tawney of Minnesota for chair
man. He is acknowledged on all sides to
be good man, If he will take the place.
but it is not certainty that he would
or 10
paignfng, as he managed the speakers
bureau at Chicago in the last national cam
paign.
He will have had a pretty busy half year
of work chairman OF the appropriations
by the time Congress adjourns
and he may not feel inclined to buckle
down to IL for the summer and fall with his
nose to the grindstone. for that's what the
job means However. II President Roose-
welt and Speaker Cannon put it up TO him
good and strong chances are thought to be
he would have to acquiesce.
Whoever takes the Craftsmanship. IL Ia
said to be very evident that pickings are
going to be mighty thin next campaign.
Where the money is TO come from is o.
question that will keep the campaign man.
ager awake many a night Some rare old
plum trees have been deadened in the past
year, and there won't be the shake DOWN
Of former times.
The public outcry against corporation
to campaign funds is likely TO
be gladly seized by many former contrib
utors to deny the gentleman from the con-
gressional committee who Is passing the
hat" It's a cinch that no insurance COM
pany will give up. Mr.. Babcock's friends
are very much mortified that he only got
50, 800 out of the insurance companies last
campaign. They thought he was better
than that. But the next chairman is not
likely to get sou markee from that source
rhe railroads won't shell out; they at
feud with Congress.
ITO thunder with your old Congress-.
they say. mo Congress can be worse
than this one. Go as far as you like with
ala nnffA lAx.lr nf
the pessimistic ones in Congress that the
next contribution will be. as one of them
said( "a kind of dollar dinner affair, and
not so many plates at that"