Bisbee daily review., 1906-09-02
UNIONS CANNOT BEAT
 UNCLE JOE'
Democrats of Illinois Fail to Comply With Primary Law, and Their Candidate Is ROl- ed Out.

The plans of labor unions 10 retire "Uncle' Joe Cannon jo the resdul- Hess of private life seem to have gone agley IL appears that the Demo crats of the eighteenth Illinois dis tglcl failed to comply with the proyis- igns of the new primary law requiring that ali parties elect their delegates to congressional conventions at the sane time. This would leave MT. Cannon with only prohibiJionlst can. dida,e to oppose him, and there isn't much ihlihood that sufficient num- Der of Democrats could be persuaded to vote Tor the Pronibitionist to ser iously embariass the Speaker. That he is in no danger of defeat, under these circumstances, becomes especial ly apparent when 1t is recalled that two years agc Cannon had plural fly If about i5.9G0 and a clear major fly over his opponents Of nearly IT, COG.
 The kindness. or csrelessness, of the eighteenth .listrici Democrats, therefore, leaves Speaker Canno1 ire 10 devote his time to helping less for tunate colleagues without thought of how affairs are progressing a5 nome. One of the first lights in which he will tlke hand will be that wasing up in Maine against Representative Lit tleaeld L&t,lcfeli and Cannon are anon- the most conspicuously marked Dr ths labor leaders for defeat, and new that Uncle Joe" need no longer fea~ their wrath he hastens naturally te tne succo- 10 his fellow outcast.
 r. the uaicns succeed in putting Lit t,giesl out Of business, it will be a sufficient ficht for their first year in pclirlts and they can afford to loose their otaer conflicts. All the in aus-cs cf the administration and all the power ol the Republican organi- zarica is back of Littleield and he has wide margin of Republican votes ro go CT. Should he be defeated, no Congressman who antagonizes the un- ions will be secure in his seat; and, under such circumstances, not many Congressmen would antagonize them. IL is possible, then, that we may come to have a government of the unions, by the unions. and for the unions. Oh, well. is the retort, it might as well be that as a government of the trusts, by the trusts, and for the trusts. And no one seems to think it worth while to ask where the common man comes in, the every day consumer who Is neitb- CT labor unionist nor trust mag nate. .~js
 Tn New York state both the Demo crats and Republicans are playing in great luck. The Democrats are lucky because the Republicans are fighting among themselves, and the Republi cans are lucky because the Democrats have inter-party strife.
 The Democratic fight, of course, is between Hearst and anti-Hearst fac tions, with the gubernatorial nomina tion and control of the party machines as the prizes. In this fight, however there is involved the issue of Hears doctrines, something that affect the welfare of the people, and the struggle can be viewed without repulsion. The New York Republican fight, on tht other hand, would seem to have noth ing back of it other than the sordit ambitions of two men, the question O whether an Odell or Higgins shal be boss. It is pitiful issue upoI which the Republicans are asked tt battle. and it is a pitiful choice O evils which the party has.
 From conditions in the Empire Stat, 1t is a relief to turn to Ohio and fint a spot where courageous manhood ans high-minded statesmanship seem act ually to be prized. In the Twenty First Congressional district, in whicl is embraced most of the city of Cleve land. Congressman Theodore E. Bur ion is a candidate to succeed himself Mir Burton is not popular, politically with Senator Dick and the powers tha control the Ohio Republican machine but he is popular with the people O the Twenty-first district Dick ant the machine powers would gladly de feat Burton if they dared try, but fo the sake of their own skins they hay, to keep hands of.
 Not only is Mir. Burton popular witt his Republican constituents but th, Democrats like him equally as well Two years ago the Democratic candid ate for Congress withdrew, in orde that Burton might have clear field kIdfed by the Republican machine art possibly defeated After lookin, awhile at New York. doesn't that seen q queer thing for the Democrat, candidate to have done again thi year. Mayor Tom Johnson and othe leading Cleveland Democrats advocat, the practically unanimous return o Burton by refraining from making Democratic nomination. while stil other Democrats would like to see Bur ton placed On the Democratic ticket
 And how has this man Burton SC cured such hold upon the confidenc, and affections of his people? Chief. by doing his duty as he saw it, and re fusing to play peanut politics. Burtol k erudite. independent and fearless There is nothing blatant about his in deDendence. but he never hesitates t, speak his mind in a quiet, scholarl, way: and he neves seems to think 9 political consequences % himself IT the House of Representatives he l, chairman of the committee on riv sr, and harbors and believes tho people', money should be expended oa interna Improvements rather than in prepar a ton for WAT He fs c,aSusrrrcuSI,