The Washington herald., 1906-12-03

ing into Washington TO get what solace
may be derived from three months more
of public career.
There is a large bag of them, nearly all
Republicans, and many who have been
counted as the choicest birds OF Uncle
Joes prize covey. 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 locomotion is not by
pinlOns
It is a gTievous disappointment to soar
proudly for eight ten. or, as in some in
stances. sixteen or eighteen years in the
Congressional armament. and then be
forced 10 give place TO some duckling
whose political ptn-feathers are just
spTOuting; but this has been the tate Of
twoscore of those who constitute the
present membership of the House.
Among those with whom fate dealt so
unkindly there probably is no more dis
appointed man than ]. W Wadsworth
of New York-"Farmer Jim"-the chair
man Of the House Committee on Agricul-
ture. who. with a majority of 13,O00 back
OF him two years ago. felt secure in his
twenty years in the Lower House.
Like Mrs. OLeary's COW, which upset
the lamp and caused the destruction of
the city OF, Chicago. it was sister bovine
which upset Wadsworth's political equi-
hbrium and destroyed his career as
public man.
Before the meat inspection bill came
and the chairman of the Committee on
Agriculture proved himself a ready letter
writer, there was no man whose prospects
for return to Congress were brighter.
His opponent Peter Porter. used the COW
as his emblem and rode TO victory with
the assistance Of Democratic endorsement
with a majority of more than 5000 votes.
The joke is on the Democrats. however.
for Porter has declared himself a Repub-
lican, and the Democrats might, by reason
of the division of the Republican vote be-
tween Wadsworth and Porter, have elect
ed their owa candidate
McCIenry Deeply Chagrined.
Another whose ehagrin over defeat is
deep is the Hon. James 4. McCieary. mem
Der of the Committee on Ways and Means
and the stand-pattest Of the stand -patters,
whose downfall Was brought about.
through no other reason than that he ad-
tariff schedules. and an mgrateful con-
stituency decided that that was not what it
wanted, and accordingly voted 10 send
low-tariff man to represent the district in
the House. Mr.. McClearys majority two
years ago was more than 5000. and he is
surprised at the result of the recent CON
test
Mai. John Fletcher Lacey OF Iowa. who
has had many a hard-fOught battle 20
retain his seat in the House for sixteen
years, was caught between the upper
and neither millstones OF the Cummins
and anti-Cumminsites and had his po-
htical life ground out The Republicans
OF Maj. Lacey's district were badly di-
yided 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 10000
Then there is the Hon Joseph W Bah
cock, who for six successive terms pilot
ed the House Republicans TO victory in
Congressional campaigns He found it i'm
possible. however. as soon as he relin-
quished the craftsmanship of the Congress
sional committee, to.steer his own bark
away from the reefs. Two years ago he
pulled through by 200 majority, but this
tlitiF llAS SJ1Ab II uslilSlAllE at the Dtlt UA
his longtime enemy. Senator Robert NJ
La. Toilette. and in the Sixtieth Congress
Mr.. Babcock's district viii be represent
ed by a former Kenluckian of the name
Of Murphy
Fred LRndis Badly Beaten.
Tae Hon. Frederick Lands. too. has
come in with pitiful fiutter. He is
lame duck OF the little teal variety. and
expected defeat this year no more than
he did an election TO Congress five or six /
years ago. when he was an underpaid
newspaper reporter in Washington pick
ing up grains of news scattered upon the
Congressional field. He was elected first
I'm 1902 and two years age. an admiring
constituency sent him here by S,OOO ma
jority- This year his opponent had 1900
majority
Another 'limping one is the Hon. Ed
mund Spencer Blackburn, of North Caro-
lima, the victim of an unfortunate po-
liticaI feud between the rival Republicans
of the Tar Heel State Federal Office
holders slaughtered Blackburn because
of a row over patronage, He will con-
test the seat
The wheel of fortune which turned so
Unexpectedly two years ago in favor of
that youthful statesman, the Hon.
Charles S. Wharton, of Chicago, revolved
again this year. as the result of which
the Kid of the House, as he is called
drew an unluCky number, and after the
three months session 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 returns to Washington 10 find the
main exit Of the House open to him
without distractions His colleague, the
Hon. Anthony Michalek the first man
of Bohemian blood eyer elected to Con
gTess, and who abandoned his grocery
business to become a legislator. will now
have an opportunity 10 return to his
country,
MissouriRns Badly Manned.
\ sorry-leolSing flock 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, as each ex-
pected defeat and the only one who came
in on the Roosevelt wave of two years
ago, to survive the storm this year, is Ed
gar Clarence EBfs.. Of Kansas City. There
is Klepper and Fulkerson, Welborn and
Rhodes, Tyndan and Shartel. and in ad-
dition one rara avis, the Hon Arthur Phil
lips Murphy. Murphy was a game bird
He even defied the master Of the flock.
Uncle Joe, and fought increasingly for
Oklahoma statehood. going to the extent
of bolting from the remainder of his kind
and flOcking with the opposition.
Thpr fhara ic n Tonu Lief of ofs,.r-