Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-01
CAPITAL TO TAKE ON LIFE
Return Of the President works q Won
derful Change in Washington.
DOLLAR CAMPAIGN FUND A FAILURE
Chsirmen of Both ConEressiOnal COM
naittees ADMIT shortage OF Cash
with which 60 WAGE
Political Fight
tFrOm a stan Correspondent


WASHINGTON, Sept. S0-(specisl.)-
With the return Of President Roosevelt TO
Washington Monday afternoon the ma
tional capital will again be the real seat of
government, In fact as we'll as In name.
With President Roosevelts retirement to
Oyster Bay, Immediately after the close Of
congress, Washington took on a dullnees
such as has not characterized II IN many
years 1t was a dreary. deserted town.
Heads Of departments and cabinet
officers followed the president to
their summer homes. Chiefs OF bu-
reaus went upon Their annual va
cations, the politicians were out in the
country looking after their fences and only
the people who could not get away from
Washington, either because OF business or
the lack OF the wherewithal to carry them
away were the only ones remaining here
The newspaper men were compelled TO stay
and write what news they could Of poll
tics and other subjects in which the public
show more OF less interest. All this. how
ever. will be changed when the president
comes back. Cabinet meetings will be re-
sumed, politicians will be reporting at the
executive ofices and once more the air Of
Washington will be surcharged with busy
activity, and that 10 what the president
does for the nations capital.
Dollars Fail Come.
The dollar" campaign fund inaugurated
by both political parties looking to the pop
ularization of politics, 1t is conceded by the
chiefs in charge of the two national con-
gressional committees has not been howl
ing success. The people have utterly
failed to recognize their great opportunity
to pay the expenses of the campaign and
as q result the rival committees have gone
out on a still hunt for money At demo-
cratic headquarters they admit that they
have some money, but nothing like the
money they had In former campaigns.
Chairman Griggs, who is a successful beg
gar Of campaign shekels. frankly admits
that the dollar contributions are falling of
and that his mail IL getting considerably
lighter than 1t was in the beginning Of the
campaign. OF course the real hard cam
psign will not begin before October /. but
from that time on day and night the SPELL
binders Of both parties will be going up and
down the country urging the voters to get
out and do their duty otherwise the coun-
try will 60 to the "demnition bow vows"
Vice Chairman Tawney, OF the republican
congressional committee, who Is In town
today, said that his committee was feel
ing the general apathy so far as campaign
contributions went. and that unless there
was a decided increase in the amount OF
the contributions a number OF extremely
close districts would be lost to the republ-
cans because OF the inability OF the COM
mittee to get the vote out. Mr. Tawney.
however. is confident that the republicans
will have comfortable working majority
In the Sxtieth congress, a majority which
can be easily handled by Speaker Cannon
and which will be on hand when votes are
needed. 1t Is a fact that the majority Of
liz In the present congress is extremely un-
wfeldy. Speaker Cannon had to exert all
the power Of his ONCE and even had to 30
so far as to threaten members with the de-
feat OF their pet measures IL they did not
remain In Washington and assist by their
vote In putting on the statute books the
laws which will make the Fifty-ninth con-
gress one OF the most notable in our po-
| liticsl history.
Noted Character Gone.
The death OF Colonel Ike" Hill of Ohio
| removes a picturesque character from
Washington political life. Mr.. Hill for
many years has held position In the house
Of representatives, when the democrats
were in power as sergeant-at-arms, and
while the republicans We're in power he
held a minor position in the house, but al
ways by the unanimous vote OF the demo-
Gratis, to whom the republicans assign
certain number of places.
Colonel Hill was no mean talker, but
never an orator. His homely SMILES and
figures of speech have entertained many a
party OF politicians in the cloak rooms of
! the capitol or in the corridors of the ho-
tells at convention time. and no democratic
convention In Ohio was ever complete until
Colonel Ike" Hill had arrived, sized up the
! situation and gone In and out among the
boys. giving them the benefit OF his advice
and counsel. In 1896 Colonel Hill returned
from the Chicago convention. where Bryan
| was nominated. and advocated the yellow
metal This is the way the colonel put It.:
! I'm a gold bug now. From now on wear
yellow Jacket. I've been a democrat In
Licking county. Ohio, ever since was born
Every night OF my life / have said. Now
/ lay me down to sleep by the bedside of
democracy. I'm what you call a veteran
democrat. ] went out TO my home conven-
ton in Columbus for silver and out of the
twenty-one members OF the state central
committee only found four for silver
when there should have been fourteen. |
made a speech and then the four went over
TO gold and went with them"
Speaking OF the Parker campaign, Colonel
IKE" firmly believed that the New York
Judge would have a walkover. One night
In "Shoomaker's" which is a well known
LIQUID refreshment resort for politicians.
statesmen, business men and others at the
national capital Colonel Ike declared
himself thusly: We've got the republicans
licked to a good moral certainty unless they
buy us" After the election Colonel Ike"
was reminded of his prediction and re-
marked: Eyes, the republicans won because
they had found money enough TO buy US"
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