The National tribune., 1906-10-18
THE DEMOCRATIC VIEW.

Democratic Congressional Committee,
sums up the present political situation
in this campaign as follows:
The outlook for the Dem ocrats car
rying the House of Representatives on
Nov next is good. When we started
out in this campaign nobody expected
us to win the House, and it looked like
hereulean task to overcome ia ma
jority.
d. 1t looked a wild stretch Of imasina-
ton for any man to claim thGt We
could overcome this ElI. .o-.t!-. I af-l
not claiming it now, buC 1 d say that
the prospects look good, not only to
wipe it out. but leave a safe. working
Democratic majority in its stead. 1t
looks to me very much as though the
people of this country We're coming to
their senses concerning Roosevelt: that
they want charge, and intend to
evince their desire by electing a Demo-
cratic House of Representatives. The
people know that something is wrong.
but they don't exactly know where to
place the blame. 1 can tell them hon
estly that the bug under the chip, the
negro in the woodpile, is this r Oose-
velt Administration. IL they will get
that safely lodged in their heads they
will swat this Administration one aw-
full swat on Nov. by electing a Demo-
Roosevelt harder lick than to do just
that very thing. He knows what
Dem ocratic House means for him and
his Administration. 1t means investi-
eating committees. digging and nosins
into every Department, and men on
those committees who will investigate
and go to the bottom of every rotten
transaction, no matter how loud it
smells. 1t is that which frights the
souls of our Republican adversaries
Congressman Jim Sherman. of New
York. Chairman of the Republican
Congressional Committee, in a news
paper interview some time ago, con-
cedes that they will lose 40 seats in the
next House We only need 5S seats to
win the House, and if the landslide to-
ward Democracy means a loss Of 40
seats to them why should they assume
that it will stop there and not continue
to a finish?
We are hearing good reports from al
most every State and section of this
country, which indicates that the peo
pie are ripe for revolt and want =
change that leans more toward equal
ity under the law, and the chance for
poor man. / am not setting myself
UP as a prophet, but in the last four
years l have foreeasted many political
events, and each and every one has
arrived on schedule time and justified
and corroborated my statements.
The nomination Of Mr.. Hearst for
Governor in New York by the Demo-
crats of that State is a straw showing
which way the wind blows. He was
nominated over the protests of the
practical politicians and the ward-heel-
ers. He was supported for the nomi-
nation by men who hate him personally
as cordially as they hate the devil. The
reason they supported him was not
that they loved him. but that they fear
n1 10 of tIa
man can be nominated in such circum
stances it means that the people are
doing some thinking, and are taking
matters into their own hands. 1t Showa'
that the political boss is a back num-
Der and a has-been, and the people
have come into their OWN. This is why
] say that the peopie are doing business
this Fall. and that I believe the next
House will be Democratic.
President Roosevelt SAYS that the
59th Congress at its first session effect
ed more good legislation than any other
Congress in many years. The truth is
that it effected nothing of any perma-
nent value. while it rejected more good
measures and adopted more bad ones
than any other Congress in the history
of the United States.
1t rejected the Tillman bill to pre-
vent contributions by corp )rations to
party campaign funds altho that ex-
II rejected the Williams bill to re-
duce the tariff on all articles on which
the duty now exceeds 100 per cent, the
Philippine tariff bill and all other tariff
propositions.
II rejected the anti-injunction bill,
which had passed the House of Repre-
sentatives unanimously on May 2, 1902.
1t rejected the eight-hour bill, after
the Committee on Education and La
Dor had reported it favoraOly.
1t rejected the bill relating to suits
for injuries brought by employees of
railroad and mining corporations.
It rejected the bill relating to con-
tempts in Federal Courts, and provid-
ing for trial by jury in cases of indirect
contempt.
1t rejected the prison contract lab )r
bill
1t rejected the bill relating to hours
of labor of railroad employees.
1t rejected the La Toilette amend
ment to the railr )ad-rate bill. a prepo-
sition indorsed by organized labor. de-
lining the liability of employers for in
juries To the employees while engaged
in the performance of duty. and passed
a separate bill opposed by organized la
Dor deceitfully styled the Employers
Liability bill.'
II rejected an amendment to the
railroad-rate bill to provide for exclud-
ing watered stock from the valuation
put upon railroads by the Interstate
Commerce Commission in determining
reasonable compensation for capital in
vested.
II rejected another amendment to
the same bill, intended to prevent
Judges having personal interest in
railroad cases from sitting in judgment
in such cases.
II rejected the Bailey amendment II
the same bill, intended to prevent Fed
eral Judges from enjoining. restraining
or setting aside orders of the Interstate
Commerce Commission fixing reason
able rates
1t rejected the immigration bill
1t defeated the Beveridge amend
ment to the Agricultural Appropriation
bill requiring the beef packers to pay
the expenses Of Federal inspection and
placing the cost IF such inspection on
the taxpayers.
1t rejected bill to untax building
material for stricken Frisco and the
Republicans of that State have since
indorscd such a bill
All these measures and many more
of similar character Congress refused
to pass.
Congress did pass the Aldrich reso-
luton for the protection of the Stee
Trust and other trusts by requiring al
material and equipment for the con.
struction of the Panama Canal 10 b,
bought from the trusts
1t did pass an amendment to the J-r.
gent Deficiency bill abolishing the
eight-hour law. the alien contract labo,
law and the Chinese exclusion act as Il
the laborerS on the Panama Canal