The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-25
John Dalzell, Republican.
BY sAVoYARD.

'OYARD.
cause always prepared. 1t is due to
him TO say he left the law Office of the
| Pennsylvania road when he entered
congress.
| The Fifty-first congress was Repub-
lican by majority of about three. The
only way it could do business was to
steal a dozen seats, and that it imme-
diately proceeded to do; but it was
| poWerleSS even for that infamy until
| it first successfully practiced the
greater infamy of making the will of
/ the speaker the will of the house, and
that it did by a process of revolution
utterly and defiantly unconstitutional
Your Massachusetts, Republican-ex-
cept Charles Sumner and Ben Butler
from Henry L. Dawes to Henry Ca
bot Lodge, from Henry Wilson to
Frederick Huntington Gillett, ever
! took the studs" when he ran across
| something that he could not find au-
thority for in the voiuminous preach
lmeEts of John Quincy Adams; but
/ now Massachusetts upheld Speaker
/ Reed in ruling that was in the very
/ teeth OF John Quincy Adams greatest
effort. A sufficient number of Demo-
cratic seats were stolen-no great feat
for party that had obtained the
presidency twelve years earlier by
! bribery, forgery and theft-the minor
| ity were gagged and the G. o. P. in
the saddle
| Henry Cabot Lodge introduced and
the speaker damned through a bill
making it Illegal unconstitutional. rev.
dictionary and void for a southern
state to return d Democratic majority.
might not be pestered by a bill pro-
Viding 16 to l, an assault was made
on the public credit. and the Sherman
silver law was substituted for Is to
ana that sent the treasury to the sill
yer basis, whence Grover Cleveland
three years later rescued IL. The Nc
hlniey tariff was enacted, that was
pretty nearly a tariff for protection
only. The appropriations for the two
sessions reached billion. The people
| took Whack at il in 1890 the wear the
Democratic party gained the greatest
political victory in the entire history
or the United States, when there was
anything that could be called an op-
position.
DalZen played prominent part in
the Fifty-first congress, and in the
Fhty-second he was a trusted Hsuten-
ant of Thomas B. Reed, the minority
! leader, assisted by Burrows, Lodge,
Dlhgley, HIT and DOlliver, in addi-
ton to Dalzell. 1t was the most bril-
liant leadership in the history of par
llaments among English speaking peo-
pies. The Democratic majority was
double the entire Republican member
SNIP and yet Reed, with his eighty
seven followers, fought them NOT onIv
to a standstlL but put them to ac-
tual rout; however, his position was
very different from that of John
Sharp Williams. Every Republican
tetched and carried at the slightest
order and the commands from his
stern lips of ''All up or "AIl down
were as instantly obeyed as ever was
the response of soldier on parade The
compact minority was a machine m
| der his touch and the only revolt was
some handful, including the immortal
Picker, from the far west. when If
was not Reeds fight. though he mar
uclpated, as the last of the Bland sill
yer pllIs was put to sleep by a COM
olhatlon OF Cleveland men. Tammanv.
the mugwumps au1 some 9O-Odd ner
cent of the Republicans. The Hon
julius Caesar Burrows was nightly
disposed to facilitate the passage of
| the bill, but thought better of il
II IS not too much to say that Dali
zell was the most valuable assistant
Reed had when the house was in ac-
ton, though it is likely that Reed de-
pended on Dinkley more in council
cannon, GrosvenOr and Hepburn were
not men9erS, all having been en-
gulted IN the Democratic deluge of
1891, when but two of the New Eng
land states-Maine and Vermont-re-
manned in the Republican column The
t1tty-third congress repealed the pur
chasing clause of the Sherman silver
law and then it was that the RepuhIi-
can party was Inundated as no otber
party has been in our history. Its own
lack Of principle and its own moral
poitroonery had occasioned the enact
ment or the Sherman law, and the new
cruel circumstance made II the abiect
slave of a Democratic president m
force 1t to a confession of its own in
fanny and a reversal Of its own states
manship. And here again the immor-
tai Picker slipped the halter and got
away from Reeds leadership.
After the Democratic party denosed
Cleveland from the leadership, cash
Tered Carlisle, Turner, Mills. Villas.
Olney, Bayard, Lindsay, the Breckin-
ridges, William L. Wilson and men of
that Tx, and set up in their stead the
agrarian Socialist gang that drenched
1t with all manner of profligate isms
unthinkable to any Democrat of TIL
den's time, the Republican party went
from victory to victory. Paternalism
was installed and the only thing the
Democracy opposed to it was more
vicious and more expansive paternaI-
ism. The inglorious war with Spain
was fought, forced by yellow journals
and the minority in congress. We ac-
quired the Philippines by Democratic
votes in the senate. persuaded by the
leader of the Democratic party.
Then the Republican party, having
no opposition to fight, turned octopus
chaser in congress- The answer to it
is government ownership and the alb
surd initiative and referendum. The
magician waved his wand in Madison
Square and the result was a Republic
can majority in the Sixtieth congress.
Now the wand is again waved. but the
issue will not down unless the man
who made it effaces himself
Since Reed resigned the real leader
of the Republican side of Congress has
been John Dalzell. Not an orator, not
a snowy man. not popular mamie