The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-10-01
William Peters Hepburn
By Savoyard-

silver Law. As the sun rose IN th'
eastern horizon, he ceased, not tina
he was in the slightest faUgued. bui
that the subject was TOO Tar gone u
exhaustion TO continue on the roa'
longer. That very day. a. | now re
call. the vote WAS taken and plu
tocracy fetched forth h crown .o'
thorns and cross II gold and the
crucifixion proceeded.
BY and b. Father Gear was gather
ed to his fathers. and again II was
hoped that Hepburn would get tht
place he was born for but ms tosa
went TO young Mr. Dolliver. who rar
a tilt against MIR. joseph Benson
Foraker nearly as disastrous as
Gears dissection OF Aliens politics
In his earlier career mao
made a free trade speech on the luih-
domination that was a revision
up" Of a tariff SO mOnsirous thar
even the Republican party was
ashamed Of il and ran away from IL
and now Hepburn refused 10 follow
the lead of Tom Reed and vote for re
peal of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman silver law. SO did that oth-
er eISnent 'goldbug"-Joseph G. can
non. But Hepburn has got bravely
over both his free tradelsm ana hls
free SltNtflST11. 1aDlOH itNCi I@d ~
free trade distemper: but he had an
awful case of free silver.
In this same Fifty-third Congress
the Democratic majoritles IN both
houses turned Populist, deposed Cleve-
land. set I'D T.ller IL i&E'itf III t'.e
Senate an Bland~in III House. AID
from that daS to this the American
people have not produced a single
Democrat that appeared IN public
drunk on victory. If pohtcd ma
iority were a beverage the Democratic
party could establish a fifteen ye2rS
record for total abstinence. They lost
the art of acquiring victory with the
ostracism Of Cleveland, Carlisle, Oluey,
Villas, Turner, Morrison, Lindsay, VII
son AMI men of that ilk and that call
Der. The Republicans have gained
three successive Presidential elections.
They have had majorities IN botn
houses for seven successive Congress
es. They are confident Of carrying the
country in 1908. and if the Demo-
cratic Iarty doesn't mend its
and keep them mended 1t Will quar-
the bitter cup of defeat to the dress
again some fifteen months hence.
Even before Thomas b. Reed left
the Speakers chair Hepburn had the
audacity to OF the rules of the
House that lodges in the Chair all the
legislative power of that body. He
has several times demanded that he
right of elaboration be restored to the
representatives of the people. He
frets over the dominion of the Com
mittee on Rules, which is dominated
by the Speaker. He declares that the
House ought to have the right TO en-
act what the majority favors; but he
like to deaf ears. The oligarchy IS
in the saddle. What the Speaker avs
goes. What the majority SAYS does
not go unless the Speaker approves. |
think it worth trying-the suggestion
of the Hon. ]. Ham Lewis, that the
House take its Speaker from without
its membership. The majority would
never consent to a surrender of its
rights to a stranger and an alien 90
its roll.
But the Republican party has only
one principle-the majority the day
of election. Hence it is no reformer.
It would drift forever is it did not i'm
rules no unlOaded pistols can be fired.
no unsteady boa rocked, such as
amendments by impertinent Demo-
Gratis who seek to put the G. O. p.
on record. The old rules allowed n
Under the gag of the Rules Commit
tee it cannot be done. And that IS
why Hepburn was poWerless to make
the legislation of the House respOn
sive to it's membership instead of mere
ratification of the Speakers decree.
For some years the House has
taken its orders from Joseph G.. Cam
non. John DalzelI. and Charles II.
Grosvenor, and these got their orders
from Theodore Roosevelt. That is the
sole reason that Oklahoma did not
into the Union ears ago. Ship
subsidy passed the House under that
lash. and the steal WOuld be the law
of the land this moment if the time
had not been 50 short that it died in
conference.
When the triumvirate-Cannon,
Dalzell and Grosvenor-Were hare
put by the unpatriotic logic of John
Sharp Williams. Hepburn was ordered
to the front to bear the brunt. He
doesn't Jest at scars; he has been
wounded. Mr.. Billy Patterson did not
get more of a devil Of q lick than old
Pete received in his bout with John
Sharp in the debate touching the sales
abroad of our truSt-made wares cheap
or than they are sold to our own folks
at home. Then came Charles Lands,
who declared that he did not believe
4 word of it. but if it was so, it was
exactly right. Pushed to the wall.
Dalzell admitted it was true ana
ylOrieS in It.
If the Democratic party should come
o his town next winter asserting
rights and demanding tariff re-
'orm and stick 70 the text. make these
paramount and keep them paramount,
t might yet turn out that Hamdn Is
accused and Mordecai blessed.
Oh, We Of little faithi
BREWRY RECEIVING HIS IN