Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-10-10
With Democrats OF 1he
Next House OF Repre-
sentatives.
LEADERSHIP ASSURED.
Republicans Fear Him More
Than Any Leader In
Congress.

Washington. D. c., Oct. 9.-An
this talk about Hon. John Sharp
Williams not being elected the floor
leader of the minority in the Sixtieth
Congress is mere moonshine and po-
litical twaddle and only shows the
| ignorance of the writer of alleged
political topics. The enemies of Mr..
Williams, and he has some, and |
would not give the burnt end of a
broomstraw for a man who has not,
started in last winter before the
close of the Fifty-ninth Congress,
to defeat them and they fell down
badly. They first tried to get Champ
Clark, than whom there is no better
man or Democrat in Congress, to
make the race against Mr. Williams,
and he would have had a formidable
following, but he was the active
friend and lieutenant of Mr.. Will
liams and he refused 10 use his
name to the scheme. The opposition
then took up Judge DeArmond, also
Of Missouri, who was a willing
Barkis, but they lost out on him.
Judge DeArmond, is one Of the
ablest men in the Congress. The
trouble with him is that he is the
| poorest mixer in Congress. He re-
fuses to ges acquainted with people,
especially Republicans, just so he can
hate them personally. He has a
buzz saw voice and a rapier intellect
and his singer is always out for
trouble. He is a human wasp and
whenever a republican runs into his
orbit there is going to be a whole
passei Of trouble for the aforesaid
Republican. He is one of the ablest
debaters and would mak6.-ope EFF
the poorest LEADERSHIP Congress.
Knowing the fact rs well as do, the
members retusS6 to follow his lead
and one h1Kdred cut of one hundred
an9 psslrsxGcy-five Democrats in the next
pfYouse signed an obligation to vote
for Williams for Speaker which dis
tinction carries with it the floor
leadership. Therefore Williams will
be the next Democratic leader and
he will be as brilliant as hitherto and
maybe more so. The Republicans
fear him more than any man on the
Democratic side and that is the
greatest compliment that can come
to him from a Democratic stand
point. Verbum say.
Teddy, the bear hunter, has gone
aoain to hunt the hear in his native
Hair in the canebrakes of Louisiana
Let us hope that he will be success
| full and bag bears to beat the band
but it will not make him forget one
thing and that is the proclamation
bringing Democratic State into the
union, the new State of Oklahoma
| ! was satisfied he would not have The
nerve or the political idiocy to re
fuse to issue that proclamation. H'
knew it would make one of the big
gest issues in the next campaign anC
he dared not do it, Gar that he is
His opinion of the new state consti
tuition Of the new State may be un
. fit for publication, but he could no
say that it was not giving that new
State Republican form of govern
ment and that it did not conform t.
the constitution Of the United States
so he had to give in and do what wa
! the only thing he could do under tn
circumstances, acquiesce in the de
cision Of the people of Oklahoma
and let them come in where the,
will have the right to govern them
selves and no longer remain unde
Federal carpetbag government.
was a bitter pill for the Republi
can administration to swallow,
4 was a swat in the jaw and actuall
I spit in their left eye, but it had t
h be taken or leave an opening for th
n Democrats next year to hit ther
z harder than ever by making an is
sue in the campaign that they ha
Z deliberately kept a sovereign Stat
out Of the Union because it did nc
suit their peculiar brand of politics
There was where the shoe pincha
and the pain became so acute that
made the big stick as soft as a featl
er pillow
In leaving here this time Tedd