Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-14


 .he Democratic Daats nd t3e IaH4as
 numerical majority any party eyer ha7, in any congress. Independent of the solid South, including Delaware. West Virginia and Missouri, the Democrat ic membership exceeded the strength of the Republicans and populists com bined. The Democrats had a maiori- ! ty of the New England delegation and q majority Of me Massachusetts delegation
 II va all on account of Cleveland. Two years earlier the country woke mp he morning following the P4esi
 dential election conscious of is mis- take. In 1890 that regret had grown to remorse. The Democratic victory of 1890. he greatest of our history. was the work of restitution. But the i party made q fatal mistake in the or ganization of the lsiftg-second Con gress Mills was tbe logical cancns nominee for Speaker He was defeat cd by He enemies of Cleveland i Dave Hill TammanX. Gorman-and the friends of he big appropriations 10 which Mills was hostile II was none of George Fred Williams faur He shed .ears and again mngwumped on Crisps selection, refusing 10 vote fol, him Hr Bryan played practical pol itics He. who had never been heard of outside his own neiehborhood got on ways and means. See l5iah. i. ;. Mills never offered fer sale single committee assignment Crisp did not have a single place left in stock when the fna ballot WIS taken in the ea11- GUS.
 The following March that Congress- 0yerwhelminely Democratic, with Populist membership exceeding thir- ty as 1 now rcollect. killed the last of the Bland silver bills The pre- vious Congress, Republican in both honses. had enacted the Sherman sfl- yer law. George Fred Williams vas the eoldhue whip on that memorable night, and fetched and carried for Rourke Cochran, the goldbue leader in that tremendous struggle. Mr=Bfy- an was herdns with Tom Watson Jerry Simpson, and that layout That nights work made the nomination and election of Grover Cleveland the fo9- lowing summer and autumn, q eef- tainty.
 George Fred had for colleagues |, the 'iftY=second' Congress J F. An drew, son of the great war Governor, and Sherman Hoar. son of Grant Attorney General Both We're now Democrats by the mueWump process Hoar got away and returned to the party of his father, the grandson of that grand old states rights apostle. Roger sherman, from whom John C Calhoun got some of his doctrines 1 am not quite sure, bHf my impression i is that yonng Andrew also escaped 1 But Wili.ns was in the fix af John | \. Logan His bridges were burned | Th~fa NHs no road open to him hy 1 which he could get back to his former 1 faith, He could not stand still, and so he wandered around and around, and the first hing you know you found him in the Bryan camp and regular ib 10 Ter He is Bryan's representa- tive in New England, and ii is alto- gejher probable that he will be on the national ticket with Bryan in 1908
 George Fred has been making d speech, in which he delivered himself of this prophecy:
 If President Roosevelt abides by his refusal 10 become a candidate. no Republican, unless he be more radical than the President, can prevent the election Of William Jennings Bryan to the Presidency
 Then he goes on to say that ill any pvent RrVan'S nPinrinipS Will he vim