The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-30
WILLIAM PETERS HEPBURN
i the crown of thorns and cross of gold | and the crucinxion proceeded

the crown of thorns and cross of gold and the crucifxion proceeded
 By and by Father Gear was gather ed to his fathers. and again It was hoped that Hepburn would get the place he was born for; but the toga, went to young Mir. Deliver. who ran q tilt against Mir. Joseph Benson For aker nearly as disastrous as Gears dissection of Aliens politics. In his earlier career Hepburn had made free trade speech on the lumber schedule of the tariff of 1883, that abomination that was a revision" "up" of tarih SD rnonstrous that even the Republican Party was ashamed of 1t and ran away from it, and now Hepburn refused 10 follow the lead of Tom Reed and vote for repeal of the purchasing clause or the sherman silver law. So did that other eminent "gold-bug"--Joseph q. Cannon. But Hepburn has got hraveiy over both his free tradeism ana ms free silverism. Cannon never nad the free trade distemper; but he had an awful case of free silver
 In this same Fifty-third congress the Democratic majorities in both houses turned Populist. deposed Cieve- land. set up Teller as leader in the Senate, and Bland in the House. and from that day to this the American people have not produced a single Democrat that appeared In public drunk on victory. If political majority were a beverage the Democratic party could establish fifteen years record for to- tai abstinence. They lost the art or acquiring victory with the ostracism of Cleveland, Carlisle. olney, Villas, Turner. Morrison, Lindsay. Wilson and men of that iik and that caliber. The Republicans have gained three s1c- cessive Presidential elections. They have had majorities in both Houses for seven successive Congresses. They are confident of carrying the country in 1908, and if the Democratic party doesn't mend it's manners. and keep them mended. 1t will quaff the bitter cup of defeat to the dregs again some fifteen months hence.
 Even before Thongs B. Reed ieft the Speakers chair Hepburn had the audacity to denounce the rules of the House that lodges in the chair all the legislative power of that body. He has several times demanded that the right of deliberation be restored to the representatives of the people. He frets over the dominion of the Committee on Rules He declares that the House ought to have the right to enact what the majority favors; but he talked to deaf ears. The oligarchy is in the sad ale. What the Speaker says goes what the majority says does not go unless the Speaker approves. think if worth trying-the suggestion of the Hon. J. Ham Lewis, that the House take its Speaker from without it's mem bership. The majority would heser consent to surrender of Its rignts "
 Rut tbe Republican party has only ana principle-the majority the day oi election. Hence 1t is no reformer. It would drift forever if it did not nm nair its popularity. Under the present rules no unloaded pistols can pc nFeo. m unsteady boats rocked, such as amendments by impertinent DemocratS who seek to put the O. O.. F., on re- cord, The old rules allowed that. oh der the gag of the Rules Conini.sIeu ll,s', Y cannot be done. And that IS WnS Ianhurn was powerless to make the legislation of the House responsive 10 lie membership instead of mere rati- acation of the Speakers decree.
 Tor some wears the House has taken ,ts orders from Joseph c. Cannon, John Dalzeil and Charles H. GrosVenor anu these got their orders from Iheooore Roosevelt That is the sole reason tnat 0klahoma did not come Into the on.
  inc House under that lash. ana the steal would be the law of the land thls moment if the time had not been so short that 1t died in conference.
 when the triumvirate--Cannon Dai- zell and Grosvenor--were hard put Dy inc unpatriotic logic of John shatp Winiams. Hepburn was ordered 10 tne Front to bear the brunt. He doesnt l test at scars; he has been wounoea. Mr., Billy Patterson did not get more
 of devil of a lick than old Pete re-
 ceived in his bout with John Snarp
 in the debate touching the sales abroad l of our trust made wares cheaper tnah l tbev are sold to our own folks at nome Then came Charles Landis. who oe-
 clared that he did not believe wore If 1t but if it was so, 1t was exactiy l right. Pushed to the wall, Dalzel ao- nitted 1t was true and gloried m M.
 If the Democratic party should come
 to this town next winter assertine
 states' rights and demanding tarim re form and stick to the text, make these
 paramount and keep them paramount | it might yet turn out that Ha"ah ls
 aecursed and Mordecai blessed.
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