Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-10-10
WASHING7ONLET
CHARLES A. EDWARDS DISCUSSES
POLITICAL SITUATION.
John Sharp Williams will be Demo.
cratic Floor Leader in the Next
Congress, Despite the Opposition
OF Enemies. Democratic Chances
Look Good.

w ASr1lNGlON, -. T., Oct. T.
All this talk about Hon. John Sharp
Williams not being elected the floor
leader of the minority in the Sixtieth
Congress is mere moonshne and pol
itical twaddle and only shows the ig-
norance of the writer of alleged pol
itical 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
him and they fell down badly. They
first tried to get Champ Clark, than
whom there Is no better man or dem
ocrat in Congress, to make the race
against Mr.. Williams, and he would
have had a formidable following, but
he was the active friend and lieu
tenant of Mr.. Williams and he re-
fused to lend 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 get acquainted with people,
especially republicans. He has a buzz
saw voice and a rapier intellect and
his stinger always is out for trouble.
He is human wasp and whenever a
republican runs in to his orbit there
is going to be whole passel of trou-
BILE for the aforesaid republican. He
is one of the ablest debators and
would make one of the poorest lead
ers in Congress. Knowing that fact
to follow his lead and one hundred
out of one hundred and sixty-five
democrats in the next House signed
an obligation to vote for Williams
for the caucus nominee for speaker
which distinction carries with it the
floor leadership. Therefore Williams
will be the next Democratic leader
and he will be as brilliant as hither-
to and maybe more than any man
on the democratic side and that is
the greatest compliment that can
come to him from democratic stand
point. Verbum sap.
Teddy, the bear hunter, has gone
again to hunt the bear in his native
lair in the canebrakes of Louisiana.
Let us hope he will be successful 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.
In leaving here this time Teddy
has left all the politicians guessing.
They do not know whether he in
tends to play for first place next year
or stand pat on his declaration never
again to be candidate. There are
two considerations that I am satisfied
would make Mr.. Roosevelt change his
mind and again become the nominee
of his party. If he thought that
some man was about to be nominated
who would not allow himself to be
guided by his advice and counsel, he
would accept the nomination if it
came with practical unanimity or if
the trip of our navy to the Pacific
Coast should stir up Japan to the
fighting point, he would demand the
nomination so that he and his ad-
ministration would have the credit of
licking these cockey little brown
men.
The democrats of the country are
now in the rocking chair, so to speak,
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