Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-03
NIGHTMARE H)RDEkOS.
Dreams to Be Disturbed From
Now Until March By Specter
of New Laws
REPUBLICANS HOLD A CLUB
Publicity Bill and crumpacker Amend :
ments an Instrument to Beat oppe-
sition Into Submission - Filibust-
ers of Future to Lose Their Force
Washington News.

ers of Future to Lose Their Force
Washington News.
Especial Washington Correspondence
Washington, June Prom now or
until the life of the present congress
ends next March the spector Of reduc-
ton of southern representation and
of the enactment of federal law to
protect elections will stalk thru the
dreams of the senate democrats. The
action of the house republicans In
forcing thru the publicity bill with the
Crumpacker amendments has put into
the hands Of the senate republican
leaders a powerful club which they
can use almost at any time they
choose to bat the senate democrats
into submission.
The situation was made manifest In
the course of the f1libuster that SEN
ator LaFollette started against the
Aldrich- Vreeland currency bill. Not
one senate democrat voted for the
adoption of the conference report,
William J. Bryan sent kilograms to
a number Of democratic senators urg-
ing fight against the Aldrich-Vree-
land bill. But Senator LaFollette could
get little democratic help in his fill
buster. 1t was not that number of
democratic senators did not want the
bill killed. But it was the fear that
If the filibuster was joined in by q
number of the democrats, the senate
republican leaders in their anxiety
to pass currency legislation would
adopt such rules shutting down on
debate as would make it impossible
for the senate democrats next ses--
sion If need be, or any time in the fu.
ture, to conduct an all-session fight
against the enactment of legislation to
reduce southern representation and
likewise force legislation touching
southern elections.
Under such circumstances, the sem
ate democrats showed g. strange pa
ralysis in failing to attack in debate
bill which they generally condemned.
Without the adoption of rules OF
cloture, to do away with unlimited
discussion in the senate, it would be
impossible to get legislation along the
lines of the Crumpacker amendments.
The senate Is generally considered as
not in the least likely to do away with
the practice Of unlimited debate. But
in the heat Of the recent filibuster con-
Quoted by the senator from Wisconsin
the senate rules got considerably
warped and it is probable the pro-
longed continuation Of the fight would
have resulted In serious effort to
bring in a cloture rule. This was
what the senate democrats were anx..
ious to avoid.
The failure Of the senate democrats
to make any Roadway against the,
adoption of the conference report on
the Aldrich- vreeland bill, 1t may be
added, is in line with their perform
ances thruout the session that has just
ended Their WORK all the session has
been ineffective. In the first place, they
started out to make political capital
out of the treasury measures for the
relief Of the country when last falls
depression came on. In this, they made
no Roadway. 1t Is doubtful If the ef--
fects will be discernible in the coming
elections Of all that senate democrats
said on this subject. The senate dem
ocrats, as we'll as some of the repub-
llcan senators, have been persistent in
scoring the president for usurpation
o. authority but there is little evil.
ienc, much has heen accomplished by
It. The efforts Of Senator Culbersorl
to fc-ce railroad legislation that would
further strengthen the interstate COM
merce laws failed.
1t is generally conceded that Sen
ator Culberson, the democratic leader
of the senate, has not proven effective
Senator Culberson has many likable'
traits and he is honest and courageous
but he has exhibited few of the traits
and little Of the capacity for real lead
ership. He has not held the senate.
democrats together No team work has
been exhibited. He has wasted time'
in dealing with trif1ing issues when
there were larger ones lying around.
loose that powerful leader could have,
seized upon and made such use OF as
TO trouble the republicans. AS it was,
the senate democrats accomplished
about as much against the republic :
an organization as eleven men who had
never seen football could against 81
crack championship bunch. 1t has beer
SO hopelessly one-sided as to seldom
become interesting. The illness of Sen
ator Tillman, he Of the pitchfork and
the vitriohc tongue, has weakened the
democrats Senator Bailey has been
compelled to spend much time in Tex
as fighting for his political life and
when here has not seemed eager to
force himself to the front. preferrint;
to let his colleague, Culberson, ge.
along as best he could. 1t is conceded
on all hands that Bailey is probably
the superior in sheer brain power and
intellectual force of any man In the
senate. Exposition of the intricate
Of constitutional law comes from his
lips with the lucidity and simplicity
Of the A. B. C.'s. But he has suffered
in the senate because Of the attacks on
him in Texas and besides he has GER
tain qualities of temperament that
hardly qualify him to take the lead
ership. Without a man Of command
ing ability. the democrats in the SEN
ate can not be amalgamated into a CO.
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