The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-07-10
4 Democratic House.

/ While the gossip over the party
/ conventions, platforms and presiden-
/ tial candidates naturally occupies the
\ greater share Of public attention to
matters political just now. those wise
and seasoned political campaigners
who are better known as 'swheel-
/ horses" have by no means lost sight
Of the fact that the congressional
elections are also to be held this fall,
and upon their outcome depends i'm
large degree the shaping Of national
legislation for the next two years
We published yesterday morning a
little story from Washington regard
ing the probability or possibility, if
one prefers that term OF a Demo-
cratic House one unnamed Demo-
cratic sage was credited with an au-
gument which has pith beyond the
average undigested gossip of the
early-campaign days This gentle
man advanced the proposition that
if the people desire a progressive adj
ministration, they can get it only by
the election of a Democratic House.
events of the last winter" he eX-
planned, demonstrated thar Repre-
sentatives Payne Of New York, Dial
zelI OF Pennsylvania and Tawney of
Minnesota are not kindly disposed to
the measurers which President
Roosevelt would have had enacted.
Should Mr. Taft be elected there will
be a REPETITION OF this situation i'm the
sixty-tirst Congress, unless the House
be Democratic. With a Republican
House and the same leaders, Mr.. Taft
would meet with as stubborn opposi-
ton to Roosevelt policies as did the
President himself last winter.
All of which rings true. The coun-
try has not forgotten that it was the
Democratic minority which stood out
for the passage of certain measures
demanded by the President and APP
proved by the people; while the Re
publican majority, not i'm one but in
many cases, smothered or sheIVed
them. There is little question that
Mr.. Cannon and his aids plan the same
course in the next Congress. The
leopard does not change his spots,
nor the reactionary forego his stub
born opposition to progressive meas
ures. The Republican platform says
something about tariff revision, but
it Is evident that revision by the
standpatters is meant, and the Amer
lean Protective Tariff League, pattest
of standpat organizations, has now
indorsed the platform. Revision that
Will satisfy the leagued standpatters
is not the sort of revision advocated
by the revisionists and desired by the
voters; but it is the only sort that can
be expected with a Republican House
under the thumb of "Uncle Joe"
On this argument alone, the Demo
Gratis will make gains in the House.
Indeed, the Republican managers
practically concede so much. Many
Republican seats in the Middle West /.
are held by the slenderest pluralities
and it may very well happen that the .
Democratic gains, with the popular /
at its present pitch, would be /
sufficient tOrecast the entire company .
of congressional artists and assign .
the sprightly Mr.. Cannon TO the less
prominent role Of minority leader
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