The Detroit times., 1908-12-15
COWARO| ICE WILL
END ROOSEVELT
REVOLT
FIGHT AGAINST CANNON WILL
ALSO BE DROPPED-SENATO
ARE AFRAID TO AcT-5REAK-
DOWN is EXPECTED.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 1.-THE fight
against President Roosevelt because
OF his utterances regarding the secret
Service and the fight against Speaker
Cannon will not be carried on, says
Alfred Henry Lewis, in a dispatch 20
the New York American. Senator
Burrows. OF Michigan. has been pitch
ed upon by his insulted colleagues to
20 after the president, but the Mich
igan man is careful TO remain close To
the tent. In the house everybody
thinks that something ought TO be
done but everybody wants the other
fellow TO do IT,
Mr.. Lewis says:
Another fiat out, another failure 10
toe the mark, is confidently expected
in this business of congressionally
making war on the ebullient Mr..
Roosevelt for those message intima-
tions that IL would serve the public in
terest 10 set the secret service men
TO picking up the tortuous statesman
In the coTkScrew trails he makes. Ii
is the common concession that Mr..
Roosevelt's language was unclubby.
Everybody-in congress-thinks that
something ought TO be done about II, y
without any clear idea OF what. Like
wise everybody-in congress-would
like To see something done about
IT," but he wants somebody other than
himself to do IL.
over In the senate, his insulted
colleagues have pitched upon julius
Caesar Burrows. of Michigan, TO 20
after their presidential traducer. Mr..
Burrows, who in no wise resembles
his great namesake, and is about as
oombative as a pan OF doue.. thought
fully declines. He says that for him
10 slaughter Mr.. Roosevelt would be
er of the president" Contenting him
self with this peculiar reason for hold
ing aioof from the combat, Mr.. Bur
rows Is careful TO remain close within
his tent. 9
MIR. Hale, Of Maine.
"Mr Hale. OF Maine, known In his
congressional advent long ago as
"Blaine's Bub," and later as the Sen
ator from Spain" has also been solicit
ed by his fellows TO go forth like n
Senate David against the contumelious
Goliath OF the White House.
No; Mr.. Hale cannot see his polite
way clear 10 do these things. For, 10!
he. too, Is IAN open good friend OF Mr..
Roosevelt" and therefore powerless
against him.
Thus il goes all over the senate.
and for that matter. all over the house.
They are all enemies of Mr.. Roose
velt," and precluded by that pacific
fact OF feud from in any fashion at
lacking him. Which is an amazing
way for feuds to work.
Townsend. OF Michigan; Cooper, or
Wisconsin; Hepburn, OF Iowa; Hayes,
of California; Foster, of Vermont, and
other house hostiles are feebly ghost
dancing and making hesitating and
reluctant war medicine against the
gavel despotlsm Of Speaker Cannon.
What they desire Is freedom OF house
motion, liberty Of debate. What they
aim at is the destruction OF the rules,
which now make house slaves OF them.
"As affairs stand a house member Is
nobody, nothing, marionette TO
squeak by the speakers voice, act dis
Jointly by the speakers suggestion
and only wnen the speaker pulls the
string. The rules make OF the mem
bers just SO many congressional
stoughton bottles. and there be states
men like Mr.. Hepburn who burn to
be something besides stoughten bot