Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-04-27

! the people for the candidate whom
they desire to elect if an organization
given over to plutocracy possesses
$S.000,000, S10,00O.000 or $1,000 600 as
it is rumored and believed was used
by the Republican national committee
In 1896 and in lesser degree in 1900.
The Democracy is used to making its
campaigns with little funds. What it
! asks now is that the contributions
made either to the Democratic party
or to the Republican party shall by
law be made public both as to amount
and as to the names of the donors.
But 1t won't be done by this Repub-
lican congress. Like the tariff and
everything else it is something that
must go over until after election.
The PopuIist Ticket.
Newspapers of a certain sort that for
twelve years have done nothing except
denounce Mr.. Bryan as a Popuist are
today shouting with glee because the
Populist party. with every one of its
members assembled in convention at
st. Louis, refused to either nominate
sought nomination nor Endorsement
The real voting members of the Peo-
pies party long ago came over into the
Democratic party and will there re-
main unless the Democratic party
should commit the error of going back
to reaction and Bourbonism.
1t is interesting to find Tom Watson
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cy. Thomas is an able citizen. Wheth
err he Is statesman is yet to be proved
He has compiled some books on the
history of France and the life of Ma
poleon that almost approach brlliancy.
His life of Jefferson, while readable.
does not go far toward the brilliant
| But one wonders whether an apostle of
the people who was willing for the
mere purpose Of putting out a personal
magazine to enter into financial rela-
tions with Colonel William D'Armon
Mann, the owner Of the somewhat no.
torious Town Topics of New York, can
be quite at heart devoted to popular
cause. OF course In the part Of the
country where Mr.. Watson has his po-
litlcal strength Colonel Mann Is not
known, but sooner or later the intelli-
gence that Watson went from his home
in Georgia to New York and entered
into a relationship which was not cred
liable to a man making his profession
Of devotion to the cause of the common
people will be known even there. That
his essay iE attaching himself to the
SScv lSc,,, 10 -. De-
| New York proved unfortunate was only
to be expected. Nobody probably de-
plores 1t more than he does today. But
the man who was willing to tie up with
Town Topics for journalistic purposes
might tie up with other curious institu-
tons or characters for political pur-
poses. The Popullsts might we'll look
out for Watson.
Tho FiIibuster In the House.
The word "filibuster" has not good
significance among the people Of the
country. What 1t really means now Is
that the Democratic minority in the
house, headed by John Sharp Williams,
have determined to see that either leg
islation demanded for the good Of the
people, legislation asked for by Mr..
Roosevelt, shall be enacted or else that
nothing shall be done.
The five men who really constitute
the governing power Of the United
States-Speaker Cannon, Representa-
tives Dalzell, Payne, Hepburn and
Tawney-are now standing pat on the
proposition that nothing shall be done
during this congress. They will not
pass any bill affecting the interests
of the people as whole-neither the
bill demanding free paper and free
wood pulp in the interests of newspa-
pers nor any other measure Of general
public interest The ordinary private
pension bills go through without much
| discussion, but few bills Of national
Importance ever emerge from the COM
mittees.
That is why the Democratic minority
has begun to fight. The position Of
the minority, as Mr.. Williams frankly
expresses it, Is that it believes a Re-
publican congress. with a Republican
president back Of 1t, should do some
business. Mr.. Williams says very can
didly that the mere passage Of private
pension bills is not doing public busl-
ness. When the president bombards
congress with messages asking for
| such measures as the employers liza
bility bill, the amendment of the anti
| trust law. the revision of the tariff and
the abolition of tariff on wood pulp.
1t does not seem quite in accord with
| the duty Of congress that 1t should
give its attention to every trivial mat
ter which the president has not urged
It is this that Mr. Williams, leading
the Democratic party in the house. has
tried to make clear. And his insistence
that the Republican party must either
enact the legislation of Importance
which their leader in the White House
has put before them as the most impor-
tant issues or else do nothing because
OF Democratic opposition is logical and
right.
A filibuster in congress may have
two purposes. One at the end of con-
gressional session can be utilized to
prevent legislation which is uniusti-
fable, extravagant or unwise. A river
and harbor bill was talked to death by