Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-17
UTTER HARSH WORDS.
House Democrats in Caucus
Criticise Fitzgerald.
WON'T SEE PROMISED LAND
Say the Moses of the Republican
Regulars Got His
AND HE DELIVERED THE GOODS
"Punish the Boilers" the Slogan
Adopted-Suggestion of a Beau
tifuI Tariff Trade.
WON'T SEE PROMISED LAND
AND HE DELIVERED THE GOODS

Those constant caucusers. the House
democrats. got together again last night.
This time twas sort of indignation
meeting and some dreadfully harsh things
were said about that excellent pariia-
inentarian. the Moses OF the republican
regulars. who swatted the rock of COM
promise and made perfectly acceptable
rules amendment gush out. But if Champ
Clark, the minority leader, and his cohorts
have anything to do with il the Honor
able Nose Fitzgerald will never see the
promised land.
But all this Is beside the question. for
Mr.. Fitzgerald got large hunk of per-
fectly good patronage mamma yesterday
the House of Representatives announced
his appointment as Il member of the
rules committee That's what made the
democrats so sore. They Kissed his name
when it announced yesterday as a
member of this committee, and last night
they knocked him. claiming that he was a
per-fid-ee-us traitor and that In accept
ing the rules committee appointment he
had got his for delivering the goods.
Fitzgerald an Absentee.
Some of the most prominent absentees
from last nights democratic get-together
were Mr.. Fitzgerald. who probably would
have been torn into shreds had he stuck
his head In the room, and Messrs. Liv-
ingston and Howard of Georgia, two other
eminent gentlemen who helped the repub-
lean machine to stay on the tracks. But
some Of those democrats who voted for
the fitzgerald proposition attended the
caucus, including Representatives Brous-
Sard of Louisiana, keliher of Massachu-
sets, Peters of Massachusetts and Har-
rison and Goldfogle of New York.
Mr.. Harrison proved his versatility by
explaining to his colleagues how he had
va "a of COLO nf1 ,,t,,
and. fainting, but faithful. he had torn
out his heart by the roots and stuck his
label on the Fitzgerald compromise. Re-
ports indicate that he got away with this.
and that the light of Champ Clarks coun-
tenance Will not be turned from him in
the future. Anyhow. he said he would
not-no, he could not-accept the ways
and means place to which Speaker Can
non appointed him yesterday unless
Champ Clark said that sweet word, Yes"
Fame Has Its Drawbacks.
Mr.. Fitzgerald was very, very mournful
last evening. not as result of the demo-
cratic demonstration against him, but be-
cause the pictures published of him yes
terday showed his countenance adorned
with Side-whiskers of the vintage of long
ago. He appreciates now that there are
some disadvantages to this fame in a
night" thing. AS a result of his sudden
were caught unprepared. and had to pub
lish the pictures of Mr.. Fitzgerald they
Had used during his early years in Con-
gress. When Mr.. Fitzgerald first became
a member of that body in the Fifty-sixth
Congress he wore a fuzzy. blacking-brush
beard of flaming red and a dragon mus
,tache. Later he got from behind the
beard, but used instead for personal
adornment. pair of carefully trained
'siders. with the aforesaid long. sweeping
mustache.
But now he has other views on the sub
Ject of the human face. His hair is cut
off short up around his ears, and his mus
tache is one of those ciose-cropped mill
tary affairs. He speaks without regret of
the sideburns, and hardly remembered.
until he saw his face as it used to be,
pictorially presented in yesterdays pa
pers. that he had ever been so careless.
Slogan Is Punish the Boilers
The slogan adopted by the democrats
last night was Punish the boilers" They
all agreed on this proposition, but they
don't know just how to go about it, OF
course, they might lure the honorable
Nose up an alley and periodically beat
him up, but this method. however well
adapted to the democratic districts in
Which the sore ones live, is not popular
form of amusement in Washington. So
they are figuring out that if Mr.. Fitzger-
aid ever tries to do anything the moor
of the House in which he seems particu-
larry interested, what Will happen to him
will be a sufficient plenty.
OF course, all this bitterness-or most of
IL. at any rate-will die away in due
course. Time is great healer of wounds
political and otherwise, and before the
special session draws to an end Mr.. Fitz-
gerald probably will be able to step on the
moor of the House without having those
kili-if-they-could glances leveled at him
Besides, most of the correspondents for
southern newspapers are refusing to be-
come agitated as result of Mr.. Fitzger-
AIDS previously mentioned per-fid-e Gus
course. They are saying. most of them
that the House democrats. never having
stuck together on any proposition since
the world was young, certainly couldn't
be expected to do it in this particular in
stance. and that the whole mix-up was
nothing more or less than beautiful tar
in trade.
And almost everybody agrees that
there's whole eot of truth in this.