The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-03-27

These are times OF political es.
SAYS, following the rise and fail OF
the fortunes and the path OF man.
Roosevelt has been pretty thor
oughly analyzed, praised and cuss.
ed, both before going out aud alter
ward. William Jennings Bryan is
better understood and valued today
than ever before, though three
| times defeated as a candidate tor
president. President TAT, has been
described so often one way and the
other that nine men out OF ten feel
that they know him personally.
The essayists have only fallen down
when il came to a complete under
standing OF the Iron Duke OF Am
erican politics, Joseph G.. Can.
non, who was the other dav re-.
elected AS speaker OF the national
house, after one OF the most spec.
tacular fights in the history OF Am
crican public lite. The fight began
over a year ago when the great Col
lier's Weekly began a ST idied aad
intelligent attack upon his methods,
the chorus was taken up 10y several
OF the yellow magazines and a
great multitude oi newspaper small
try. The sinister influence OF
Cannon, his absolute control OF all
legislation under the rules, his IN
difference to the rights OF anybody
in opposition TO the tactics OF the
Organization, were all shown up
in letters that burned, that could
not he denied. No one cared to
deny them. Uncle Joe himself ADJ
mitted that they were true, give his
cigar a fresh angle upward and told
everybody that didn, like his shape
to 20 in the other direction, liter
ally and hgurativcly. Then when
the show down came he smiled that
same old cynical sneering smile,
and saw the democrats refuse the
opportunity to help elect a worthy
insurgent, which was Just the same
thing as voting tor Cannon. The
!. old mar was not IN the least hurt
|, by the mean things that had been
/. said OF him, and unblushingly ad.
, mitted hy his silence that they were
true. He was confident in the abb.
, lity OF the organization to pull
) him through, and that confidence
, was not IN vain. No other man IN
: America could have stood up To the
. fire this old man drew, in silence.
; Human nature would have revolt.
ed, and he would have fallen into
controversy that would have result.
ed in disaster TO him, as It always
does to the fellow that is wrong.
The whole proceeding is the
greatest monument to the principle
OF organization which America al.
lords. II proves that determined
bunch OF men with the know how
can conquer over an apparent ma"
ority without the spirit OF unity
and sense. Ii is illustrated IN
every phase OF American politics,
0 and is at once the source OF all the
best features OF politics as well as
the worst, tor both sides have a
chance 70 use the same weapon,
and il is then only a question OF
which has the best one and the
Q right. The principle holds IN
every phase OF politics down to the
scrimmsge tor the exalted Office OF
constable. 1t is essentially Amen.
can, not by origin but by develop
ment. II has been attempted 10
such a degree by the people OF no
other nation. Properly understood
il al be- productive OF much good.
Improperly understood or applied
for wrongful purposes 1t can be
productive OF much harm. OF
course in Cannon's case, there is
, some justification, sych as 1t Is.
No sane person would submit Lex.
islation to bunch like that without
I rules that would make IT possible
to at least control the visionalres
and the rabid partISans. Going
beyond this it puts the power IN
Il tue uAlh0 VI a HillElf maui NNlN'
is where MIR. Cannon has drawn
upon himself the criticisms Ot the
student and the politician on both
sides, his own as much a. the 9TH
er unless the politician trains with
the speaker, and is willing TO have
him exercise summary power IN the
creation OF committees and the per
petuatIon OF the rules, which oddly
enough were invented by a dem.
ocratic speaker 70 coniound the re-.
publican minority, in Crisps' time.
= Not a motion can be- made, not a
bill considered without his auto
cratic consent, and in many re-,
spects he is a more p owcrtuI
man than the president himself,
the submission OF TAFT proving
} that he recognized the fact OF ms
evenness. 1t were truly a signih.
cant position, and one that is wei
I worthy the careful study OF all.
OF course It is folly to presum,
} that such a condition can Away
exist, even under the leadership o
\ this man with iron in his blood
veins II he is not all iron. 81
( despot ever yet reigned indefinite.
~. Forever i, has been the Law
=" that a nan should arise who woult
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