The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-06-22
OLD-STyLE LOBBY
PASSING RAPIDLY
Gone Are Days of Terrapin and
Champagne-Men Stationed in
Capital Only Watching"

WASHINGTON. June 22.-Th'
Washington fortunes piled up In th'
past by the hotel men and restaura
tours who sold diamond backed ter
rapin and champagne to important
looking gentlemen sent down TO the
capital TO influence legislation have
been carefully invested in real estate
and other family troubles. and the
fortune hunters who are running the
hotels and eating places today are
longing for the halcyon days wheI
real lobbyists were sent TO Washing
ton. They are tired OF the lobby on
the Payne tariff bill.
| IL Is not an eating and drinking
lobby and It Is not lobby with a
bank roll The lobby on the job TO
day consists of hundred or more
| "watchmen-" They are not here to
buy votes or buy favors from any
body Their business Is purely and
simply to watch the progress OF the
| tariff bill and try to mould public SER
timent. The people who are making
the money of this crowd are the
printing press people and the tele
graph companies. Uncle Sam Is get
ting his through stamp sales.
Times have changed and so have
methods. The hue and cry against
the muckraker and the noisy publicity
agencies have not been so sincere
that the big interests have not learn
cd the value OF publicity and the prop
er kind OF undertaking. In fact this
is the chief stock in trade OF the lobby
which is influencing congress during
Of hn
bill.
Keep New York Informed.
The "watchmen" In Washington
keep New York informed as TO what
Is going on and who is doing it. New
York tries Its hand at lobbying and
| is accomplishing more by spending
| its money for kilograms and stenog-
raphers than the loudly dressed lobby
lists, male aud female. who used to fig
ure in all OF the political novels and
who for a fact once swarmed around
congress like flies around barrel or
molasses, ever accomplished.
! The lobby worked from New York
now is not overlooking many bets. II
tried it's hand on Senator Beveridge,
OF Indiana, but got stung. When the
IHoosier statesman came out fatty
against the increases In the tar1ff bill
his State was flooded with letters
from the big business men OF the
East The letters went to manufac
turers and big dealers In Indiana
They urged that the most essentia
thing about the whole tariff business
twas the haste with which IL wat
wound up. They incidentally pointed
out that Senator Beveridge was de
laying matters by this attitude.
The purpose OF the lobby letters
failed because most Of the circulars
are finding their way to the senator's
Office enclosed in letters from the re-
cipients telling him he Is a bully boy
and to go right ahead
Advice Comes Freely.
But that Is the method that is be-
| ing used. AS soon as a senator or q
representative shows any symptoms
of opposing the Aldrich program his
district or State is reached by the
New York lobby. Manufacturers are
urged by their New York correspond
eence to write their senator and give
him some advice ON the tariff CUES
ton. This advice is coming IN so
freely that some congressman are
wondering how their friends back
home could have come to know Sen
ator Aldrich so we'll that they are I'M
posing such implicit faith In his judg.
ment on tariff matters.
But the tariff watchmen who are
here are legion and rare variety,
They range from Chicago clubwomcn
who are against higher duties on
gloves and stockings. 20 poor down
trodden Philadelphia and Gloversville
N. Y, working girls. who want high
or duties on stockings and on gloves
Included In the crowd Is a Santa
Domingo man with a pocket sugar re
lfnery. He sets his machinery up Gl
the least provocation and makes sugar
by a method visible to the naked eye
he got the White House all smelly
showing President Taft that sugar car
be made without the use OF mo. lt
Dutch Standard" in the tariff phrase
Ill