The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
THEY ARE NO GOOD
INSURGENTS HAVE DONE MOTH.
ING IN CONGRESS.
So Says Congressman Rainey, Who
Arraigns the Republicans General
ly for Plundering the People.

Congressman Henry T. Rainey,
chairman of the Illinois Democratic
State convention, declares that the
efforts of the "insurgent" Congress-
men had been p~urposeless and fu-
tile, and predicted general Democrat
ic victories throughout the country
in the coming election.
He said in part: THE Democratic
party is united today as it has not
been for fourteen years and the Re-
publican party is divided as it has
eve been in all its history. The
Republican party leaders stand today
upon thoroughly ~discredited
than the leaders Of any party have
ever been during all the decades of
our history.
"a great leader among the insur-
gents in the recent disturbance in
the House might have been able to
accomplish something for the coun-
try. During the last session of Con-
gress insurgent Republican members
%professed to be against the Payne
Aldrich bill. They professed to be
against the Speaker Of the House Of
Representatives and they insisted
that there were in favor of revising
the rules and enlarging the commit
lee on rules in order to make the
House a de1iberatiye hody
Recently we have given them a
chance to vote to repeal the Payne
Aldrich bill and every n af them
voted for it. The Speaker of the
House charged them with being trail
tors to their party and insisted that
they ought to be hanged, not shot;
they ought to receive the punishment
usually given to traitors and we then
gave every one of them an opportun-
ity to depose the Speaker. Almost
without exception they voted for him,
and so the present Speaker of the
House of Representatives has the
honor of being twice elected Speaker
during the life of one Congress.
when the Democrats succeeded
in e%nlarging the committee on rules
the insurgents at once held a caucus
and refused to accept positions on
that committee, but declared them
selves to be in favor of going into a
Republican caucus and abiding the
result and they did. The effect of
this action on their part was almost
to completely nullify the fight made
by the Democrats at the last session
Of Congress for the establishment
Of a deliberative body. When the
speaker continued his d%enuciation
of the %insurgent members, they final
ly f1ercely retaliated by shutting off
the gasoline from the automobile
purchased for him by the Congress,
and this is the only victory that can
be credited in any way to the in
surgent members of Congress up to
the present time.
"The regular Republicans have
failed to accomplish the things the
people are demanding. The insur-
gents have failed miserably and the
people are about to give the Demo-
cratic party a trial.
II do not desire to attack the ad-
ministration of President Taft, it is
not necessary to do that. In ali our
history as a nation no administration
has been so thoroughly discredited.
He has surrounded himself by an OFF,
cial family who represent and who
stand for those criminal trusts
against which the people cry out in
vain at the present time. He has
been ~subservient to those interests
which prey upon the country, and
has been controlled by them as no
other President has been in all of
our history as a nation. He has been
most aptly described as being "a
large body surrounded by men who
knew what thew want" =