The Green Forest tribune., 1910-04-29

n' Democrat, even in year of revolt, has any real hope of election. So it is that these Republican members ap- pear to their colleagues who have to fight for their election, to be extreme ly selfish in the view that they take of the matter
 From Republican Viewpoint.
 When the careless-minded Repub- fcans are asked why they seem to think it will make no material diff ference if the Democrats control the next house their answer is that things seem tending toward Democratic sue cess, and that it will be a great deal better to have the success come to the minority next fall than to have It come in 1912, when a president is elected. Further, they say that if the Democrats come into power in the house they surely will pass legislation which the country will look at with much concern. In other words, the Republicans who do not care particu iarly whether or not the next house IS controlled by their party, say that the Democrats when in power can be depended upon to commit blunders enough to make it certain that in two years the people will be glad enough to return a Republican house.
 The Democrats have heard the Re- publieans explanation of their reason for not fearing that the present mi nority party can remain in power for more than one congress. The leaders or the Democratic party say that if the Republicans expect their Demo cratic brethren, when in control of the house, to make blunders enough to bring defeat to them at the next cleo ton. the enemy is counting on some thing which is not going to happen.
 If the Democrats carry the elections next November and come into power In the house after March 4 next the belief is general that they will at once take up the tariff and will pass a low tariff bill for the sheer purpose of sending 1t over to the senate to be killed. The Democrats would like nothing better than to put the respon-
 
 ure on the shoulders of the Republican senate
 The minority party members seem to believe that if this is done and the people know that the Republican sen ate has killed the downward revision measure the election of a Democratic president and another Democratic house. is foregone conclusion.
 Some of the Progressive Republi- cans in the house, and many of those who never markedly have been advocates of progression. are worried because of the seeming disinclination on the part of the Re publican leaders to push any of the Taft legislation at this session except that which has to do with interstate commerce.
 It is too well known to admit of doubt that some of the old line Re- publicans are opposed to any conser- vation legislation at the present time, to postal savings banks, and to two or three more of the presidents legisla- tive recommendations. Without ma king an actual issue of the matter, these leaders are testing in a general way the feelings of their Republican colleagues on the subject of letting everything go over until next year ex- cept the interstate commerce amend. ments. The leaders have not met with much encouragement, and 1t seems likely that they will be forced to give over their program of postponement and to yield to the majority demand that at least four of MT. Taft's legis- lative requests shall be granted before adjournment.
 President Taft in all of his speeches has let it be known that he considers his railroad legislation the most i'm portant part of his program. He, how ever, has given high place to con servation and it was to the interstate commerce amendments and to the plan to save the natural resources of the country that he devoted two long special messages, thus showing how highly he held them in the matter of importance to the country.
 The Democrats just now are looking forward to victory in November. Their seeming certainty that they are to car ry the next election has been com mented upon frequently in the past, but just now the minority party is planning to secure some additional members of congress from Massachu sets by the nomination of Eugene N Foss, representative in congress from the Fourteenth district, for governor of the old New England common. wealth next November. "
 Mr Foss carried the Fourteenth dis trict, running as Democrat, by a great majority, overturning previous adverse majority that was even great CT. Last fall MT. Foss ran for lieu tenant governor of Massachusetts on the Democratic ticket, and his party members saw that it was due to his presence on the ticket that the Repub- lican majority was cut about 10000 votes. With Foss at the head of the ticket next fall, the Democrats think