The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-28
NEXT HOUSE WILL
Be DEMOCRATIC
Says Chairman Lloyd of Demo
cratic Committee
CLAIM OF REPUBLICANS
Clayton of Alabama and James of Ken
lucky Are Confident of Democratic
success-How TO XIII
Chickens
CLAIM OF REPUBLICANS
BY RALPH NJ. wHITEsIDE

BY RALPH NJ. WHITESIDE
washington, August 27.-(Special.) 1.-THE
next House will be safely democratic"
says chairman Lloyd of the democratic
congressional committee.
"The next House will be safely republic
cam" says Chairman Mckinley of the
republican congressional committee.
There you have the whole political sit
uation summed up in a nutshell as it ap-
pears in Washington
These two officials in these two deliv-
places they hold A political chairman
should be a cheerful body Both his look
and his talk should be pleasant. If he
had glum and anxious moments let him
impart the fact only to his most trusted
lieutenants He cannot afford to stand on
the street corners, or send for score of
newspaper correspondents and confess
that the deuce is to pay with him and his.
That sort of a campaign manager would
soon find himself out of a job and headed
for a feeble minded institute.
But as a matter of fact, known to all
trained observers, the situation as re-
spects the next House is at present very
much confused, and almost anything may
occur between now and November to
change the situation.
Two noted democratic leaders have been
in Washington recently and they breathe
confidence. They are Hon. Ollie James of
Kentucky and Hon. Henry D. Clayton of
Alabama Colonel James says:
IF the democrats do not win the COM
ing congressional election hands down,
there is not much use in trying again to
win.
Everything Is in their favor. 1t seems
TO me that 1t is impossible for them to
fail I estimate that the democrats will
have a majority of from 80 to 100 in the
next House. Fifty is the smallest number
that could be conceded.
THE republicans are carrying a weight
which they have never been forced to
bear in any campaign in which they have
been successful. Events have been play
ang into the hands OF the democratic party
for tie past year. The tariff law Alone 1t
seems to me, would have been sufficient
foundation for democratic success. But
other factors will enter into the contest.
The letter which Senator Aldrich sent to
Representative Mckinley furnishes one
of the best democratic campaign docu-
ments that could have been devised. This
will be read by democratic speakers
throughout the country. 1t will be used
as one of the arguments against the
present tariff.
1.-The split in the ranks of the republic
cans has grown wider ever since the ad-
1ournment of the recent session of Con-
gress. The party was In a bad way then.
But 1t is in much worse condition now.
a n
are more active than the regular republi-
cans thought they would be- They ap-
pear to have on their fighting clothes,
and the chances for reconciliation are
30 small as to be negligible in calculating
the results of the contest.
ION the other hand, the democratic par
~ is united. There never was a time In
the history of the party when the spirit
of harmony and cooperation was so
clearly manifest I believe that the dem
ocrats could win this fall even IL the re-
publicans were not suffering from so
many embarrassments. But with the con-
ditions as they are there is not the slight
est doubt that we will have the next Con-
gress by an Overwhelming majority"
Colonel Clayton shares Colonel James
views. He says
There is every reason to believe that
be democratic by a safe majority.
THE speeches of senators Cummins and
Dolliver, of Garfield and Victor Murdoch
and other republicans should be enough
TO defeat the republican ticket They
certainly show that the republicans are
not at all satisfied with what was ac-
complshed by the last session of Con-
gress.
Although I cannot agree with the poll
cy of Speaker Cannon" continued Rep
resentative Clayton, II must admit that
he is merely an evolution of the rules of
the republican party as they have been
adopted from time to time The repulbi,
can party is founded on wrong principles.
j believe. however, that a man should
stick to the party and be either the one
or the other. If republican does not like
the manner in which his party is being
managed, let him get out. I do not be-
ueve In political bushwhackers.
That man Wiley, Guardian of the ma
tion's health" is a wonder If there Is
anything he is not an expert on 1t has not
appeared. He now comes out with ex-
plicit directions to how to kill a chick
en- SO he'll be best eating and keep long
est and he upsets all the old practice of
the axe and wringing the neck. Here is
how 1t must be done la Wiley:
Grasp the chicken when killing by the
bony part OF the skull Do not let the
fingers touch the neck.
Make a small cut with a small. sharp-
pointed knife on the right side of the roof
Of the chickens mouth, Just where the
bones of the skull end.
brain for dry picking by thrusting the
knife through the groove which runs
along the middle line of the roof of the
mouth until 1t touches the skull midway
between the eyes.
use knife which Is not more than
two inches long, one-fourth inch wide,
with thin, fiat handle. a sharp point
and straight cutting edge"
nor has recalled the vigorous efforts made
House after the death of President Nc
Kinley to pass law providing for a more
drastic punishment of assailants of a
President of the United States. The bill.
although 1t passed both houses, never be-
came a law, as the Senate refused to
accept the amendment of the House and
the House as vigorously insisted on it.
The measure which went through both
houses was introduced by Senator Hoar
IN the early days of the first session of
the Fifty-seyenth Congress, three months
following the death Of President Nc
Kinley. This bill provided for the death
Denalty for the assassination of the Pres
ldent, Imprisonment for 20 years for con-
npiracy, Imprisonment for ten years for
threatening to kill the President and also
crowded for the death penalty for aiding