The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-04-28

Selfshness, 1t would seem, may
have something to do with the feeling
on the part Of some Of the Republicans
that 1t will make no great amount of
difference whether the Democrats con.
troll the next house or not. The party
members who look with careless eye
upon the vision of Democratic vic
tory are in the main men who come
from districts where the Republican
majority is overwhelming and where
M Democrat, even in a year of revolt,
has any real hope Of election. So 1t 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-
lcans are asked why they seem to
think 1t 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 great deal
better to have the success come to
the minority next fall than to have
1t 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
IN hA
Republicans who do not care particu-
larly 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-
publicans' explanation of their reason
for not fearing that the present mi
nority party can remain in power for
more than one congress. The leaders
OF the Democratic party say that II
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 eIec-
tion, 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 it over to the senate to be
killed. The Democrats would like
nothing better than to put the respon-
sibility of defeating low tariff meas
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 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.
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
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 a Democrat, by a
great majority, overturning a previous
adverse majority that was even great
er. Last fall Mr.. Foss ran for leu
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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
he would be certain of election. and
that the prestige Of his name would
carry into Office several Democratic
members of congress from districts
that are now supposed to be safely Re.
publican
GEORGE CLINTON.