Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-26
THE CURFEW OF ALDRICH

politics will ring out the retirement of Adrich
For this tacturn thinker this shrewd man OF
pgmy has been delvng
the until he has quietly become master OF congress
Under the present he has
tariff welded broader subter
in the affairs of the American people than ever the Earl OF War
wick held the fortunes of Lancaster and York
Who will be the leader in the now? asked of
Senator Dollver the other day.
suppose he replied. of leadership will
deposited Smithsonian Institution along with other relics
of discarded and abandoned system"
The abandonment DEATH of system-that is
how the country large nepes Senator Adch Forthcoming
retirement He himself be explains due to i'll health
So might Charles ascribed their
kings death failure Incidents that Immediately
coded and which have Immediately followed the senator's
nouncement all point strikngly in one direction
First the insurgency of the house and the rebuk to Can
then the election of Eugene ~ Fo Democrat and free
trader the bound Republican stronghold of the Fourteenth
district of Massachusetts, then the Indiana incident the
slap Adrich tariff; finally Sena
tor Hale the Gibraltar of standpaers allows that he too
has weathered enough and ready to depart To
ALL county, New York after twenty of unbroken
Republican loyalty turned down its Republican candidate for con-
gress and elected tariff reformer.
Considered sngly might purely local
the withdrawal of the from Rhode Island they have
but meanng-the downfall of old political dynasty, the
perishng of outworn political idea.
That idea system expressed itself chiefly
FORMS Legislation through machine and legislation in behalf
OF special interests or monopohes rather imam IN Deha OF the
whole people Machine rule has shown itself the lower house of
congress through the operation of the old rules committee by
which possible for the speaker and his eutenants
to kill they chose Legislation behalf of special
interests has found its most gang illustration in the
tariff whereby the monopOsts of food clothing
protected and the people left with higher cost of living
In every of the United revolt this system
has broken The rebellion against Speaker Cannon has been
enacted in hundred communities and in millions of minds. 1t
movement to restore the rights and the blessings of
tatve government 1t momenary impulse for it has been
gathering force during decade and maneng its strength in
every state
The political agitation Georgia in was a of
what happen national affairs today This had long
political made
least left lag of railway corporations
Elections dominated by rules the machine made Trans
portaon discrminave break
down such system that the people of Georgia began in 1906
crusade which they will leave off until their victory last
ing and complete. ...
Georgia states particularly national
politics this movement gathering to crisis What base
leaders of Adrchs dscernment They
need tell them what coure told Sixteenth
"Sire, this is no riot; it is a revolution"
CannOnism, the system called 1t might termed
appropriately "Aldrchsm certain gorgeous bravado
the speaker of the house has red nonnr attention Pnt the
leader
the turre Adrch has stood hidden but ready at the castle
gate Cannon lawyer and caught the of
the hastings Adrich bred business stamped with
the of corporation office Cannonism the systems be-
ginning but Aldrichism is its completion.
As chairman of the finance committee
directed important relating the affairs
of the nation He has thus held practical power
president could How masterfuy
in the tariff act he who shaped cnched
after had left the tanges
and twists intimately the mortal knows his shoe
string So searching his of detail thoroughly he
understand the interests he that he could tell
glance where added would millions monopoly,
where clause altered would opening
in finance When the bill finally passed were well
pleased and American beef the United than
England
srategs could
effectively Adrch But the greatest srategs
succeeded well unless the forces behind him had
firm He maintained the SYSTEM but the system had
him. and that it breaking he hastens withdraw
from field goes Hale possibly
This system has and thriven under Repubicanm
that the minds of the people the two are nseparab joined
insurgency the best evidence of what Repubcanm in its
citadel The country needs change the people demanding
Adrh marks the beginning of the for
when the who doubts that night is cOmngG"