The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-02-19
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dnteresting Facts Concerning
peaker2 Cannon. IN
81 Presid ent Taft on
n Lincoln Day.
4 2epsats That Payne Tariff
Il i Best Ever.

81 Special to The Irish Standard. '25,
Washington, Feb. T.-1magine the
next House of Representatives Demo-
cratic by q substantial majority,
hamp Clark lis speaker and Under
wood of Alabama is the Democratic
sssfioor leader. s.. Il t ~
An insurgent meets a G. o. p. stand
4 patter in the corridor of the capitol
Says the insurgent: {.
an well, 1t happened! And it was
Il Just as ! told you stand-patters 1t
would be. You have been wiped of
/ the political map. Tawney Of Mime
sofa Is gone, Smith Of Iowa il gone,
and the few members Of the old stand /
pat bunch that did get back can count
their majorities on one hand. But 1t
d serves you fellows right. You had
simple warning. You allowed Cannon
and Aldrich to throttle every piece Of
progressive legislation that came up,
and the public was on to you at every
Il Jump in the. road. You revised the
tariff upward when you promised to
do just the opposite. But even, then
4 you were not satisfied with the predic-
ament you found yourself in. You
& capped the climax by having President
Taft declare the Aldrich- Payne Smoot
bill to be the best tariff measure ever
ENACTED into law, when as a matter of
fact even the American school chill
dren knew the bill was filled with jok-
y ers conceived to rob the people for the
thieving sugar trust and other tariff
Il beneficiaries. 1t was absolutely GER
\ tain that the public would whack you
over your political heads at the very
v 1irst opportunity. And they did,"
Then the regular gives his version
N Of 1t, as follows: al. sH
~ II fear, my friend of the west, that
n you do not apply the law of cause ana
effect to the situation. The defeat Of
! the regular organization was due to
4 u few reformers and traitors who
called themselves Republicans, but
were really Democrats. Pretending to
4 be Republicans they learned all of the
Y Organization secrets and then started
A In on d campaign. Of blabbing instead
of hghting the thing out in caucus an
they should have done and as they
would have done had they been Repub-
4 tcans with the good OF the party at
u heart. You fellows acted like Demo-
Gratis from the start and Uncle joe
called the right term on you when he
called you Democrats You mention
much money the sugar people con-
n tributed to the Republican campaign
fund? If you don't, you hadn't ought
TO say a word. The suger joker my
u friend. and every other piece Of legis-
|slatton about which you complained was
absolutely necessary to bring In cam
paign funds. BY making such Howl
over these particular features Of tho
tariff bill, you only directed attention
to the organization business methods,
with the result that Republican vot-
ers deserted us by regiments. The re-
suit of your wretched politics is that
the present house is Democratic and
the next president IL mighty likely To
be OF the same religion. Shame on tho
tnsurgents!". s IL ~
Just then along comes Uncle joe"
who has been defeated for reelection,
but has opened a lobby in washington
Tor Standard OIL and the liquor PEG.
pls. The standpatter appeals to the
old gentleman with the stogie, but tn,
Iattsr waves him to one> side, saying
that he has made his millions and has
therefore assumed the customary
be- damned attitude.
Even the Republicans are not ma
ing II 80 hard to imagine the next
mouse Democratic, especially when
they stop to $consid first, the result
pf the recent congressional election in
xhe Sixth Missouri district, where q
100 per cent gain was made BY Dick
nson, the Democratic candidate; Sec
ana. the result Of the Success maya
xins straw ballot, which showed SIT
pblicans approving. and s.313 Re.
hlicans disappearing the attitude Of
sartch5 which was approved by Press
iaents Faft) on the tariff II and third.