Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-21
Democratic House Probable.

Unbiased opinion among politicians has
it that the odds at present are in favor
of the election Of a democratic House Of
Representatives next fall. With a demo-
cratic House to put up radical legislation
to progressive Senate. and with a
| progressive President in the White
House, the outlook for the reaction
aries is said to be almost hopeless, and
| for the conservatives" II there is a
| difference between them, far from
| cheerful
| The financial and corporation interests
| were quick to see this, and within forty
| eight hours they have been heard from
statesmen asking about the drift of po-
| litical affairs. The speculative section
responded instantly. The market" in
| Wall street went OFF yesterday in admit
ted sympathy with the discouraging po-
| liticai outlook.
A highly significant feature Of the pres
| ent situation is the disposition among
| some conservative republicans In the
| House to throw up their hands in the
| circumstances and let the wave pass over
| them. The example set by Senator Al
drich appeals to some men who have
made the long fight.
Wheelhorses Ready to Quit.
Two big republicans in the House. men
on the firing line of their party in con-
| spicuous positions, within twenty-fOur
hours, in conversation, have voiced their
| inclination to step aside and let the pro-
cession go by. A!drich's play looks good
| to them.
They say they have fought the fight
and see nothing in tho result for them
| but ingratitude of the public. Like the
organ grinders monkey, they find more
kicks than pennies I'm the game.
| But there is one militant spirit among
| the republicans who does not share that
| feeling. He Is Speaker Cannon. That
CORY old fighter simply bites little hard
| er on his cigar, draws his belt another
notch tighter. let's out few more ex-
| pletives and says:
Boys, II we've got to get licked. let's
| take 1t standing and not running
| Speaker Cannon philosophers he
fights He has sized up the present situa-
ton to his own satisfaction. He has
been through these things before. and
! those shrewd. hard old eyes, looking back
into the past thirty-odd years Of congress
pendulum has swung back and forth
| more than once.
| Cannon's View Of Situation.
Speaker Cannon sizes up the situation
not quoting him literally-something az
follows:
That II the present minority must be-
| come the majority, and IL 1t cannot be
!. helped. the republican party will retain
its organization in the interim, while the
country is realizing that it is the repub-
lic&n party that makes for progress and
when the country has tired Of the expert
ment with democracy and the failures of
democracy the republicans will come
back stronger than ever and enter upon a
lease of power which will run for another
| score of years.
! But this does not mean that Speaker
Cannon has given up the fight by any
manner of means. Far from it. He
into the boys" here with little good
i natured badinage. there with vitriolic
scorn bristling with emphatic words
boosting, upholding. encouraging
| They tell him he Is to be ousted from
\ the speakership as this session of Con.
gress comes to a close. The pins are sci
i for that. apparently. If the democrats
lend themselves to the scheme, and they
seem inclined to do II. there are though,
to be sufficient votes to declare ths
speakershtp vacant.
To which Speaker Cannon replies by
telling them to go as far as they like
i And in so declaring. as one member said
che swears between syliabies."
4 Insurgents Pleased and Worried.
II is needless to say that the insureen,
republicans are highly delighted with tn.
drift Of political affairs. the retirement
of Aldrich and Hale and all that sort o
thing. They insist that this all goes t.
substantiate their claims that the repub
progressiveness, II It Is to survive.
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