Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-11

to this measure was as to whether
publication should be made both before
and after election or after election
alone. Even with the ante-election
publication eliminated the measure is
still felt to be a step in the right di-
rection.
The passage by the house of the bill
prohibiting gambling in cotton futures
brings this measure before the senate
at the beginning of the short session
and may open the way to a general
law against all forms of stock ex-
change gambling.
Talk about the big stick. You should
have seen Taft swinging it in the clos
ing days of the session. Biff, crash.
That was a senatorial head! Bang,
bling. That was the caput of a mem
Der Of the house. Teddy in his most
strenuous days never beat this. The
Taft golf games were evidently only
practice affairs in preparation for the
big event. The president stood the
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at each. You won't pass my postal
bank bill, ell? Bif! You don't favor
the land withdrawal bill, what? Smash!
You can't see the reclamation bond
measure, huh? Take that! Say. he
had them so tame they would jump
through hoops or lie down and roll
over. Did he get his program? Why.
no nN1116 hovn rot a rroo,o~, %1r;oo n
long.
The approaching congressional cam
paigns now form the one topic of con-
versation among those who yet remain
in Washington. and the work Of the
session is chiefly interesting to the per-
spring statesmen in it's possible infu-
ence on politics. The regulars profess
to believe that their cause has been
much strengthened by the govern
ment's injunction against the railroads
and by the forcing through Of the Taft
program. They are free to admit that
the tide was against them up to the
time that these events were pulled off.
but are ure it has now turned. The
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exposures and the tariff are the issues
that chiefly interest the country, that
whatever political capital might result
from enacting the Taft program is
neutraliZed by the fact that the Dem
ocrats and insurgents helped to put in
many good features in the railroad bill
and other measures and that the ques-
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will be a determining factor in the
election of the next house.
The probable attitude of Colonel
Roosevelt is still a subject of excited
speculation, and the opinions range all
the way from Taft optimism to back
from Elba." Certainly no one man
ever kept the entire country guessing
so long as has Roosevelt since he left
the presidency. Friends of the admin
istration confidently state that Oyster
Bay has been in cordial communica-
ton with the White House. The Gar
feld-PinchOt contingent as confidently
assert that the colonel is behind their
program and will speak out when the
time N Amid all this clamor l
have heard one prediction that sounds
sensible. A western senator who had
been in consultation with Lodge told
me he had it straight that Roosevelt
did not intend to take sides at all; that
he would talk principles and avoid
personalities. In the language of this
senator. Roosevelt will speak for
straight Republican doctrines and
leave the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy
and all other fractional disputes inside
the party severely alone"
l There vas one amusing incident
which came as a result Of the express
train time on which things were being
done. 1t was on one Of the pork
bilis-that relating to public buildings
and Senator Scott was in charge
The clerk was blowing through figures
like a bird dog through a wheatield
and the speed took ''Scotty's'' breath
Several times he had to call a hall
either to find out what page the clerl
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