The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-20

ly to be of the same religion. Shame
on the insurgents"
Just then along comes Uncle Joe,
but has opened lobby in Washington
for Standard Oil and the liquor people.
The standpatter appeals to the old
gentleman with the stogie, but the lat.
ter waves him to one side, saying that
he has made his millions and has
therefore assumed the customary pub
lie bedamned". attitude.
Even the Republicans are not find
ing 1t so hard to imagine the next
house Democratic, especially when
! they stop to consider-first, the result
of the recent congressional election in
the sixth Missouri district, where a
100 per cent. gain was made by Dickin-
son, the Democratic candidate; sec
ond-the result of the Success Maya
zines straw ballot, which showed 5li
Republicans approving and 6.313 Re.
publicans disappearing the attitude OF
Aldrich (Which was approved by Pres.
ident Taft) on the tariff; and third
the reducing Of the majority OF the
Republican governor of Massachusetts,
In an election In which the new tariff
law was the sole issue, from $4,000 to
| 5000. 1t should not be overlooked
that the voters of the sixth Missouri
district who repudiated the Payne-AL
drich-Smoot law are at the present
time receiving high prices for butter
and eggs, grain and livestock, and II
was this class Of voters the Repub.
licans had expected to find enthusiast
tically endorsing tariff revision up
| ward.
All indications are that President
Taft expects to be his own successor
Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock
is steam-rollering from early morn
| ing to night, and every day in sne
week, putting men who will support
Taft in the next Republican national
convention into federal positions, ano
! keeping out men who have the least
faint of Rooseveltism in their political
records. Another evidence of Mr.
Taft's expectation to secure a re-nomi
nation is the nervousness he is dis
playing over the Ohio situation. He is
| holding conferences with Ohio poll
ticians every day, trying to determine
upon someone who might be able tt
beat Governor Harmon. What Mr.
Taft fears is that in the event of Har
mon being reelected governor, he
might be compelled to face a fellow
Ohioan in the presidential race, which
would mean the loss of Ohio to cle
Republicans, in all probability. Amons
the Ohio politicians whom the presi
dent has called to the White House I:
ex-senator Foraker, who was uIlvel
out of public life by the publication O.
letters written while he was a United
States senator, by the president O
Standard Oil. One of the letters indl
Gated that check for $4,000 vas en-
closed, and that a certain bill needed
looking after. 1t is said Foraker VIII
take the stump for the Republicans il
the approaching campaign.
An opportunity 10 test the anti-Can
non sentiment of the New Englant
states will be had at the special cleo
ton to be held in Massachusetts 70
the purpose of filling the vacanc,
caused by the death of Representative
William c. Lowering, who was an out
and-out insurgent. The Republican
congressional committee is leaving n
stone unturned to have Mr.. Lowering
place filled by a Cannon sympathiZer.
The Washington Star, an arden
supporter of Cannonism and Aldrict
ism, says editorially that the Reput
licans should by all means permit a
investigation of the high cost of Twin
and the relationship of the TART
thereto. in order to prepare their re
ply for use in the congressional can
lpaigns." In other words Senator A