The Carlisle independent., 1910-04-28

rom districts where the Republican majority is overwhelming and where n" Democrat, even in year of revolt, has any real hope of election So it is that these Republican members ap- pear to their colleagues who have to light for their election, to be extreme ly selfish in the view that they take of the matter.
 From Republican Viewpoint.
 When the careless-minded Repub- fcans are asked why they seem to think it will make no material diff ference if the Democrats control the next house their answer is that things seem tending toward Democratic suc- cess. and that 1t will be great deal better to have the success come to the minority next fall than to have It come in 1912, when a president is elected. Further, they say that if the Democrats come into power iH the house they surely will pass legislation which the country will look at with much concern. In other words, the Republicans who do not care particu- larly whether or not the next house is controlled by their party. say that the Democrats when in power can be depended upon to commit blunders enough to make it certain that in two years the people will be glad enough to return Republican house.
 The Democrats have heard the Re nt1hliaonrt for not fearing that the present mi nority party can remain in power for more than one congress. The leaders of the Democratic party say that if the Republicans expect their Demo cratic brethren, when in control of the house, to make blunders enough to bring defeat to them at the next elec- tion. the enemy is counting on some thing which is not going to happen
 If the Democrats carry the elections next November and come into power in the house after March 4 next the belief is general that they will at once take up the tariff and will pass low tariff bill for the sheer purpose of sending it over to the senate to be killed. The Democrats would like nothing better than to put the respon- sibility of defeating a low tariff meas ure on the shoulders of the Republican senate
 The minority party members seem to believe that if this is done and the people know that the Republican sen ate has killed the downward revision measure the election of a Democratic president and another Democratic house is foregone conclusion.
 Some of the Progressive Republi- cans in the house, and many of those who never markedly have been advocates of progression. are worried because of the seeming disinclination on the part of the Re publican leaders to push any of the Taft legislation at this session except that which has to do with interstate commerce.
 It is too we'll known to admit of doubt that some of the old line Re publicans are opposed to any conser vation legislation at the present time. to postal savings banks, and to two or three more of the presidents legisla- tive recommendations Without ma king an actual issue of the matter. these leaders are testing in a general way the feelings of their Republican colleagues on the subject of letting everything go over until next year ex cept the interstate commerce amend ments The leaders have not met with much encouragement, and it seems likely that they will be forced to give ever their program of postponement and to yield to the majority demand that at least four of MT. Taft's legis. lative requests shall be granted before adjournment.
 President Taft in all of his speeches has let it be known that he considers his railroad legislation the most im- portant part of his program. He, how ever, has given a, high place to con- servation and it was to the interstate commerce amendments and to the plan to save. the natural resources of the country that he devoted two long special messages. thus showing how highly he held them in the matter of importance to the country.
 The Democrats just now are looking forward to victory in November Their seeming certainty that they arc to car ry the next election has been con- mented' upon frequently in the past. but just now the minority party is planning. to secure some additional members of congress from Massachu- setts by the nomination of Eugene N. Foss. representative in congress- from the Fourteenth district, for governor of the old New England common wealth next November.
 MT. Toss carried the Fourteenth dis trict, running as a Democrat, by a great maerity. overturning a previous adverse majority that was even great CT. Last fall MT. Floss ran for lieu tenant governor of Massachusetts on