The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-14
PAGE FIFTEEN

got no help from Bill Howard
And he is nightly worried about The Jeffs
He'd better be- So had all other Congressman
who go to Washington, and forget the platform
which they got in Old Man Peepul and I are
in partnership again, and are going to have
something done for the plain folks, or
know the reason why. NEW BROOMS? Yes, Sir
that's what we need, and to have. The
sweeping has been sadly neglected We want
something more hereafter, than academic speech
es dubious garden seed, lectures on farming, soil
surveys, and newspaper clippings labelled,
speech of Hon. metus w. Sims.
Bill winds up his bugle song with blast about
Foreign Missions. He chose bad time for it. In
the first place, it hasn't blessed thing to do
with this discussion; and, in the second place.
Bill doesn't know blessed thing about it; and,
in the third place, he doesn't see that while the
preachers are as yet, generally against me, the
people are coming over to my side of it i'm drOves
His screech that 1 laying my "profane
hands on the Church Of Almighty God' is Grass
nonsense. When Bill Howard goes to using the
name of God, and not in vain, he must feel that
he is in a mighty tight place.
. Oh yes, Bill I know that you voted against
Cannon, the other twenty-five deserters did
He was the caucus nominee of the Republicans
and the Insurgents had to vote for him. And
know all about your other votes, Bill-against
the tariff, etc. Of course, we all knew that you
and Brantley and Livingston would have some
nice-looking sophistry to confuse the minds of
your betrayed constituents. But it won't do Bill!
it won't do.
When the twenty-three Democratic votes were
indispensable to CannOnism and PIutocracy they
got you Bill That was when Cannon was cry
ing "My Kingdom for hOrse" and you neghed
and came trotting up, Bill
That was when sinking Caesar was pleading
Help me- Cassius I sink" and you saved the
drowning man, Bill.
l dared you to rise in your place, on the floor
of the House, and deny what Cannon said last
November, at Kansas City-to-wt: that had the
Democrats stood together, he could not have
passed this Infamous tariff which is a curse
to the country, which has increased the cost of
living, and which bears enormously harder on the
masses than upon the classes
You dare not do it, Bill.
asked you why you voted to exempt the Pull
man Palace-Car Company from governmental reg
ulation, you don't answer. You can't answer.
You were reproached for voting to exempt Ex-
press Companies from governmental regulation
You don't explain. You can't explain
You asked what bad law you had ever
tried to repeal, and what good law you had at
tempted to pass. You have not named a single
one. You can not name single one
You were reminded that during all your years
of service you had not given the people the bene-
fit of your ability the floor of the House. where
it much needed.
You have not made showing to the contrary
You can not make one, for there is none to make.
Your doom is sealed, slight man. Your de-
sertion is objectionable. A Georgian who has
served his country I have done, is not required
to apologize for exposing a political crime which
vastly Injuries the entire country
Destructive am I? Bah. l helped to destroy
that Congressional Bar-room that Pinkerton pri-
vate army the open saloons of Georgia: the de-
post of public funds without interest: the free
pass evil; and some other things of like kind.
AS to constructive work, it be seen along
every highway of every Congressman who has
been diligent in the establishment of R. F. D.