The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-12-10
TIE QUESTIONS OF THE RULES
or THE Rc:JsE.

The follo w;ng is from the esteem.
/ ed Valdosta Times aud is interesting
| for the reason that it touches upon
one of the really dangerous pro! lens
alich the democrats will have 70
! contend when they take control q
the upper house next March;
The question of house rules" IS
| looming up again at Washington,
and reports from there indicate that
ce democrats are considerably w0r-
| led regarding ti4em IL will be re-
| nein5ered that 1t vas this question
| which caused the split in the party
arly last year. Champ Clark and
cine Of his followers, Joining bands
With some insurgent republicans
rom the west, wanted to change the
rules which had been in force ever
since tho days of Thomas Jefferson
Tney wanted 10 do what the poDulists
IN congress tried to do when Crisp
was speaker II was nothing more
eor less than an Opposition" step. 1t
@as ta&es merely because the reput-
icans were on the other side. 1t was
n4rroTDess personified and was one
Ct the dearest indications we have
senn o. tie unfitness of Champ Clark
as a party leader.
The Georgians who refused to
make the blunGcr were branded as
traitors and deserters by some thin
Hifted people who took the narrow
preiudicial view, rather than the
statesman-hke view that was taken
by our own congressman and several
III the o.ley GeotRia lnembers %
SCOT :. "saa As rIiics 5tova1l, Of -ha
SaTannaA Press, Used the incident 20
Stag If CONGRESSMAN Brantley,
. on~h thcro te suqnioion in this
district that Editor stovall was strik-
M over t5ranaey's shoulder at an
"cHemys nearer home II Was not
3rVising that Tom Watson should
have grown violent fighting this pro-
testing minority since it was Tom
Watson who led the fight on Crisp
and who wanted the rules changed
at that time.
AS we started out to say, the
democrats are in charge of affairs in
tae lower house and that is where the
trouble comes. The man who is book
ed to be speaker has record in re-
gard to rules of the house which win
shear min Of all of the power mat
comes to Airn with the speakership.
Fe and his colleagues on the dem
ocratic side do not care to see adopt
cd the rules witch ne was urging less
than two years ago. 1t would NOT be
good for the democratic party to
have the rules changed, but Clark
and his friends have made IT, record
whion they must meet face to face.
they were not satisfied with their
ight in congress. but they had the
democrats in their national conven-
ion to put a plank in the platforr
rules SO as to enable majority of
the members to direct its delisera-
lions and control legislation.
'Of course, good deal was said
about the arbitrary power of the
speaker, and of one man being more
INV LII t@itti ttiG GitllIG DOu9t GIG.
These elittering terms were probably
'sed to attract attention and to make
misguided people believe that they
vorc having another crown of tAorns
pushed down upon their heads. The
oiatform was made to get in on ana
not TO stand upon Champ Clark does
not want his power curtailed any
more than Speaker Cannon did his.
ne rules may stand as they are and
he will find that all power is not
given to him. The foolishness Of
Clark and Others two years ago
leaves them in an embarrassing po-
sition now. Their main hope is that
some of the strong members like
Brantley and Fitzgerald will be able
to untangle the web and start them
off exercising the powers of the ma
jority in safe and sane manner.
In future, the democrats in con-
gress ousht to follow democratic pol
icies and customs and not allow
themselves led off by the freaks on
their own side or the slab-offs from
the other side into doing things that
viii embarrass them when conditions
change"