The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1910-08-30

Slldell. For Jesse ID. Bright
read Joseph G. Cannon.
The opposition CARRIE the
Thirty sixth congress, which as.
sembled the first Monday OF
December 1859. No sooner haC
the House fairly organized by
the election Of William Penning-
ton, of New Jersey, as Speaker,
than it raised a committee of in
vestigation. With John Covode OF
Pennsylvania, for chairman. If
anybody wants to read a stirring
volume stirring volume of po-
litical scandal he will find it IN
the report of this committee.
There is every likelihood that
the Democrats will carry the
next House. If they do, they
will elect Champ Clark Speaker,
and then raise a committee of in
vestigation, which will make the
corruption of Democracy under
Buchanan look cheap by the side
of the Republican corruptions
under Taft, the difference mark
ed by the amazing growth of
everything between those days
and these.
Meanwhile, poor Taft being
weighted down with Aldrich and
Cannon, with Sherman and Ball
niger, from whom he cannot dis
entangle his administration no
matter how hard he tries, Roose-
welt is committed to the policy
of Uplift, variously identified
with Pinchot and Garfield with
Dolliver and Cummins and La
Toilette, with Bristow and Muir
dock and Poindexter.
Roosevelt can no more escape
the company he keeps than can
Taft. Like Sidney Smiths two
old women who could never
agree because they argued from
opposite premises" the Taft
crowd and the Roosevelt crowd
can never get together especial
ly after defeat has overtaken
them in the fall elections and
elimination and recrimination-
as fatal in politics as cholera and
yellow fever in physics-begin
to tear the party vital in Con-
gress.
The cry is likely to go up for
Roosevelt in 1912 as the only
nominee who can save the party
viii Taft quietly submit and lay
down his hand? Even if he
were willing to do so would the
"Old Guard" the "Standpat Re
publicans, the agents and at
torneys Of the Protective Sys-
tenn, with it's communities of in
terest branching out in every
direction, commanding unlimited
means permit him; or, in case
he persisted, could they not easily
find a substitute? The woods
are full of straightout Republi-
cans who might poll the cast-iron
party vote even as against
Roosevelt
They may patch up their diff
erences in New York. Sunny
Jim may stink away into the
hole of the Vice Presidency and
drop the hole in after him. Tim
Woodruff may HE away to
Europe Billy Barnes may join
the Church, Jimmie the younger.
may forget the wrongs done James,
the elder Wadsworth, and spend his
autumn days amid the blandish-
ments of the Genesee Hunt. But
after it Is all over, defeat their por-
ton, there will stand the same old
issues and interests, the same old
antagonism and passions. the IRE.
concilable conflict between the pro-
fessional good and the professional
bad Us bitter as ever; Taft. playing
baseball on the diamond, Roose-
welt playing baseball ON the fence,
the world the flesh and the devil
unchanged since Buchanan broke
with Douglas and historic Democ-
racy was sent TO grass in 1860, as
historic Repubhcauism seems des-
tined to be sent 10 grass in 1912
Henry Watterson.
Richard Hamilton visited at
Chenille a day or so last week.
Kenn5y Hunt IS down with a
severe attack Of typhoid fever at his
home ON Pine creek