The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-10-07
NATIONAL POLITICAL NOTES.

The RepuDllcan Administration ha'
so many troubles that only few coulC
be even considered by the Cabinet
Since France increased her protective
tariff the cost Of living has greatly in.
creased, and the number Of trusts Of
combines is being rapidly augmented.
Representative Payne declares that he
has mo apologies to make" for the
tariff bill but a good many other Re
publicans by force of public opinion
think it requires amending.
Jim Tawney, the standpatter Mime
sofa Congressman, has met his fate al
the hands Of an unknown young lawyer
with insurgent proclivities, who in turn,
will be beaten by Democrat Buck, OF
Winona.
Boss Brayton, of Rhode Island, is
dead, and the railroads and the trusts
will have to select some other RepubIi-
can to buy the voters with their money
in order to protect their interests. Such
is Aldrichism
Quite number OF Republican lame
ducks''-standpatters- hered in
Washington when the President was
there. What a flock of them there
will be after election, and what a job it
will be for President Taft to mend all
their broken political bones.
The machine Republicans of New
York, who are high-class Federal Office
holders are mostly lined up for Mr..
Roosevelt as delegates to the conven-
ton, and civil service traditions have
been thrown to the winds. The Colonel
is, of course, a civil service reformer,
but
The total estimates for the appropri-
ations necessary for the naval service
during the next fiscal year were an
nounced Monday to be 1928, 300,0 900.
This stands against appropriations of
$137 ,913, 900 for the fiscal year ended
last July and 1892, 1884, 600 for the pres
ent fiscal year
Champ Clark in his speech to the IL
linois Democratic Convention complete
ly demolished what was left of Uncle
Joe and his standpat Republican asso-
ciates-their extravaganza, their protec-
ton to the trusts, their pork bills, and
other measures of plundering the peo-
pie. Turn on the light!
Republican politicians soon lose all
interest in politics if patronage vanishes.
All the pretext of patriotism is based on
the old flag and an appropriation" or
the equivelant Of good fat office with
little or no work. Membership in Re-
publican clubs is but hoped-for step
ping-stone to office-holding
Mrs. Hearst is reported to have said
that her husband needs rest from the
worry of attending to the large business
cares of his newspapers. Judging by
his hitting Judge Gaynor when he-for
physical reasons-can t reply, and call
ing him crazy, it is fair to conclude that
he is more than tired, and that it is not
amiss to inquire 'Who is looney now"
The receipts of the Federal govern
ment from all sources for the fiscal
year to September q have been 1852
055, 763, and the total disbursements
$171 967 374, which makes deficit of
SIS, 911, 611 for that period. In spite
of this fact, Republican newspapers and
spellbinders are declaring that the new
tariff law is such a good revenue pro-
ducer that it has wiped out the deficit.
A State convention that will probab
ly 60 in political history as one of,the
most remarkable in the history of the
Democratic party closed Saturday morn
ing at Rochester, n Y, by nominating
John A. Dix, chairman of the party's
State committee and wealthy Wash
ington County business man, to run on
a progressive" platform of the widest
type. The platform framed to cover
the issues which the Democratic leaders
believe were inadequately met by the
Republican convention at Sarotoga,
gained no less attention and approval
than the candidate. Regarding the
platform there was from the first little
or no division of opinion But the can
didate was not chosen until Charles F.
Murphy leader OF Tammany Hall, who,
by virtue OF his 213 delegates, was in a
position to control the convention, had
canvassed the merits of no less than
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