The Tupelo journal., 1910-04-29

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1t has been said In dispatches fire..
quently that 1t is the presidents In.
tention at Cincinnati certainly. and
possibly at st. Louis, to strike a blow
at the Republican members of con
gress who he thinks for reasons OF
personal ambition are combating some
OF his recommended measures. Those
who were closest to the president.
however. did not believe that he would
take occasion to say sharp things
about the Insurgents in his Washing
ton speech delivered at the same time
that the attorney general was speak
ing in Chicago. The president then
spoke to representatives of Republic
an clubs from different parts of the
country. and so those who looked at
the matter from a supposedly political
ly wise standpoint concluded that the
occasion was not the proper n to
score the Republicans of any faction.
1t is a pretty safe prophecy, how
ever, to make that the president will
say some sharp things about some OF
the insurgent members when be
speaks in his home city. The prophecy
has been made before. and 1t was
made by the very men who said that
Mr.. Taft would not say anything sharp
in his Washington speech. Part OF
the forecast was fulfilled and it seems
likely that the rest of 1t will come true
in order. The Democrats say that IL
the president attacks the Insurgents he
will open wider the breach in the Re-
publican party and make more certain
the election of O Democratic house
next November.
Democrats Seem Harmonious.
While the Republicans do not ad-
NIT that they have any great conf
dence in the ability of all the fac
lions Of the Democracy to get to-
gether in one harmonious whole, they
are one too certain. for the hap
penings within the ranks of the OPP
position make 1t seem at least that
the blue sky of peace Is over the Dem
ocratic ranks with no threatening
clouds on the horizon.
1t is expected that soon the mem
bers of the Democratic congressional
committee will get into personal
touch with leading members of the
party in each district so hat the
so that the needs may be supplied and
a campaign on behalf of Democratic
candidates may be conducted on lines
they think are most likely to lead to
ucces At the recent Jeffersonian
dinner in Washington Mr.. Bryan's
letter which has been given wide pub
licity was read. In a it was the
element that disturbed the equanimity
of some of the old line Democrats, but
even the Republican enemy admits
that the Democracy acted wisely on
the occasion by reading the letter.
by refraining from making any acri-
monious comments and by doing moth
ing to p%recipitate factional troubles in
any way. The Republicans now know
pretty thoroughly the line which the
Democrats will follow from this time
until November. An attempt will be
made to prevent throwing into the
field any past matters of controversy.
The Democrats will gain something
by the fact that the report OF the cur
rency commission is not to be acted
upon until next winter and there will,
therefore, be no necessity probably
for any sharp interchanges on the cur
rency question in the coming cam
paign. If debate on this subject were
started, the Democrats fear that the
silver question, to which Mr.. Bryan
adverted in his letter to the Jeffer-
son birthday dinners, might bob up
once more and create trouble. The
tariff of course will be the leading
issue and the Democrats already are
preparing through the congressional
campaign committee to make the
most of the subject.
Cost of Living an Argument.
The high cost of living 1t is expect
&c by the Republicans will be used
by the Democrats as an argument
against high tariff. The committee of
which Senator Henry Cabot Lodge is
the chairman is now investigating
reasons for the high cost of living and
it may be that when the committee'sre.
port is read the Republicans will find
they have in it good campaign mate
rial to offset the charges of the Dem
ocracy that the high price of clothes.
food and other things is due wholly
to the tariff. The Democrats, as the
Republicans know, will charge that
the opposition since it has been in
control of the house of representa-.
tives has run roughshod over the
wishes of individual members and in
some cases of the majority of the
house. This issue will be Cannonism
with Mr.. Cannon personally elimin-
ated. Democratic stump speakers will
promise that in a Democratic house
there will be no attempt at one-man
rule.
The leading Democrats in Washing
ton are still at work trying to COM
plete the plan for perfect national har-
mcny that they seem to think has
been made possible by the pronounce
ment of John Temple Graves at the
Jeffersonian dinner to the effect that
the members of the Independence
league will come bac'. into the old
time Democratic fold and will work
for Democratic victory.
GEORGE CLINTON.
John Pridworth. You're afraid to get
up"