The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-26
IS GREATLY
EXAGGERATED
Senator La Toilette is
Skeptical About the
Fight in the House.
BY United Press Wire.


Madison, Wis. March 25-"The
victory will strengthen the morale OF
the progressive organization. II will
demonstrate that the System can be
beaten. But it will be clearly under
stood that little was achieved besides
the Temporary humiliation of an old
man of bad eminence, whose success.
or the System must, at all events,
soon put forward"
Out from the center of the smoke
of battle which ragged at Washington
for three days last week, Senator La
Toilette, i'm todays issue Of his
Weekly Magazine says that "rhe ef-
feet of this contest I'm the House has
been greatly exaggeratd" Senator La
Toilette believes that the change i'm
House rules increasing the members
of the committee from five to ten,
without the speaker as chairman. to
be selected by caucus, will accom-
plish little.
"The new committee on rules shall
have the same power as the old COM
| mittee on rules, that is: whenever
majority of it's members so deter
| mine, it is privileged to present for
| the consideration of the House
special rule or motion with respect
to some particular bill or proceedings
| Ii has always had that power. The
Republican majority of this commit
| tee on rules will be named by Re-
publican caucus. The steel trust, the
sugar trust, the beef trust, in short,
the system will control in that eau
Gus by an overwhelming majority. 1t
dominates both branches of Con-
gress. 1t speaks through Aldrich in
the Senate and through Cannon In
the House. It will name the new
committee on rules"
| cannon Twill not be a member Of
the committee, but the System VIII
be potential on that committee as
though Cannon were its chairman.
| Sheltered behind the committee, he
will be as effective an instrument for
wrong as though he We're still Its
head and front. He may be even
/ more dangerous. His offensive arro-
gahce his coarse personality will be
less conspicuous.
Senator LaFollette says that so
long as the Republican majority IN
the House served the System 1t VIII
make little difference whether or not
| Cannon is member of the COM
mittee on rules.
"Cannonism without Cannon is just
as hurtful to the country as Cannon
ism with Cannon. The people must
understand that Cannonism is
| short definition of government by that
system. Aldrich and Cannon would
have little power for evil IL ma
| iority of the Republican majority In
both the Senate and the House rep
resented public interest instead OF
special interest
1.-THE American people must un-
derstand that this has been only a
skirmish. The real battle is still tC
come. and that must be fought out
in the primaries and the elections be '
tween now and November. Candl'
dates must be nominated and elected
who will vote against Cannon and his
type without finching, and against
Cannon i'm every form.
"In fear of the approaching cleo
tions. some of the System congress-
men deserted Cannon and voted with
the Insurgents. These men are
making a record upon which to go
before their constituents. The gath
ering storm of public resentment
caused them to abandon the camp oil
the enemy and join the insurgents
Let them come. Let them be tested
n watch their records. They will he
tried many times in this session. by
their fruits, Ye shall know them