Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1910-06-25
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| the body polite. One is a breaking of
| the skin, the other breaking of the
party. One breaks out OH the neck of the
| body the other i'll u neck of the woods.
| When one boil breaks out, others are
sure to follow; when insurgency starts
| up, there are sure to be several out
| breaks.
! When insurgency first began to mani
| fest itself III the restless and ambitious
| West, it was conceded that it would
| spread somewhat. But never did mem
Der of the 0. G.-that's Old Guard to the
| knowing-never did member of the 0.
q. contemplate that it would spread be-
| yond the middle West.
Therefore when sizzling sound was
heard in New Jersey, the members of the
| o. G. never suspected that it was the
noise of Il burning fuse attached to an
] nsurgent lirecracker. Little attention
was paid to the sizzling noise by the
rank and file of the Republican party
not until the explosion came. Since
then, these Republicans have been jump
ing around lively and stepping lively
for fear the explosion OF the one fire
cracker will set off the whole bunch
Yes, there is no use denying that in
surgency has started some lively doings
up in New Jersey. And many eyes i'll
political Washington are watching it
carefully and anXiously. While it was
confined to the middle West, the rank
and file Republicans from the East smiled
indulgently whenever its sturdiness was
mentioned. But now that is is in their
midst, the smile is wearing off and an
anxious look is replacing it.
In oil of +lo pnn,.bI;o,n ~ olnn,,
the Atlantic seaboard, except New
Hampshire, Senator is to be elected
within the next nine months as well as
members of the lower House of Congress.
In Maine, successor to Senator Hale is
to be chosen. He has retired from the
race and IA new man will soon take his
place i'll the Senate. In the state of the
sacred cod, Senator Lodges successor is
to be elected: and Mr.. Lodge is cand
date, with political machinery well greas
ed and much power to run it. The Rhode
Island legislature has to pick someone
to succeed the mighty Aldrich. In Con
nectcut, the results at the polls next
fall will determine successor to Sena
tor Bulkeley; and the veteran politician
wants his chair in the Senate reserved
for him for another six years.
Senator Depew's term as Senator
from the Empire State ends March 3D.;
and numerous candidates, including the
after dinner speaker himself, are in the
race. just to the South, in Pennsyl-
vania, an election of a Senator will take
place before another year rolls around:
and that newspaper r-statesman-George
I. Oliver-thnks he would like to re-
main in the upper House of Congress for
at least SIX years more. D1MlnutIve
Delaware, too, has Senatorial election
confronting it, Senator DuPont's term
expiring at the end of the next session
Of Congress.
The New Jersey legislature must elect
d successor to Senator John kean next
winter There have been rumblings of
insurgent eruptions i'll some of the other
states-Maine and Massachusetts chiefly
and the trampling of Democratic hosts
onward to victory has been heard in
some others-New York and Delaware
primarily But in New Jersey, real
insurgent outbreak is in progress, with
Representative Fowler leading the on
slaught on the regular breastworks
While Senator Fowler, the insurgent
opponent of the senior Senator from
N
to utilize the primary law in his race
Senator kean has made no announce
I, -ment. 1t is generally believed in Wash
ington that unless he is forced to, he
will not enter the primaries. 1t is un-
derstood he believes that, inasmuch as
the legislature is not bound by the re
suit of the primaries, he can be Il can
didate before the legislature without
any Endorsement whatever in the prlm-
aries. In support OF that position, it is
known that he has directed the circula-
tion of no petitions to have his name
placed on the primary ballots and APP
parently made no effort to make his
fight for reelection in the primaries
While the Senatorial elections are un
der discussion. there is always much pre-
diction that the running of the Senate
will be in far different hands than at
present Senators Aldrich and Hale, the
parliamentary warhorses, are to retire,
leaving the chairmanship of the powerful
finance and appropriations committees
open to others. Senator Burrows, of
Michigan, is threatened with defeat,
which would mean a new head for the
| Senate committee on privileges and elec-
tions.
Even with these three out of the Sen
ate, there would be big shift i'll the
| Senates management. Among the other
| chairmen of big committees who will
| have to be reelected to retain their posi-
irons are Senator Depew, of the commit
| tee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico,
| Lodge, of the committee onPhilippines,
| Beveridge. of the committee on territor-
les: Clark, of the judiciary committee,
| Dick, of the committee on mines and
mining; Kean, of the committee on con-
tingent expenses; LaFollette, of the COM
| mittee on census. 1t would not be sur
| prising if one or more OF these were re-
| tired As the control of important
| committees carries with it the control
of much legislation, the Importance Of
shifts in the chairmanships is readily
| understood; and any discussion Of
changes of power or of-legislative
| policy hinges on the chairmanships.
| Look to the chairmanships" has beeu
| motto of those in control of the upper
house for years; and a study of the
present assignment of chairmanships in
dicates how the Senate leaders held much
of their power.
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