The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-02-19
THE. i [: NATIONS CAPITAL
Interesting Facts Concerning
Speaker Cannon.
Speech Of President Taft on
Lincoln Day.
Repeats That Payne Tariff
is Best Ever.
special to The Irish Standard.

n Special to The Irish Standard.
Washington, Feb. 17-1magine the
( next House of Representatives. Demo-
cratic by a substantial majority
Champ Clark is speaker and Under
wood of Alabama is the Democratic
floor leader.
An insurgent meets a G. o. P. stand
patter in the corridor of the capitol
Says the insurgent: 49,.
81 "Wcll, it happened! And it was
just as 1 told you stand-patters it
would be. You have been wiped off
the political map. Tawney of Mime
sofa is gone, Smith of Iowa is gone,
and the few members of the old stand .
pat bunch that did get back can count
{ their majorities on one hand. But it
serves you fellows right. You had
ample warning. You allowed Cannon
and Aldrich to throttle every piece Of
progressive legislation that came up,
and the public was on to you at every
jump in the road. You revised the
tariff upward when you promised to
do just the opposite. But even then
you We're not satisfied with the predic.
ament you found yourself in. You
capped the climax by having President
Taft declare the Aldrich- Payne Smoot
bill to be the best tariff measure ever
enacted into law, when as matter of
fact even the American school chill
dren knew the bill was filled with jok-
ers conceived to rob the people for the
thieving sugar trust and other tariff
beneficiaries. 1t was absolutely GER
tain that the public would whack you
over your political heads at the very
first opportunity. And they did,"
Then the regular gives his version
Of it, as follows:
Il fear, my friend of the west, that
you do not apply the law Of cause ana
effect to the situation The defeat of
4 the regular organization was due to
q few reformers and traitors who
called themselves Republicans, but
were really Democrats. Pretending to
I be Republicans, they learned all Of the
\ organization secrets and then started
of fighting the thing out in caucus as
they should have done and as they
would have done had they been Repub-
licans with the good of the party at
/. (
Gratis from the start, and Uncle joe
called the right term on you when he
called you Democrats. You mention
the sugar Joker. Do you know how
much money the sugar people corr
tributed to the Republican campaign
fund? II you don't, you hadn't ought
+ friend. and every other piece OF legis-
z lation about which you complained was
4 absolutely necessary to bring in cam
pa1gn funds. BY making such a howl
, over these particular features of tho
tariff bill, you only directed attention
!. to the organization business methods,
with the result that Republican vot-
: ers deserted us by regiments. The re-
suit of your wretched politics Is that
] the present house is Democratic, and
v the next president Is mighty likely to
be of the same religion. Shame on the
1 insurgents!"
Just then along comes "Uncle Joe,"
who has been defeated for election,
L but has opened lobby in washington
for Standard Oil and the liquor peo
\ pie. The standpatter appeals to the
4 old gentleman with the stogie. but the
latter waves him to one> side, saying
( that he has made his millions and has
i therefore assumed the customary
"publican- be- damned attitude.
sF Even the Republicans are not find
4 ing it so hard to imagine the next
house Democratic, especially when
they stop to consider-first the result
of the recent congressional election in
the. Sixth Missouri district, where a.
100 per cent gain was made by Dick
inson, the Democratic candidate; Sec
ond, the result of the Success maya
zine straw ballot, which, showed 517
Republicans approving and 6,313 Re.
publicans disappearing the attitude Of
SE Aldrich (Which was approved by Pres
dent Taft on the tariff; and third.
the reducing Of the majority of the
Republican governor of Massachusetts
&sin an election in which the new tariff
ssE5law was the sole issue, from $4,000 to
IsssS, 900. It should not be overlooked that
& he voters of the Sixth Missouri dis
IEstrfct who repudiated the Payne AID
\ rich smoot law are at the. present time
eceiving high prices for butter and
N sgEs, grain and live stock, and it was
+ CLASS Of voters the Republicans
expected to find enthusiastically