The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-12-01
Especial to The Caucasfan)

Especial to The Caucasian.)
Washington. ID. c.. Nov. 90
Senators and members OF the
House OF Representatives are pour
ing into the Capital each day for the
opening OF Congress on next Mon
day. Already more than a quorum
OF both houses is here, and practi-
cally every man will be here by Sat-
urday night. y
1t is interesting, or amusing, and
sometimes both, to hear Congress
men on each side express their views
as to how 1t all happened. The Re-
publicans, as rule. give a more or
less clear. logical and specific state
ment as to the elements that entered
into the Republican defeat.
One Republican will point to the
high cost OF living, and how it affect
ed those who live on fixed incomes
in his district and State. Another
will refer to the general reaction
against the party in power following
every general revision Of the tariff.
pointing to the time when Mckinley
was defeated, Immediately after the
passage of the Mckinley law, and
was soon after elected President. An
other will point to the fact that the
| country is so prosperous that those
who most profit by prosperity usual
ly become Indifferent to the necessity
of voting to maintain the party and
the policies that have brought good
times.
Still another will explain that la
boring men never strike except when
they are getting the highest wages.
! Another will explain that 1t was be-
cause Of the supposed differences be-
tween President Taft and former
President Roosevelt and their friends.
Another will explain how the fight
| between the regulars and insurgents
caused large number Of people to
determine that the time had come to
administer to the Republican party
a rebuke, probably not seeing clearly
just the merits between the two fac
tions and their great convictions over
the tariff schedules.
On the other hand, it is noticeable
! that the Democrats, as rule, do not
| give any very clear or intelligent
reason. They simply boast that they
did it.
l. A Republican Senator, commenting
upon this attitude assumed by the
Democrats, that they are entitled to
the credit for the great sagacity and
wisdom in engineering a great and
successful Democratic campaign, said
that not one of these men seemed to
realize that the so-called Democratic
landslide was not Democratic vic
tory, but was simply temporary re-
action against the Republican party.
He further said that it was clear
that the people who had this year
voted the Democratic ticket, or who,
by staying at home, had contributed
to the Democratic victory, did not
mean to endorse Democratic policies,
for indeed, he said, the Democratic
party has no fixed policies, and sure
ly no one could have voted the Dem
ocratic ticket hoping or expecting
that party to improve or even to
maintain present conditions.
The President and the Tariff.
There is much comment upon the
gathering statesmen as to the posi-
tion that the President will take as
to the revision of the tariff in his
forthcoming message to Congress
| The Democrats, as a rule, seem to
think that he will be either forced to
advise Congress to at once make a
downward revision, or that he will
give the Democratic party the great
/ est issue that it has ever had in its
history for hammering and demand
/ ing that the President and Repub-
! lican Senate agree to a Democratic
downward revision bill in the next
Congress.
A prominent Republican states
man, commenting upon this position
| of the Democrats, said that they
seemed to overlook the fact that the
republican tariff law provides the ma
chinery by which the tariff bill shall
hereafter be revised whenever the
facts justify it. He pointed out that
the tariff board which the President
| was authorized to appoint under the
last tariff bill. and which he has ap-
pointed, and which is now at work.
will gather facts as to the difference
in the cost of production here and
abroad, as declared for in the Repub-
lican platform, and that as the Presi-
dent gathers these facts he will send
them to Congress, and that no matter