The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1911-12-07

and has interviewed General Wood
and others, calling their attention
to the fact that Fort Meade is one
of the best equipped of any of the
small posts. There appears to be
no question but that when the
forces now masses on the Mexican
border are moved north, that one
of the regiments will be sent to
the South Dakota fort.
The western governors visiting
Washington, will break bread with
the president at the White House
on Thursday of this week. The
affair will be one of a good deal of
Importance, and will be attended
by most of the congressman from
the different states represented by
the visitors to the capital on the
"Governors' Special"
The development of plans for
the meeting of the republican nat
ional committee on December 12,
shows that the committee will limit
its activities to selection of a
convention city, the election of a
| Suh popn M oo tD ,,,ol,o rrororo
tions for the convention, and pro-
badly to vote on the two PROPOSE
tions backed by Senator Bourne.
These are, first, the question of
presidential primaries, and second,
a representation of states in the
convention proportionate to the
size of the total vote cast by any
state in the last national conven-
ton. The two propositions will
be presented to the committee, it
is understood, by Alfred L. Rog-
ers, the committeeman from Wis
cOnsin. The committee has been
gone over very carefully by friends
of President Taft, and it is con-
sidered that only three members
are hostile to the president. These
are Rogers, of v isconsin; Thomas
Thorson, of South Dakota, and
probably Borah, of Idaho. 1t ap-
pears that the committee will re-
port against presidential primar-
les. Enough of the members have
been seen to make prediction on
this question reasonably certain.
Chicago seems to be in the lead as
a candidate for the national con-
vention, though Cincinnati, Den
yer and St. Louis will have their
warm supporters when the cues
tion is taken up.
A little look into the history of
the special session of congress is
revealed in the reply of Speaker
Clark to the criticisms of erst-
while leader William Jennings
Bryan. Mr.. Clark in looking back
as far as the spring rains of April,
and coming forward to the day
his gavel finally dropped and the
members went home, declares:
I'VE pulled together, worked to-
gether, and won together. We
replaced the old habit of defeat by
the new habit of victory, by taking
counsel together and thus present
ing solid front to an astonished
enemy" Such are the wonders
of the caucus. The speaker fails
to relate how time again he and
the Alabamian Underwood laid
down the law to the "obstreprous
boys" before they would consent
to pull together. work together -
or do any other old thing together.
There were stormy scenes at times
behind those closed doors, where
pension legislation and lot of
other measures were smothered.
1t has been said that there will be
no more secret caucuses, and if
such is the case many people
about the Capital will be surprised
if the dove of harmony does not
fly far, far away from the demo-
cratic council chamber.
i Thomas A. Edison, whom many
people believe to be the greatest
man living, has been at the White