The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-08-25
a Melancho1x plight.

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The insargent Republicans in the
sSHate are now the Laughing stock
OF the country. Never did men in
public life protesting high ideals
cut q. more ridiculous hgure. The
Dit they have dug for themselves is
deeper than any hole they planned
70 put president Taft in. Tie has
proved his sincerity and kept the
faith by vetoing the rag-bag wool
bill on the ground that ''there Is no
public exIgency requiring the re-
vision OF Schedule * in August with
out adequate Information, rather
than IN December next with such in
formatfon.'' We believe the country
Is With him in this view of the mat
ter. Business men certainly are
and without distinction OF party
But the precious Insurgent crew.
whore do they find themselves!
zeal for the public welfare was sup
posed to be the breath of their nos
triIs. They coRsecrated themselves
to tnriR revision. Mr.. La Toilette
their 1nasterful leader, was willing
TO stay in Washington until every
schedule was changed. Senator
Cummins, the patentee of the Iowa
ausa, hailed the passage of the cot
ton bill by the House as an opportu-
nifty to prove the faith that was IN
him. He would do some tariff re-
yisine too, and proposed amend
mentg reducing the duties on iron
.,AA aA.,el Senator T3ristow, of Kan
saB. followed suit with amend
ment dealing with sugar. Tho hole
for DIR. Taft was to be bottomless
Dit, hut at the crook of Mr.. La Fol-
lette's flnger, they withdrew their
amendments to make way for his
cotton bill, a substitute for the
House measure, and then the wicked
and trcacherous Democrats threw
or their shacHles. knocked the
coalition with the new boss OF the
Senate into cooked hat, passed
the, House cotton bill with the
Sohnivance Of regular Republicans
who absented themselves or declined
TO vote, stole the Cummins amend
ment and made it their own, and
piled on amendments of the chemic-
al, machinery and coal schedules IN
q shameless debauch of tariff tink-
efing. The La Toilette cotton bill
received only ten votes. Punctured
were the pretensions OF the new
boss He had had his day OF strut
ting and spluttered impotently.
AS the New York sun says, in the
recent queer Congress there has
been nothing more grotesque than
Mr.. La Toilette, beaten at his own
game, pleading for elaboration In
tariff revision when the Democrats
were voting down his fly by night
cotton bill and proposing to amend
the chemical schedule. In absurdity
the Hon. Joseph Little Bristow was
q. good second, hysterically charging
that there was an odious conspiracy
between the regular Republicans and
the late allies of the Insurgents
and then voting against his own
sugar amendment pilfered by Sena-
tor Wesley Jones, of Washington
under his very nose. Senator Cum
minis opposing his cherished steel
and iron amendment because the
Hon. Augustus Octavius Bacon, of
Georgia, had reintroduced it and
put the Democratic brand upon it
flrnished more fun to gods and
men, Ut was a side splitting farce.
and there is none SO poor now to do
Battle Scared Bob reverence.
We understand that Senator Bris-
tow says that there is nothing left
Tor the insurgents to do but to APP
JsaI to the country. The country
VIII certainly howl them down.