The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-12-28
MATTERS CONCERNING THE LAW.
MAKERS AT THE NATION
AL CAPITAL
PRESIDENTIAL BEES ARE BUzz|NG
Chances of Various Candidates Are
Being Discussed-Congress Has -
Adjourned for the Holidays
(From Our Washington Correspondent


It's lucky that the holidays have
come for the buzzing bees have been
buzzing so hard that there might
have been danger that they would
have buzzed themselves to death in
another week or more. In the Re-
publican fold it is doubtful if any of
the leaders seriously question but
that President Taft will be renomi-
mated, but the La Toilette candidacy
is being pushed with all the vigor
that an energetic camp Of enthusiasts
can put behind it. Despite the pro-
testations of Colonel Roosevelt and
his friends, the demand for the eX-
President will not down, The move
ment in Nebraska to put his name
on the primary ballot may require
some energetic effort on the part Of
Mr.. Roosevelt to check the attempt
to run him for the Presidency against
his wishes, since the same perform
ance may be duplicated in other
states where the presidential prefer
ence plan is in vogue. The intimates
of President Taft meet all these
movements with the declaration that
it is the usual preconvention fashion,
and that it is only a part of the regu-
lar plan of making history to go af-
ter the party leader in power and
stir up all the opposition possible
prior to the time when the real work
of choosing delegates comes around
The Democratic situation has been
shifted with the compass for many
months, but the Champ Clark people
claim that most of the breeze has
been in their direction; and certain
ly they are quite right in this, but
Wilson and Harmon have both been
quite as much in the foreground at
different stages of the game as the
genial Speaker. The astute ones have
their lids cooked askance towards the
prairies of Nebraska, and there are
others ready to faint when asked
about Hearst. Matters are reason
ably well defined in the Republican
party, but guessing on heads and
tails with the coin flying high in the
mir is easy, as compared with what
is going % turn up when spotlight
falls on heads and tails of Demo
c,atic presidential candidates. The
coin has only two days to turn, while
in the other instance things may flop
any one of a half a dozen ways with
out Earring the wise old %guessers
about Capitol Hill very much.
The Tariff Boards report on the
wool industry is in. The Tariff
Board will Immediately go on trial
for its life, and unless it meets
with the overwhelming approval of
the country, the Democratic majority
of the House of Representatives is
likely to refuse further appropriations
for the Board, in which event it will
be obliged to close shop. Everybody
connected WIFI ltSlSldtIOh q hOlS
but kind words to say Of the little
shepherds who herd their f1ocks. The
wool on the back Of Mary's little
lamb, and all the other sheep is a
matter of intense concern to every
statesman holding a commission from
the American voters, and since the
Democratic Representatives and the
Progressive Republicans Of both
Houses of Congress refuse absolute
" to accept the position of the Presi-
dent and the Tariff Board which he
champions, the prospect Of legisla-
ton that will pass Congress and
escape a Presidential veto, is very
remote. Everybody has been taking
kicks at Schedule X since it went
into the Payne-Aldrich bill, but just
how there is going to be brought
about a "revision-downward," such as
everyone seems to desire, is anything
but clear, since there are about four
different elements in Congress all
hauling in different directions, with
a goodly portion of the whole number
willing to accept most any kind OF a
final compromise to put President
Taft in a hole before the opening OF
the campaign mex spring.
Congress has adjourned for the
holidays, having accomplished during
it's short career of the sixty-second
session another long step in the d.