The Washington times., 1911-03-30
LEAGUE
FIGHTS FITZGERALD
Bitter Attack Prompted BY Desire to Have Him Defeated
for Chairmanship of the House Committee
on Appropriations.

i, combination still intact and in splen-
did working order. VIII IT continue
during the Sixty-second Congress!
Let US watch and see"
The Philadelphia North American, in
its issue Of March 49, 1911, in leading
editorial, declares that These Demo
Gratis who are going to, tor the
sake of harmony, give the hlgnest
Congressional place Of power to t1tz-
gerald, condemned as a Wall street
two years ago, are walking into the
trap"
The New York Press, in an editorial
of March %. 1911, under the title Cheat
ing in Congress-" in commenting on one
of the latest acts of what 1t calls the
Cannon Fitzgerald combination" says:
"One of the boldest strokes effected by
combined Democratic and Republican
agents for private interests In the his
tory of American legislation has not re-
ceived the attention from the country
that II deserves. ="
THE country gasped and groaned when
II beheld an alliance between Tammany
Hall and the Cannon machine to save
the mercenary House machine from he
disaster which later overlook it. The
country was yet to witness spectacle
which makes farce Of majority rule
and jest of legislative rule long held
to be sacredly inviolate. Mr.. La Fol-
lette does not exaggerate when he says
OF the Cannon ruling suspending the
roll call in the manner described, q
thing unheard of, that 1t was the most
shameful outrage ever perpetrated In
/ the House,! and was an act compared
to which cheating at cards seems al
most geutlemanly.'
Proves Utter Unftness.
The facts we recite in these letters
independent of any others which might
be given, suffice to prove the utter un'
fitness of the man whom you may be
asked to vote for in caucus for chair
man of the great Appropriations Com
mittee.
Behind Fitzgerald stand the Wall
Street trusts, who are Republicans
when Republicans are in power and
Democrats when Democrats are in pow
er; and ii is through men like him the
system plots to get control OF the House
The voice which demands the appoint
ment of pro-truSt Cannon members tC
the heads of important committees un-
der the pela OF harmony is the voice of
the Siren.
II you allow Democratic councils to
be dominated by men of System
responsibility for the consequences
when they betray you and your con.
stituents in the future as the have In
the past; and, when called to account
by your constituents, wnat defense
can you make?
The issue before you rises above all
questions of expediency or alleged
| harmony or desire to stand by reports
of committees. or even of party itself
1t is a question of conscience and 10y
atty to principle and to the people.
in view of its transcendent importance,
we trust you will demand OF the Com
| mittee on Committees to announce
! twenty-four hours in advance of the
caucus the names proposed by them
for chairmen so that you may have
time to properly consider the names
presented; and. II as rumored, Mr.
| Fitzgerald is nominated for chairman
of Appropriations that you will feel
1t to be your duty to defeat his con-
| frmation in the caucus and on the
| Goor of the House.
Must you not in answer to the Ques-
tion now presented vote as your con
stituents commanded last fall when
| they elected you to overthrow Can
non and his pro-trust allies in the
House OF Representatives?
Very respectfully yours.
Fl. B. MARTIN.
National Secretary.
H. j. SCHULTEIS,
! Vice chairman.
BY order of the national executive
| committee, American Antitrust
! League.