The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-01

of trade, and is worth at least 10,O00,000 bones We will probably hear something more about the Lorimer and Stephenson election matters, and while it may have cost these gentlemen a few hundred thou sand kopecs to elevate themselves to the high standard of "Prominent Statesman ship it will cost the government much more to prove it to discriminating legal minded Senate.
 We will see our own Champ Clark of Missouri in his famous act of How 10 be a plain citizen and representative of the people, though speaker of the House., and his ancient rival, Uncle Joe,' now grand high potentate of the Knockers unicn. making faces at him and lamenting over the sad havoc and ruin being wrought by @ democratic majority.
 Hoke Smith of Georgia will be inducted into office and take his seat in our House of Lords, and we will be treated to a lot of lucid oratory from that distinguished body, at meter rates, which will no doubt be elevating and instructive to the coun try, as. it is intended.
 We will 'have with us tonight" Doc Wiley, who was triumphant example of the wrong number, when our esteemed ad- ministration was looking for a Goat, and who is now with cheerful mien and an official o. K. pursuing the incipient mi- crobe and the callous germ that may DC found doing business among our break fast foods and canned goods.
 We will have as a permanent part of tie scenery our venerable but extremely active friend Wilson, the Secretary Of Agriculture who is a plain blunt man, who refuses to take a hint and who can be separated from his job only by stop ping his pay, an act that the administra- ton is loath to perform, for he undoubt- edly has his influence.
 Standing in the center of all this tl;r- moil and petty wrangling, calm and col lected. with firm hold upon his own emotions, and putting his personal duty to the American people, will be Oscar Underwood His dominant personality will rise above the petty political schemes of the administration as Guliver tow cred above the Lilliputians, and they will assist him. in the hopes of committing him to fatal error, in vain. The reason is obvious, and his friends need have lie fear, for Underwood will go through this Congress and come out from under its ordeals still higher in the esteem of his countrymen, because of the fact that he expects to follow only his convictions and be guided by nothing but his conscience,
 let the result be what it may. It is to be hoped that his party in the House yields to his leadership absolutely, and if they do so victory for the party in 1912 is sure. The administration will try to discredit him. as well as all the acts of the ma jority, a task that so far the adminstra- ton has made a dismal failure of, as il has of almost everything else.
 Bryan. disgruntled And sore, a thrice rejected suitor who cannot be much cen sured for sulking because he is not given another opportunity, tho it makes him appear most ungrateful, will try to dis credit him, but his efforts are also doomed to failure, and they will fall as harmless ly before Underwood's sterling honesty and statesmanship as paper bullets fired from a popgun at the Washington mon- ument
 Le the rank ana file watch themselves if the democratic party's proverbial mis- take is made their leader in Congress will be able to plead not guilty.