Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-27
WHAT OF THE HOUR2
BY sAvoYARD.


 come to yoa in sheep's clothing. but inwardly they are ravening wolves
 "Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns. or hgs of thistles?"
 As Grover Cleveland said on a like occasion. This is a time for plain speaking" Is the cause of just and constitutional tariff taxa ton again to be frustrated 6y chi cane on the part of it's enemies and blunder on the part os its friends? Perhaps not Hut why was the lamb put in ward of the wolf?
 When Napoleon tho Great hur- ried from victorious campaign in Spain 10 confront on the Danube a fourth coalition of northern Europe, conjured against him by the Brit ish cabinet, he found his forces dis persed by his chief-of-staff. Buthier, to whom he wrote: What you have done appears so strange that if l were not sare of your devotion ! should think you were berayins me. Davoust is at this moment more completely at the disposal oi the archduke than of myself"
 And when the Payne-Aldrich tar if was hatching in the Sixty-lirst congress, Senator Thomas s. Mar tin. Gormanite of the straightest sect. was al the disposal of Nelson W. Aldricn and fetched and carried for monopoly whenever monopoly could not dispense with his services. Now that is history known of all men.
 Mir. Champ Clark is the speaker of the sixty-seeond congress. a DO sition. the president being RePuo- lican, which makes him the titular leader of the Democratic party. The action Of the senate minority in electing Martin captain of the. cru sade against the tariff is not only revolt against the decree of the country last November, but 1t Is a challenge Of the organization or the Democratic house of representa- tives. And whether they shall seize OIL the opportunity. or kiss the rod, will reveal whether Champ Clark IS fit to be 8 presidential candidate and whether Oscar Underwood is fit to conduct a campaign against monopoly.
 Never was audacity more needed in a Democratic leader. and it is not only the duty of Clark and Under wood to accept this defiance, but the occasion is freighted with all the fortunes of the Democratic party. Let Clark and Underwood hurl fast and furious their ''popgun bills, a la Springer. In politics the great man propels himself through diffi- culties like cannon ball. while the pigmy glides through them like pestilenee. The wine is drawn, let the Democratic house drink it. l tnow that on the Democratic side there are numerous men who rail of the G. O. P. as the slave of the tariff barons while holding out the hat for largeness to their own pet industries. If MT. Speaker Champ Clark and Mir Chairman Under wood do not grapple with these, the Democratic party will find leaders who will throttle them. The Demo cratic party entered into solemn covenant with the country last No vember. Is it to be repudiated2 We shall see. A movement is on foot to that end. and It's leaders are con fdent of success.
 There is much talk about pro eressive Democrats" I have little patience with that sort of cant Plain Democrat is good enough for me without the flounces and fuFbe- lows of the latitudinarians. The renitent thief on the cross was very good Christian, and that man who holds to the teachings of Jef- ferson anu Tilden is good enough Democrat for all desirable purposes. Wha; is needed is reform of men, not a progression of principles. The fathers gave us a representative re- ! public. partly national and partly federal, and if the people can only be persuaded to be true to 1t notn- ing else is necessary. The Democrat ic party never lost battle when II was Democratic. and it never gain ed one when it followed false proph- cts who proclaimed false gods. II We are to have 9 'prosressive" gov ernment, the first step is to abolish the constitution of the United States and return to allegiance to the Brit ish crown. They have 9 progressive constitution over there.
 But the tariff issue is again para