Gloucester County Democrat., 1911-11-09
oUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
By Clyde H. Tavenner.

By Clyde H. Tavenner.
/ The Democratic National Congress
sional Committee is leaving no stone
unturned to keep the House of Repre-
sentatives safely Democratic.
The headquarters of this organiza-
ton in Washington have not been
closed during the entire summer.
Congressman James T. Lloyd of Mis-
souri,, chairman of the committee, is
personally ION the job" prosecuting
vigorous campaign of organization
work; directing the dissemination of
! facts showing what the Democratic
House has already accomplished; in
| forming the country as to the true
: purpose of the Democratic platform,
and in all legitimate ways doing
everything he can to bring about ma
tional Democratic harmony and CO.
7, operation.
Mr.. Lloyd has more than anticipat-
! ed the ideal of campaign publicity
legislation by making it a strict rule
to see that every dollar that has been
j entrusted to the committee has been
honestly spent. Under his manage
ment there has been no entertain
ment" fund, or anything of that order.
No 'junkets" have been financed out
of the funds at his disposal. From the
| first Mr. Lloyd has been determined
that the methods of the committee
should conform to the highest stand
ard of business morals.
A feature of the committee work in
which Mr.. Lloyd takes deep inter-
est is the publicity bureau, which is
the largest bureau of it's kind that the
Democrats have ever maintained in
the national capitol. Encouraged by
! the bright prospects confronting the
democracy of the nation, the Demo-
cratic editors of the country are using
generously of the information sent
out by the bureau. More than two
thousand newspapers are regularly
printing letters sent out by the COM
mittee, thus keeping the Democratic
viewpoint constantly before the coun-
try.
TAFT ECONOMY"
Under the Taft policy of "cut to the
quick" economy, which was much
talked about when Mr.. Taft first went
into office, the government overspent
its revenues during the first thirty
days of October by S4,648,694 Thus
far this fiscal year, which began July
1, the expenditures of the government
have exceeded the receipts by more
than S20,000,000, which is $S,000,0 900
heavier than the deficit on the cor
responding date last fiscal year. The
mad money-spending campaign which
is responsible for this state of affairs
was a feature of the legislative pro-
| gram of the last Republican Congress-
The HOUSE OF MORGAN.
That J. Pierpont Morgan's grip
on the financial situation is becoming
more and more absolute is indicated
by the discovery of the Stanley COM
mittee that the cash balance of the
steel trust which he dominates, and
of the railroads and other industrial
corporations in which he controls
heavy interests, amounting in all to
over half billion dollars, is on de-
posit in the Office of J. P. Morgan &
| Co., a private banking concern, not
subject to the supervision of any con-
stitutional authority. This money
Morgan can lend to whom he pleases
and refuse to lend to whom he likes.
Moreover, the control of this cash
gives him. the power to regulate the
credits of this country, which makes
| this one man the financial dictator of
America.
/ GETTING THE FACTS.
When Congress convenes in Decem-
Der the Democratic majority in the
House will be able to take up legis-
lative matters with more intelligence
than any preceding Congress has
started its winters labor The reason
for this is that various party leaders,
as well as many of the House COM
mittees, have been conducting investi-
cations this summer, both public and
private, into all sorts of matters with
which Congress is concerned. "Get
the facts" has been the slogan of
these Democrats, and every day they
are accumulating information which
will be submitted to the House as soon
as Congress begins it's next session.
EXTRAVAGANCE TO STOP.
There is one thing upon which all
the members of the Democratic ma
jority of the House of Representatives
are solidly united, and that is: a de-
termination to see that there is a rea-
son back of every dollar that is to be
appropriated at the coming session
of Congress. Leaders of the party are
of the opinion that the Republican
policy of accepting the estimates of
various department heads without
question, has been tremendous ex-
pensive one to Uncle Sam, and here
after, these leaders say, the public
purse is not going to be opened until
the requisition is endorsed by facts
sufficient to justify it. In line with
this policy Chairman Fitzgerald, of
the all important appropriations com
mittee, has been the busiest man in
the United States, during the past
summer, personally investigating the
various items which later on will call
for avnondif.1T,a Of