The state herald., 1912-11-29
AFTER MARCH FOURTH
HARD TO TELL JUST WHAT THE
COUNTRY MAY LOOK FOR.
Dealing With office-Hunting Army
VIII Be the First Of President
Wilson's Trials-And Then
More Serious Difficulties.

W hle lue next congress VIII De
Democratic in both branches, the SEN
ate majority margin will be very
small. If the Republicans stand to-
gether on important issues they will
constitute a very powerful minority.
II Emergencies develop in the senate
rial majority in respect to tariff sched-
ules or any other important party
measure there may be series of
deadlocks that will prevent action.
And then there is DR.. Woodrow Will.
son. VIII there be complete harmony
OF view In respect to a tariff redraft
between the new congress and the
new president? Nobody knows at this
time.
The thing that looms largest in
many Democratic minds in connection
with the accession to power in nation.
al affairs of the Democratic party is
the distribution OF the patronage II
the civil-service law is not eluded-
and there is no reason to expect that
the next president will permit It to
be sidetracked-the place changes
will not be so sweeping as they were
under the first Cleveland administra.
ton. But the appointments which the
new president will make will run far
up In the thousands and will affect ev.
cry state and congressional district.
In the view OF many Democrats the
most important OF all Democratic max
Inns In that Jacksonian screed-"To
the victors belong the spolls." II Is
iatefully certain that there will be
great army OF place hunters from all
over the map TO invade Washington
as soon as the new president takes up
quarters Mt the white House.
Speaking OF the prospective and In.
eyitable ofiicehuntlng army that viii
besioge the new president. Col. Henry
Watterson OF the Louisville Courier,
Journal. declares that upon the, very
threshold OF his administration the
new president will have rough work
to do. Colonel Watterson predicts that
the onrush OF office hunters will sur
pass anything ever known before"
Concerning the appeals for appoint
ment that will be made upon the next
president the CourierJournal editor
declares that they will echo through
the White House and assall the new
occupant during all his walking hours
and pursue him In his sleep and
dreams. morning. noon and light He
will never escape from the mean. sor.
OF self.seeking.
Colonel watterson's picture OF what
awaits DR.. Wilson ms patronage dis.
tribu,or In not too fancifully touched
up. Far more serious difficulties. how.
ever, than standing OF and sending
back the offiee-huntlng brlgadea will
soon be encountered II the new presi.
dent happens to have some Ideals as
to legislative policy that diner from
those which the congressional major
ity may attempt 10 put through. In
the Democratic platform adopted nj
the baltimore convention not one
word Ia said about maintaining tho pro
tectlye principle IN. the advocated 70.
draft Of the tarin In the platform
emphasis IL placed upon the deolara
/ ton fayorinE the speedy and extensive
reduction OF the schedules Il was In
reference 10 this plank that Governor
Wilson time and again In his cam
pAlsn speeches remarked that "A plat
form 10 not a program" Frequently
he told hls audiences In manufnotur'
ing sections II do not believe In fro.
trade or anything like T." By amy.
thing like ii" ~ must have meant, I'M