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goth Year, Whole No. 1895.

would vote for a bill providing
for the recall Of judes or not.
Neither has he stated publicly
whether if the election of a Prcsi-
dent should be thrown into the
House of Representatives he
would vote for Taft or Roosevelt.
The e, USUALLY votes flr the
prin .p'os represented by a can
dida." fer congressman rather
than Cor the individual, and there
is n Ting so far indicate upon
what principles or platform the
Republican nominees who are
supp f;cl b. the Bull Moose par
~ arc Standing. If the voters
desir S to have q Republican con-
gresham he will not accomplish
mucA by putting in member Of
third party whose platform is
entire different from that of
his own party. If a member Of
the Bull Moose party desires a
Progressive" to represent him
in Congress he is not coming
very close to the mark when he
votes fcy = Gtandpatter for that
office The matter Of principle
does not seem 10 be involved
amoHg the Republican or Bull
Moosa candidates in West Vir-
ginia. The Whole thing is a |
of getting the Offices,
and in order to do the best they |
can 10th parties seem to have |
agreed 20 divide them up.
The same principle is involved
in the campaign for the legisla-
ture. Whether the policies ad
vocatel by Mr.. Roosevelt or
those advocated by Mr.. Taft
would be cared cut in the legis
latulc If the joint candidates of
the two parties would be elected
has not been publicly stated.
The whole matter seems to be a
question Of olcoting anybody who
is opposed to the Democratic
party and then letting w. Nj. O.
Dawson and Davis Elkins fight
out the qUcs ton of Senatorship.
Senator Bailey lives a long
way fom West Virginia but he
seems to have a pretty good idea
Of what is going on politically in
that state, 70" he has detected
what some Of the West Virginia
people have rot yet learned, that
the fight of the Republicans and
progressives in that State is a
fight for offices only and not a
of principle.
u 4
The attitude of the United
States Senate toward the charg-
IS made by Governor G!asscock
and others against Senators Wat
son and Chiffon on the last day
If the session of Congress was
clearly expressed when the Sen
ate by practically unanimous vote
eXpunged from the record and
refused to assist in circulating
the charges, because it was so ap-
parent that they not made in
good faith and were made mere
y for political effect. The mo-
ion to eXpunge the charges from
he record was made by a Repub-
lean Senator. Mr.. McCumber of
North Dakota, who said:
My motion is based upon my
objection that our record should
be made the cesspool for the
Judgment of the virus of all such
political malcontents. | believe
that we should not make the Con
grtssional Record the purveyor
or The container Of any scurilous
matter against any person on the
initiative Of some one outside of
the Senate who might send it'll
here untiI after the matter itself
has been investigated "
In speaking on Senator Nc
Cumb-rs resolution Senrtor
Bacon faid:
Does anybody believe for al
moment that if there had been
any foundation for these char
gcy, with hot only antagonisms
and issues which arise between
the two great political parties.
but with a'5o the antagonisms
and issICs which arise between
factions Of the Democratic party.
that matter would have been al