Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-03-28
Democratic Members Of Six
ty-Second Congress a
Credit to the Party
PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS
Roosevelt People Making
Claims While Taft Contin-
gent Gets Delegates

WASHINGTON. d. c. March %
Especial correspondence of the Az
erdeen Herald THE democratic
party OF t.4.s country is 10 be c0ngra..
ulated on the membership of the S2nd
Congress- In some respects it is Il
remarkable body of men. 1t goes
against my grain to ever make it nec-
essary for me 10 criticise the Demo-
Gratis hut | must sly that some Of
the membership of the 62nd Congress
when they first came here. were the
clans in the National Capital have
seen for 10; these many days. It is
not to be presumed that every man
who is elected to Congress, is a great
statesman and knows all about the
intricacies of the National legisla-
ton. but some of these fellows who
came here reminded me of the re-
+ mark made by friend of mine OF
the capacity for retaining red liquor
of a certain individual. He said,
Some people do not know when they
get enough, but when that fellow has
got enough. he doesn't know any.
thing" Now l don't mean to imply
that these people drink liquor or for
get what they are doing on that ac-
count but | mean that when they
first came here they did not know
what to do and that's why l am in
a position, not to throw brckbat
at them, but bouquet.
So far as the tariff question is con-
cerned. they did not know anything
about how to 60 about reducing it
from Democratic standpoint. In
fact, some of them did not know any.
more about economics than a parrot
does of the power of prayer. In fact.
some of them do not know whether
Ricardo was an economist or a corn
doctor, but they were willing to learn.
name no names and say nothing
harsh about any of them, for they
deserve all the credit that can be
given them for making good soldiers.
They simply had confidence in their
leader and general, Speaker Champ
Clark, followed his lead, took his ad-
vice and have made of the Demo-
cratic party, not only in Congress
but in the United States, a militant
force and army with banners that is
ready to. go forth and do battle for
the principles of the party and the
interests Of the people. and win.
So far as presidential politics are
concerned, the boomers of both par
ties candidates are booming along in
the same old way and where there
is hilarity in some headquarters.
there is corresponding gloom in 9th.
ers.
The Republican standpatters or re-
dictionaries and the Republican pro-
gressives are still hammering one an
other to the delight and delectation
Of all Democrats
The Roosevelt people are making
all the claims and the Taft people
are getting all the delegates. Roose-
welt is going to be the worst disap.
pointed man in the United States af.
ter that Chicago convention. It IS
impossible for him not to be so now
on account of his exaggerated ego. A
few down and out politicians who
want a change in the Republican ad-
minstration. simply because they
are down and out, told Mr.. Roose-
velt that he had only to come out
with the statement that he would ac.
cept the nomination to set the coun-
try absolutely on fire 1t agreed so
we'll with his own estimate of his own
popularity, that he expected to SEQ
the light OF the blaze even at Oyster
Bav. When the crash comes at Chi
/ cago next June. poor old Roosevelt
and his ambitions will fall fiatter
than a pumpkin pie from the top or
the Washington Monument. He viii
he the worst discredited man in the
United States and his advisers will
! have done him the greatest injustice
and his overweening egotism has
done him the greatest injury that ever
came to any man who was ever presi-
dent Of the United States.