Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-23
MOVEMENT STARTED TO MAKE
DEFEATED PENNSYLVANIA
coNGREssMAN-AT.LARGE.
HAS SERVED THIRTEEN
TERMS IN LOWER HOUSE
Went Down to Defeat With Penross
Machins-PopuIar With Public and
With Members Of Congress Aitno
Serving az Representative Of Highly
Protected Interests.
Especial Correspondence

l0PGSloA
Washington, April; os.-Congressman
John Da.zell. of Pennsylvania, who
lately went down to defeat in the land
slide in Pennsylvania, especially the
one in the Pittsburgh district. may be
saved after all.
4 movement has arisen to outfiank
the disaster to Dalzell by selecting him
as one of the members of the house-at-
large. to which the state Of Pennsyl-
vania is row entitled.
a life boat to man going down in q
sinking ship never doomed up more OPP
portunely than this effort to get him
made a member at large does to the
he will go down and out of politics for
the rest of his career.
Thirteen Terms in House.
For thirteen continuous terms, be-
ginning March 4. 1887. Dalzell has been
IN the house. He has arisen to a COM
manding position or the ways and
means committee. Only two men. Cam
non and Payne. have had more house
big iron and steel and other protected
faithfully In turn. their influence has
kept him in congress. Time and again,
the voters have threatened to throw
him out but they haze not been able
quite to accomplish it, 1t remained for
the overwhelming anti-Taft and anti
Penrose tide to sweep over Penrsyl-
vania last week and take Dalzell along
with it.
Triumvirate Broken.
Ir other days, Dalzell. Bill Finn
and Chris Mayee. Of Pittsburgh. formed
a triumv!rate that was a power in the
politics of that end of Pennsylvania
But the tr.umvirate broke. Finn is
now dominant and Dalzell broken.
Mayor William Magee. nephew Of Chris
Masee. Is still potent and he is the
man who has suggested that it would
he. a good idea to take up Dalzell and
make him one of the four members OF
cougress-at-large for Pennsylvania. IN
behalf of this. it is urged that Dalzeii
has great influence on the ways ana
means committee that the protected
interests OF Pennsylvania need man
or that committee and that it would
he recognition of the services OF
man who has been thirteen terms III
tho house 10 send him back again as
a member at large.
Plan May Not Work.
The plan may or may not WORK
1-,vrn may turn it down and il so that
will be the end of it, Finn ma! ,nii.A
i. GOOD politics. however, to allow llaI-
ze,I TO come back to Washington ana IL
he does he will doubtless come oaeh.
7, may he added that they are not
talking much about Penrose now as
bors Of sylvania That mas
ohanged since Roosevelt swept the
state I-,ynn looks a lot more ilRe the
hoss of the state now than Penrose
does.
palzelI Popular.
?. will, he one Of the strangest turns
of notifies in the history OF congress II
Dalzell should be sent TO the mouse as
/, roenber-at Large after being beaten
IN his district. Another strange thlhs
about the situation is that a lot OF re-
nrhlicans. Including many insurgents
and good many democrats IN tne
house hope Dalzell will be returned.
personally he is we'll liked. even ny tne
mon who have for years attacked nm
for his tariff attitude and his uncoh-
n-omising standpatism. most Vlsorou
L. Even "J-ic" Murdoch gave way 10
ment the other day when told Dalzel
.s.a.. he,ten AS member of the rules
cornn7ittee skilled in drafting ruies
80 In rho nscc.ies Of parliamentary
roc+;ca Dalzell is often called on py
sis democratic enemies to help them
ont Of a hole. Sometimes. the oeiho
Gratis on the rules committee ask Dai-
al, Tor advice about the drafting of
rrle which he feels impelled to fight on
tho eoor II he should come back from
pennsylvania he will be received by
bis colleagues with open arms on his
ner.onal account and then roundly
iambasted because he and the cause
NJ high protection insist on consort-
ing together so fiagrantly.