The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-24
lIAIl!'|I' WORRIES ! | !. | [ ]
THEDEMl|GR.AIS
GETS TOO MUCH BUSINESS De.
PRESTON TALKIN RECORD,
DRIVING DEMOCRATS
DESPERATE
AVIS OPPOSES USELESS COAL AN.
ALYSIS BILL GOOD ROADS
COMMITTEE BUSY.
'(Charles Brooks s:nitL)

/! lCHaTIeS sbFCok6 o.IllGEJ
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 23.4
IiIfIthey thought there was any chance
oE Old ST. Nick being able, or in.
Iclincd tohetp them, the Democrats III
tile house Of representatives. without
a dissenting voice; would request tile
| old gentleman to bring them some
body else from that Illinois district
represented by Republican Leader
Mann in the place Of sold jim"
Mann. But as the sanity old party
doesn't ever mix in politics, there 10
no promise OF relief there. Fact Is,
there is no promise Of relief from the
pestfferous James anywhere in sight
"JimY Mann is one OF the star at
fractions in Washington these days.
His reputation for being able to stir
up the animals and make them howl
and yowl, has permeated throughout
the broad land, and now when each
days quota of tourists is dumped off
in their nations capital to see thu
sights, the first sight they ask to be
shown Is "Jim's Mann in his well
known specialize entitled, Driving
DcmocratsN Desperate" After that
b5srrormane witnessed then the
:Ss;,hhnrnseKss are agreeable to board.
tie thelus- and spupdipg. tue. balance
:, sic day listening 70, tl!e-manndst+
ings Of the megapl6le man, Y : 81 =: :,
Attend any session with the hope
OF seeing and hearing the Republi'
can floor leader make the majority
rise up on its feet and yowl, you Will
not encounter disappointment. 1t Ii
pulled of every dsy, and some days
several times. Just at present. It'll
Manns delight, although he hides 1t
under grave and statesmanlike. de-
meanor, to comment upon the, none
too prosperous condition of the bust
ness of the country, substantiating
and Illuminating his comments, with
liberal extracts from the press OF the
country, which he proceeds tc read
into the Record" with noachal'
ance and sang. froid positively heart
rendiAg and. terrifying, as we'll as
anger-arousing, to my distinguish
cd colleagues on the opposite side of
this chamber" These clippings in
serted in the record from day 10 day
are so many, and from such widely
scattered sections Of the country, as
to justify the suspicion that Mann
has signed fer the service of news
paper clipping bureau. AS one BY
oGc they go into the house proceed
ings. Mann felicttiously comments
on each and every one Of them. while
tho Democrats rise up on their hind
quarters and paw the air. From Los
Angeles Chicago. the Pittsburgh
manufacturing district and straight
across. the country to the New Eng
land states, Mann leaves trail Of
business distress in the Congressional
Record that isn't agreeable to any
body, not even to himself, he says,
but history should be written as 1t Is
made he tells en-. notwithstanding
how unpleasant the text. To all out
ward appearances Mann Is quite sert-
GUS about It, but sometimes he grows
sarcastic and other times humorous.
The Democrats do not think 1t is at
all necessary to clutter up the Rec
ord with.such melancholy narratives
nor when Mann becomes facetiotli
do they sec any point in his humor'
Some how or another 1t makes them
mad and all out Of SORTS, and they
get up, and charge and deny. get rel
I'll the face, and reckless as to their
choice of words; and, emit a series Of
explosions, generally Then"thcy sit
down adm Mann getsup and proceeds
as before. There Is no limit to ms
endurance and his cruelty.
The trouble is ..la; tic Democrats
think that Mann is getting all this
busincss-deprcssion stuff into the pro
ceedings, coupling it as the natural
and to-be-looked-for sequence oil
Democratic tariff and currency leg
islation. They arc right about thu1
think, too, for that is just what Mann
is doing each and every day, although
stoutly denying that as his motive
and Tirtuously proclaiming that he
is no calamity howler,' - which par
ticular breed of national nuisanceS
he says originated in the Democratic
party, and grew and rlourished IN
that organization in the many sue
cessiye years that the Republican
party ran the government and the
country prospered and waxed rich
and happy.
They have tried all sorts of ways
10 stop "Jim," but they haven't been
able to do it. The last try was when
they called Speaker Clark from the
rostrum and had him make reply
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