Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-03-14
DEMOCRACY HOLDS
FULL SWAY At THE
NATIONAL CAPITAL
New Democratic Administration is
on Deck, as Large as Life
and, as the Wag Says,
Twice as Natural.
Especial to independently

washington. ~. ", req. D, 1913.
Woodrow Wilson is a man who is
considered to be one of the strong
est men in the United S ates and
he will make one of the strongest
Presidents we ever had. Put that
in your pipe and smoke it. II he
does not make such president
then consider that I am not any
longer prophet in politics because
| have erred with the head man
in the Democratic party.
There is thing, however, in the
Democratic party that ought 10 be
corrected and will be if ever the
chance is given the committee in
agricultural affairs in the next
congress to vote on that proposition
and that is the position assumed
by the democratic party represent
ing the tax on oleomargarine,
which, under the new bill. is taxed
so much. 1t was introduced by
democrat. Congressman Lever of
South Carolina. and he had pro-
duced reasons in that bill why it
should become a law at the hands
of the next Congress.
There are many reasons why the
next PRESIDENT. Mr.. Wilson, ought
to appoint Navy man as Com
missioner of Pensions instead of
an army man, because Navy man
has never set been Commissioner
of Pensions.
There will hardly be any denying,
in view of the Navy's great service
for the country and its increased
Importance of late years, that it
has been neglected in this par
ticular respect. With this salient
fact in mind number of the fine
old tars whose best younger day
were devoted to perilous service
with Farragut and Foote, when
Dewey and Srhley we're shipmates
with them, Just out of the academy
at Annapolis, ir the battles and
blockades along the coasts in the
war between the States, have start
ed a movement to win the conf
missionership for a Navy man or
know the reason why. Only one of
them has been suggested for the
honor and he happens to be a Pro-
gressive Democrat, of New York,
who vas an active worker in the
campaign in behalf of Governor
Wilson, and for Whitman Sulzef
for Governor o. the Empire State,
Colonel Edward Creecy. He did
gallant work with the best and
bravest sailors ashore and at sea.
Midshipman Creecy served through.
out the war, was on the l04 days
of the cruise Of the U. S. S. Mace
donian under orders to drive from
our eastern coasts the Confederate
cruisers, Florida and Tallahassee,
which for months had been making
havoc of Yankee shipping from
Cape Hatteras, North Car olina, to
Eastport, Maine.
Persistently declining to take a
step for himself toward securing
the Office, the movement in Colonel
Creecy's behalf has become so dis.
tinct and popular among veterans
Of the Navy, some of them highly
distinguished officers and now re-
tired rear admirals, not 10 gather
force and attract serious consider
alton.
If the people who read this letter
could see the City Of Washington
at the present time they would
think that everybody was demo-
crat. II is seated and there are
more lights on the broad expansive
Pennsylvania Avenue than ever be-
fore. There are more stands with
out dollars and cents to be had for
the asking than any time before in
the history Of the United States.
These stands will all be filed with
people no matter what kind OF
weather we have and the chances
are that we will have before this
Administration closes, another date
for their inauguration late in the