Semi-weekly herald., 1913-09-25
DEMOCRATS LEAVING 1T
ALL TO PRESIDENT WILSON

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Sept. "a
Leaving it all to Wilson is about the
easiest road to popularity for DEM
ocrats in congress just now, II the
nature of their advices from home
be safe guide. The folks back In
Oregon and up in New Hampshire
and away down in Texas are for once
in their lives forgetting to complain.
If they write or wire to their con-
gressmen" at all it is to ask for .
farm bulletin or cookbook or seeds.
They have passed the politics up to
Woodrow"
When the newspapers were fairly
bursting with headlines and blackfacs
type on the Mexican peril, one Of the
leading Democratic senators from .
northern industrial district confided
that he had received just three let
ters on the Mexican question during
the summer. Another had heard
about it from constituent who want
ed to get a consular job on the bord-
er. Comparing notes in the cloak
room the solons discovered that they
need not view Mexico with alarm"
They could let Wilson do that.
Before the Huerta unpleasantness
there was the tariff tragedy. Wise
politicians in congress, and especial
ly those whose whole political faith
was founded on the direct results
they believed would follow letting
down the high tariff bars, prepared
to receive few hundred letters Of
protest each morning and . shelf Of
kilograms at lunch. But thu lobby
inquiry stopped the sugar letters and
the ordinary folk back home EVIDENT
ly forgot to write line. Tariffs
went down like wheat before . six
horse reaper, but there were no loud
yells nor sounds Of sobbing In the
form Of increase in the letters in the
congressional mail. Except in . few
cases which looked suspiciously like
the small boy who, fretful ~ hor-
net, tries to cry but can't squeeze
out the necessary and alibi tears, the
people whom the tariff orators pict-
ured as being sutrageously sandbag-
ged, robbed, insulted and driven to
the poorhouse gate, were apparently
blind to their pictured danger.
Some Democrats were suspicious Of
this public unresponsiveness at first.
They wanted to get lot Of notes
from home applauding them II none
came condemning them. But by and
by they came to the conclusion that
the folks back home had method in
their trustful silence. Congress fig
ured that the back home folks were
holding Wilson and Bryan respons-
ible. All right Congress was glad
to oblige. II the home folks want
ed to saddle this responsibility and
trustingness on Woodrow, why, their
servants on Capitol Hill had no OBJ
jections.
And in this same spirit many .
Democrat who knows he knows very
little about the currency question Il
facing the debate ON that subject
with profound and peaceful calm.
Wilson is on the job. Bryan il at
hand. The people are watching the
spotlight characters, and they are
too busy to write Besides there's
still a chance that either Athlstics or
Giants will be beaten out for the PEN
nant in their respective leagues, and
the fight between Cleveland and
Washington for second place In Tie
American league Is . real thriller.
Opposition parties are fighting each
other with one eye on Wilson. It's
really queer. but it's an admitted faet
that nobody has yet dsvsaopsd ~
mood or what they think h : rsal
cause to fight Woodrow's Dsaiay.
So up and down tAs esss5isss u
the capitol and ths twe W wAite =,
flee buildings that flank Capital paxH
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