The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-26
EASIEST ROAD
TO POPULARITY
Democrats Find That by Leaving It
All to Wilson," They Escape
Much Criticlsn.

lBy Burton K. Standish, written for
the United Press.l
WASHINGTON, Sept 26.-Leaving
It all to Wilson is about the easiest
road to popularity for democrats 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 congressman" at all
1t is to ask for farm bulletin or a
cookbook or seeds. They have pass
ed the politics up to Woodrow
When the newspapers were fairly
bursting with headlines and blackface
type on the Mexican peril, one Of the
leading democratic senators from a
northern industrial district conflded
that he had received Just three letters
on the Mexican question during the
summer Another had heard about it
4 from constituent ho wanted to get
] q consular job on the border Compar-
Ing notes in the cloakroom 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 especially
those whose whole political faith was
founded on the direct results they be-
lieved would follow letting down the
/ high tariff bars, prepared to receive
a few hundred letters of protest each
morning. and sheaf of kilograms at
lunch. But the lobby inquiry stopped
/ the sugar letters, anG the ordinary
folk back home evidently 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 increases in
the letters in the congressional mail.
4 Except in a few cases which looked
| suspiciously like the small boy who,
fretful as hornet, tries to cry but
can't squeeze out the necessary and
alibi tears, the people whom the tariff
orators pictured as being outrageous
/ ly sandbagged, robbed, insulted and
/ driven to the poorhouse gate, were ap-
parently blind to their pictured dan
ger.
1 Some democrats were suspicious of
/ this public Responsiveness at first.
They wanted to get a lot of notes from
home applauding them If none came
condemning them. But by and by they
came to the conclusion that the folks
/ back home had a method in their
| trustful silence. Congress figured that
the back home folks were holding VIII
son and Bryan responsible. ALI right!
Congress was glad to oblige. If the
home folks wanted to saddle this re-
/ sponsibility and trustingness on Wood
row, why, their servants on Capito,
Hill had no objections.
And in this same spirit many a
democrat who knows he knows very
little about the currency question is
facing the debate on that subject with
profound and peaceful calm. Will
son is on the job. Bryan is at hand
The people are watching the spotlight
characters. and they are too busy to
write Besides there's still chance
that either Athletics or Giants will be
beaten out for the pennant In their
respective leagues, and the fight be-
tween Cleveland and Washington for
second place In the 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 fact that nobody has yet
developed the mood or what they
think is real cause to fight Wood.
rows policy
| SO up and down the corridors Of
the capitol and the two big white Of
Ace buildings that flank Capitol Park
runs the password to official and con
gressional peace: Put II IN to Will
SON. the home folks have