Gilpin observer., 1913-07-17
WASHINGTON NEWS
By Edward Heating.

'sion met It's Gettysburg on July o.
Just four days after the fi6tieth an
niversary of the turning point in the
CONFLICT between the states.
On that date, 40 Democratic SEN
ators agreed to pass the Underwood
tariff 6dll without material amend
ment of the important schedules. OF
course, the verbal fusillading VIII
CONTINUE for weeks in the senate.
The representatives, OF special inter
ests will make few more desperate
sancis i'm the hope of saving some
thing from the wreck. But. to all
ihtents and purposes, their backbone
was broken on July Z, and recovery
rs impossible. Lee fought on after
Gettysburg, but he knew Appoma,s-
tox was inevitable.
j suppose the inside story Of this
tight for an honest revision of the
tariff will never be written. The
vlctcrs are disposed to be generous
and the vanqudshed are not seeking
publicity. AS l have often pointed
cut in these letters, the sugar and
woolen schedules constituted the
"Bloody Angle" Of the battle. To
carry that position, we had to mus
ter As Democratic votes in the sem
ate. Two so-called Democraa.c-the
Louisiana enators-deserted to the
enemy before a gun was fired That
left us with 49-just one more than
enough. Fer weeks and moEl.ns, the
sugar and woolen noerests-backed
up by hoard of other tariff inter
attempt to drive two or three Dem
ocratic senators into the protection
camp.
The Men
Tney Wanted.
Shaffroth, of Colorado, Walsh, of
Mortana, Newlands, of Nevada, and
Thompson, cf Kansas, were the men
they hoped to get. The testimony
before the lobby investigation com
mittee shows in a measure the char
acter and intensity of the pressure
to Which these men were subjected.
The beneficiaries CT the tariff never
mc1s a more systematic fight. They
Probably never srert more money or
exsrted stronger or more varied in
fluences in struggle. And yet they
lest! Lost fer the first time in ne
h. fory OF tariff legislation in this
country.
l. It is the most notable defeat sus-
tanned by the forces CT special priv
elege in the last half century. The
result is due to two infiuences-an
awakened public sentiment, and the
remarkable lead ship w.oi which
the Democratic party is bJsssed to-
day.
With Wilson, Bryan, Clark, Unrier-
wood, Kern, Simmons and owen work
ing in complete harmony with an eye
single to the pubic welfare. it is DIFF
ficult for the opposition to Offer ef-
fective resistance.
A Republican
Leaders View.
One OF the leading Republicans in
the house described the situation
very accurately while chatting with
me in the cloak room the other day:
God seems to be on the side OF
the Democracy this time, and for the
life of me, l can't see much hope
for the Grand Old Party.
You have disappointed US in a
mcet exasperaIdng way. First, we
thought your leaders would be at
each others throa.s before Wilson
had been in the Whi;e House sixty
days. Instead, they seem to be con
Quoting a continuous love feast. BIZ.
ly Bryan permits Wilson to lead the
orchestra while he smiling, scrapes
away on a second-fiddle. Clark and
Underwood, who, by all the rules Of
the game, should be waiting around
the corner with a baseball bat ready
TO swat the Commoner, seem to be
lying awake nights trying to figure
out a new scheme to show their love
for him. Bryan comes right bacl
at them and insists on placing lau
rel wreaths on their brows.
II cannot believe this harmony will
last. but IL u does. we are lost.
| And then, look at the crops
Think Of old Mother Nature givinl
us good crops-the bsst We have eve
had-when the Democrats were IL
control Of the government! How cal
you start panic when the farmei
is prosperous, and how can We eve
convince him again that his happi
ness is based on the tariff when al
thas money is pouring in on hin
while the Democrats are tearing thu