The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-05
FRIDAY. MARCH 3, 1915.
AN rSForAlLED RECORD.

The Sxty-third Congress viii 90 down III MS
tory as the Congress that achieved things that
kept the faith. but the Congress may well be
proud Of that it attempted as we'll as OF what 1t
actually accomplished A record of the laws
that are now on the statute books as the result
Of its deliberations viii prove greater tribute
TO its desire 10 serve than those that died on
floors and I'm committee rooms. All the world
knows the one. bat will never know the full tale
Of the other. i
Tariff currency, trade commission, Panama
anal tolls-eaeh q worthy achievement on which
any party might face the country and ask for
endorsement The case that two years ago was
IN to the Democratic party Is up to the
country Then the fate Of the party rested In
its own hands. now it rests in the hands of the
people. For II the party does not a single thing
in its next session. it will have a record that no
Two previous Congresses have bad and has se'
sides held its head and done It's work in the
midst of a world conflict without precedent
II We were picking the causes of the Demo
cratic success we should first Of all pick cohe-
sivcness united effort, cooperation So long as
4he party stuck together the party program went
was defeated In this cohesiyeness the greatest
individual factor has been the President Of the
United States, who while ne has led his party
with signal ability and success has yet been
viewed by the country at large a great eXecu
tive of a great nation, removed from party con-
sideration. Mr., Wilson is a Democrat, hut Mr.
Wilson is an American and the latter term EN-
braces the former So ii is to Mr.. Wilson. the
American. that the Democratic party may think
first for IL success And next its individual
leaders, most of them yirginians, have been re-
sponsible for the record.
In Its program the Democratic administration
had been more faithful to the faith more con-
siderate of first considerable ions. and more inter
ested in interesting matters. than anybody that
has held the legislative reins since the country
embarked on the troubled sea OF national expe-
rience
There have been differences which have been
inevitable, when six hundred men capable of
representing the innumerable interests and de-
sires Of the American people meet to put into
force those desires the wonder is not that they
should differ, but that they should agree, espe-
eially when they are divided into two opposing
camps and all vital questions are settled first on
the basis of party teachings and then on the
basis Of individual beliefs.
But in the things that it has achieved the
Congress that ended yesterday served loyalty
and devotedly the interests OF the people. While
only the currency law has so far had full OPP
portunity to prove Its value, the splendid sue
cess that has greeted Il should inspire with con
hdence those who look TO the program now en-
acted for betterment of conditions in the United
States Given brief period OF peace and free.
dom from the disturbances Of European and
the people OF this country will. before many of
iss members have passed away. rise and call
blessed tho name of the sxtythird Congress