The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-04-17
Result of November Elections
Depends Largely on This.
WILSON TIDE is CHANGING.
Sometimes the Administration Is
Popular, and on Other Occasions
Sentiment Opposes lt-lmpossible to
Forecast How the Public viii Feel
When Ballots Are Cast.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

seems to be impossible to keep presi-
Dental politics out of the various for
eign complications. In fact, it seems
likely that the coming presidential
campaign win be fought to n large ex-
tent upon our foreign relations. More
than that, the result will depend very
much upon what has just happened at
the time the ballots are east.
The popularity Of the Wilson admin
istration has ebbed and flowed upon
the waves Of foreign questions. 1t has
risen when the administration has talk
en- some action approved by the people,
and it falls when the administration
fails TO take action which the people
desire. That ii why it seems likely
that the success of the administration
when It comes before the people next
November win depend largely upon
what it has lone and what it is doing
in regard to foreign questions.
"At the Waters Edge.'
1t Is patriotic To say that "all political
differences end at the waters edge
Quite n number of statesmen make
good with that remark and get quite
a little applause i'm the galleries and
COMMUNICATION at home. But suppose
there Is a wide difference of opinion
Eat the waters edgef' Suppose there
are a great many people who do not
believe at all i'm what has been done
or what Is being doue2 OF course in
the event Of actual hostilities with a
foreign foe the country win be united.
But it viii make some difference, il
hostilities have not actually begun, as
TO what has happened 10 bring about
near hostillties with a foreign country.
Not All For War.
While it is certain that a war adj
ministration always wins in a polit-
zeal campaign, it must be understood
that until war begins there will be a
great many people hanging back and
trying to prevent war. 1t may be that
the present administration win he pop
ular Just about the 1st OF November
because ii has prevented war and is
keeping the country out of war. At
the same time there viii also be a de
mand for the enforcement of Ameri-
can rights.
Son-in-law In Politics.
Congressman Humphrey of Wash
ington was making q speech, ana he
referred to a son-in-law handling pat
ronage. evidently meaning MeAdoo.
"A son-in-law of the past or present
regimeY' asked Moore of Pennsylya-
MIA.
Il am not going to embarrass any
member Of the house by discussing
the son-in-law proposition" said Hum
phrey.
81 intend to be present in behalf OF
Nick L~ongworth," said Sloan Of Ne
braska.
"He is capable OF taking care of him
self" said Humphrey.
And so is his father-in-law,' re
sponded Moore.
Some Of the members took this as a
bunch that some pennsylvanians are
getting ready to swing to Roosevelt.
The Old Joke.
The house will have its old joke. that
about the T0mbigbee river. Jim Mann
never lets a river and harbor bill pass
that he does not make Zeke Gambler
Of Mississippi deliver the same old
speech on the glories of the Tombig-
bee. This year he varied it n little by
bringing out the statement that some
II was trying TO make the rivers
name Tom Becky, as a bin had been
introduced to build a bridge across the
Tom Becky river. Perhaps in ages
gone by that was the name. But
Gambler asserted that the name could
not be changed without destroying the
glories OF the republic.
He Started Them All Right.
Martin Madden of Chicago evidently
wanted to start something in the
house, for he made the statement that
no city Of less han $4,000 population
ought to have a public building, He
started something" all right, for
many members from the rural dis
tricts rose UP ana jumped ON him.
Madden would cut out all future public
buildings on that basis.
The Queer Old Senate.
Trying to enforce certain rules when
it wants 10 and to let them be disre-
garded Mt other times constantly gets
the senate into hot water. In the in
terest of stopping hlibustering the sen
ate has n rule about two speeches on
one subject on any legislative day. But
only when there are stringent times Is
the rule enforced. Occasionally Presi-
dent Pro TEN. Clarke is in the chair.
and he starts ont TO enforce the rule,
even to deciding that a quibbling ques-
ton is an interruption and a speech.
Hands Off.
Since Garrison resigned as secretary
of war II has apparently been the poll
cy of the national administration to
keep hands off the military legislation.
So far as can be seen, the two houses
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