The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-30

wbo will proye that this fleetlng pros
narity due to the European conflict
can Offset the stimulant to Maine in
dnstries that reasonable protective
tariff will furnish, once business re-
sn1nes n normal basis. The addition
al revenue bill just passed by Con
gress ia but another evidence of whab
sad failure the Underwood tarln
schedule has been.
so far as the Progresslves are con-
corned all of the leaders have come
hack TO the Republican fold, and
there will be no candidate for a third
ticket, That the majority Of the rank
and file will follow the lead seems as
sured.
The Second congressional district
where Representative Daniel F. Nc
Cilicnddy is well intrenched, is the
one spot where the Democrats may
Snd a raw of comfort. The conditions
which brought about the election Oh
Governor Plaisted and Democratic
legislature some years ago no longer
exist Upon that point there Is no
dianute. Under the circumstances
unless all political signs are mislead-
inr the Pine Tree state will take It's
Mace with the sister states from new
England that will roll up healtny
Republican majority in the next ma
tlonal election.
rrho politicians in the capital
chuckled when they read National
democratic Chairman McCormick,s
statement that the president Will
stay out Of politics until Congress
adiourns." They chuckled because
no Democrat in official captivity is IN
nolitics deeper than the president IS
right now, and no Democrat is play,
Ing politics harder than ne lS' anu
has been for months
They point to his latest play when'
all unspecting to the southern sena.
tors he visited them at the capitol
and insisted that child labor legisla-
tion be enacted at this session. IN
doing that Wilson the president re-
versed Wilson the writer. They also
point to list Of big appointments
and aualyzing each show that the
dominating consideration in making
them was to catch votes of certain
elaments-sort of spreading molas-
ses to catch flies, as Wilson has once
said. allow
There is no Democrat who can play
polItics, or has the opportunity TO- on
mart with Woodrow Wilson. he Is
in the game to his ears, and II 1t re-
nrires an overnight reversal OF MS
craftsmanship, no one can reverse
himself quite so quickly and easily
"a woodrow. He does 1t without
hesitation. He reversed himsel,
completely on the Panama CANA
Tolls: then on preparedness, and tnen
nm the tariff commission proposition:
He was not personally committed
nm the second term proposition, al
though his party was on record IN
favor of one term. He put the re-
verse on his acrobatic mind as 10
dollar diplomacy" and the acquia-
tIon of territory by either purchase
mr. conquest, and is now dickering for
tha Danish West Indies to the tune OF
S25 100000. He first undertook to
set up Bandit Villa in Mexico, then
changed his mind and threw his in
duence to Bandit Carranza. He has
been on all sides Of the big and III
tie navy and army proposition, and
lost a secretary of war, the ablest
man in his cabinet. because he
switched his mind so often that the
secretary couldn't keep up with him.
1t is common talk in Washington
that nobody has tried to play politics
harder and kept 1t up more constant