The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-19
fS0UTHERN SECTION
OF THE COUNTRY
WELLENTRENCHED
INWILS0N CABINET
Southern Atmosphere Runs Through
the Government Under Present
Administration.
SOUTHERN CONTINGENT
DOMINATES LEGISLATION
Represents Only Is Per Cent of De-
veloped Resources; One-fourth
of the States.
SOUTHERN CONTINGENT
DOMINATES LEGISLATION
By George F. Authier.
(Special to the PiOneer)

Chicago, oct. l9.-PnraSlnS MS OD-
lection in his usual elegant diction,
President Wilson has taken issue
with the Republican charge of Sec
tionalism which has been registered
against the Democratic party. The
| president adroitly puts the burden
upon those who make the charge,
thus seemingly removing it from
those who have committed the Of
fense. In his Indianapolis speech
delivered October IL, President Will
son said:
ANY man who raises the issue
of sectionalism in this country
is unworthy of the confidence
of the nation. He shows him
self provincial; that he does
not know the sections of his
country, and to be ignorant"
Those who have placed the charge
of sectionalism upon the Democratic
party will agree precisely with what
the president said. When one Sec
etion of the country votes solidly, and
when, it acquires domination Of the
government because of this solidity
based on local issue, although it
is a minority, this alone constitutes
plea of guilty to the charge of Sec
tionalism, but it is not only in this
way that the South has acted Sec
tionalism only to depreciate the
charge of sectionalism in order to
cover the offense. There is no solid
North, and never will be for the rea-
=, son that sectionalism does not exist
IN the North, but the North is not
obliviOus to the process of benefi-
cient assimilation that is being prac-
ticed by the section of the country
which represents only Is per cent of
its developed resources.
Austin Well Represented.
The roll of Southern officeholders
has been called. In addition to Bur-
Lesson and Gregory, both from Austin,
Tex, and Secretary Houston, who
ment, the little town of Austin is
fairly represented in the presiden-
tial cabinet Austin also has the
distinction of being the home of Col.
House. The colonel is not officially
is generally accepted opinion that
fluence, with none of it's RESPONSE
and Daniels, North Carolinan, the
trenched in the cabinet. Secretary
Secretary Wilson was born in Scot
represented in the cabinet by Ian
sing and Redfield, of New York; and
/. Baker of Ohio, who owns West Vir-
Nginia as birthplace.
How genial Southern atmosphere
runs through the government under
the present administration may be
of JOsephus Daniels, secretary Of the
navy. Secretary Daniels is firm be-
lever in protecting home industry.
His brother was sent as a carpet-bag-
@ar to Minnesota. There are rumOrs
that war contract placed with a
firm in his own home city failed to
of naval operations is a Georgian; his
chief of the bureau of navigation is
a Missourian; his chief of the hydro
graphic office is a North Carolinan:
his director of naval intelligence a
Georgian; his chief of the bureau
IF construction and repairs is Vir-
ginian; his chief of the bureau of
steam engineering is also a Virgin
ian; his chief of the bureau of sup
plies and accounts is a South Caro-
1inan, while the judge advocate gen
eral halls from Tennessee. Put none
but Southerners on guard, is seem
ingly Mr.. Daniels watchword, and
he has done so with vengeance.
Roll is Disclosed.
Taking another look at the senate
where the secret gag caucus enables
i the Southern contingent to abso-
Hutely dominate legislation, the fol-
towing roll is disclosed: ,.
4 Senator Thomas s. Martin, Vir-
ginia, chairman of committee on ap-'
propriations;
Senator Robert L. Owen, Oklahoma,
chairman of committee on banking
and currency;
The late Senator James p. Clark,
Arkansas, chairman of committee on
ecommerce, while Senator Duncan N.
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