The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-07-07
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

welt raising a division, becoming a ma
ior general and going into the war In
Mexico but first he must be appointed I
a major general, and the appointment /
must come from Woodrow Wilson Is .
1t to be expected that the president .
would appoint Roosevelt In view OF .
what the colonel has said about the .
manner i'm which the administration .
has been cOnductedl Not II he Is the 7
kind OF man think he is.
More than that, Wilson is not likely /
to make man like Roosevelt a great
big political war hero; not just at this
time. when Roosevelt is doing every
thing possible TO elect another man In
Wilson's place.
Tom Benton's Attempt.
This matter of political war heroes
started Champ Clark going, and no
man is better equipped than he to tell
political "reminiscences of personal
kind
Tom Benton tried to make himself
president by becoming the war hero
OF the last war with Mexico" said the
speaker. "He tried to have a bill
passed making the senior colonel In
the army lieutenant general, which
would have given him command In
Mexico, as he was then the senior
colonel although a senator. His op-
I ponents were able to defeat his bill by
three votes Polk would have signed
/ 1t and appointed Benton. Benton knew
I that the Mexican war would make
president. 1t made two. Taylor and
( Pierce"
Choice Of Words.
In legislation the word war" was
carefully avoided. In providing for
troops 10 20 TO Mexico and paying for
them the word emergency" supplant
eel that awful word war" Perhaps
the idea was to maintain peace. and as
long as we keep out of war the better
the country will be satisfied. 1t seems
all right to get involved In an "emer-
geney," but war, never! The avoidance
of the word aroused Uncle Joe Cannon.
There is a great deal of talk about
an emergency" he said why, you
may call spade a trOwel, but that
does not make it trowel You may
say there Is no war. but they are fight
ing down there In Mexico"
Keeper of the Records.
Congressman Fess Of Ohio Is the real
keeper of the records. From the begin
ming of the present war he has con
tinued TO have published a record OF
diplomatic correspondence and state
ments by governments. He has done
the same in regard TO the affairs In
Mexico. All Of the official documents
have been kept In convenient and chron-
illogical form by the painstaking Ohio
: representative.
Victory For Ashurst.
Ii was a virtual victory for Senator
AshurSt in his fight against the blue
| tag extension in the postoffice appropri-
/ alton bill. He forced I'm amendments
, which make it possible for publishers TO
| take their grievances into court IL they
think they are not getting fair deal at
! the postotfice department. Heretofore
) all such cases have been thrown out on
i the ground that the postmaster general
had discretionary powers In the ad-
ministration of the postal affairs of the
government The Arizona senator
would have won a fiat victory but for
the amendments offered
, Booming of the Cannon.
Cannon was booming In the house
Uncle Joe Cannon The veteran was
I asserting that there was war In Mexi-
) co now. and he wanted 1t prosecuted
) with vigor. Garner of Texas inter
/ rupted him to ask him If he indorsed
S the war we were having with Mexico.
e IF you want me TO say that l in
: dorse the course of our president,
v Woodrow Wilson. God forbid DO
you?"
) "a good deal" replied Garner
"A good deal. the gentleman says, "
! the laugh on the Texan.
4 The Trouble In Kentucky.
k Congressman Thomas of Kentucky
q does not talk often nor long In the
+ house. but he usually has an audience.
: He started in against the Republican
party the other day with only few
minutes to talk. He wanted to tel'
the whole world about the Republicans.
g II would like TO get out on the stump
. In some other states" said Thomas,
I III it was not for the fact that there
Q are So many Republicans I'm Kentucky
: and in my district. ! should he asham-
J. ell to vote the Republican ticket. You
have got Roosevelt on your hands, and
n YOU don't know what to do with him.
z You are simply wandering somnambu-
lists with vanished dream. You who
are for Roosevelt dare not say so be-
cause you are afraid Hughes will not
give you the offices"