The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-21
Republicans May Get Candidate
From Floor Of Convention.
HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST
Whitman, Wadsworth, Mccall, Lodge,
Herrick, Mann and Others Who Have
a Chance Are Likely to BE Sent TO
Chicago In June-How Mann Was
Rebuked.


convention. Garfield was a delegate
when he was nominated. Bryan vas a
delegate when nominated, Roosevelt
was "A delegate when nominated for
vice president. oh, there are chances
for men who are delegates.
In the Republican convention II Is
quite possible that we shall see among
the delegates Governor Whitman and
Senator Wadsworth OF New York,
Governor Mccall and Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts, Governor Willis, Sena-
tor Harding and Myron Il. Herrick of
Ohio: Jim Mann of Illinois, Governor
Hadley OF Missouri, Senator Borah OF
Idaho and perhaps others who might
be selected for the candidate.
Rebuked a Talker.
Minority Leader Mann carries his
of the Republican side of
the house to the extent Of parceling
out about all the time for talking
which is allotted to the Republicans.
SO men who want 10 talk have to 20
and see him about Ii. One of those
who likes TO mir his views occasionally
went to Mann and asked about getting
time.
"Do You want TO talk all the timer
sarcastically inquired Mann. There
are Others who would like a chance"
81 have had less than NJ hour this
session. replied the member, (which
is less thar You occupy every week
The member got his time 10 talk.
May BRING Them Together.
The contest over the Colombian
treaty, which first proposed to pay
Colombia $25,Oo0,O00. later reduced to
s15,O00,0Oo. for building the canal at
Panama, may result in bringing the
Republicans and Progressives togeth-
er. The Panama republic was one or
Roosevelt's pets. He has boasted of
that feature of his administration and
has always insisted that the establish
ment of the republic of Panama was
necessary I'm order to build the ca
nal. 1t Is asserted that the Democrats
are attacking what he did In Panama
by putting through the treaty and pay
ing indemnity. The administration of
Roosevelt is now defended by the Re
publicans. and IL the treaty is defeated
III VIII ne DN lAtIulfAlIAh AtAt'* AhR
has had the tendency to bring the Re
publicans N Progressives closer. 1t
may have further political effect.
Mann Not Hysterical.
Il do not think / am hysterical,
said Minority Leader Mann. speaking
on one of the defense measures: Il
have found that my main trouble In
a - 49, H. l,4Wr 400 cold hlnA6-
ed"
There are n lot OF people who will
subscribe to that statement. Jim Mann
Is rarely excited. but as he grows old
er he becomes more mellow. The milk
OF human kindness affects him occa-
sionally, and he seems less of a ma
chine than I'm past years.
Forced Every War.
IF we ever have another war;" said
Speaker Clark in the house, (which
do not believe we win have if we
attend to our own business, as we have
forced every war we ever did have
etc. 1t matters not so mDch what
conclusions he drew as the bold state
ment that he did not believe We would
have another war; also that we have
forced every war. Champ knows about
the last war, for he helped to force IL.
Turning Down a New Chairman.
They made Ben Humphreys chair
man of the new flood control commit
tee, and everybody was glad of 1t, fol
they all like Ben. But they did not lie
1t swell his head. One of his first act:
was to try to strike out of a reltei
bill for food sufferers in the south
west a paragraph allowing provision
to be distributed, and the house turneC
him down. A little later an attemp
was made to give him n clerk at $3.50
and an assistant at $1,000. and tn
house cut the amounts to $1,000 am
$500.
While they like the Mississippi mem
Der they do not intend TO let him &c
too gay with his new honors.
Fighting on and Ever.
Congressman J.. Hampton Moore G
Pennsylvania is one of the men VIII
believes in fighting ON and ever. III
started out Il long time ago to fight tn
Colombian treaty, and while he has n
vote In the senate he continues to pr
things in the Congressional Recor
where senators can see what he as we
as what other writer's and speaker
think on the subject.
A Campaign In Maine.
There is a senatorial campaign goir
OH in Maine, and Senator Johnson
that state, the first Democrat to repr
sent the state in the senate in mo,
than fifty years. is not going to acce
the foregone conclusion of Republican
that Maine will elect a Republica
Johnson is said to be making a vigo
GUS and effective campaign in the Phi
Tree State.