The sun., 1916-12-27
In saddle.

inc tnlrtecn Otner UiuyOTity WettiDcrS
are Southern Democrats.
In the Committee on Appropria.
lions seven of the thirteen majority
members are Southern Democrats.
In the Committee on Claims the
chairman and five Of the seven other
majority members are Southern Dem
Ocrats.
In the Committee on Flood Control
the chairman and five of the eight
other majority members are Southern
Democrats.
In the Committee on Post ONCE
and Post Roads tie chairman and six
Of the other twelve members are
Southern Democrats.
In the Committee on Public Build
ings and Grounds the chairman.
FRANK CLARK of Florida, and six Of
the other ten majority members are
Southern Democrats.
In the Committee On Rivers and
Harbors the chairman and six of the
other twelve majority members are
Southern Democrats.
In the Committee on Roads the
chairman and seven Of the other
twelve majority members are South
eru Democrats.
In the Committee on War Claims
The chairman and six OF the other
eight majority members are Southern
Democrats.
And In the Committee on Rules. the
carburcter OF the machine, the chair
man and four of the six other M
jority members are Southern Demo-
Gratis.
Be good enough TO overlook the
mouotOny OF phrase and the gener-
ally statistical aspect OF the foregO-
ing paragraphs. They disclose the
truth Of q situation that Is menacing
the public funds in the Treasury and
the pockets of the taxpayers. There
Ia no use in blinking the fact that the
Southern Democracy Is In the saddle
and Is riding like the devil In n fierce
raid for pork. There Is no Disgusting
the circumstance that the Southern
Democratic machinery for getting and
spending other peoples money Is at
this moment perhaps the o power
full organization Of the sort that the
Capitol ever saw. The time is short.
There is 10 knowing what eclipse Of
opportunity will occur when the sixty
next March and the Sixty-fifth comes
in. This Is perhaps the last call for
the meal that Is swiftly attaining the
dimensions OF a grand gorge. The
conviction Is growing among the hun
cry that perhaps 1t Is now or never.
The nation is just now beginning to
perceive how grandly the Southern
Democracy rises to the occasion.
4. And there are Northern Democrats
with the same greed of appetite.
From day tn day THE SrN has been
calling attention, both in these edi-
torial columns and In u Illuminating
news dispatches from Washington,
to the miserable, sordld, dishearten-
Ing details of the programme of grab
. md graft, the earlier numbers Of
which are nOw being executed In the
rooms Of the committees constituted
M aforesaid. The Public Buildings
bill ID just at present most In evi.
dence for the impudence of Its I'M
reckoning ~voracity. We have exhib-
tied the scheme Of granite palaces
for crossroads hamlets and grandlose
Indiana limestone temples for oh.
scure Southern villages which has
been developed by the mastery ac-
~tivities Of the Hon. FRANK CLARK Of
Florida. Nearly forty millions for Fed
eral buildings, mostly unnecessary, at
the time when we need submarines for
the preservation Of the republics very
life! Picayune graft and selfish local
avarice when patriotism Is silent .
Turn again to the list in our WASH
ingtOn despatch OF yesterday and
study the shameless enterprise. Of
these mounted and spurred pork
Chasers.
That is but one number Of the merid.
lonal programme Of gluttony. Right
after 1t comes the so.called food rec
Iamation project, rounded out to
forty-fve millions under the able SUI
pervision Of the Hon. Ben Hun.
PHsErs's Flood Control Committee.
Right after that the Rivers and Har.
bors bin, wrought into gigantic shape
under the superintendent Of the Hon.
STEVE Spank A Of Florida and
largely fashioned on the good cd
plan Of dumping Treasury cash into
the Cheesequake creeks Of both North
and South particularly South-in
this year Of the saddle. And behind
ths Public Building hog, the Flood