The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-11-24
Many Prominent Democrats
Advise Protective Measure.
CREDIT FOR WILSON VICTORY
Former Senator Towne Of Minnesota
Did Effective Work In West-Miss
Rankin, New Congresswoman Elect.
Getting Much Publicity. Which May
Mako Other Suffraeists Jealous.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

President Wilson is being urged by
quite "A number of prominent Demo
Gratis to take up the tariff again. They
are talking tariff to him earnestly.
real tariff-that Is, protection-and
urging him TO consider the advisable
ity of recommending legislation which
will put the United States on a pro-
tcctive basis. They are telling him
that the Republicans made no head
way In the last campaign until they
began to talk tariff and that protec-
ton was the most telling argument
they made to the people.
There are protection Democrats in
congress, there always have been, but
they have sunk their views under the
dominance OF President Wilson. There
were many sugar protection Demo.
Gratis who voted for free sugar, but
they came back and voted for a duty
ON sugar when the president changed
his views.
Not For This Session.
Just why these Democrats should be
so anxious to get the president COM
mitted now Is not known. There Is
no possibility Of any tariff legislation
at the coming short session, and there
Is not a Democrat in congress who
wants an extra session for any pur-
pose whatever.
Perhaps 1t Is because they think that
"a greater impression can be made upon
the presidential mind now than later.
They know that the president is no
bigot and can change his mind about
such matters, besides being encouraged
by utterances of the president last
summer In connection with the crea.
ton of the tariff commission.
The Democrats who are urging the
president to take the protection side
say that they would not leave the Re-
publicans a single peg upon which TO
hang an issue.
Republican Rscrimination.
What the Republicans are saying Of
each other does not find Its way into
print. Most OF the communications
along this line are confidential ard not
for newspapers. But the politicians OF
the G. O. T.. seemed to have become
members OF a recently constituted
knockers club. The fact that the par
~ was SO near victory and that the
election was lost by such a narrow
margin is very irritating to the Repub-
leans, who hoped to be basking In
the sunshine of success Mt this time
instead of being smothered in the
smoke OF defeat.
Giving Due Credit.
Giving credit where credit IL due
comes Ii. w. Childers, a southern mar
who has been quite intimately identi-
fed with several past Democratic cam
paigns, and says that many people are
giving Senator James Hamilton Lewis
credit for swinging the west to Wilson,
and the Illinois senator modestly ad.
mits that he was I'm a measure respon-
sible for the presidents second vic
tory. But Childers asserts that due
credit should be given to Charles A.
Towne. nee a senator from Minneso.
tn and now a resident Of New York
He says that Towne's western tour did
than that Of any one man to
swing the west to Wilson.
But there will be many other War.
wicks In the field.
viii They Get Jsaleusf
No person In the United States will
get more publicity than Miss Jeanette
Rankin. the first woman to be elected
to congress. When the Sixty-ffth con.
gress begins she will be in every paper
every day. Stories will be written
about her for Sunday features. In
fact, she will be more In the limelight
than any other woman In the country
Is 1t not possible that other women,
other suffragists, will get a little tired
OF seeing so much about one woman
Already there are signs OF a WEAKNESS
because there is so much Jeanette
Rankin and SO little about other suf
fragists who have worked long and
hard for the suffrage cause.
Shutting or . Recess.
While nj extra session Of congress
Is a bugaboo. there has never been a
time when congressmen wanted it sc
badly that they would abandon the
holiday recess. 1t appears that Chair
man Fitzgerald Of the appropriations
committee proposes that congress shall
abandon this time honored custom ani
work right along. Much time could b.
gained II a quorum can be maintained
Mexico ~ an Issue.
No doubt there will be occasiona
references to Mexico and the condi
tons In that country. but Mexico as I
political Issue has gone to the scraI
heap. 1t served Its turn In several sec
tons OF the east. but the answer o.
the west has been unmistakable. Thu
country does not want war with Mexi
co or about Mexico. The men who at
tempt to make Mexico q political issue
for the next year or two will get wha1
the slang fellows cali I "hoarse hoot."