The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-09-02
KEEPS
CONGRESS- BUSY
Has knaCk Of Roosevelt In
Finding What People Want.
VOTE TO PROVE POPULARITY.
Whether or Not the Average Citizen
Likes This Method Will Be Known
Only After the Elections - So Many
Local Issues That Selection of Presi-
dent Doesn't Occupy All Attention.

Only After the Elections - So Many
Local Issues That Selection Of Presi-
lent Doesn't Occupy All Attention.
BY ARTHUR W. DUNN.
Washington, Sept. Especial. Just
why men revolt against their party
leaders and sometimes oppose their
president is explained by saying. that
they think they are acting I'm the in
terests of their constituents. But In
dent Is a better judge of what the PEG
pie want than the man representing a
state or district.
So far President Wilson has had the
knack or the intuition OF Roosevelt In
determining what the people want. He
has shown he knows more about II
OF his own party who have become in
%surgents. The same was true of Roose-
welt, and any man who opposed Roose-
welt found a back fire burning ut home
and received hundreds OF messages TO
stand by the president"
Wilson Keeps Them at Work.
Jaw, have a heart!' has no iniu-
ence with Woodrow Wilson. lie keeps
congress everlastingly on the grind. He
did 1t the first W. years he was In of
fee. and he has done Ii during this last
session OF congress-. He seems to have
learned that Ii IL easier to tire out a
At least he lays down a program and
the congressman must carry IL out
They must do their "stint" before they
can get away.
Whether this IL going to prove popu-
lar will be determined when the votes
are counted next November.
His Home Folks.
One OF the most prominent Demo
Gratis I'm the senate, who IL inclined to
view both sides OF the political field.
dental canvass has not been discussed.
He said that was the fact that MI.
Hughes was a resident OF New York
and the natural state pride which the
people felt In him, as well as the conf
dence they had I'm him as a man and an
him. this Democrat said, and that was
worth many votes In the pivotal state
OF New York.
BY the same token IL may be that
Wilson's home folks I'm New Jersey
may support him. But New York Is
more important than New Jersey In
the electoral college.
Adjournment Holdups.
1t is not %infrequent that the best
laid plans for the adjournment OF a
session are held up by a man or set of
men. But such holdups do not last
long. No one man, unless he is the
president, can prevent an adjournment
when both houses are anxious TO end
the session. A one man filibuster
against adjournment would not make
that man popular hereafter.
political Palaver.v
This political palayer OF the press
agents makes me tired" remarked an
old time Washington correspondent,
who had been going over the dope
furnished at different headquarters.
why don't they give us something
with a bite in itT'
Perhaps there is no material with
which to make bites" The campaign
has not been prolific In furnishing sen
s%ations.
Local Issues.
According to all information reach
ing Washington, there never was a
campaign In which local issues cut SO
much of a figure. The liquor question
in some states, candidates for state Of
fices In others, ambition OF certain pol
iticians i'm some sections and the labor
unions In various parts OF the country
make a large number of states uncer-
tain In the presidential election.
This lei that there are no real
clean cut party divisions, nc strict line
Of demarcation, and that voters may
consider the local issues more impor-
tant than the presidency.
Could Always Get q Job.
II have never seen the time since /
left home at thirteen years of age that
| have been out of a job Senator
Sherman Of Illinois told the senate In
"A political speech. If l could not get
my kind of a job I took the kind !
could get, and as Don as l could do
better / did so, as everybody ought
to do"
High Cost Of Living.
Like echoes come comments Of Re-
publicans when they use the words
high cost OF living" Both I'm 1910
and 1912 that was u phrase which was
farreaching. The people had a taste
of high prices. Now the Republicans
are using the phrase because it is real
lied that the era of high prices has
not ceased.