The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-06
SHERMAN GIVES
G, @. P. WARNING
AGAINST MANN
Senator Spurns His Leader
ship in Savage Attack,
Resenting Orders"
would LEAD INTO DITCH
Candidate for Speaker Angry
at Diatribe, but Closes His
Mouth Tightly.
would LEAD INTO DITCH
Special Despatch 10 Tar srS.

Republicans, was made the target for
n bitter attack in the Senate to-day
when Senator Sherman of Mr.. Mann's
own State denounced his attempt to
guide the trend of, Republican Con-
cresSonal activities, which the Sen
a'or asserted would lead the G. O. p
'!nto a ditch"
Mr.. Mann when informed of the dia-
tribe pronounced against him in the
Senate declined to comment. He was
vlsibly angered. but his words were
got permitted to escape his tightly
sealed lips.
AT the other end of the Capitol,
among those who are impatient to
mount the seat OF power. is one who
gives interviews anticipating the time
when he shall rule" said Senator Sher-
nan. The sdicts are issued from
time TO time, one appearing in yes
terday mornings press saying that
nothing should be said to interfere with
the Presidents mission abroad. The
gentleman seems to be impatient. He
delivered his pronunciamento; his
ukase is made and published before
he has even mounted the throne of
power. He is much more powerful in
Washington than he is at home.
A self-appointed Mouthpiece.
Upon several occasions he has been
seized with an unappeasable desire to
have the delegates, from his own State
in a national convention. He never
even nosed under the wire and got a
delegate in his life, and he never will.
take no instructions from this self
constituted mouthpiece OF the Repub-
lican party as hailing from Illinois,
even If he does presume to be Re-
publican delivering orders to all %
whom he may have access. am men
uoning no names. as 1t would be
breach of the parliamentary rules TO
90 sou
Senate and galleries giggled as each
Of the singing sentences was uttered
by the Senator, who went on:
But l have not accepted his leader
ship except when I expected the party
10 go into the ditch. and happily l
have never been disappointed. He
possesses no elements of leadership in
the West and none in his own State
outside of Hyde Park in South Chi
ago,
This is all care to say at the
resent time, but I give him due and
Imely warning that even II he be
lSPaaker OF the House he delivers no
trders to the junior Senator from that
ttdte any more than he does in Illi-
|ois.
Il have had my difficulties with him
bn days past and 1 never have paid
I ny attention to him because ordina-
| ily il is not required; but because of
ii!S putative Speakership he is an
itcipating the day when he can de-
k!ver orders. / say now that IL he
starts out he will last just two years
because that is the time when my
commission expires in this body. II
he wishes to lead he will have to find
some other constituents. He has never
ed his own or his own State, and re-
Ni--ttfuiiy suggest to him 10 repre-
sent something before he begins to
deliver orders to anybody. Nobody will
address him like the Muskingum
county (Ohio) Democrats speak Of
President Wilson. He will be His
Majesty to nobody, not even his own
constituents. 1t is only by forbearance
that he ever gets TO Congress. No
body wants the place. Everybody
would rather stay in Hyde Park than
'ontest his seat
Recalls MRnn's Ambitions.
Senator Sherman described at
length his own combat with Mr.. Mann
when the latter sought to receive the
favor!te son" Endorsement of Illinois
PRIOR to the Republican national con-
r"ntion OF 1916.
lie started his campaign" said the
senator. He had his headquarters.
lie issued his literature. And after a
casual observation OF the political
landscape he retired and his name was
not heard OF thereafter. / hope he
VIII not give me an occasion for any
turther remarks, but II he does shall
DO very happy at all times to promote
harmony of the kind indicated.
suppose politically 1 ought to be
loyal We worked for the majority in
IN" House; ] Contributed my drop in
Inc bucket WIN the others; I wish to
warn the Republicans Of the House
ana or the United States that II they
N'sh to fritter away their majority
Jet them choose such leaders and go
htP the ditch again. He belongs to
that band of distinguished Tories who
never forget anything because they
nave nothing to forget and never
learned anything.
II there is to be a leadership It
ought TO garner from the results of
tAe campaign that an obsession for
parliamentary rule is Of less conse-
'lence than a constitutional llmlta-
Lon OF delegated power. He has
a"oit in the atmosphere OF, parlla-
mertary affairs so long that he has
ever learned TO distinguish between
one and the other. and think It my
DUTY TO warn Republicans that IL they
are to learn by the lessons beginning
n 1919 and extending to November s,
'|lS, they might as well consider ma
'"rially what they are headed for and
what kind of leader they are follow
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