Evening star., 1919-07-20
BY n. o. MESSENGER.
7 ILL somebody please page
NJ James r. Mann of Illinois.

Capitol.
Some of the republicans in the
House are complaining, with quiz
Zical smile, that the republicans are
getting all tangled up in the slack
of their own leadership. According
to the good-natured criticism banded
about there is no lack of leadership;
far from it. They declare there is
the leadership of the duly appointed
leader: the leadership of the Speak
er: the leadership of the steering
committee: the leadership of the
chairman of the rules committee; the
leadership of the chairman of the
appropria iations committee, and lastly,
the leadership of self-appointed lead
ers. who rush into the breach from
time to time. Old members Of the
House say there is an unusual
amount of friction in the machinery
of Legislation for a machine that has
been running SO short time. There
3 is no suggestion of a breakdown,
however but the overheated journals
are beginning to smoke and a hot
, box" is threatened
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J Well. now, as far as that goes. the
Senate isn't any Garden of Eden be-
fore the fall.
SENATE NOT QUITE with respect to
AN EDEN GARDEN. perfect love
and harmony
among the republicans in the Sem
ate. to be sure, leadership is a
term more academic than specific,
since all senators are supposed to be
Of equal dignity and Importance; all
peers. But it is the custom to asso-
ciate names with the word leadership
and it is turning out that there are
some widely varying differences of
opinion among senators with their
putative leaders over the league of
nations. Senator Lodge. floor leader
for the republicans, found it necessary
to issue a statement defending the
committee on foreign relations. of
which he is chairman, for not accept
ing the Presidents intimation that he
would appear before the committee
and discuss the treaty. Some of the
republican senators say that, quickly
SelzluB tu6 dlIcTudllNSp AS ~" AcSO
the Senate meet him on his own
ground, with advantage of choice OF
weapons. position to the sun, and
other assets Of the duello IN his favor.
The republicans are still widely apart
as to the scope of the reservations to
be proposed to the league of nations.
and there are several sets of leader
In Uninp P0ncpfnG
On this issue.
But don't let's get too serious.
Champ Clark, referring to the situa.
tion in the
CHAMP CLARK ON House, says
LEADING THE G. o. p. that these
here repub-
1icans just nacher'ly amt fitted to get
along without a strong and master
full leader: that they crave a boss,
and want to be told what to do. He
thinks the centurion in the Bible had
republicans in mind when he spoke
of commanding a host who came and
went and did at his bidding. Champ
Clark and his lieutenants had lot
of fun with the republicans in the
House last Tuesday, and finally got
them so tangled up that the House
had to adjourn out of sheer WEAKNESS
and sleep over the problem to be un-
tied at a subsequent session.
Uncle Joe Cannon once made some
sapient remarks on leadership. the
result of his
JUNGLE JOE" SPEAKS forty four
WISDOM OF YEARS. years of OBJ
serv alton
of and exercise, as well, of leader
ship. in the House. He likened the
management of the House to the driv-
ing of the old four-horse team.
The leaders in the old four-horse
team were driven and the driver rode
the near wheel horse" he said. The
leaders were lighter in weight. had
more metal, more style and more
ginger than the wheel horses. They
pressed into the collars with an en-
thusiasm which suggested they were
pulling the whole load and the wheel
horses, too. The wheel horses were
calm, even-tempered animals, who
understood they had the responsible
fly for the wagon at all times. They
pulled two-thirds of the load on the
upgrade and they sat back in the
breeching on the down grade. while
they kept the wagon in the road.
lodging the stumps and bumps. the
Tuts and the sinkholeS.
The leaders in public life must
he self-pOsSeSSed and have a fair do
gree of egotism. They need not be
extremely wise nor concerned about
any action except their own. There
is no more pleasant nor honorable
position in public life than that of
a leader, and there is no more hon
orable or responsible position than
that of wheel horse. The leaders
and wheel horses were sometimes
changed in the old four-horse team;
high-spirited and strong leader was
placed at the wheel and a well sea-
soned wheel horse put in the lead"
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TT seems to me-" said an old line
republican at the Capitol, that
these republicans
DIFFERING VIEWS in Congress are
ON THIRD TERM. picking on Pres
ident Wilson all
the time, with the apparent object
of driving his party into nominating
him for the presidency again. Why
in the world do they want to force
the democrats into nominating their
strongest man? Why don't they try
to get them to nominate their weak