Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-19
CONGRESSMAN MOORES
LETTER
Republican and Democratic Dis
agreements Discussed - Phila.
dctphia Farmers Are Seek
ing Free Seeds
Washington, ID. G., March 10.

Washington, ID. G., March 10.
WHAT the future may bring forth no
! W one knows. There are certain signs
! ct discord in both the Republican and
| democratic parties, 1t is n part of the
| general spirit of Unrest and uncertainty
| following the war over in the Senate the
| bees are buzzing around Senators Lodge
| and Penrose, who are hoping for unity
when the time for organization comes. Two
or three Senators, notably Bcrah, Norris
| and Kenyon, are still supposed to be Off
| the reservation with respect to Senator
| Penrose's Craftsmanship of the Finance
| Committee, but the "get-together" on tho
! league of nations and the reasonable ad'
! iustment of appointments on the House
| side are believed to operate favorably to
| the pennsylvania Senator. Penrose is not
unpopular with many of the leading Demo
| Gratis so there is very little opposition 10
| him from that point Of view.
/ In the House. the fight against Mann
! may have left some sores It is hoped not,
Ibut when more than 230 men, many of
| them influenced by local newspaper senti-
! ment, are looking forward to advancement
| In public life it is mighty difficult to satisfy
! them all. So far as Mann and the new
Speaker. Gillett are concerned, they will
! probably get along all right; but some Of
the ambitious spirits who turned in for
I Gilictt have indicated an inclination to ask
for more than they have received which
may lead to further trouble In the event
Of trouble Mann will probably be leader
with a vengeance. He will be in the same
POSITION on the floor that Champ Clark
WEI be in, and as the two men are strong
friends and expert pariamentarians they
may help 10 make the new session the
most interesting Of modern lines.
CLARK has been surprised to find oppo.
~ stion in his own party, which his
friends suspect is not due SO much to his
gruf personality, as the Democratic insur-
gents allegc, as it is intended to be check
to the exSpeakers presidential aspirations
1t is something of coincidence that bad
manners" should now be alleged against
both Clark and Mann Everybody con.
cedes the intellectual integrity and the
| legislative ability of the two men. They
are held by their Washington friends to bs
| incorruptibIe and therefore non persona
| grata with the lobbyists. Mann undoubt-
| edly has offended many Republicans by
| sticking 10 his work when he could have
| been out making speeches or playing the
| game Of eood,fellowshp. He has hurt the
| feelings OF many man by short and sharp
answers to inquiries propounded when his
mind was filled with legislative detail. For
| this latter work he has been called The
! great comma hunter
Clark is as warm hearted as any man in
L-l
a mere reference in kindly terms to mem.
bers Of his family, but his handshalIe is
| like that Of a pump handle and his mono
syllable drawl is enough at times to freeze
! the blood Of the warmest hearted commit
tee that ever came to Washington. But
| Clark is fighter and has the ear of the
! country He quit the Speakers chair with
! the hearty good wishes of Republicans and
! Democrats alike. If the thirty-odd Demo.
| Gratis who have signed up against his
leadership expect TO bowl him out OF the
presidential race because he is not partiCu-
larry "sot" on President Wilson's views on
certain public questions they are counting
without their host Champ and Claude
Kitchin and others who have been upon the
job during the war Congress will be as
| ready to take up the cudgels If the insur.
gent Democrats start something as Mann
will be ready TO take them up If he is
crowded into corner by insurgent Re.
publicans. The situation is one that might
well be considered by those distinguished
harnonizerS the Honorable Rr'er Hays, of
Indiana and the Honorable Br'er Cum.
mings, of Connecticut.
DUSY fellow is w. II. p. Mccoy who
- helped lots of the yodng chaps in the
earlier war stages to get in line for Off.
GERS commissions. Mccoy III a good mixer
| and generally finds plenty to do. He is
now the Treasury Departments chairman
| of city activities for the Third Federal Re-
serve District which is boosting war-sav.
ings stamps. Along with n. Y. Worrall.
another Philadelphia city chairman, Mccoy
| can talk thrift to any who viii buy, from
Wanamaker and Stotesbury down to the
| boy in the street.
| TIME usual distribution of congressional
l. seed is sure harbinger of spring: And
| strange as it may seem, there are almost
as many "garden-sass' growers in Phila-
| delphia as there are in Texas or OREGON
| Maybe not so many, but it seems so. One
would not ascribe to Harry J. Thinner of
the Republican Alliance and the Third
Ward, special interest in literature on
How to Raise Alfalfa" and yet as a
leader with his ear to the ground Trainer
can see the poppics rise above the thin
crust of earth as quickly as anybody. So
can Isaac lietze who has a farm out
along the Reading road, about which lie
keeps the llarmer Club posted. George
| Pierre used TO say that his farm expert.
ments cost him the price of a couple OF
farms, but even so the Darby Ram must
have its grass and garlic to browse upon;
and there are numerous farmers in the
Twentieth Ward who are beginning to
write that the planting season is upon
them.