Pueblo chieftain., 1921-03-26
STRONG LINEUP
THEFORECAST
OF DEMOCRATS
Feel They Have Certain
Strength Against Repub-
lican Leaders
BY MARK SULLIVAN

Washington. d. c.. March as
The Democratic leaders will shortly
come together to determine their
policy OH tho tariff. on taxation, and
on the rest of the Republican pro-
gram for the coming session. There
is some slight difference of opinion
among them. but large majority be-
licYe with "A beat which increases
from day to day that they ought to
make tho strongest opposition they
are capable of
Among the moro important leaders
in and out of Congress. like senator
Underwood and Mr.. McAdoo. there
has been a disposition to feel thai
the best Judgment and the best poll
tics as well as the best patriotism,
would be to act harmoniously and
make things easy for Harding in
difficult time. That feeling is rapid
ly disappearing. The Democrats take
tho view that their oyertures to-
wards harmony are not in the proper
spirit by the action of the Republic
can leaders in setting out a program
which the Democrats charge is sure
iy political. The Democrats are out
ragged by the proposal to purely po-
litical The Democrats are outranE-
cd by the proposal to pass the
Emergency bill They CLAIM. that
altho this bill might have had some
merit and excuse in December. when
the farmers crops were still in their.
hands it has no such justification in
April. and that taking 1t up now is
wholly An act of insincere politics.
They will fight this bill with all the
yigor they are capable OF and having
started out In this spirit they VIII
undoubtedly follow policy of SINH
lar opposition TO the rest of Repub-
iican program.
In their opposition the Democrats
will be able 10 be very embarrassing.
IL Is true that in the House their
numbers are so small that they will
be overwhelmed. but in the Senate
the Republican majority. while large.
Is still short of enough to practice
closure. A tariff. bill offers almost
unlimited oppor tunity for practicing
flibustcr and delay with every ap-
pearanos Of justification Any lead
er Is FREQ 10 pick out any one section
OF the tariff bill and furnish pre-
sentablo reasons for implacabla and
long-continued opposition TO it. In
this policy OF Resistance the Demo-
Gratis will be able not to achieve OBJ
struction but To cause real cmbar-
rassment, both to the Republicans as
= whole aud TO many individual Re-
publican Senators
When this same emergency tariff
bill was up in the Senate during tn"
winter several important Republican
Senators from eastern states voted
against 1t. ~ that time these Scnat-
ors OF course. had not the faintest
apprehension that their action would
ever come back to plague them. They
had not the faintcst notion that the
same bill would be revived again.
What theea Senators will do now il a
subject OF acute and painful consid-
Grafton for them. II they voted
against II at time when there was
"A Democratic President who was
going to veto IT. what excuse Will
they have to vote in favor of 1t at a
time when there is Republican
President who wants to sign 1t?
on the whole subject OF the tariff
the Democrats fell that they are in
IA better position for opposition than
in any OF the historic debates on
previous tariff bills. Under the new
condition OF the country the Demo-
Gratis will have the advantage of
friendly support from sections OF the
business community that they never
had before.
As to what the Democrats will do
about taxation, they are less thoroly
crystallized than on the subject of
the tariff. on taxation they Will
leave decision until later. but they
have not the least doubt that when
tho Republican program on taxation
,s made public the Democrats Will
find a satisfactory opening for cffec-
tive opposition. They know that
after "A war Tor ten or twenty years
IL is likely that the great political is
sues will be fiscal and will turn in a
broad way ON how to pay the cost OF
tho war and what sections of the
community are TO be made to pay 1t
Some angle of this question, indeed,
Is likely to bc the issue In the next
Presidential campaign.
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Evening Post. 1nc)