The Nome nugget., 1924-05-03

liyered at Boston. Mass. recently, d speech upon national conditions gen eralIy which is well worth reading We are publishing some excerpts Of the same. but the speech can he found in itS entirety in the Con gress onal Record of February IS, 1924 al page 2449. IL was printed in the Record at the request of Sen atnr David l. Walsh Of Nassachu- sctts:
 The Outlook in Congress
 Senator Wheeler spoke as follows:
 Ladies and gentlemen: Tonight shall present the cause of the West and what | believe shor.d be the cause of the East-and especially tbe cause of asssachuJetts--and the outlook in Congress from a western standpoint.
 Tn order, however, 10 anticipa.e the outcome of a campaign or to pre- determine the probable result of a battle. the mslitary expert mast know something of the character and disposition of inc forces engag- ed In order to discuss imelligently the present Outlook in Congress we must first take stock of the polit ical clements of whi. Il Congress is composed. Wherc have l'hey been. where are they now, and where do they propose to go from here?
 In tEle evolution of all representa- tive governments the wil of th,' people has come to he expressed through the media of political par lies. These parties are organiza tons, more or less loosely formed about some central economic issue. Occasionally ttpera are social Ur other but these most always can be traced back to some economic source. Thus the question of human slavery. while involving great moral principle lad its origin in an economic issue that divided the Nation and was the underlying cause of the Civil War
 "It is true thaa the two great par ties that came into being during the first years of the Republic-the Fed eralet and Federalist Parties divided on the question of a central ized government purely political issue, but as soon as that was thrash ed out, the people aligned them selves under the banners of the two great parties which under different names have managed the affairs of government ,tp 'to the present time. And these two great parties have represented unthl recent years dis tinct economic issues.
 With the election of Thomas Jeff erson the om anti-Fed deralist Party disappeared and in it's place came the Democratic Party. while the o'sl FederHlists. after their defeat reap pe ared as the Whig Party. The Whis Party died in 1860, and the Repub'f- can, born in 1856. was swept into then for more than 6n years. tfle po- litical contests have been between these two domrant parties repre- send ing divergent and usually oppo- site economic principles.
 Prom time to time there has been mrtiny and rebellion in the party camps. Sometimes it has taken the shape of new political organization a new political party. At other times it has appeared in the Halls c, Congress, where group of for wa im looking men, known as pro sressives or independents or radicals have refused to submit to party dis cipine or to be governed by party interest.
 '.The Republican Party. dominated aS it has been for the last 50 years by The vested interests and the  predatory rich has been torn and rent by repeated instructions. The independent Republicans broke a. way and supported Horace Greeley. the muSwumps hft the reservation and voted for Grover Cleveland. then the Bull Moosers led by Rooee- welt came within an ace of running away with the party and it's mach inery. Now there is bunch of pro- rressives in Congress who are caus- ing the man at the steering wheel all kinds of trouble. But that is not all; Hiram Johnson threatens to nal- ly the R,nll Moosers and do to Cool jdge what Roosevelt did to Taft. And in the ata dow stands Robert M. La Foblette. a potential and ever present threat.
 Owing to changes in the econo-