Show Is WITHOUT IT A PARTY predicament OF P A PORTER NEW YORK congressman republican organization of house of representatives refuse to lecog naze man who defeated wads wada worth for reelection Reelect lon washington peter A porter mem her bor of congress representing the ty fourth district of new york la ia in distress peter it may be kemem bared conquered congressmen wads worth with the tha help of fie democrats and some aonie stanch independent lean voters when lie he mas elected however lie he announced that lie he would vote with the republicans la in the house of representatives As a matter of fact peter has always been a republic con can and he ran as lie ho did simply because ho he could not get tile the regular re publican nomination ills 1110 success was one of the most inel it dente of the elections of lost last 3 ear for wadsworth Wacla worth had always been conald alei invulnerable able in hla his district wadsworth salor father of the of the new york assembly ex great power and when vi as nominated it was not believed that he had any chance of election lie mad his fight on personal rounds grounds and the beet beef trust record of wada worth which waa as condemned in an open letter by president roosevelt porter used a cow as an emblem and distributed thousands of tho the proof dent is a let betteis tei a throughout ills his district the of the voters Ir respect lye ive of politics favored him a great briock to the pride ot of the a Wada and then peter announced that lie he would go to congress and continue his fight against the tha beet beef fiust and voik aik oik tor for moie rigid laws laas relating lug to the sale ealo or of oleomargarine darlne now peter potter having ridden into coD giess on a cow finds that lie he cannot break into the republican patty party with a ero crowbar bar and this because of the attitude of representative e pete chairman of the R republican e caucus who he repudiates por per ter and le lecla clarea reB that he to la not a re publican mr air porter declares that ha be Is not a democrat and so BO the man who polled 25 votes in a nomi nominally nilly republican district finds himself in washington a political outcast when the congressional directory came from the printers handis handa last january it contained an unofficial list of the present congress the names of the republicans printed in roman types and the names of the democrats JA in italics to mr air porters porter 8 amazement and disgust lie he found that his name was printed in italics when he arrived in washington he started to have it corrected lie ile approached the clerk of the house and was in formed that while he would be permit ted to submit whatever biography he desired lie he could not appear as a re publican without the consent rt ef the chairman of the rhe republican caucus then it WAS that peter porter ap preached pro ached pete the iowa colonel was ile he lit into porter and allowed that wads worth was the straight republican candidate and that the gentleman sue him was no more republican than a rabbit to this mr porter re plied piled by showing how many can votes he be received recited his long allegiance to the party and told of the fondness tho the president had lot foi him there was much more argument but it fell on deaf ears colonel petes pete s word goes and mr porter Is IB the ono one ri member who has no brand hut but must go all al through the fearba searl m as a maverick when john williama Wllliam ams a heard beard of the trouble be came hospitably tor for ward and peter porter to join the democracy an invitation which was w a s rejected and now the member fro from ni the thirty fourth new york la Is floating in a political airship lie will have difficulties concerning committee assignments alignments for he cannot expect to draw any republican vacancies and having declined to enter the democratic caucus he has no claim upon the th sead bea doled out to the minority it Is certainly a predicament for peter A porter it Is interesting to the abs observer arver too for it may be that a lifelong republican will be compelled to sit lt through an entire session of c congress con greca without a party and without com committie mittle |