Show AN APOLOGY FOR PERFIDY Another statement has been Issued by the Democrats who bolted the party p Uty caucus and made it i possible for Speak Speaker er Cannon Canlon to retain the power p to name the committees of the house at this session of congress Their defense is that some of the northern statts stat s were not recognized r by Champ Clark leader I of the Democrats In naming the com committee committee of fifteen which was to name the house committees and that they were denied the opportunity of debat debating debatIng debatIng ing the proposed change in the rules submitted by the caucus of Democrats and insurgent Republicans The explanation is a u confession co on the face of it the traitors had ex exactly notly the same right to present their views to the caucus that the other members had Fitzgerald their leader in perfidy wold woId have been named as the first finst man mal ma on the committee on committees They were led to betray their party by promise of preferment at the hands of the Republican speak speaker er and they accepted the price Any apology they may ma make malte now is only additional reason for contempt of at their action They have hae deliberately aligned themselves with Cannon the specific object of attack by b the nar no na national Democratic platform and one of the conspicuous enemies of democracy and representative government and they cannot escape the consequences of their choice by professing solicitude for tor members from other states particularly particular particularly ular as aa those members approved of the caucus and voted to sustain Its pro program program program gram |