Show BAILEY WAS RIGHT ANYHOW Representative Bailey has made the 4 announcement that he will not be a candidate for the Democratic leader hlp In the next congress There has been a slight frictIon for some time owing to Mr Baileys strict construction of the constitution and he tendency of many Democrats to drift with popular sentiment which as Prominent Republicans have frequently frequent-ly asserted is the only constitution their party cares to recognize The Immediate provocation of Mr Baileys announcement was the refusal i I of the Democratic membem of the house to follow his lead in the demand for the consideration of the resolutions declaring that Genera Wheeler and other member who accepted army commissions had thereby vacated theIr seats While Mr Bailey claims that lIe is not actuated by pique or personal disappoIntment dis-appoIntment he desires neither to hold the party responsible for hIs 01dfa5h lonedDemocraey nor to be held J re ponsible himself for the course of a following which FCfuse to folow 11 Bale Is right but he Is kIckIng kIck-Ing agaInst the pricks On his side is the law on the other sIde Is popular opinIon lie stands upon the 1onsHhiUon his Democratic colleagues aredrIft1ng with public sen timenL This mater of allowing men holding commissions from the president to have a scat and a vote in congress is not constitutional more than that it Is contrary to public po1cymetling tat this republtc cannot outgrow except ex-cept by growIng warped and gnarled The house judiciary c nmittee had already decided that Congressmen Wheeler Campbell and Colson should be required to give up either their gve army commissions or their sets Mr Baleyl position wa vjnditated by that committee for they were bound to follow and construe he law But when it came to a vote upon the question ques-tion there was the gallery fllle with herworhipers tiere were the hiser and the clappers and the law was forgotten I for-gotten and Mr Bailey was turned j down I By this vote in favor of allowing men I holding presidential commIssions a precedent has been established which I Is bound to result in gross abuses in I the future No line can be drawn between be-tween civil and military commissions any more than it can be drawn between regular and volunteer service Every attempt to make such distinctions Is I absurd mid clearly at variance with the only possible intent of the law While popular clamor Is with General I Gen-eral Wheeler just now and while we a free to confess that our own sympathies sym-pathies are with him the law is with Bailey |