| Show t I I From Fro Congressman BY SAVOYARD to toBY Gove j rot James E Watson Is a leader In con congress cn congress gress gress a fine public speaker an excel excellent excellent excellent lent organizer the Republican whip and the th personal representative of the Republican speaker eaker on the floor foor of the he house where a good deal of dirty work has to be done and alt all al must admit that the Hon Watson Vatson does It I with wih fairly clean hands especially e when the job is isas Isas isas as filthy as that ship subsidy steal Jim Watson atson may be said to be from the Old Burnt district distrct next to the Ashland district the toe most mo t famous in inthe Inthe inthe the Ohio valley valey He lie beat the Great Objector for congress in 1894 and was beaten by him two years later Hol Hoi Holman Holman man was wa the first frs man who served sered thir thirty thirty ty years year in the house and he was a 3 great man mainly because at the country countr crossroad he could make the th Je average citizen think that mae S I Vilar Holman was wa just a little better friend beter to the man who works with wih his bands Hands and struggles for a living than th n any anybody anybody body else Jim Watson beat him im for congress in 1894 IS because that was wa the year ear the Democratic party retired from politics and sent the Pops to do their stunt In the political arena arenar Mr r Watson is a candidate for or gov go governor of ot What he wants with emnor eror Indiana Indiana walts It I cannot Imagine Only one gov guy governor I colossal fig figure fIgure figure eror of that state was vas as a clossal ure while in office and c circumstance made the HIe opportunity for him As gov governor gO governor Mr Watson would take the dry rot and never be heard hear of at again The Te thing of going from congress to the governors mansion i l come comae to operate ope ote in our country like the stewardship stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds Hundres in England Egland an honorable road roa out of at politics pol cs It I is no longer the way wa to the senate Doubtless J Frank Hanly Hanl knows that There Ther was a time when to be gov governor go governor of a sovereign state of ot this union was wa a much bigger office than to be a member of congress but that was when the federal power was a great deal modester mod ester than it I is now Henry HenryClay Henr HenryClay Clay left the United States senate to take a seat In the Kentucky legisla legislature ture I believe beleve something like that happened to Caleb Cushing though he retired from rom the national house to go goto goto goto to the Massachusetts legislature De Dc DeWitt DeIt Witt It Clinton was a as senator in Congress and mayor maor of ot New York at the same time and he regarded the office of mayor ma or as the more important How different it had become In 1867 1861 when Allen Alen G Thurman Turman was the Democratic candidate for governor of ot Ohio He had been in congress twenty years earlier ealer and had voted for the Wilmot proviso He was the best lawyer la in inthe Inthe inthe the state and the greatest debater of his time He was nominated for gov governor gO governor and very nearly elected It I was understood that was to be senator if I the legislature was Democratic The main Issue was rub rubbing rb bing the word white out of the suf sut suffrage suffrage frage clause of ot the Ohio constitution That proposition was beaten by majority and the word wor white is in that tat constitution to this day da Thurman made such a splendid race for gover governor governor governor nor that he was given the that had earned eared It I was a calamity all al around Had Thur Thurman Thurman Thurman man been elected governor it I have been the last of at R H H U Hayes H yes would have hae been s sent ent to the senate whence I have little doubt he would have hae gone to toi the White House V Proctor Knot Knott Knott might have in congress to this day had he not rot sought the through the governors mansion John W V Steven Stevenson son got to the senate by Iy b that route but Leslie Lesle McCreary Knott Knott Buckner and John Young Brown all al failed fai as did W O 0 Bradley on the other side of oC the political hedge hege Tt H t is true that Gov Go Beckham is nominated for fr sena senator eta tor tom in a primary fearfully and wonder wonderfully wonderfully fully conceived and conducted but Gov GO Beckham is If not yet senator Benton is a cast in point He le came to congress in 1879 and was made a t pet by the by Wil William Wi liam B Morrison MorIson and that had for its membership lam Carlisle Mills 11 Is Hurd Kurd and Tucker later reinforced by Turner the Wilson WIon and m men n like those He got a knowledge cf ef the tar tariff iff if by absorption and became a mem riem member Member ber of ot the ways and means They hey used to send for togo 5 north 1 rth and i instruct them on political economy and as long as he confined himself to well ell indeed the very wel tariff taril he Th The DemOcratiC Dem c party pay God bless it It itis Is to a coin ositO cr of philip Sidney Roger de lne Wil Wi Wilkins kins and Tam Tarn o 0 Now No it it is the Tenth Legion that saved great eat I Caesar Cae and now floW it I Is the squad geat refused to go through Coventry with It I is entirely human Tt It Has haS the simplicity and the abiding I con dence Of the honest country countr gen gentleman that thinks not knows not and cannot canot understand guile Is It not written ritten Verily Verl I 1 say sy unto you Whosoever Whoever shall not receive the Kingdom of ot God Godas Godas Godas as a little child chUd shall in no rio wise enter therein That is the way the Democratic par party pr party ty receives everything I It has ha the same mouth for crow as aa for chicken the same palate for gall gal as a for nectar That Is what It It make makes It Immortal and that Is what makes it ft I the rudder and the anchor of this mighty republic Be Bee ye of good cheer lt it t will wi escape the wilderness where it I was interned in the struggle of 1896 Well Wel Benton McMillin had a heap to do with wih it I In the American people were contrite for tor their lefeat of Grover Cleveland In 1888 and nd they were outraged because of the enor enormity enormIty enormity mity of the first Tom Reed congress They gave voice olce to their penitence and their disgust In the victory victor I for the Democracy in the entire entre his history history I tory tor of our republic before or since If I the south had been silent in the congress the Democrats had a a majority of the northern norther mem members members members bers and the south was waa solid sold with wih a possible minority not exceeding three Who did it I Cleveland Carlisle Mills the Turner Wil Wilson Wilson 1 son and that set set A race came on for speaker Had the house been con convened convened convened in March 1891 not ten votes would have been cast against Roger Q Mills in the Democratic caucus Mor Morrison Morrison rison had been put out of congress by b Pittsburg tariff boodle Carlisle had been sent to fill fl Becks shoes in the senate The inevitable the logical the theone theone theone one possible speaker was Roger Q Mills who stood for the idea Idea Benton McMillin had about as much chance for speaker as I hael ha to be pope of Rome Yet combinations be began began began gan to form for in 1891 with wih a single ob object to beat for the nomination the only Democrat who could be elected president of ot the United States and it I would have succeeded if a n similar com corn combination had not been triumphant In 1880 Crisp was the favorite of ot the combination that was captained by I Tammany Hall Hal David B Hill Hi and Ar Arthur Arthur Arthur thur P Gorman McMillin all al of whose whosO eggs were in the Mills Mis ba t was Induced to run under the p la ia slon sion that he would be heir hell to Crisp There was not a chairmanship that was waH not put to ransom including ways and means and appropriations Had Mills Mill given glen a nod or a wink he would have been speaker McMillin was wa used until he was a sucked orange ornge Crisp was elected and the most precious cause the Democratic party has had hadin hadIn hadIn in forty years yeats ears frittered away No 0 wonder onder It I was wa that the first whack the Democracy got at McMillin he was struck between wind and wa water water water ter His usefulness was gone gon Bailey beat him out of at sight for leader and then he left lef congress to be governor He was governor hoping to be sena senator senator tor tom He may be senator yet for my knowledge of American politics teaches me that everything impossible can hap happen pen penIn in the state of Tennessee In late years I do not recall recal a man who left lef congress to be governor who did not lose by the te exchange It I is Isal all al because under Republican politics the nation naton is becoming everything and the state nothing unless New York he be hean bean hean an exception I 1 would rather see se Ed Carmack in inthe inthe inthe the national house of representatives than governor of ot Tennessee Let him come to the congress He might be speaker sp aker Copyright 1907 by E W Newman |
