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Show ITTEfWS WAIL The ".Star Eyed" Goddess" Mournn Out Loud Because Poor Riig;e,r Mills Whs Turned Dowu by Speaker Crisp, PRINCIPLES SACRIFICED, Stephen B, Elkius of West Virginia Takes the Oath as Secretary of War This Hurtling, NEWS FROM WASHINGTON Make Up of the Various Committees-The (stiver Men are l'leased Nominations Nomina-tions Confirmed Free Iirllvory Hill. Loriftvm.K, Dec. it. In the Cmivr-J.Mt: uxMliis morning Mr. Watterson lins an editorial edi-torial on Speaker Crisp ami the new com-mittces. com-mittces. He says in part: "For the first time In the history of the democratic party in congress is the principle laid down that tho organization of the house is a matter, not of friendly rivalry among friends, but of personal aggrandizement and factioual power. Wc had hoped It better things. A stronger uian than CrUp might have paused before giving himself ami his party over to thl." Watterson ay that Springer has not shown peculiar capacity to b ad the houso. His selectiou smacks too much of a discharge dis-charge of obligation ami a pretext to turn down and degrade a man who lias done eminent work in a great movement, and who has engaged the confidence of democrat demo-crat everywhere. Watterson speaks of intimations that there was a deal of the "regulation "reg-ulation New York pattern" between the new tpenker and Ills backer and (iovernor Hill and his backers, by liich democratic principles are to bo sacrificed to congressional congres-sional and presidential bargains. "Then indeed will the hosts of democracy rise In their might and in their wrath, scattering scat-tering these impious despoilers of truth and faith like a herd of cattle The future alone can determine this, but the present is no time for luliiclnff words. It is time for pluin talk. The speaker' experiment starts out with the almost universal distrust of democrat demo-crat in every part of the union. The overcoming over-coming of this and the establishment of its claim to public confidence can only be achieved by a display of great earnestness, pert'jet fidelity and undeniable competency. Mr. Crisp should, from this time forward, keep before, hi eyes tho awful specter of I Keifer." |