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Show Forecast Speculations THE Oregonian calls attention to the very well-known fact that "the south is in the saddle." Tho president is a southern man with a southern wife; all of the chief committeemen In uungress with two or three exceptions are southern; Mr. "Underwood runs the house, his party is in the majority, he and two or three men shape all the legislation, and the caucus, old-fashioned democratic leglBaltlon votes solidly as the caucus is directed. While up to date the legislation has been generally broad there are exceptions. A heavy duty was left on mohair which is chiefly produced in the south, while it was taken entirely from wool which is mostly from tho we3t. But future legislations is wb f worries the Oregonian. "Will the support heretofore given to bring water on irrigated lands be changed to draining swamp lands in tho south? wo may here remark that the swamp lands in all of tho states belong to the states and tho only way the government could interpose would bo to .loan states the money to drain them. Will money appropriations be made for improving rivers and harbors In the east and south, and the west be neglected?" We are not apprehensive that way. The president and his particular friends in congress H mean to bo broad. Tho only thing that will in- VJH terposo will bo Inherent, deep down, almost H hereditary prejudices. For instance, on the H tariff, we can understand that Mr. Wilson and H Mr. Underwood having been brought up to tho H idea that a protective tariff was an injury, could H gather in their souls tho belief that if it could H bo expunged It would help tho north as much as H tho south. Then tho democracy of tho south H was In tho saddle most of tho time for sixty H years prior to 18C0. Tho northern democracy H was always obedient to thoir behests, and they H grew to believe that thoy were a superior raco H and entitled to rule, and, when ousted from H power, in their fury thoy determined to Jest" H the country.' Wo speak, of cours?, of thd it d- H ers. The south generally which had a hJCttotr"o H the war at first joined with them and Uif'Tiilass H in tho north which was always accusto348d to H their guidance and control simply rp"-'. J tfiem- H selves into a sullen band, giving tbifi t Ar H moral support and as much of their wwjv ifo y- PAVJ port aB they could without taking, it in H their behalf. H Wo believe that Mr. Wilson an jarty H really want to mako a broad succee jse of H their power for honest reasons, an " the H campaign which will como two y . hence H must bo prepared for. Behind every ouestlon H they will consider will be, "What offec ill this H have on the election In 191(5?" ' It is ti toon to H judgo that election yet. H We notice in the dispatches that some prom- H inent Progressive has received a note from Mr. H Roosevelt that ho will be present in the cam H palgn. As though anyonu over doubted that ho H would, and his voice will be for no compromise H at all. Our private belief is that ho contracted H with the Democracy in 1912 to mako so big a H diversion from tho Republican party that a Dom- H ocrat would be elected and It Is possible that H contract is a hangover, that the terms of it im- H plied that if necessary he would repeat tho per- H formance in 191G. All tho time it was whispered H to him that his magnetism, his winsomo ways PAfl to tho unthinking would possibly elect him pres- H ident. If not in 1916, then certainly in 1920. In M that we get tho key to his present position. Ho H is In for Roosevelt. What he really wants more H than anything else 's office and spoils. If ho H had to surrender tho office for six years yet he PA will be sure of the Bpoils and will have a good H timo calling peoplo liars In the meantime. Of M course, without him, were some boa cor stridor H to take a couple of twists on him down in the M chaparral of South America, that would end M tho Progressive party. But ho plays in luck. M He will como homo all right. Without him there M is nothing that is not either anarchistic or crazy M in the Progressive platform that tho Republicans M would not accept. With him they will not want IH to accept. lawJ Wo judgo men sometimes by tho company M they keep, in 1912 he would have been helpless jH ' from tho start except for Mr. Perkins. Mr. Per- B kins went out of the firm of J. P. Morgan and H Company very rich and for sometime aspired to B be president. Ho wrote fool essays and deliv- M ered fool speeches, and when his own prospects jH did not look good for nomination he joined in to M support Roosevelt. He provided the sinews of M war to herd tho rabble for the primaries and to H carry on the campaign. Then tho Colonel had V othor supporters. He had Governor Johnson of H California who had fixed the state so that the H will of the people could not be expressed in the M nominations. He had Mr. Heney, who is now H aspiring to the senate, whose chief qualifications H i tor any office are his blackguard gab and his M measureless gall. Ho had Mr. Garfield who can- M not see why, in as much as his father was one 1 of the brightest intellects in the world, he has 1 not a right to aspire to any place. He had Mr. H Pinchot whose statesmanship makes every man M of the west cry when they think of it. He had !two or three New York and Pennsylvania bosses and ho went into the campaign as Napoleon Na-poleon used to go into his fights, always to pro- tect the liberities of Franco when in his soul Hj his hightest ambition was to use France for his HH own ends, and in doing that in twenty years he Hf had killed so many Frechmen that the race has Hl not reached its normal height physically since. H 1 So as the Dejnocrats are going on we think H that what they do these next two years will not H bo so much of an anxiety as what they will do H when Mr. Wilson is re-elected, and for that mat- H ter we need not have as much anxiety as has H the present Secretary of State, because should H Mr. Wilson bo re-elected the thought will come H to him, "The years are passing and even I am H growing old. When I had .Mr. Wilson nominated H it was on a pledge that he would run but once H and that all the time he was in office I should H be in the office of Secretary of State and would H so entwine myself into the life of the party that H I would be the only candidate spoken of in 1916, H . and now who knows?" H f In the meantime the administration is de- H termined to crush all monopolies. With every H f one crushed, from two hundred to fifteen hun- H dred people who work for wages are thrown out H of employment. In tho meantime that organiza- H tlon which is opposed to all labor except the D working of its agents' jaws are telling the peo- H pie how they are oppressed. A million of H demagogue politicians and newspapers are do- H Ing tho same. With the increasing agitation Hj they are rounding more and more into a polit- Hj ical party. Sometimes they will have to be dealt H with and when that time comes even careless H' parsons will be obliged to think. |