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Show :o: SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE. When thu Republican' majority wns In tbo saddle Jn the nnttonnl House nnd Speaker Cannon nnd the com-mltteo com-mltteo on rules were using tho no-Ussory no-Ussory power toenforro tho win of the mnjoi Ity ,lt woB'customary nt rare Intervals to limit .debate for tho pur-poso pur-poso of preventing n filibuster, Tho Democrats called It "gag rule," nnd brow much excited on such occasions Champ Clark generally blew, up with n loud report, nnd Underwood emltU'c n yoll thnt even awakened Tho doorkeepers door-keepers nnd tho boys In tho pres3 gal lory. This "gng rtiio"' custom was taken tak-en up by tho iiiuckrnkers so extensive ly that Uncle ,loo Cannon became n bugaboo with which to frlgliteu cli'.l ilren, and wos mora extensively hatfd mid reined than King "Illchnrd, the l.lnu-llonrted, in his most pnlmy days Then the few Democrats who wer.i uiasipioindlng under the name or republicans, re-publicans, and wero making a nolso like an Insurgent, Joined with th De-mocruts De-mocruts In holding up I heir hand In holy hcrro, until it became a disgrace to bo seen talking to Uncle oo on the stieet, mid ho who visited thu spealur In his room bud to bo Isolated and rumlguted. In fact, so serious did u becomo thnt Uncle Joe's roputntu-ii as a ran, and tho general reelliiE that the Republican majority In tho IIoiim wns iinrulr, played n large p.ir. It. electing this overwhelmingly Democratic Demo-cratic House. "Hut u change bus come over the spirit or thu omocrntiu dienms. Yesterday Yester-day the Democratic majority ran the steam roller over the Republican minority, min-ority, and did the very thing which It cursed Uncle Joe for doing six inonthB ugo. The shoo is on the other root, somebody else's ox Is gored, and what was snusu for the goosu has become suiicu for tbo gander. Hut It gives a fair Idea of tho Democratic pretensions." preten-sions." -Herald Republican. |