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Show THE REIGN (FpNC This Is the reign of rhetoric. Things are not as they are, hut as we are told In smoothly turned phras es they should bo and really would be If we could only bring ourselves to so vlow them. Rhetoric Is sometimes mighty persuasive, particularly If It Is uttered In high places. Somo people peo-ple are persuaded by It that their Ills are only phychologlcal, or, leastwise that other people's ills are of that character. A few aptly turned phrases phras-es convince somo folks that a party pledge is beBt kept by bolug broken. Still others can bo persuaded by It that creeping paralysis In federal rev-enues, rev-enues, observed by nil for months, Is In fact a sudden stroke induced in an instant by the war In Europe. Partisanship Perhaps tho greatest recent triumph tri-umph of rhetoric of a happy style of phraseology, of charming diction, has been In the creation and the malnte nance ot the Idoa that this la an ad. ministration Ideallstlcally devoted to the public wolfaro without regard to party Interests. I am a believer In party responsibility and thereforo 1 would bo tho last to critlclso the strengthening of party lines ns a means to public service. Our last Republican Re-publican President delighted to honor men outside his party, and ho called Democrats not only to his cabinet but to other places ot honor nnd responsibility. re-sponsibility. He overdid his bipartisanship, biparti-sanship, nnd he never received any credit for It. No such chnrgo will ever bn mado ncnlrmr tlin nHmlni.i... ever bo made against the administration administra-tion of Prelsdent Wilson. If any Republican Re-publican has ever- received nn appointment ap-pointment at his hands, ho Is a rare bird enough to be valuable for exhibition exhi-bition purposes. Kven tho Progressives, Progres-sives, to whom the Democrats owo so much, have been entirely overlooked when It camo to the distribution of patronage. None , but Democrats need apply. "Put none but Wilson Democrats on guard," Iibb been tho slogan and when there were not places plac-es enough to go around in the old of flees vacated and the Juicy now ones created, enough places havo been lifted lift-ed out ot the civil 3ervlco to meet any reasonable demand. Dut tho demand de-mand has not been reasonable, and therefore Is still unsatisfied. Under Republican administrations Democrats Demo-crats have felt free to express tliolr views and opinions to heads ot government gov-ernment departments and at the White Houso; In fact, advice and expressions ex-pressions of opinion outsido ot the party woro frequently sought or at least, gladly received. Dut times havo changed. Suggestions from Republicans Republi-cans in official life would now receive about the same consideration at the White House as would advice from the White Houso butler on' how to handle the Mexican situation. I do not know the political faith ot a considerable number of "captains of industry" and Wall Street magnates who of late have, by Invitation or otherwise, been bucIi frequent visitors visit-ors at the Whlto House, but it is not ot record that any Republican or Progressive in official lite has felt that bis advice or suggestions on any subject whatever would bo welcomed nt the White Houso. In other words, this Is the most Intensely partisan administration ad-ministration of which men havo any recollection, and narrow in Its parti, sanshlp at that. That Is somotlilnn that should bo kept In mind both in giving credit nnd In laying blamo. Congressman Mondell ot Wyoming. |