Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1905 — POLITICAL INNOVATION. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL INNOVATION.

Action of the Chicago Democrat* Toward Prraldrnt Itooftevelt. The acceptance by President Roosevelt of the invitation of the Iroquois club lo their banquet at Chicago Is an innovation in political matters. The extraordinary part of the proceedings was the fact that the largest Democratic club In the country with business men for members should have indorsed the president's declared 'lntention of recommending to congress legislation for control of railroad rates and the offer to sustain him politically lu ko doing. These Chicago Democrats evidently l>elleve the Republican majority will desert the president on the railroad issue, and hence their offer of assistance. They virtually follow the lead of the Democratic members of the last congress who sustained the recommendation of the president for similar legislation by voting for the EschTownsend bill after their preliminary vote for the Democratic Davey bill. Either we are on the eve of a political millennium or the most strenuous political uphenval since the civil war. Time alone can tell.