Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1906 — SAMPLE TOMMYROT. [ARTICLE]

SAMPLE TOMMYROT.

All the time remember that the election of a Democratic congress would tie the hands of President Roosevelt during the remaining years of his term. No good citizen should desire to see President Roosevelt embarrassed. —Lafayette Journal (Rep.). Nonsense! Who was it that tied the hands of President Roosevelt during the last session of congress? It was members of his own party, and he had to call on Democratic senators for help. Who was It that “embarrassed” him? The same class of Republicans In congress. And their opposition would have been fatal to all attempts at reform legislation if it had not been for the support which the Democrats freely gave to Mr. Roosevelt. He proved ungrateful, but that does not change the facts. A Democratic congress will vote for all measures that are In the interest of the people, whether Mr. Roosevelt is for them or against them. Besides, the present congress will last until March 4, 1907, and as it has an overwhelming Republican majority, it can pass any bill that it wants to pass before the Democrats elected this fall could get a “look in."

Postmaster-General Cortelyou, who Is also chairman of the Republican national committee, went to Oyster Bay to see President Roosevelt the other day and was there asked concerning the report that he might be a candidate for governor of New York. Mr. Cortelyou said In reply: “You may quote me as saying that I am, as postmaster-general of the United States, engaged In efforts to Improve the postal service. When I am a candidate for any office I will say so.” But not a word did Mr. Cortelyou say about returning to the widows and orphans the hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen by the officials of the New York insurance companies and given to him for use in the 1904 campaign. Of course the Landises are “standpatters.” Charles B. is a member of congress; his brother Fred is likewise a congressman: Kenesaw M., another brother, 1b a United States judge in Chicago, a life position; Walter, a fourth brother, is postmaster at San Juan, Porto Rico; Charles B.’s son is a cadet at West Point All in all the Landis family should see no real reason why things should be changed. It is the same with the other "standpatters.” Speaker “Joe” Cannon has made $2,000,000 since he has been in congress and no argument will convince him that anything Is wrong with the tariff or the trusts. And so it goes all through the stand pat list