Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1912 — Senate Has Done Nothing This Season [ARTICLE]

Senate Has Done Nothing This Season

The senate has done practically nothing this session. The senate Republicans have drifted along. There Is neither party organization nor party spirit among them. A group has been busy playing politics. They have done something to help the president in his struggle for delegates. Nearly all the Republicans have been thus engaged in their respective states. They have given virtually no attention to legislation, outside of local measures. On the other hand the Democrats are diligently and aggressively working out their program. Before the session adjourns it promises to be definite and comprehensive. They have been less diverted by the presidential campaigning. While there is divergence of view within the Democratic party, there has been general cd-operation, whenever the call was made for a forward movement. And this co-operation has been all the more effective because it has swept along insurgent support in the house and, "hen the period-comes for voting upon important measures, will probably command such support in the senate.

1 am greatly pleased with the platform of the Pennsylvania Republican party#—Colonel Roosevelt at Baltimore. Including, of cqurse, the tariff plank, which is standpatism and guarantees’ special interests among the Pennsylvania manufacturers “a reasonable profit.”

The people did not elect Mr. Taft president. Theodore did It. At least he says he did. And who dares deny the truth of what Theodore Bays?