Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1914 — Can't Play Game Fair in Congress [ARTICLE]

Can't Play Game Fair in Congress

By Representative J. J. WHITACPE of Eighteenth Ohio District

X LL I v:> done since I’ve Leon? YY down in ;W:i-irinMon Ims been ti SIT AROT’XII AND TRY 'IO I.ihi'a WISE, ;in<l that s what any man has to do. who isn’t wilTintx to I‘>.\ll'iiEß HIS C’ONVII I'ltlXS FOR I’DUTICA E EXPEDIEXt Y. I GOT A LETTER FROM A FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION ASKING ME TO VOTE FOR THE IMMIGRATION BILL NOW PENDING. I VOTED AGAINST THE BILL ONCE, BUT IF I PLAYED THE GAME AS IT IS PLAYED IN WASHINGTON I WOULD WRITE TO MY CORRESPONDENT THAT I WOULD CAREFULLY CONSIDER THE MATTER, THEN I WOULD KEEP ON BLUFFING UNTIL IT CAME TO A SHOWDOWN. After I had voted against the bill I would hurry around and explain that matters arising at the last minute had made my act necessary and hand out a lot of stuff like that. I CAN’T STAND THAT SORT OF BUSINESS. < i THOUGHT THERE MIGHT BE A CHANCE FOR AN HONEST, WIDE AWAKE, FRANK AND OPEN BUSINESS MAN IN CONGRESS, BUT I WAS QUICKLY DISILLUSIONED.