Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1919 — STILL TRAMPLING “PROGRESSIVES.” [ARTICLE]

STILL TRAMPLING “PROGRESSIVES.”

No one envies the plight of the so-called Progressive Republicans nowadays. Though still firm in the belief that they rule the party, some way or another they are still minus the control and have a monoply on nothing but jeers and rank ingratitude. The situation in the lower house of Congress is an example. The defeat of James R. Mann and the election of Frederick H. Gillett to the speakership was hailed as a “progressive” victory. But that was all Mann lost. His lieutenant. Mondell of Wyoming, was chosen Republican floor leader, Mann stalwarts dominate the “steering connmittee” and the Committee on Rules, and head all the other important House committees. Mann himself had to be recalled from Chicago to, rescue his party from the state of legislative and general helplessness into which it had fallen. Just prior to the last incident the “Progressives” thought the time propitious for an enlargement of the party “steering -committee” in order to | accommodate a larger representation of their element. The reactionaries opposed the plan, naturally, but seemed able to do nothing. Lacking the courage to deliver the punch that would again put the “Progressives’* down for the count, they sent for Mann. He came, and down went the “Progressives” amid the war cries of the "Old Guard.”

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