Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1891 — OUR DISTRICT NOT IN IT. [ARTICLE]

OUR DISTRICT NOT IN IT.

Delphi Journal. The tenth congressional district will not be represented in the next congress. True, Dr. Patton will probably occupy a seat on the floor of the lower branch, and will draw his pay with astonishing regularity, but lie will have no more influence in the legislation enacted by the body of which he is a member than the bumps that sit on logs in the swamps of Newton county. The doctor is a good fellow and doubtless knows how to prescribe for a patient afflicted with the chills and fever, but when it comes to feeling the pulse of the Republic and prescribing what is necessary, lie will be “at sea”—-Out of sight of land without rudder or compass. The Journal would think that it would be embarassiug for Dr. Patton to go to Washington and be pointed out as the successor of Hon. W. D. Owen. For Mr. Owen was known as one of the brightest and most valuable members of the late congress. The immigration bill Mr. oW£tfg"BgmirTlsg~ • given him a national reputation, and the people at W aldington will look Dr. Patton over and wonder why it was he defeated such a man as Owen. And as lie sits still, month after month, and makes a record of smooth, unruffled nothingness, with not even a “motion to adjourn” to break its tedious continuity, some of the people down iu Washington who knew of Mr. Owen’s force and ability will hint that people of a free and representative government sometimes make monkeys of themselves. It will certainly be embarrassing to Dr. Patton, and the Journal will venture the opinion that he will wish more than once that he had never abandoned the practice of medicine far the sake of ‘becoming a mere political figure head. ~ ~