SEPTEMBER 22, 1911
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The Commoner.
point of Indignation only, ho was
likely to rlso to the highest flights
of oratory. He will undoubtedly bo
remembered as one of the most force
ful and plausible orators ever in con
gress. THE DEFENSE OP LORIMER
Another occasion which called
upon Senator Bailey's utmost powers
was the dffort in the last congress to
unseat Senator William Lorimer of
Illinois, on the ground that corrupt
practices have been used to elect him.
It happened that the man most sus
pected of having furnished the al
leged fund to elect Senator Lorimer
was a man high in the councils of
the lumbering industry of the coun
try. As already indicated, Texas has
large lumber interests, and Senator
Bailey was one of those who voted
for a high duty on lumber. So, like
wise, it happened in the Lorimer case
that nearly all those democrats who
voted for the retention of Senator
Lorimer in the senate were senators
who had large lumbering interests
in their states or who were immediate
followers of Senator Bailey himself.
But Senator Bailey made no such ex
planation to the senate far from
it. He took the ground in that case
that a senatorial investigating com
mittee was a court of law and that
only legal evidence might be offered
before it, and that, in the case at bar,
no legal evidence had been produced
to warrant removing Senator Lori
mer from his seat. He would make
no allowances for large public policy,
take no heed of the fact that the work
of the investigating committee was
crudely Incomplete, almost culpably
so, and he flouted public opinion to
the four winds. In the end, Bailey
held Lorimer's seat for him by a
vote of 46 to 40, Today, in response
to public opinion, another senatorial
committee is reinvestigating the Lori
mer election. That was the "high tide
of Bailey's triumph. Since, then his
following has slowly but surely
disintegrated, notwithstanding the
thunders of Bailey for a reinvestiga
tion, coupled with a threat that, if
he had been deceived in the first in
stance, he would wreak a dire ven
geance in the second.
PAVING THE WAY FOR RETIRE
MENT There can be no doubt that Bailey
has been paving the way for his re
tirement from congress for some time
past. His method has always been
by the resignation route, and his
career in that line has been that of a
stormy petrel. In 1896 he resigned
from his candidacy for re-election to
the house as a repudiation of William
J. Bryan and Bryan's free-silver
platform. However, he was renomi
nated and 'vindicated." In 1908, he
resigned as minority leader of the
house of representatives, after a
repudiation of his attack on Gen.
Joseph Wheeler. Last March he re
signed from the senate, because he
disagreed with his party on the
initiative, referendum, and recall;
but he was persuaded to recall the
resignation. In the last congress he
resigned from the senate committee
on privileges and elections, because
the new Lorimer investigating com
mittee did not follow the procedure
of the courts in admitting evidence;
and still more recently ho resigned
from the monetary commission be
cause he resented the demand of
congress that that body should make
a report an a specified date. Now he
has announced that he will not bo a
candidate to succeed himself. As an
extra touch, he has sold his stable
of blooded horses for nearly $50,000.
He is out of touch and out of gear
with his party and his colleagues In
the senate. Those republicans Aid
rich, Hale, Frye, Burrows, Kean, De
pew, and others with whom he
worked admirably in non-partisan
harness, are gone. In their stead has
come an almost continuous stream of
progressive" democrats.
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Tho Women Bless 'Em!
A friend of the Architect who
lives at Catherine Lake, N. C, is try
ing to create trouble for us. But wo
refuse to bo led into it. This friend,
Mr. H. D. M , writes:
"Will you please write a descrip
tion of a woman's meeting in your
department of The Commoner. I am
a member of the W. C. B. M., or
Women's Christian Board of Mis
sions. I am coventy-ono years old
and somewhat nervous. They do not
allow the male members to talk, but
they (the women) all talk at once;
none rise to apeak, and they don't
know what they have done when
they are through."
Does H. D. M think I was
born Just seven years ago, that I
would foolishly .undertake to write
a description of the kind of meeting
he has in mind? Not much! The
W. C. B. M. meets at my house once
In a while, having to live with" one
of the members thereof I'm not go
ing to take any chances. But I'll
go far enough to remark that tho W.
C. B. M. meetings held when I was
a boy. They call 'em "kenslngtons"
now, and the good women come with
fancy work. Thirty-eight or forty
years ago they almost invariably
made a quilt. The home without a
quilting frame was as scarce as the
modern home without a sewing ma
chine. If they didn't meet to quilt
they brought along their knitting-
needles and their yarn and put in the
time knitting woolen socks or long
scarfs, or wristlets. They didn't
waste any time on doilies and do
dads that always get into a fellow's
way when he's trying to recline
comfortably or saw a slice off the
roast. Forty years ago the woman
who put in her time at a board meet
ing making any such do-dad as they
make now would have been sot down
as frivolous. What's the real use
of one of those scalloped, hem
stitched, thread-pulled, sewed-up
dinguses called a doily. A fellow
can't keep his feet warm and dry
with one of 'em, and they won't do
him a bit of good if wrapped around
his neck, and they look outlandish
on a fellow if he wore 'em to keep
his ears warm.
My, but how the qullters in the
old days would make their needles
fly. I'm not saying a word about
their tongues. But If some short
hand reporter had been on the spot
he could have secured a biographical
history of everybody in the com
munity. Usually the good women of tho
board would begin gathering about 2
o'clock at the home of the hostess,
who had the quiljting frame up and
the blocks all tacked together ready
for the qullters. I wish I could re
member all the different kinds of
patterns of quilts I've seen quilted
by the good women. There was the
"log cabin," and tho "nine patch,"
and the "shuttle," and the "Kansas
trouble," and the "broken platter,"
and the but I can't call to mind any
more. The "crazy quilt" fad didn't
come In until years later. The Llttlo
Woman has a "log cabin" quilt that
was made at the home of the Archi
tect's mother more than forty years
ago, and it's a mighty good quilt
yet. I'd like to see one of those
newfangled dinguses they make at
their "kenslngtons" last that long.
Of course the men folks were al
lowed to be members of the board
in those davs. but they didn't attend
the meetings. They just came around
about supper time. Trust a man to
get around for tho cats! I am not
prepared to say Just why tho mon
folks aro not allowed to talk at the
board meetings of today, but in tho
times I write about they probably
wero squelched for tho reason that if
they had been allowed to talk all
they would havo talked about would
have been tho Grant and Colfax or
Seymour and Blair, or why the
premium on gold was so high, or
why McClellan failed to got a move
on, or something or other like that.
What woman of that day cared to
listen to such stuff! Tho men might
like to recall the war, but that was
because they had seen tho excite
ment of It; the woman who had re
mained at home and suffered in
silence well, they weren't quite
ready to Indulge In any memories.
It took about two hours, usually,
to exhaust tho neighborhood news,
then tho qullters began on recipes.
I'd like to have a cellar full of tho
good things that those qullters ex
changed recipes for at one of those
board meetings! About 6:30 tho
men folks came drifting In for that
was about supper time. And such
suppers!
But why dwell on tho supper? Wo
couldn't enjoy such a one now for
the simple reason that our palates
have been Jaded by canned stuff, hot
seasoning and new-fangled sauces.
After supper the men would smoke
and talk politics, while the women
helped tho hostess clean up the
dishes and "rid up" tho house. And
about 8:30 would see the company
dispersing. No lato hours for them.
When all the company was gono tho
hostess was the possessor of a quilt
such as you don't find on sale at tho
department stores theso days.
This Is the old-time board meet
ing H. D. M had In mind and
wanted mo to write about. Believe
me, I'm too old to be caught in any
such trap as that. I know nothing
about such board meetings as he evi
dently haB in mind, for I never at
tended one. It makes me as nervous
as he says he is to see a woman put
tering away on ono of those new
fangled dinguses to hang on the back
of a chair to catch our collar buttonsr
or throw across the corner of the
piano to catch on a suspender button
and pull an assortment of mounted
photos and vaBes and dingbats off
the aforesaid musical instrument, or
clutter up tho middle of tho table
right where it will catch a few drops
of tho gravy when we try to still tho
clamor of one of the kiddles, or a so
called pillow for the couch that gets
us into a bushel of trouble if we
happen to law our weary head there
on. It's approaching cold weather
now, and I'll gladly trade an as
sorted lot of dollies that the Little
Woman has made for one of those
long, double-thickness, fringed-ended
scarfs that wo used to twine around
our necks and up over our ears be
fore we hiked out to work or play
in the winter days of long ago.
H. D. M Is a bit older than
the Architect, but at that the Archi
tect is old enough to know better
than to jump in and pull H. D,
M s chestnuts out of tho fire.
Come to the Six Southern States
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