PERTINENT COMMENT
PERTINENT COMMENT EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE, as its readers know, is in no sense a partisan publication. But partisanship is not involved in the Insurgent movement. Representative government is at...
...HThe Heft of Theft.—"Your methods," said the indignant official, "were simply highway robbery...
...They have faithfully and courageously represented the people at large in Congress...
...For these men not only represent the people of their respective states...
...They were low-weigh robbery...
...Representative government is at stake...
...Better get the pledge in writing.—Editor's Note in Everybody's...
...The reelection of Beveridge, Clapp, and La Follette is of national moment...
...Get a pledge that will bind his action, not only in the party caucus but, far more important, on the floor of the House...
...Retribution should be meted out to the Democrats who turned traitor...
...These men have risen above party...
...For this controlling reason, Everybody's does indorse, without qualification, the noble stand taken by the Insurgents of the Senate and the House...
...This will doubtless increase the admiration of a good many people for La Follette.—Chicago Record-Herald...
...all the more reason that they be submitted...
...they are senators of the whole people...
...thus terminating that un-American official's domination of the Committee on Rules...
...IN DEEP WATER ^Senator Depew stood up in the Senate chamber the other day and made some sarcastic remarks concerning Senator La Follette...
...Indianapolis News...
...The world at large has no doubt that they would be found correct and conclusive...
...President Eliot remarked in one of his addresses on municipal reform that he could remember when it was an honor to be an alderman in Boston..—Boston Transcript...
...In the House every Insurgent who voted against the Cannon rule should be loyally and enthusiastically supported, together with every follower of Champ Clark who stuck by his party...
...Ohio State Journal...
...Get that pledge from your Congressman...
...IJThe suggestion of Rear-Admiral Schley that Peary submit his arctic records to the Danish university also is pertinent...
...Again you wrong me," answered the sugar importer...
...And before the primaries—or at least before the Congressional election—every candidate should be compelled to give pledge that he will vote against Cannon for Speaker, and vote for a change in the rules which will take away the Speaker's power to appoint committees, substituting therefor the naming of committees by a bi-partisan committee of the whole House...
Vol. 1 • January 1910 • No. 52
