THE ROLL CALL

...He voted against the Clark amendment for free lumber, and against every other amendment providing free lumber or for a reduction of the duty on lumber, and in voting for the tariff bill on final passage he voted in violation of his platform pledges, and without protest, for a duty on wood pulp...

...More particularly, it was largely the small shrewdness of McGuire and his knowledge of local conditions which enabled the System machine in Congress to divide the new state, strongly Democratic, into five Congressional districts, three of which could elect Republican Congressmen by a narrow majority...

...But the terms are used and their intended application made sufficiently obvious for the purpose of the occasion by means of devious though parliamentary language...

...McGuire's only participation in the tariff discussion was a plea for a duty on hides...

...This is Mr...

...After the campaign and after his reelection for another term, he returned to Washington for the second session of the 60th Congress,—Bird McGuire, henchman of Cannon, reliable, ever ready, "me-too" Congressman of the System machine...

...Then an attempt was made to suspend the rules and pass the original measure without a proper effort to safeguard the public interests involved...

...The motion was defeated, but not for want of McGuire's vote...

...When the measure, was pressed to a vote in the House, Bird McGuire was among those who voted to defeat it...

...Daring the two Congresses prior to the admission of Oklahoma as a state, Bird McGuire was Territorial Delegate in Congress for the Territory of Oklahoma...

...What McGuire has wanted for Oklahoma has naturally received the consideration of the House management for, besides being representative from Oklahoma in Congress, McGuire is representative from the System in Oklahoma...

...When the House management sought to rebuke President Roosevelt in his war on land grafters by cutting off the appropriation for the employment of the secret service in the detection of land frauds, McGuire supported, not Roosevelt and not the Roosevelt policies, but the reactionaries of the House and the interests of the land thieves...

...In commending North Dakota last week for giving the people the services of Asle j. Gronna in Congress, and endorsing his promotion to the Senate, we did not expect to be understood as implying that North Dakota had no other public service to perform...

...At this session the public lands committee reported an Irrigation bill giving to the states of Idaho and Wyoming four million acres of public land...

...In the fight for revision of the House rules along the lines of his campaign pledge, as embodied in the Nor-ris resolution of the present session, he voted on thirteen roll-calls each time in violation of that pledge...

...After one is elected, after one is in Congress, it doesn't matter...

...The most pronounced and the most progressive of the Roosevelt policies was his inauguration of the great fight for the conservation of natural resources...

...In Oklahoma, McGuire poses as a champion of reform, a devotee of the Roosevelt policies...

...As spokesman for the territory before it became a State, and as member of Congress since, Bird McGuire has taken a conspicuous part in the behalf of the various System schemes to promote the game of getting the Indians' patrimony into the hands of those who would use it to "develop the country...

...Gronna voted against empowering Speaker Cannon to pack the Ballinger-Pinchot investigating committee for the Interests...

...He voted against the Tawney amendment to strike out the duties on timber, against the Tawney amendment to strike out differential duties and reduce duties on lumber...

...It always is used as a term of reproach and commonly appears in connection with expressions such as "popular clamour," "populism," "socialism," etc...

...It was a reserve rich in fertility and mineral resources...

...In the second session of the 60th Congress he voted for the ocean mail ship subsidy bill to authorize the Postmaster General to distribute to shipping interests approximately eight millions of dollars a year...

...McGuire violated again his pledges to the people of Oklahoma in favor of election of committees by the House and voted against the Roosevelt policy of conservation, when he voted to empower Speaker Cannon to pack the Pinchot-Ballinger Investigating Committee and against the election of that committee by the House...

...He voted against the Clark resolution for a revision of the rules, and voted for the fake rules revision of Fitzgerald, the Tammany Democrat...

...When President Roosevelt wrote to Congress in reference to this action, that "If deliberately introduced for the purpose of diminishing war against crime it could not have been better devised to that end," McGuire joined the reactionaries and voted to affront the President by laying his message on the table...

...Net that stately, bald-headed Senators or Congressmen call other Senators or Congressmen, even though these others be less stately and not bald-headed, objectionable names in the Record...

...By the Congressional apportionment North Dakota is given the right to have two Representatives in the House...

...Thus on nearly every important vote the representation of North Dakota in the House has been practically nullified...

...This measure had the unqualified championship of Pinchot, the great Forester, and the endorsement of the Conservation Congress of Governors...

...On roll-call after roll-call his votes for Special Interests have offset those cast by Gronna for public interests...

...When Gronna voted in favor of the Clark resolution for a reform of the rules, Hanna, when his name was called, voted against the resolution...

...Meanwhile no one has supplied the deficiency with an apt and fitting title for that manner of political fraud who "attempts to control the multitude by specious and deceitful arts...

...at once some System leader, or a me-too follower of some System leader, arises to oppose and reprove with the cry of "Demagogue...

...And McGuire's was one of them...

...In Oklahoma, McGuire has taken his cue from the recognized progressive sentiment of his constituency...

...When Gronna voted against the Fitzgerald resolution, designed to defeat real reform of the House rules, Hanna followed with a vote in support of that resolution...

...McGuire also voted in favor of the bill passed at this session permitting the consolidation of coal land interests in Alaska, and paired in favor of the Mondell Bill to double the size of homestead entries in the so-called semi-arid West, With this record on conservation, made in his first session, Bird McGuire, reactionary Republican Congressman, returned to Oklahoma and assumed the role of Bird McGuire, Progressive Republican Candidate...

...Bird McGuire came to the Sixtieth Congress with a vote, a full-fledged Congressman...

...Hanna was one of those who supported the machine on every roll-call and voted at every opportunity, early and often, for Cannon, Cannonism and the System...

...The one reproved may not be attempting "to control the multitude" at all, but merely trying to secure the passage or defeat of a particular piece of legislation in Congress...

...Gronna voted against the Payne-Cannon-Aldrich upward tariff revision...

...He began forthwith and has continued at every opportunity that has since offered to violate in every possible manner and on every issue that arose each of these campaign pledges of Bird McGuire, Progressive Republican Candidate...

...Oklahoma and Indian Territory comprised the last great general reserve which the Federal Government had set aside as a home for the Red Man in exchange for his native land...

...Hanna voted for it...

...term may be wholly inapplicable in its proper meaning...

...McGuire has served the System and in turn the System supports McGuire...

...In spite of his campaign professions, a careful study of the Record fails to disclose a single important roll-call upon which McGuire failed to line up with the reactionaries for special interests against public interests...

...The most important legislation of the 60th Congress were the so-called emergency currency bills, the Vreeland Bill in the House and the Aldrich Bill in the Senate, designed to enable the Standard Oil-Morgan financial system to perfect its strangle hold upon the money supply of the country...

...Asle j. Gronna in the House of Representatives...

...One may line up with the reactionaries and vote the System program...

...This is immaterial...

...McGuire voted for the Vreeland Bill when it passed the House, and paired in favor of the Aldrich-Vreeland Conference Bill on final passage...

...The rules forbid that...

...In the great Insurgent battle of the present session, in which the Insurgents forced the adoption of the Norris resolution creating a new rules committee elective by the House and ousting the Speaker from membership on the committee, Gronna was one of those who voted consistently for the Progressive cause, for the overthrow of machine domination, and to oust Cannon from the Speakership...

...Another Opportunity for North Dakota IN THE Roll Call last week we commended North Dakota upon the ability and faithfulness to public interests of its representation in the person of Hon...

...On the first day of Hanna's term, when Gronna voted with the Progressives against the readoption of the Cannon rules, Hanna voted with the House machine in favor of their readoption...

...After the scope and effect of the proposed Fordney amendment were fully exposed in debate on the floor of the House, the amendment received, from nearly 400 members of the House, just 44 votes...

...Stated briefly, if a member of Congress takes an attitude in legislation distasteful to the System leadership in Congress, and especially if he is unable to justify his position by business reasons—Big Business reasons preferred —he is a truckler to "Popular clamour," a Demagogue...

...Louis B. Hanna...

...He has lost no time in lining up for the System...

...In his first session as Congressman, McGuire was put on the important Committee of Public Lands...

...The disposition of Indian lands, the distribution of funds, and extension of privileges in coal and oil in Indian reserves have ever been sought and cherished as "opportunities" by the Interests which have "stood in...

...Because the language does not afford an appropriate, descriptive title, this roll call is captioned with the name of Bird McGuire...

...Let some Senator or Congressman urge legislation that meets the approval of public opinion or oppose a measure as against the public interests...

...At the opening of the 61st Congress Bird McGuire, reactionary Congressman, in violation of the campaign pledge of Bird McGuire, Progressive Candidate, took his place in the ranks of the Cannon machine, voted for Cannon for Speaker and for the adoption of the old rules which gave Cannon the power of naming the committees of the House...

...In the contest over the revision of the tariff Bird McGuire, reactionary Republican Congressman, displayed no recollection of his identity with Bird McGuire, Progressive Republican Candidate...

...Now, thoughtful reader, this free and careless use and abuse of the above mentioned term, while it has served "statesmen" now and then, in lieu of argument, has, by dwarfing and obscuring the original meaning, practically deprived the language of a very good designation for a very bad citizen...

...Hanna voted to give Cannon that power...

...It was during McGuire's first term as a Congressman that the resolution was before the House authorizing the Attorney General to institute suits to enforce the forfeiture of the California-Oregon railroad land grant, because the railroad had violated the terms of the grant by selling the land in large tracts to timber syndicates instead of selling it in small tracts to actual settlers as required by the grant...

...A strong demand was made that the grant be conditioned upon the ascertainment that the lands were being sold to homesteaders and not to speculators or to Big Business syndicates...

...who, for example, secures his election to Congress by false promises of public service, and when in office, betrays' the trust of the people who elected him...

...This demand met the vigorous opposition of McGuire and his kind and was rejected...

...It is necessary in Oklahoma to be progressive to be elected...

...The most important measure of legislation recommended by the President in consonance with this policy, and the recommendation which he repeated time and time again, was that for the creation of the Appalachian and White Mountain Forest Reserve...

...North Dakota has now the opportunity to see to it that BOTH of these Representatives shall be North Dakota's Representatives and not Cannon's, not the System's...

...To this resolution, which was urged by President Roosevelt and his Attorney General, an amendment was proposed by Congressman Fordney, of Michigan, which was strenuously opposed by President Roosevelt and his Attorney General, proposing to protect the timber barons as "innocent purchasers...

...This epithet is sprinkled freely through the pages of the Congressional Record...

...Hanna's first term in Congress...

...On every vote he stood unswervingly for higher duties, for Special Interests...

...As a part of his campaign he issued a platform, one plank of which read as follows: "The Roosevelt policies: Bird McGuire stands for unfaltering adherence to the policies inaugurated by the Iron Chancellor of American politics...

...He exercised a considerable influence in shaping the legislation under which Oklahoma entered the Union as a State...

...Another plank announced that Bird McGuire "favors the election of the Committee on Rules by the House and (is) against their appointment by the Speaker.'' Another plank of this platform of Bird McGuire, Progressive Republican candidate, declared for "free lumber, free wood pulp, and for a Commission...

...He voted against the De Armond amendment providing for the admission free of lumber from all countries of the Western Hemisphere...

...He "dodged" the roll-call on the motion to strike out the countervailing duty on oil, but on every other roll-call of importance in the tariff contest he adhered strictly to his real character, that of reactionary Republican Congressman from Oklahoma but for the System...

...It has since been suggested that this endorsement should be qualified, so far as North Dakota is concerned, because of the misrepresentation of that state in the House in person of Hon...