Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-25
PARTY DISCIPLINE.

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The splendid discipline Of the repub-
lean party has. on frequent OCCASIONS;
commanded the tribute of the Posts
wart politics, knowing the influence
that thorough organization exerts upon
the results Of campaigns, the Post
takes anginterest in exhibitions Of party
discipline similar to that which milf
,tsry expert feels when he sees or hears
of victories Won on disasters aVertedi
thru the discipline of armies. Ut WAS
only a few weeks ago that the repub-
lican party seemed, TO the uninitiated.
10 be in a stdte Of hopeless demoraliza-
ton. Never, in the annals of American
politics, has there been such a display.
of internal disorder and seeming lack
of leadership and cohesion as was pre-
sented by the republican party on the
question of Our plain duty, toward
Porto Rico. Congress was on ore side,
the press and the people on the other
There was Topping in high quarters
The storm ragged in every state and sec
ton. and ii seemed next 10 impossible
for the strife to subside without leay-
ing the party too much rent and de-
noralized for a united effort to win a
Victory in this presidential year.
Where is all that discord now? Whore
was it, indeed, a week after the Porto
Rican bill was passed? Gone glimmer-
ing. subsidized like the tumult OF mock
battle. and the party that seemed split
into warning factions comes up with
solid front and closed ranks.
The Detroit Free Press is. like the
Post. an admirer Of discipline in par
ties. altho boiler itself That paper
especially admires republican dlsc-
Bpline. presumably because Of its supe-
rior quality. 1 says:
No military machine, marvellous
thing of authority and tractability tina,
| it is. ever surpassed it. Is there sign
of wavering and scattering? The lead
isers sound the long roll, and every mar
ldouble-times tohs place in the ranks.
Senator's Hoar, Hale. Mason. Well.
IEington and others are flercely and for
ever opposed to he party position or
the Philippines. Yet they will toll and
vote for republican success. Ex- Score
/ tary Sherman. ex-senator Edmunds
Land Andrew Carnegie have declared II
no uncertain tones their adherence Of
the colonial policy. Yet they stay II
I the grand old party. The Chicago
igTimes-Herald and any number O
prominent republican journals ant
many OF lesser note-quite few ii
Michigar-fought the Porto Rican per
version Of the principles Of honor ant
4 good faith, the violation Of plain duty
with yehemence and intensity. Ye
they have all forgotten the incident b.
this time. apparently. They are hud
/, ding close to the party standard
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