The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-09-25
Official County and City Paper.
pOpIyLIZING REPUBLICAN PARTY
n HE newspaper air swarmls
with fights Of indications
that the republican party

that the republican parry
has been in a measure taken
possession of in Minnesota by
the Peoples party. The evasion
of the law of the primary election
by Democrats and Popullsts
alike was almost universal IN
certain centers Of population as
well as in a good many country
districts. The votes actually
cast going to show that both
parties had suddenly disappeared
from the face of the earth. The
disinclination of men to become
candidates for even the common
est county Offices upon the
Peoples party ticket was appar'
ent in every county in northern
Minnesota; and in Beltrami coun-
ty there was no opposition to
anyone seeking a nomination
upon that ticket. Whether this
omission was the result OF fear or
of premeditated comb mbinatlon
with republican factional inter-
.ests, it indicates nevertheless
that the body and backbone or
the Peoples party has been
broken, and that the confidence
of the followers of that party has
been swept into non'existence.
The absorption of a certain
proportion of this radical element
into the Republican party Is
already having it's influence upon
that organization, and many OF
it's strong men are manifesting a
feeling of insecurity which can
not help but have a weakening
effect upon it, nationally as well
as otherwise. Throughout all
parts of the country the tendency
to criticize wealth, strength and
power is again becoming as
prevalent as it was during the
days of the Mckinley and bryan
free silver campaign; and all the
promises and prophecies made
during the hard times OF less
than six years ago, that the
American citizen and voter would
not soon forget the time when he
could not get the dollar because
he could not get the days work,
are rapidly passing into oblivion,
and men are forgetting that to
the permanent policies which
have always characterized the
republican party - conspicuous
amongst which and leading
which are the tariff and an
honest standard of money; for
getting that. to. the maintenance e.
and retention of the home market
for home industries by protec-
tive tariff the country is almost
wholly indebted for the tremen-
Gus prosperity which has blessed
us and which may attlict US.
The declination of Speaker Hen.
derson to make another campaign
for congress is in line with that
by Page Morris and Joel Heat
wole in Minnesota, all going to
show that tariff revision is press
ing, and that populism is sweep
ing up and down the borders of
the Republican party.
What the result of all this may
be so long as prosperity lasts, it
is impossible to prophesy at this
time with any accuracy, but the
great and overhanging danger is
that it may undermine that
superb courage which has been
carrying American finance and
American industry to a height
never before paralleled in any
nation since the time when Eng
land had swept Holland and
Spain from control of 1.-THE seas,
and centered upon her little
territory practically all of the
best trade of the known world.
The Englishman never loses con-
= fidence in the English; and ex-
cept in cases where inhumanity
has cried aloud to the world, as
in case of Lord Give and the
East Indian mutinies, will back
the English representative in