The Nome nugget., 1902-06-18
~ Is Said ss.e Republican NI
 Party Needs Une.
DISc0RD IN EPAR'Y
Minority Republicans in congress Combine With the Dencrats, ano There Ends Party responsibility and Discipline !Stuation.

Washington, June 1.-"Not in ten years has there bee. time when the situation in natical politics was so threatening for tie republican party,' said very prominent republican to- day. >'We are just preparing to go be- fore the election of new house Of representatives Apparently it will be 1890 over again. How are we prepar- ing for it: We seem to have no leader. The republicans in the house are q leadorless mob. The minority of re- publicans there combine with the democrats, and that is all end of party responsibility and party discipline.
 Exactly the same situation prevails in the senate. There is no leader and a few senators who were elected as republicans stand ready to form an alliance with the demOcrats-if, indeed, ,he alliance has not already been turmed-tO overt hrOw the policy of the administration and bid defiance to pAv;y authority. How is it to end ? Enle-s the big men of the party come .o theig senses it will end in disaster after disaster and the loss of the presidency in 1904."
 These expressions are only in line with what can be heard whenever two or three politicians get together. The gravity of the situation is growing The sentiment for tariff, democratic unity and republican discord-that is the situation in nutshell.
 Since the breakdown of party power in the house recently there has been almost a panic. This has been in- tensiied by the duplication of this situation in the senate Administration senators are asking: IVY hat can be 6one?"
 Men who have much to do with mak ing [" policy of the republican party dec. sd that fOr the time being con gress had got into q position of antagonism to the administration, and it was for the administration to step in StIu OSStil ltNFiIs bN IjpIhb Vup the republicans have ceased to have leaders in either branch of congress and that the democrats. who have had no leadership for years and no tixity of purpose in a decade, are really molding legislation.
 In some quarters there is dsposi- tion to criticise the president and to throw much of the blame upon him for tho condition prevailing Republican representatives said today that Mir. Roosevelt had not been as firm as he should have been in insisting on giving a remedy for the Cuban situation from the first. Instead of that, they said, he had-not once or twice, but several times-declared that the Cuban diff eulty was not of his liking, but was something he had inherited from the late President Mckinley.
 No disguise is made of the feeling among Republicans that the party is in a critical state. The congressional committee, it is said, on good author ity is feeling very nervous and is look ing to the national committee to take hold of the coming congressional cam paign and help out. It is doubtful if it can get any help from the national committee. The house has from the outset of the present session ignored the national committee. Its advice, whether given by Senator Hanna, the chairman, or Postmaster General Payne, the vice-chairman, has been contemptuously rejected.
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