Iron County register., 1903-09-24
REPUBLICAN DISCRIMINATION
Rats Leaving the Sinking Ship and
No Prophet Can FOretelI the
Outcome.

The republican leaders seem to be un-
able to agree on what legislation is nee
essary by the coming congress. Presi-
dent Roosevelt demands that Cuban re-
ciprocity shall be first attended to, and
has declared that he will call an extra
ordinary session of congress for that
purpose.
The republican leaders in the senate
are opposed to reciprocity legislation.
and Senators Aldrich, Platt, Depew,
Hanna, Quay and Spooner have all ad-
vised the president not to call an extra
session of congress this fall, and they
are known to be opposed to the presi-
dents policy. The president has de-
clared that such legislation shall pass,
"as sure as fate, and will doubtless send
message to congress recommending
it. On the necessity for financial legis-
iation there is like division of senti-
ment, and even those who desire
change IN the law are hopelessly divided
on the scope of the alterations that
should be made. On the trust issue, the
president has declared for publicity,
but is very slow at putting it in practice
and majority of the republican leaders
are for letting it alone, so antitrust
legislation will be at a standstilI. On
tariff revision the party is more nearly
united, but minority of congress that
are being pressed by their constituents,
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schedules be revised and if no recogni-
ton is vouchsafed them, declare they
Will carry the fight into the republican
national convention. That this tariff
revision and antitrust element will not
meet with any success, unless they join
with the democrats, is perceptible to
the veriest tyro in the political arena,
and most OF them are merely playing
that way to fool voters.
The Panama canal is another matter
upon which the republican politicians
are at odds, their leaders in the SEN
ate who are controlled by the transcon-
tinenta, railroad are secretly opposed to
any canal, others favor the Nicaragua
route, and, in consequence, nothing has
been accomplished
There is, however, legislation that the
republicans unite upon with the utmost
celebrity. They all favor "the old flag
and an appropriation" and official graft
and loot for themselves and their po-
litical strikers, and they unanimously
agree that the crops would not grow
and hard times would result from dem
ocratic victory.
The republican leaders also pretend
to be unanimous for the nomination of
President Roosevelt yet more than
half of them are really opposed to him.
The cohesive power of public plumber
holds them together, but the long-head-
ed ones like Root and Quay know that
the end is near and are leaving the rat
infested ship. There is a universal
unrest, and even the chief of the
prophets, if in the flesh, could not pre-
dict what the present republican presi-
dent or the coming republican congress
will do. Talk of democratic disorgani-
zation and reorganization, why 1t is in
finitesimal compared to the republican
factional disagreements. Every demo-
crat is united upon opposition to trusts,
upon tariff reform, upon equal taxation
and upon equal rights to all and special
privileges to none, and that is the win
ming platform.