The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-06-26
WILL THERE BE
REALIGNMENT?
A Possible Outcome Of Roose-
velt's Reform Policies.
PRESIDENT WHO DOES THINGS.

Bryan Toward the President.
! j. NJ. Miller, the Washington cor
respondent OF the Newark (N. ]. News
sends to his paper the following ar
ticle:
! Discussion of the question whether
President Roosevelt's policy Of doing
| things" is to result in political reyolu
ton and party realignment must be en-
tirely tentative. What is to happier
will depend entirely upon certain great
corporate interests, which for many
years have had strong grip on boil
great parties through certain great par
ty leaders in congress. 1t may be fair
ly assumed that the president will not
back track. Should certain gentlemen
who sit beneath the capitol dome be
equally determined to stand their
ground 1t is difficult TO see how the
country, with its present confidence in
the executive and its earnest support
OF his policies looking to the better reg,
ulation Of the great carrying COM
panies, can be prevented from taking
matters into its own hands and accom-
plishing through political house clean
ing those things which the president
wants
That something of this sort is threat
ened no one attempts to disguise, and
hence the printed discussions of a pos
sible break between the president and
senate over rate legislation and the
probable results Of such break in the
readjustment Of party lines.
An interesting feature Of the situa-
ton is the attitude OF w. j. Bryan,
who is good deal closer politically to
the president, Republican, than he is
to the safe and sane" leaders Of the
reorganized Democracy, who got into
the saddle last year and will be in
nominal control Of the party machinery
until 1908. Bryan has nothing in com
mon with these Democrats, and his
condemnation OF them and Of their
policies has been vigorous and inces-
SAINT. Every time that he indorses the
president he gives side blow to these
safe and sane" leaders, and that may
explain in part why he has been so
outspoken recently in praise of the
president. But 1t does not explain 1t
entirely. .a4
The president, in his attitude of de-
manding better control of the railways,
tariff modification, the repression Of the
criminal trusts, proper recognition Of
the rights of labor, a better adjust
ment OF the relations existing between
labor and capital, the development of
the semiarid west by irrigation. the
amendment of the public land laws
and the punishment of vioators Of
those laws, reform in the postoffice de-
partment, proper restriction of immi-
grafton, etc, has pre-empted a good
deal of ground which the Democratic
party had thought to occupy alone. He
has skillfully adopted what he has re-
garded as the best things in the Demo
cratic platform and Incorporated them
into his own vigorous policy.
Because of this fact he is a better
Democrat, according to the Bryan def
milton, than any of the present leading
lights in that party, and Mr.. Bryan
probably feels that he cannot con-
sistently refuse to give praise when
praise is due.
Meanwhile the Roosevelt policies
seem to be estranging certain promi-
nent elements of the Republican party,
the so called conservative elements,
represented in congress by certain
prominent men from the eastern states.
These elements have much in common
with the safe and sane" gentlemen Of
the reorganized Democracy and little
in common with such Republicans as
Roosevelt 1t is possible. therefore,
that should conservative Republicans
have the courage of their convictions
they will refuse to give the president
the legislation which he and the gen
eraI public are demanding. Such would
bring the president inevitably to the
parting Of the ways with the conserva-
tiyes and at the same time just as in
evitably bring him nearer the position
of Bryan and the radical Democracy.
1t might easily happen, such being
the situation, that there would be new
party alignments. the Roosevelt Re-
publicans joining forces with the Bryan
Democrats and forcing the conserva-
tive Republicans to unite with the
''safe and sane leaders of the reorgan-
lied Democracy. This would mean
revolution such as that of 1860, which
swept the new Republican party into
power
The issue of 1860 was a moral issue,
human slavery. The issue which now
would bring about a readjustment of
party lines is the repression of corpo-
rate greed and the bringing Of the great
corporations to position where they
will be compelled by law to recognize
that the public has rights which are to
be respected.
There is the further possibility,
though remote, that the president
might be the candidate of the new rad
ical party for a third term, and If he
were not he would exercise a control
ling voice in deciding who should be.
Such new party would attract such
men as Governor La Toilette Of Wis
consin, about to begin his first term In
the United States senate; Governor
Cyummins of Iowa who has senatorial