The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-03-11
THEY ARE COMING OVER.
Many Desertions from the Democratic
Ranks to the Roosevelt
Standard.

The swing Of large element Of the
democracy over to the republican side
Is so emphatic and so numerically pow
erful that some of the persons partici-
pating in it imagine that 1t is the re-
publican party which is moving in
their direction. Senator Carmack, of
Tennessee, one of the radical faction
OF the democracy, says that President
Roosevelt has become the foremost
disciple and ablest lieutenant of Will
liam J. Bryan" This expression came
out in a meeting of the committee or
interstate commerce. The Tennessee
democrat remarked that sch joyous
harmony prevails in the committee
that all party lines are ob.iterated."
He added that "all the members of the
committee, down to myself, are stirred
Hest possible moment the promise
made by President Roosevelt to the
people of the United States to carry
out the pledges in the democratic plat
form"
AS persifiage this talk is all right.
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the democrats and the republicans
stand together in the endeavor to carry
out President Roosevelt's policy on the
trust issue. But Senator Carmack and
every other intelligent democrat knows
that the policy regarding the trusts
which the president is pursuing Is the
policy laid down in the platform on
which he stood. That policy has been
followed by the republicans ever since
the trust issue came to the front. The
republican platform of 1904 had this
as one of it's provisions: Laws enact
ed by the republican party, which the
democratic party failed to enforce, and
which were intended for the protection
of the public against tn, unjust dis
elimination or the illegal encroach-
ment of vast aggregations of capital,
have been fearlessly enforced by re-
publican president, and new laws in
surfing reasonable publicity as to the
operations of great corpcrat ons, and
providing additional remedies for the
prevention of Determinations in
freight rates, have been passed by a
republican congress-" The president
thus singled out in 1904 as the man
who has enforced the republican anti
trust law which the democratic presi-
dent, Grover Cleveland. evadsd or ig-
nored, was Theodore Roosevelt. All
of this is just as well known to Car
mack and every other intelligent dem
ocrat as 1t was to the men who framed
the renublican platfOrm
An immense drift of democrats over
to the republican side all over the
country is under wav, although some
democrats may facet.ously say that
the movement is in the other direc-
ton. II the election of 1904 were held
to-day that unprecedented popular plu-
rality of 2.5OO.O00 for the republican
candidate would be 3.5O0,OOO or 4,OO0.-
900. 1t is the fate of republican pol
icy that 1t eventually becomes SO pop
ular with the people that its opponents
! themselves are compelled to indorse 1t.
And some of them, after a while, fool
themselves, or try to. into the belief
that they favored it all along. Under
the familiar optical error of car riders
that 1t Is the trees and the mountains
that are moving, the democrats now
are saying that the reapproachment on
the trust issue means a swing by the
republicans to the democratic side.
With this illusion the republicans will
not quarrel They are making and ex-
ecuting the laws. The popularity and
the political profit thereof will come to
the republican party. Mr.. Bryan and
many of his principal lieutenants are
giving high praise to the president.
apparently oblivious of the truth that
this praise all comes to the party
which elected him. A new era of good
feeling has come to the country, ac-
cording to the democratic politicians.
and only one party is extant any
longer. 1t is a rather important cir
cumstance, however, that that all
embracing American political party IL
the republican party.