Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-03-09
COMING OVER TO THE REPuBLl
CANS.


The swing of large element Of
the Democracy over to the Republican
side is so emphatic and so numeri-
cally powerful that some of the per-
sons participating in it imagine that
II is the Republican party which is
moving In their direction. Senator
Carmack of Tennessee. one of the rad
ical faction of the Democracy. says
that President Roosevelt has become
the foremost disciple and ablest lieu
tenant of William J. Bryan" This
expression came out in meeting OF
the committee on interstate com
merce. The Tennessee Democrat re
marked that "sucn joyous harmony
prevails in the committee that all
party lines are obliterated" He ad-
ded that all the members of the com
mittee, down to myself, are stirred
by keen desire TO execute az the
earliest possible moment the promise
made by President Roosevelt TO the
people of the United States TO carry
ont the pledges in the Democratic
platform"
As persifiage this talk Is all right.
The country will be glad to near that
the Democrats and the Republicans
stand together in the endeavor 10
carry out President Roosevelts pol
icy on the trust issue But Senator
Carmack and every other intelligent
Democrat knows that the policy re
garding the trusts which tne Presi-
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 mad this
as one OF Its provisions:
Laws enacted by the Republican
party. which the Democratic party
failed to enforce, and which We're in
tended for the protection of the pub
lie against the unjust discrimination
or the Illegal encroacnmeDt of vast
fesrlessly enforced by Republican
president, and new laws insuring rea
sonable publicity as to the operations
cf great corporations and providing
additional remedies for the prevention
OF determinations In freight rates
have been passed by Republican
congress"
The President thus singled out In
1904 as the man who has enforced
the Republican antitrust law watch
the Democratic president. Grovei
Cleveland, evaded or ignored, was
Theodore Roosevelt All of this i.
Just as well known to Carmack as
1t was to the men who framed the RI
publican platform.
An immense drift of Democrat
over to the Republican side all owe
the country is under way. although
some Democrats may facetiously say
that tne movement is in the other di
rection. II the election of 1904 werf
held today that unprecedented popu
lar plurality of 100000 for the Re-
publican candidate would be $500.
600 or 100000 II is the fate OF Re
publican policy that 1t eventually be
comes so popular with the people thai
Its opponents themselves are com
PEELED TO indorse it. And some OF
them, after wnile, fool themselves
or try 10. into the belief that tney
favored II all along. Under the ia
miliar optical error OF car riders thal
IL is the trees and the mountains tina
are moving. the Democrats now are
saying that the reapproacnment on
the trust issue means swing by the
Republicans to the Democratic side
With this Illusion the Republicans
will not quarrel. They are making
and executing the laws. The popu
lsrity and the political profit thereof
will come 10 the Republican party
Mr.. Bryan and many of his principal
lieutenants are giving nigh praise 70
the President. apparently oblivious
OF the truth that this praise all comes
to the party whicn elected him. A
new era OF good feeling has come to
the country. according to the Demo
cratic politicians, and only one party
Is extant any longer. Ii is rather
important circumstance, however.
that that all-embracing American po
iitical party is the Republican party
-Globe-Democrat.