Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-03-16
THEY ARE COMING OVER.
Many Desertions from the Democratic
Ranks to the Roosevelt
Standard.

Ue SWlnS OL ldTBe elelHenl VI InG
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 it is the re-
publican party which is moving ia
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 meeting of the committee Oh
interstate commerce. The Tennessee
democrat remarked that such joyous
harmony prevails in the committee
that all party lines are obliterated."
He added that "all the members of the
committee, down to myself are stirred
by keen desire to execute at the ear
liest 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 persiflage this talk is all right.
The country will be glad to hear that
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 the unjust dis
elimination or the illegal encroach-
ment of vast aggregationS of capital,
have been fearlessly enforced by a re-
publican president, and new laws in
suring reasonable publicity as to the
operations of great corporal ,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 evaded or ig-
nored, was Theodore Roosevelt. All
of this is Just as we'll known to Car
mack and every other intelligent dem
ocrat as it was to the men who framed
the republican platform.
An immense drift of democrats over
to the republican side all over the
country is under way, al hough some
| democrats may facetiOusly say that
| the movement is in the other direc-
! ton. If the election of 1904 were held
| to-day that unprecedented popular plu-
rality of 100000 for the republican
/ candidate would BE- 3,5O0,000 or 4,000,-
/ 600. 1t is the fate of republican pol
| icy that it eventually becomes so pop
/ ulaT with the people that its opponents
/ themselves are compelled to indorse it.
/ 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 it 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 parry is eXtant any
longer. 1t is rather important ctr-
cumstance, h5wev.r, that that all
embracing American political party is
the republican party.