The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-29
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Evidet1ce That Ere Long the Re-
publicans Will BE Hope AZ
lsss1y Split.
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83g From Our Regular Correspondcnt.) tax
4AiNVASElNGTON.S D. Gu September 30.-J
Democrats in this city who have been
watching tho. trend OF affairs f.r The past
few months believe that there Is much
In tho present political outlook to encour-
ago the party. Some OF them who have
followed American politics since the civil
War and longer declare that history IA Z
repeating itself. and that as the Repub-I
licnt1 party was swept out OF Congress- IN,
1874 after 1t had held undsplted possess
sion Of the government for fourteen years,
80 again 1t Will lose control or Congress
liter holding It for more than ten years.
aI : f's assert that never before has the
Republican party had tho trouble on ia
hands - 1t has to- day. and predict that
L before the coming session OF Congress IL;
1T mn end there Will be such strain cd "a;
Ilatlons Between tho President nnd Con- "
gress tina 7 II Will afford d counterpart I az
} the row that developed between /, Cleye-s
iand ana his party In Congress-. S
Temporize No Longer.
II 5is rointed out that tho time has
come Wnen the Republican, game OF tenn
3porizing can no longer DO played. II Is
VOL known to the unbiased observer OF
politics In Washington that the Repub-
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questions OF the day. ii II 4, s
ass5 Take, for Instance. tho money nucs-
ton. They are ever and anon shaking
hands with themselves and declaring that
the gold standard has been irrcvocably@
fixed by them. But just az soon as =
campaign comes on they admit that It
sis not fixed !, and that its maintenance dos
peEds 4. on their return to power. And ms
q matter OF fact they havo not refinitely
settled Tho money question. AL @
S4 Then there Is the tariff. In every cam
palgn for six years they have con coded
that thare are schedules thu u n eed re =
vision, but that 1t must be done by the
friends OF the tariff ~ But It Is noticed
that there has not been the slightest re-
vision In gil those years. ~
a. Case Of Bluff.
Take the railroad rate question. There
has been nothing hut tho sort OF bluding
that beapeaks the professional gambler
Il in q poker game In evidence In their deal
Ing with the railroad rate question. The u
party has endeavOred to carry water on
both shoulders and TO serve two masters
in all these matters. and 1t is elieved
A that the first session OF tho Fifty-nintht
Congress will carry those endeavorsa to a
further degree than any OF its pred eces-5
sors. and that herein will they sgnallya
fall. It Is thereon that the Democra is
&
and their belief that the sixtiethH Con-
gress Will be Democratic. vas talking
to-day with one OF the FOREMOST political
writer's Of tho day, a. man who has been
lin most In TINA te touch with tho politics
OF this country for more than ~ thirty
years. and he said
II belsye that the Republican party 3
going to be more hopelcssly4 split this
winter In Congress than the Democrats
ever have been. ] look even for a rup-s
ture between the leaders OF that body and
the President. q" sss5i s9#5 ~
Roosevelt and Bryan.
Already Senator Foraker has said that
the Presden s position on the question
OF railroad rate Legislation Is almost Stden-{
ticnl with that OF Mr.. Bryan. and though
he has denied any disagreement with the
President, his speech Of last Saturday is
everywhere regarded as the gauntlet
thrown down by the oppositto to the
Presidents Ideas. and at the same time
a bid for the stand pat. antl-rate sup
port for the next Republican national con-3
vention. n Tho people are cling TO tire
OF this temporIzlng, and this, In nddit ton
to the split In the party, Will certainly
give the Democrat is control OF the II use
during the Slxtieth Congress. me Dem ii
ocratlc rarty has wandered In the VII VII.
derness for several years. but the she-
pnblicans are certain 70 TRACE pltluss y
Il An the next House. # The Republicans
realize ,tat they have at last reached the
day 81 reckoning and there nre many
Who admit that there Is nothing OF en- Z
cn,,rr, cement in that day for thcrll.SS5
ia " seen parties swept out OF power
time ana again. first one party and thea
the other. but ] have pever, seen sucn az
auspicions tlmefor q reyulsionE OF po2'ui
feeling is there Is to-day. sl