The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-03-10
Drift To Repub!icanism.

democracy over to the republican side
is so emphatic and so numerically
| powerful that some of the persons
participating in it imagine that it is
the republican 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 William
j. Bryan" This expression came out
in meeting of the committee on in
terstate commerce. The Tennessee dem
ocrat remarked that "such joyous har-
mony 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
earliest 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"
The st. Louis Globe Democrat very
truly remarks that the republicans
have no objection to this situation.
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 follow.
ed by the republicans ever since the
trust issue came to the front. The
republican platform of 1904 had this al
one of its provisions: claws enacted by
the republican party, which the demo
cratic party failed to enforce, ant
which were intended for the protection
of the public against the unjust dis
elimination or the illegal encroachmen
of vast aggregations of capital hav,
been fearlessly enforced by republican
l president and new laws insurin.
reasonable publicity as to the opera
3 tions of great corporations, and pro
viding additional remedies for til
/. prevention of determinations il
) freight rates, have been passed by
= republican congress-" The presiden
: thus singled out in 1904 as the maj
a who has enforced the republica
h antitrust law which the democrati
e president, Grover Cleveland, evade
S or ignored, was Theodore Roosevelt
e All of this is just as we'll known t
n Carmack and every other intelligen
e democrat as it was to the men VIII
f framed the republican platform.
Q An immense drift of democrat
h over to the republican side all owe
!, the country is under way. If tn
s election of 1904 were held today tina
# unprecedented popular plurality c
i ., 800, 900 for the republican candidat
t would be 100000 or 4,000,0 OO ]
e is the fate Of republican policy tha
t. it eventually becomes so popular wit
e the people that its opponents then
o selves are compelled to indorse i
If And some of them, after awhile, foo
themselves, or try to, into the belle
that they favored it all along. Unde
the familiar optical error of car rider
y that it is the trees and the mountain
- that are moving, the democrats no.
are saying that the rapprochemer
. on the trust issue means q swing b
" the republicans to the democrat
: side. With this illusion. the republ
: cans will not quarrel They al
: making and executing the laws. TIL
popularity and the political prof
thereof will come to the republica
party. Mr.. Bryan and many of hi
principal lieutenants are giving hig
. praise to the president, APPARENT
g oblivious Of the truth that this prais
- all comes to the party which electe
;. him. A new era of good feeling ha
y come to the country, according t
the democratic politicians, and onl
:, one party is extant any longer. 1t
= rather important circumstance, how
ever, that the all-embracing, Amer
can political party is the republican
. arty.-Cadillac News and Express.