Bisbee daily review., 1905-10-29
HOPE FOR DEMOCRATS
Their Policies Have Been
 Brought to the Front.
CORRUPTION PREVAILS IN 6. o. P.

Can the President Reform His Party,
 or Will the Sheep Have to Separate
 From the GORtsf - The Protected
 MOnOPOIfes Control the Republican
 Party and Thus Prevent Reforms.
 Everything tends to encourage Dem
 ocrats that the time is ripe for the re-
 forms they stand for. The corruption
 and graft in all departments of the government demand a change of ad-
 ministration for experience proves that
 no party has been able to cleanse it's
 own skirts. President Roosevelt may
 do all he can, but corruption Is too deep rooted in his party for him to be able to accomplish such a task. Here and there he may succeed in stopping corruption in places where it has been
 forced into the light, only to find that still other exposures show the canker still exists. Every case of corruption exposed has been through a disagree ment among the thieves and not through official investigation. On all sides he is surrounded by Republican leaders who are interested in monopoly. The tariff barons and the railroad mag mates have their spokesmen in both houses of congress, and even the presi- dents cabinet is not clear of them. The minor officials and clerks of the gov ernment see graft in high places. and very naturally some of them have come to believe that as opportunity offers they should make the most of it.
 This graft era can only be overcome by the people changing the party in control from time to time, for long lease of power has ever bred extrava- gance, corruption and footing of the treasury by favored interests. How powerless even the president is to over come this corrupt disposition of his party is shown by his surrendering to the demands of the leaders on his ex- pressed determination of calling con- gress together at an early date, which he has now been obliged to postpone until within three weeks of the regular time of meeting. He may recommend to congress that it reform the tariff, that it give power to the interstate commerce commission to regulate un- reasonable railroad rates, that it ratify reciprocity treaties with foreign cOun- tries, that it reduce the Philippine tar if, that it pass the necessary legisla. 1 ton to curb the trusts, but his words { will be as the idle winds to the cor poration controlled congress he has to 1 deal with. Similar recommendations | by the president to the two last con gresses were unheeded by the Repub- | lican leaders.
 It is encouraging to Democrats that | all these reforms mentioned are the | policies that have been indorsed by | the Democracy in it's platforms or has been the expressed policy of the | Democratic members of congress. The l Republican leaders point to this-se- cretly, at least-as sufficient reason | why they should not adopt such poll | cies, and the tariff benefciaries, the trusts and the railroad corporations, are | busy in backing up the position of the | Republican leaders. They talk of the | president as a trouble breeder" and | are prepared to spend millions to de. feat the legislation mentioned
 WAA4 I ACS40S4k AAOOSCNclh lO LIS to stand by the people, | or will his strenuousness vanish before | the avowed purpose of many of the Re publican leaders to stand pat-that is, | do nothing Of consequence to hurt then friends, the corporations?
 If President Roosevelt Is determined | enough to force his policy upon his party he will have a large following, but such course might split the Re publican party and lead to the election of Democratic house of representa- lives next year and Democratic pres Ident in 1908.
 One of two things must happen-ei- ther the Republican party must be cleansed of grafters and give the peo- pie the reforms they desire or the vot- CTS will turn the rascals out.