The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-10

congressional campaign managers,
Chairman Sherman gives the West the
prominence which it deserves. Mr..
Sherman is himself New Yorker, but
knows that the heaviest part of The
work III the congressional canvass OF
1906 will have to be done in the Cen
trail West Here is where the battle
will be won or lost for the Republicans.
OF the twelve members of the executive
committee which he has selected, eight
are from the region of the Alleghanies
sunset side, and six of these eight are
from the west of the Mississippi.
Burke. the chairman Of the executive
committee, is a South Dakota man. The
new Republican senator from Nevada,
George s. Nixon. has a place on the
executive committee This is tribute
to Neva1a's returning sanity. as shown
In it's swing to the Republicans In 1904,
which was the first time that Nevada
gave an electoral vote for Republican
nominee since 1888. when 1t cast It's
vote for Gen. Harrison. Barthcldt OF
tive committee, will have general SUI
pervision over the campaign in the
Southwest. Tawney OF Minnesota,
member Of the executive committee, Is
also vice chairman of the big commit
tee
1t is we'll to give this prominence to
the West in the management of this
congressional canvass. The Republican
party's center of power is in the region
between the AlleghaDies and the Rocks
mountains. When this locality is car
ried by the Republicans they control
the country. Occasionally some Of the
Western States break away from the
Republicans. Ten Of them did this In
the campaign of 1896, on the silver is
sue. Six of these were regained in
1900. and the other four came back In
1904, bringing Missouri with Them An
especial attempt will be made In 1906
to hold the Republican preponderance
I'm Missouri, and there is fair chance
that it will succeed A few seats will
undoubtedly be lost in the West this
year, as In the East, but there is an
excellent reason for believing that the
West will make an exhibit which will
keep the control of Congress in the Re-
publican party, although not by that
abnormal majority Of 112, which the
party gained in the House in 1904.
At the branch headquarters of the
congressional campaign committee at
Chicago, which will be presided over
by Mr. Tawney, will undoubtedly be
done some very effective work for the
Republican party. 1t is noticed that
I'm many congressional districts in the
West the majority for the sitting mem
Der is small This Is because those
districts were normally Democratic,
and were won two years ago in the
tidal wave of that period There is
not the slightest probability that ali Of
those can be held this year. but an
endeavor will be made to retain most
of them, aid thus to hold the Repub-
Iican dominance in the Mississippi val
ley. Some very skilled party workers
are in charge Of the campaign in all
this region, and excellent results are
expected next November. All the Re
publicsns who are in positions of trust
In the campaign are men who are in
harmony with the President. Speaker
Cannon and the majority of the Reput-
iican party on every great issue which
is before the country this year. Tt.
backsliders and renegades have been
eliminated from the congressional cam
paign Committee. Orthodox Repub-
iiean doctrine will be heard on the
stump in all the Western States in the
coming campaign. No speaker who
VIII appear before the people will find
any reason to apologize for anything
which the party has done or which 1t
Is attempting to do. No newspaper or
Republican leader will need to apollo
gize for anybody who will be active
In the campaign. In all the positions
OF trust and responsibility in the can
vass CT 1906 Republicans VIII, be on
guard--St- Louis Globe-Democrat
Why the Democratic Party Fails.
A party composed of men who do not
believe in the principles set forth In
their platform is political failure. A
party that believes nothing, has no doc
trine, Is not built around a principle,
Is as worthless as church without a
belief.-Secretary Shaw at st. Louis.
Mr.. Shaw was speaking chiefly of
the reasons for Democratic failure In
providing for the nations welfare. so
conspicnously illustrated in 1893. Why
did the Democratic party fail disas-
trously when given the chance it had
80 long demanded to reform" the
tariffi
Because 1t went to work without
faith in any principle on which to build
a tariff. Instead Of believing that all
americans should prosper, it merely
Insisted that some Americans were toe
prosperous. In checking their prosper.
it, it destroyed the whole country's
Prosperity.
In pointing out that the Denlocracy's
weakness is its lack of faith in its own
avowed principles, Mr.. Shaw merely re-
stated a fact to which tine Inter Ocean
has frequently called attention and
which it has deplored, because it de-
priyes the Republican party of the
healthful influence Of an effective opp
sition and subjects the nation to the h,-
conveniences, and even dangers, of hav-
ing only one party which can be trusted
to do its work.
For more than ten years the Demo
cratic party has had no principles fol
which anything like a majority of sane
Americans were willing to live and die
1t has had only factional theories
taken up one after another In the hope
some one might prove an issue to win
on; and its power has steadily dwin
died because 1t had no faith that lived
regardless of victory or defeat.
There have been signs that the Re
publican party was drifting into a sim
liar decay of faith; but Republican