The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-01
UBLICANS NOW
IN TWO. SCHOOLS.
Roosevelt Dividing Party Into
Machine and ANTI Ma
chine Elements.
s.PRAGTICAL" AGAINST
REFORM POLITICIANS
Enemies of President Use Radical
Means to Regain Power
in Party.
Rv w. w. Jermane.

~ into two schools, dlametf1cally toP-
posed to each other. One SIDE = e4-
". r, Taft. George B. Cortelyou and
others, while the other side hnds its
substitution in the practical pontl-
cian,I as, for instance, Senator For
aker in national politics, George 3. cox cox
in Ohio and so on. Many VINO are W. n
simply because it is the winning slde
lust now, and they will be found on any
other side as soon as some new winner
comes forward as the national leader,
hut ali the same, the distinction be-
tween the Roosevelt conception OF pup
tician is wide and deep and remarka-
BILE. e..
IS Roscoe Conkling was practical poll,
tician, and he once said of Lou
Payn, the notorious political character
of New York state.
y 1.-THE best politician in New York
i state"
Elihu Root, speaking Of the same
I "a stencil in the nostrils Of all de-
cent men. -
This, better than anything else, per
maps, shows the difference now growing
-.Sp between the two republican schools.
controlled the destinies of the republl-
can party, are, of course, intensely hos
tile to Mr.. Roosevelt, sometimes secret
ly and sometimes openly, but always
hostile.
Mark Hanna was not Roosevelt
man. He was q politician. In fact
he is cited as the greatest exponent OF
the practical school the country has
ever produced. And the methods en-
ployed by him are exactly the methods
the Roosevelt school publicly denounces
and claims to abhor.
At this time when the Roosevelt tide
rs running high and it looks as if
alRoosevelt ideals would become the
gixed ideals of the republican party, be-
usause, if for no other reason, honesty
taeally does seem to be the best policy,
stven in politics, the practical politi-
g4ians are resortlng to radical tactics
e;;o regain their hold upon the party
'ap taken, perhaps, has been the wide
Identification of the charge that the
maresident was working. systematically
fac get absolute control of the party
tr$nd become the political boss Of all
bAmerica.
Accuse Roosevelt.
= They cite that he is after the repub-
Ecan machinery of New York, as
shown by his alleged participation in
the fight for the speakership of the
state assembly; that he is seeking to
control Massachusetts thru Senator
Lodge; th7t he has handout for the
Ohio machine thru the aid of Secretary
Taft; that he is negotiating with the
reform republicans cf Pennsylvania te
wreck the old Quay machine, and thus
control there; that he is conciliatinG
southern republicans in every way he
can in order to be their big chief; anc
finally, that he already has a great por
az ho
And all this, they assert, is prims
j. facie evidence that the president 1
IS seeking to become the great American
political dictator. master Of all and d
e rector of everything, potentate in poll
tics to the American people, leader 0
"A leaders, forever and ever.
III Overlooked One Thing.
5f But there is one thing these prae
II teal gentlemen have overlooked i
their campaign to "head off Roose
i velt.' They forgot to mention, appa1
emily in the fond hope that the Amer
j can people did not notice it, tina
& into state politics in any way at al
& it has always been to lend encourage
n ment to the cause Of morality in publ
81 life. Not~one of them has ever Gale
attention to the fact that whatever tn
president or any Of his supporters hav
III l.
Z been to help unhorse the most vilel
corrupt gang that ever infested the OIL
keystone state.
The Ohio Campaign.
: They do not hesitate to charge tina
the president sent Secretary Taft
: Ohio to make that Akron speech flo
( organization and defeating Governo
4 Herrick. But they do not at the sam
4 time recall that Senator Foraker wa
Il stumping the state in that campaign
n making speeches that, coming from
United States senator, were calculate
81 to place the administration on recor
& as to it's railroad policy in manne
& position. They never mention thu
D Foraker and Herrick had the cordi
II and earnest support Of the notorio1
Boss Cox of Cincinnati. Those thing
are not mentioned because to do
H. would be to state the other side Of tt
= case, and that is thing a practic
Z politician is never guilty of.
Cox Machine Smashed.
3 But it is true that Secretary Ia
did go to Akron and he did make
speech there which placed the Peep
of Ohio wise to the president IA
= road policy, and it is true that He
3 rick and Cox were overthrow al
I thereby the Cox machine, anoth
"stench in the nostrils of all dece
men, was smashed to small bits
Taft s speech did it and Taft was Sc
Il by the president, it is pretty certa
J that the president must have been act
ated by motives which all honest m
can approve, whether the result
T. pleasing to the practical politicians
I nauseatinp. Great good was acco
\ plished.
Another thing doubtless shocks t
practical politicians. altho it is not
good time to make a noise about
and that is the fact that the preside
was greatly in sympathy with the fe
that Governor Folk, and he democr
made against the wolves of polite
corruption in Missouri. This m
prove, according to the logic of t
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