Bisbee daily review., 1906-04-04
SYMPTOMS OF
 REPUBLICAN CRASH.

Does not the symptomatic phase of politics, of national life, spell certain and S=ift doom for the republican par ivy What else is spelled by these days of agitation, debate, investiga- tion, disclosure, scandal, prosecution, hysteria, conviction, reform? Are not these the sensational signs of quick political changes, inquires the
 st Louis Republic.
 Every exposure of these spectacula-,
 ays is an indictment of the republ.-
 hn party-its system of organized
 nd machine-protected injustice tc the
 eople. Every outcropping is new proof of guilt. And looking back over
 he past two or three years to the in- tial significant outburst of long ac- Formulated corruption-the postoflce scandals-we perceive thousand cir eumstances riveting wrong upon the party. Life in the United States has been a constant reading of the proofs for these three-score months-an un- eeasing and increasing arraignment of the republican party in the pub lie mind.
 The republican party seems to be a dying party without defenders. Since the election of Roosevelt scarcely a man CT a newspaper has said a good word for it. The party's o-atorical bass drummers have come down from the stump and thrown away their sticks The elephant never trumpets. it is shamed, sorry and emaciated spectacle. The great leaders of the g. o. p. are as class discredited, their busted regulations, liEe busted drums. soundless, empty vents Some of them have been convicted of crimes in the courts. A few of the office hold CTS actually wear stripes and look out upon their party's impending ruin through steel bars. Warrants are out for prominent party men. Court cri- CTS are speaking great republican names. In evidence before the public eye is the receipt of the party's treas ury for great sums of graft. Republi- canism hangs it's head, a vagabond It's oxn yellow dog is barking at ;t No man has the courage to stani up for it. No-the republican party is utterly without defenders. It has no orators like Brutus, nor even any plain, 1lunt men like Anthony, to speak up for it now.
 It has TO defense to make It has nowhere to turn fer comfort or con zoiation, 10 place to hide. It can only stand pat" and hang its head, while the times reIentlessIy pile up ike hideous, damning evidence Of it's suiIts The protected interests cryt cut to 1t Courage, Courage.y but there is terror in it's eyes. Its haunt ed Senators are making dying stand iE the upper house which the party has made its chief chamber of crime. | while the denunciation of public opin- lcz rumbles and rosrs without
 ' Where ss there any hope for tfe re- publican party? The people are ike iy to vote at the coming elections. congressional and presidential. They will not vote for the perpetuation of the party of Dingleyism, graf. cor rupticn, campaign hlackmail, bribery. crooked legislation. partnership with monopoly, lax law enforcement, whose ugly inwardness is in ever-present view in the scandals of the times.
 Give the voter 2 wholesome alter native, and the republican party will breathe it's last in 1908. The demo cratic party will probably sweep the eountFy in the elections of this year. Let the democratic party proceed in wisdom and unity to the selection of a man in whom the voting population may safely put its trust for the rigor- oss enforcement of law and the rig i6 denial of special favors to the pre- da1ery interests. and landslide in