Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-15

The announcement that s. Rosewater
editor Of the Omaha Bee, is a candidate
to succeed Millard I'm the United states
Senate is merely formal acknowledge
ment of long held ambition. 1t is
taken seriously, however, and the
omaha mans record as a rabid enemy
OF the railroads Is likely to give him
great advantage over the conservative
Millard. Whatever Nebraska Repub
licans may have said about Rosewater
IN the past as a peevish meddler I'm
politics and an anti-railroad ranter,
they must admit now that he comes
nearer to representing party sentiment
than any one else in the state And yet
from his own point of view the Demo-
Gratis are stronger and more consistent
in their opposition to corporate inllu
ences. whether in the form of railways
or tariff-protected trusts. AS In Me-
braska, so IL is in Kansas and Minne
sofa, where in the. coming state elec-
tons the railroads are to play import
ant parts. There it is being preached
at the Republican leaders morning and
afternoon that their only hope lies in
stealing Democratic anti-corporation
thunder. In such widely separated
states as Massachusetts and California
the congressional delegations are pre-
pairing to assure their constituents that,
while they are strong for tariff revision
and are deadly enemies of the steel
trust, the speaker is such tyrannical
old fogy that he won't tolerate this
Democratic doctrine" in the house.
The Minneapolis Journal, a Repub
lican organ notes an unusual apathy
among the voters OF Minnesota concern
ing the coming gubernatorial election.
This apathy, it says, is unfortunate
for the partys prospects" Here is a
state that has a normal Republican
plurality of 100000, that has Demo-
cratic governor, and that is apparently
not yearning to go back into the Re
publican fold The Minnesota Repub-
lican newspaper explains it in this way:
The army of Republicans who helped
to elect Governor Johnson got taste
of independence. and unless they feel
a personal interest in the Republican
nominee this year, they will be hard to
hold in line" Governor Johnson and
the Democratic platform, in fact, came
nearer to pleasing the voters of Minne-
sofa than any patchwork declaration
likely to be put forward by Repub-
licans. What is written of the party
leaders in that state-"they recognize
the danger, and for the most part are
anxious to learn what the voters want,
If they can only find OUTS more or
less true in other states. The Repub-
licans are trying to adjust their declara-
tions and choose their candidates in
accordance with the new demands
How successfully the party which is
commonly regarded as friendly to the
hunted corporations has itself turned
hunter remains to be seen Last week
at the Kansas Republican state conven-
ton the chairman, William Roscoe
Stubbs, called upon the party. not only
to rescue the state from the grip Of the
railroads, but also to reach out and
grapple with the steel trust. That, con-
sidering popular temper in Kansas, was
good advice but there is no general
belief that 1t will be taken. The Kansas
City Star declares that at will suit the
CRepublican) machine crowd in Kansas
mighty lot better to see the Demo-
Gratis capture the state with Harris
than it would suit them to see Stubbs
succeed in his movement to protect the
government of Kansas against the spe-
cial interests that have laid out their
plans to capture the next admnistra
tion at Topeka with Hoch as its figure
head" William Allen Whites paper,
the Emporia Gazette, put the matter
tersely the day before the convention
met: '1f the Lord doesn't send the
Kansas Republicans a Moses, and send
him by express prepaid. before tomor-
row night, it will be great day for the
Democracy"
AS the conventions and primaries are
held in the congressional districts, this
difficulty in bringing "Bourbonized"
Republicans around to successful adj
vocacy of the old Democratic doctrines
becomes more evident. We have re-
ferred to Representative Mudds
promise to work for tariff revision if he
is reelected by the Republicans of the
Fifth Maryland district. In Massachu-
sets, also, the Tariff Reform league,
formed among the business men of the
state, is sure to have something to say
about the makeup of the delegation in
the SiXtieth congress. Ex-Governor
Douglas, who is active in the work of
the league promises the people of the
state change from a system under
which "our industries have to pay duty
on raw materials or buy them of do
mestic producers who will sell only at