Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-10-18
Republican Harmony.

IN Dlo0d
Republican Harmony.
1t is clear that King David did not
have in his minds eye our Republican
leaders when he wrote, Behold, how
good and how pleasant it is for breth-
rem to dwell together in unity" Every
body knows, for instance, that the Re-
publicans of Missouri are divided into
two warning factions, one headed by
Colonel Richard c. Kerens who financ-
ed the campaigns for decade, and the
other by Hon. Thomas K Neidring-
haus, who financed it, or, rather, who
claimed to have financed it, in 1904.
Neidringhaus claims the United States
senatorship as his reward and receiv-
ed the nomination, but Colonel kerens
denied that Nedringhaus financed the
campaign with his own money and as
serted that certain other Republican
bigwigs furnished the sinews of war.
Consequently he concluded that the
Neidringhaus claim to the senatorial
toga was a most impudent and prepos-
ferrous performance Therefore certain
followers and enough Of Colonel Ke-
rens' bolted the Nedringhaus nomina-
ton and after a three months strug-
gle Major William Warner gobbled the
coveted plum. AS a result of that win
ters work the feud betwixt Kerens
and Neidlinghaus is as bitter as ever
existed among The mountaineers of
Kentucky.
Up in Iowa the fractional fight be-
tween the stand patters and the tariff
revisionists in the Republican party is
so intense that the Republican leaders,
fearing the state may go Democratic,
have drafted MIR. Speaker Cannon and
other Republican big guns into service.
When one reflects that Iowa Republic
ans are scared he may form some rea-
sonable conclusion as to what dire
straits long lease of unbridIed power
has brought them.
Republican politics in New York may
be described in one word, chaotic"
Odell was rolled, Higgins was rolled,
and the convention nominated Hughes
under the eompulsion of fear.
But the most interesting bit of Re
publican feud news just now is that
the stalwart senators are going to
haze Senator Robert Marion la Fol-
lette OF Wisconsin as a punishment for
expressing his opinions too freely about
their sins of, omission and commission.
He has used their names with much
freedom, not to say abandon, and now
they propose to even up the score by
''hazing' him. They can make his life
lonesome, no doubt, but Bob as his
admirers delight to call him, is a fight
Ell from the head waters of Bitter creek
and nothing viii help his fame more
than the attempt of his senatorial con-
frefes to haze him He lambasted
Senator Long of Kansas in Kansas,
Senator IIemenway OF Indiana in In
diana and Senators Kean and Dryden
of New Jersey in New Jersey Robert
was thus carrying the war into Africa
and no mistake. Senator Long has
been answering in a mild sort Of way,
but mild language has about as much
effect on the belligerent La Toilette
as a gentle April shower has upon the
back of full feathered duck So the
merry war is likely to go on and on
until the G. O. r. is put out Of bust
ness. That the stalwarts hate La Fol-
lette most cordially IS an open secret,
and that be returns their hate in full
measure is known of all men.
Senator Warmers Change Of Front"
Under the above caption the Kansas
City Times, an Independent Republican,
paper. says edItorially:
If Senator Warmers tariff slogan
now is Let well enough alone las he
declared in his Pattonsburg speech-he
has experienced a remarkable and sudden
change of heart, On July IA Of this year
Senator Warner said to representative
Of the Star: II am not in. any sense a
stand patter The tariff will be revised
Just how or how soon ! am not prepared
TO say. The revision of the tariff is one
OF the very important matters that will
be taken up soon.
Mr. Warner never said a truer thing in
his life than that ssthe revision of the
tariff will be taken up soon. The people
have taken 1t up already. The demand
for revision IL especially insistent In the
west, where its fnequities press with most
outrageous injustice. There is not a par
ty division in that demand, bur if q Re-
publican congress will moi serve the peo-
- ia a,f <sfaae will be elected