Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-06-29
GRATIFYING TO ALL.

It is gratifying to republicans,
as well as to all good citizens,
the vitality, courage and zeal
which the party displays inpurg-
ing itself of bossism with its at
tendant chicanery, bribery and
corruption. If a party do not
have the courage and vitality to
do this it deserves to be, and
surely will be, put out of commits
sion and stand dishonored and
discredited in the eyes of the
world.
There are no differences among
republicans touching the princi-
pies of the party. The strife is
within party lines. It is between
those who long and largely have
controlled the party organization
for their own selfish purposes,
and those who believe the prime
daty Of the party is to serve the
est Interests ofEhe people. Such
vas the conflict in Wisconsin.
yOn these lines it is now waged in
Pennsylvania, New York and
Iowa. The party reformers, or
better, purifiers, led by La Fol-
lette in Wisconsin, triumphed,
and they will triumph in Penn
sylvania, Iowa and elsewhere.
This is made possible because
the principles of the party COM
mend themselves to the masses.
If there were any other party ad-
vocating principles as benefcent
and free from the evils of party
bossism, large numbers Of men
would turn to it. But there is no
such party, so they stay in the
party and wage war against its
unworthy leaders, and those who
have prostituted party power to
infamous purposes.
The most remarkable thing in
these contests for party direction
and control is the evidence that
the rank and file, the republican
masses, are determined to select
new leaders who are above sus-
picionlof domination by the trusts
and corporations. Such a leader
is La Toilette, of Wisconsin,
Cummins, of Iowa, and the cam
didates named by the Lincoln re-
publicans in Pennsylvania. We
thus see that everywhere the
people are determined there shall
be government control, in the in
terests of the people, of those
combinations which, under what
ever name, are expressing the
people and robbing them of their
rights.
This conflict will go on until
the corporations controlling the
transportation of the country ad-
minister their trusts in the
interests of the people. Inter
state commerce must be freed
from the intolerable conditions
which prevail. and which for long
have been an incubus resting on
the yet greater prosperity of the
whole people.
When our trade is freed from
these restrictions, as it surely
will be, we shall have within our
own borders, the conditions of |
absolutely unfettered trade con-
TEN plated by the trainers Of the |
federal constitution. Protection |
will then be accepted by all as
the American doctrine which pre-
serves to the American people a
n lraet for their labor and their
products many times more desir-
able and profitable than the COM
bined markets of the world be-
sides.
The republican party is the
d dominant party. The people look
to it for a solution of the prob
lens which confront and sorely
perplex them. They shall not
look in vain The party has
never failed thu pao3le and it will
not now. If !. >yo4.d, it dare
not, for a party would quickly be
formed which. would serve the