Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-15
Radicalism and Conservatism
Opposing Presidential Issues
in Both Parties
aoosEvELT FOES FIND WEAPON
usS Name Of Mckinley and His Pol
ici',s As an Arsument-5ryan to Head
Radical Democrats, foraker the
&C ,nservative" Republieans-corpor.
atoms to Be One Of Leading Issues.

Washington, April 15.-Radicalism
s NE conservatism. This is the issue
which will confront the republican
part.y from this time on until the close
Of the national convention next year.
Interest will be lent the situation be-
cause the same issue will confront the
temperate party.
1.-THE interests" have made up their
sninsls that Rooseyeltism and Organism
are not compatible with swollen for
tunes and high finance, AND they are
to demand, and work for a return to
the ideals and practices in vogue up to
8 the death Of Mckinley name OF
the martyred president will be used by
the1n as an example to conjure with.
President Roosevelt has been one of
the first men in the country to see the
political drift, and as the individual
having the greatest interest in the
con tinued supremacy of radicalism IN
|; che government, he has been the first
/ 10 sound the alarm. This was couple
II weeks ago, since which time the
Il con servatave leaders have been busy
trying to discredit his statement about
rich mems conspiracy.
The tide will ebb and flow perhaps
hundred times between now and the
next winter. and for the moment one
side or the other will, seem to be In
q the ascendancy. But these preliminary
4 eig,ls will not Indicate permanency.
The, public opinion Of the country will
csc Hate between the two extremes, and
ii may be nlidwfnter before there are
any sure indications Of what Its ulti-
mate capitalization is to- be.
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The issue, in the concrete, will be,
ehal Ii the arm OF the federal govern
me ii be heightened and strengt hened
90 as to enable it to deal effectively
with corporate power? Stated in an
other way, the issue will be, shall the
An eriean government realize the aims
OF It's founders, and be. in the largest
and best sense, representative Of the
WI, le people without fear or favor,
gov eminent Of the poor man as'weh as
OF he rich man?
Ihe radical forces, led In the repub-
+. 1icsn party by President Roosevelt, and
In he democratic party by Mr.. Bryan,
will insist that they represent this ideal
OF Impartial legislation and administra-
I tioll; the conservative forces, led at the
present moment in the republican par
ty by Senator Foraker, and in the
!. democratic party by the men who SCI
cured control at the 1904 convention at
ST. Louis. will insist that they repre-
eert the best interests OF the whole peo-
Ole when they demand that the federal
government cease to harry consolidat-
u "a wealth, and that the economic prin-
cirle, be recognized that whatever in
governmental policy protects this
we alth makes for the upbuilding of all
th,s people.
III was Mrs. Shelly, who, in 1918,
3 pu blished the romance of Franken-
STEM The hero of the tale, whose
ma ne was Frankenstein, created a
monster. which committed horrible
z crimes. The story is related by a
70 ang student. The monster finally
murders q friend Of the student, stran-
giles his bride and comes to an end in
The, northern seas.
at the close OF the civil war the
/. me dern development Of the United
& Suites began. This development has
4 bem one Of the phenomena Of history,
s and 1t has BEEN steadily fostered by
legislation, state and national on the
/ theory that If money! had free rein,
I general prosperity was assured. Both
& parties had hand In this encourage
m,.nt Of capital, and no man in either
party, until recently, questioned the
soundness Of the doctrine, carried to
the length 1t has reached in this coun-
4 trI.
Finally, however, according to the
theories of the present day radicals,
csgpital, under the favoring conditions
surrounding 1t, became too powerful
for. the public good. It began to con-
sc lidate and trusts we're the result. 1t
brought great transcontinental railway
Z lines Under one management, and
wrecked them at will; 1t bought up
be eft packing houses banks trust COM
ps.nies, nearly all the supply agencies
OF the various food products, and
placed the business OF the country at
4 itst mercy. The individual producer, in
tens of thousands of instances, was
forced to the wall, and finally business
went and came at the bidding of con-
solidated wealth and along lines it had
marked out.
Consolidated wealth, Of course, re-
SCENTS any interference with its ancient
rights and prerogatives such as the
radicals propose. 1t points to the good
B old days of Mckinley and his prede-
c,,ssors, and demands that these days
bs restored, SO far as their policies
are concerned The radicals make re-
ply that in these good old days
wealth was much less powerful than it
Iii today, and that any such return will
result in an upheaval which may in
time shake the government to its for
raer foundations. These same good
old days. say the radicals, account in
large part for the power wealth now
has in this country.
Thus the radicals would have 1t APP
pear, the country, like another Frank
ellstein. has created another monster,
which, if unrestrained, will indulge in
crimes against the people as a whole.
o1ite as horrible as those perpetrated
by the monster Of romance against
CERTAIN individuals. Already, they say,
these crimes have been begun, and the
people, smarting under the sense OF
wrong committed, are preparing to take
tile case into their own hands II the
yovarurnent sho,,ld seem without abil