The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-07-18

Niohoiy oSdihct any man uOnludtlOO
as these did against Taft's. cannot be
credited with any remarkable degree
of enthusiasm over their own defeat.
They are not for Taft they are
against Organism. They are against
Organism. because they are, after all,
business men, profoundly affected by
conditions that disturb the whole
country. They denounced Roosevelt
In the hope of frightening him or de-
feating his object, and they opposed
Taft in the hope of putting an end
to the Roosevelt policies. But they
knew the presidents doctrines we're
Sound. and failing in their resistance,
they submitted to the inevitable, as
Boss Cox, of Cincinnati, did, when he
found the people of Ohio were over
whelmingly for Taft. Better, was It
mot, to cling to the running gears OF
the Taft bandwagon than to be run
over? And, even so, II Is to be re-
|membered that Tom Taggart, and
'Hinky-Dink" Kenna, and Roger Sui
Ivan, and Charlie Murphy and
'"Fingy" Corners are not supporting
Taft this year. Local bosses in the
Republican party, just like their
Democratic compeers. esteem party
regularity an atoning virtue.
We correctly estimate the spirit
in which the Courier-Journals reply
was conceived, although our own
patriotism quickens to the sentiment
OF expanding nationallsm more read
lily than to the distrust of natural con-
temporaneous leadership; and we
recognize in men of the watterson
mould important figures in the maxi
ing of the nations history. Their
sturdy resistance deters the impetu-
Gus enterprise of Young America,
and prevents too hot-blooded haste
in empire building. Watterson's re-
lation to affairs and events shows
forth both the usefulness and the
of Democracy. As he
adverts to fundamental
principles. encrusted as they are with
the historic issues that gave them
being, he holds a remnant of his
party true to the faith; but 1t is a
Chinese system of teaching at best
involving ancestor worship. and in
a reverence for the past.
misconstruction OF the present and
misapprehension OF the future.
We could show Colonel Watterson
that the party of Bryan is but the
loosely adhering, fragmentary ele-
ments OF selfish opposition. that never
have yet held together until an cleo
ton day. They have not. as the Col
onel solemnly assures himself.
come together upon the questions
which remain and hold the stage OF
affairs" Instead of presenting a COM
mon ground. where all elements OF
might unite upon an equal
footing. the Denver platform openly
bids for various class support, offer
ing specific inducements TO the Com
pers vote with the anti-injunction I;
plank: to the Pacific state vote. with !
the western feet: TO the Mississippi
valley states with the unequivocai in
iorsement of the lakes-to-the-gulf.
anal. stripped Of reference 10 the /,
Allied projects OF reforestration.
reclamation and conservation of nat
lral resources. II his party should ;
win, II would not be because the
Ioters of the land have recognized I
he nightmare of o,igarchy. which
Colonel Watterson so wildly por-
rays, but because the cement of sell
ish interest has he'd together for
our months.
But we have no fears as to the out
.ome. Colonel Watterson admits that
under existing conditions IT takes a
idal wave to effect for the Demo-
rats what sheer momentum effects
'or the Republicans" We fail TO
observe indications of those spon-
aneous political coagents that pro-
luce tidal waves That such social
unrest as has received recognition !
rom Roosevelt must inevitably re-
iult in the retirement of certain I'M
degenerate Republican leaders. we
an foresee, and unless the party re-
ponds ito this new order OF things
md keeps pace with progressive ,
hought. it is eventually doomed. we
ire certain. But even such a fate as
hat would only supercede Re-
,ublicanism with a force more in har-
nony with the spirit of progress. and ,
'ould not call from its obscurity a
,arty that boasts IT has not moved.
Except backward, in forty odd years.
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