Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-09-15
THE TEMPER OF THE WEST.

THE TEMPER OF THE WEST.
 Tn their efforts to hold together the conservative and radical wings of the party, the republican campaign mana gers are meeting with some difficulties in the middle west. One of their trou- bles arises out of the Cannon issue, which Kansas City paper declares to be the biggest issue of the congressional elections, We quoted few days ago the opinion of the Kansas City Star that it was more important to elect the right kind of congressman, meaning thereby men who will uphold radical policies, than to elect men of either party--a declaration of independence that is om- inous of weakened party ties.
 Another phase of the Cannon issue is reported by staff correspondent of the Indianapolis News, who describes the revolt of Illinois and Indiana repub- licans over the quality of the speakers chosen to sound the keynotes in those states. The orators objected to were those rock-ribbed republicans and hido- bound standpatters-S Cannon, Vice Presidential Candidate Sherman, and Leslie M. Shaw. These unprogres- sive statesmen had been selected to cam paign in the middle west, where the pro gressive republicanism of Roosevelt has taken almost complete possession of the party. As consequence, says the News correspondent:
 ''The Roosevelt republicans are
 almost in open revolt. The effect
 Of this sort of management will
 be to drive many of the Roosevelt
 republicans to Bryan, said a man
 high up in the republican party to-
 day. Shaw is entirely out Of sym :.
 pathy with the progressive spirit of
 the times, so much so that his own
 state has laid him on the shelf.
 Every welASnfoElned man knows
 that Cannon and Sherman are Of
 the company of republicans in pub
 lie life which has in season and
 out of season stood in the way of
 reforms. To say the least, some4
 body has blundered in putting them
 forward to open the campaign in the
 close states of Illinois, Ohio and
 Indiana"
 Such campaign management as this tends to confirm in the minds of the voters the idea that the republican par ty is, or will be in the event of MT. Taft's election, in control of the same old crowd that was cowed into submis- sion under Roosevelt-an idea that MT. Bryan seeks to strengthen at every op- portunity, for example, in his Sioux City speech, wherein he pointed the finger of scorn at such eminent reformers as Sen ator Penrose and Mir. Du Pont, who have been made members of the executive committee assisting Mir. Hitchcock in running the campaign. The prominence of reactionaries and corporation men in the republican canvass unquestionably goes to accentuate the feeling in the west over the domination of the country by the money power, which is represent ed by writer to the New York Even ing Post as all afame. Having just come from the west, he expresses his at the widespread awaken ing there. "The people of the east, he says, "do not realize it. It is sort of intoxication of idealism. It must be reekoned with. The east is asleep. I verify believe MT. Bryan will sweep the country. In this statement am only saying what scores upon scores of re- publicans told me on my visit west.'
 If this is in any respect an accurate portrayal of popular feeling in the west, it explains the demand coming from that section to hear from MT. and convicts of stupidity the managers who think that tour of the western country will pan out in accessions to the repub- lican ticket. It would be much better politics to put forward such campaign. CTS as Senator Beveridge, who stands for the new republicanism and for that revolt against the tyranny of the dom- lnant cliques in congress which is talk ing shape in the west, and, in fact, else where, as the Cannon issue, and which appears likely, in the long run, to retire to private life number of reactionary United States senators. Obviously a