The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-07-03
ARE REPUBLICANS UNITING?
Some of the Expert Political Pulse
Feelers for Eastern Papers Say
So-LaF gillette Again in
the Fold.

A Washington dispatch to the CO.
lumbia State says:
The expert political pulse fcclcrs
who have gone for Eastern ncwspa-
pcrS out into Wisconsin, Iowa, and
other States of the IIiddle West are
doing what they were sent out there
to do, finding that differences in the
ranks Of the G. o. p. are being heal
cd and that there is no chance for the
Democratic ticket. Angus McSwccn
has just written to the Philadelphia
Record that Taft will carry Wiscon-
sin easily and safely owing to the
fact that Lal'ollcttc and the LaFol-
cite men have quit knockin" the Re-
publican machine and, while they do
not like Sunny jim Sherman on the
ticket and are disappointed with the
platform, they will nevertheless do
all they can for the election of the
Republican ticket. Democratic lead
crs have been expecting assistance
from the LaFollcttc followers in Wis
consin and other Middle West States.
but in the opinion of McSwccn they
will be disappointed. Another pulse
lcclcr for the Washington Star sign
ing himself "N. O. NJ. '-"J Jack'
Messenger is his namc-has been
writing from Iowa. He tells Of how
the disappointed Cummins and the
disappointed friends of the Iowa gov
crnor are taking Off their coats and
working for Taft and Sherman. Iowa
is safely Republican, in The opinion
of "N. O. NJ Both Of these writer's
say that these States will not give
such large Republican maiortics as
they arc accustomed to pile up. The
estimate by Republican leaders is that
Iowa will 60 Republican by $4,000.
That itself is significant, for Roose-
welt carried it by 100000. a similar
prospective dropping off is reported
from Wisconsin.
These and the various other indi-
cations Of the provcrbial getting to-
Gcthcr after the party fight in the
convention, which has given the Re-
publican party such wonderful Vi
tality and has caused that party to
triumph over the Democrats, arc par.
ticularly interesting in the light of
the efforts the Republican leaders
have been making to get up the Rcpub
LEANS fighting blood. They seem to
be succeeding to small degree at
least. Near the close of the recent
session OF congress, one Of the Re-
publican members of the lower house,
from Kansas in discussing the fill
buster Of the Democratic said to me
that lhc Republican leaders might
hav" appeared to be annoyed. and
that indeed they were on the surface
and for the moment. but that i'm real
lty deep down thcr were rejoicing
greatly because the tactics of the De-
mocrats were making rae Republicans
mad SO that they would fight. For
one thing, and so far as I can see for
only one thing, the country has to
thank Theodore Roosevelt; that is
for causing people, Democrats and
Republicans both. to begin to think
that after all party lines are not 50
absolutely unbrcakahlc and that the
man is TO be considered above party.
Not that Roosevelt himself has ienor-
cd party lines or party considerations,
for he has been one Of the strictcSt
OF parizans, but he has made Rcpub-
licans think. The benefit to the coun-
try will come if it is seen this year
that he has made them think to that
extent. which R0oSc> eft himself ncv-
or Intended, that they will conclude
that if Roosevelt is bigger than party.
there might be another, even Il Demo-
clat. 1t has been noted here for the
past few years than III some states.
especially New York, Massachusetts,
Minnesota and other States Of the
Middle West, the people are ignoring
party lines. This fact has really been
the source Of more anxious concern
to Republican leaders than the fac
tiOnal animositics ciScndcrcd in the
ranks of the G. O. p. by such rows
as the Foraker Taft one IN Ohio, the
Cummins-Dollivcr differences in
Iowa, the buckin@ Of The machine by
Hughes in New York. and the disscn-