The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-04

BY REPUBLICANS
lis DEMOCRATIC OPPORTUNITY IN
COMING ELECTION SAYS
CORRESPONDENT.
LIONS IN THE PATH"
Must Be Met-prohbitlo Menace to
Be Acted On in Senate This
Week-Diplomati Corps
in Trouble.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
Washington, May 3.-The Unite,
States senate with its two-thirds Re
publican majority has backed up tn
house of representatives in refusin,
to follow the recommendation o
President Roosevelt for four new bat
tleships. Only 10 Republican sena
tors voted for this most ardent rec
ommendation of Republican pres
dent That the Republican leader
in both houses of congress are OF
posed TO most of the new Legislation
recommended by the president. shows
THE decentralization and factional diff
ferences that prevail in the counsels
of the G. O. p. There has been moth
ing like il since MIR. Cleveland and
congress disagreed over the financial
issue. But President Cleveland was
able TO force through his repeal OF
the coinage of silver by the help OF
Roosevelt was only backed by four
Democratic senators for his hattleship
program. The Roosevelt sun seems
TO be setting in a cloud of mistrust,
and disapproval of his policies by the
leaders Of his party
This factional fight in the Repubi.
can party is the Democratic oppor.
tunity No such chance for success
has been offered since the disastrous
route og 1896. The wheel Of political
fortune is evidently shifting. and the
panic Of last year has shown the
voters that the Republican party is
not the advance agentof prosperity.
and that tariff protection does not en-.
sure the smiles of fortune. or a full.
dinner pail. From all former political
experience this is a Democratic year
Hearst Faction Active.
There are lions enough in the path
of Democratic success to be van
pushed to require the utmost wisdom
and foresight. The Hearst apostasy
must be met and provided against.
He has just launched his new party,
after being nourished and fed at al
Democratic home since his birth. He
still holds the high Democratic honor
of being the president of the National
Association OF Democratic clubs, and
has not had the justice and dignity
to relinquish the standard he was
entrusted with before creating and
lnfnrling another to better suit his /
selfish purpose. That he may draw |
many away from their allegiance who
believe in radical ami socIaIistic poll /
Ties is probable. The Democratic
party must unite and appeal to the i
country on its present efforts for re.
0rm and its past great history as the
)est assurance of the future. The
'reat middle glass want rest and quiet
o revive their business affairs that
IRE being ruined ny the do-nothing 4
republican policies and plundered byIs
protection to the trusts. Labor is in ID
rms at the refusal to release it from h
obnoxious laws, and even the finan. d
ial interests asking for currency re.
orm which the Republicans appear r
Unable to agree upon are in fear and :
read of the future.
united Democracy will be an In.
plration TO all classes and especially &
0 the conservative element. and will
ilay the present distrust and lack
I confidence in the future.
The Prohibition Issue. y
Inc prohibition issue in congress
as been held up as too hot promo.
ltion to vote upon Just before ma.
onal election. In the senate various o
quor bills have been cosfdered and y
substitute prohibiting common car. Y
ers from acting as agents of the j
'ndors of liquor in other states has u
zen reported by the judicial commit ;.
@. The majority of the committee i
ke the ground that this is as far u
congress can constitutionally go. ~
ais substitute will be considered I'm ie
@ senate next week and NAV he ed
ssed' but even then it is very doubt pa
II 1t reaches a vote in the house.
Diplomats in Trouble. no
me diplomatic corps here are said tn
be in blue funk through the in gr
Iatlon received by each ambassa- en-
I and minister to attend the Repub- &c
an national convention. There has ex
en- general rush of diplomafs TO is.
state department to try and dis sti
yer II their attendance at the con. ba
huoh is expected by the president he
icy are at a loss to know whether do
ey will be the guests OF President ON.
'oseveit, or the Republican party. ba
men that is settled. they will helm,
ie TO better judge. whether they arc 49,,
cheer for Roosevelt or for Taft -,
e invitation comes from the direc- IN.
oil the bureau of American repub. -,
:, and as he is said to be for what. y,
sr the administration desires tAe -
ltation must be considered as Off.
L. why President Roosevelt or the "
publican party desires the pres.
&c and counienance of the repra. y
natives Of foreign countries in WI
its ticket may be left to p"'
imagination of those who consider 'ui
matter. but it can he SGT down Sh'
certain that no such ivisitors Will pm
invited to attend tho nor,aaua.." ma
lvention
ROBERT MILLER. 'W'
in
Source Of Happiness. mi'
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