Willmar tribune., 1908-10-07

three years ago. he was unsparing
of the Cincinnati machine. His
horrid example was "Boss" Cox.
His victim in reserve was Joseph
Benton Foraker. Yet, at Toledo
the other day, we beheld him. Cox
at one side, Foraker on the other,
thick as thieves" exclaiming to
the multitude: "How we apples
swim!' Now that the Senator has
come to grief, we are told that Taft
will recur to his original base of
attack upon Foraker and Cox and
repudiate their support; indeed,
the President has already done this;
he. in truth. could do no less to
maintain his own character and
that of his dear friend Hughes, not
to mention other self-appointed un-
derstudies of the almighty! Yet
both the President and Judge Taft
knew as much of Foraker ten day,
ago as they know now. 1t is mere
ly that, the screen having fallen on
Foraker. the rule of addition, d.
vision and silence" will no longer
work for the Church of the Sacred
Zebra, of which the President, the
Governor and the late Secretary of
War compose the trinity.
The Foraker business is but an
incident. The reputation OF
single Senator will nowise make
good. 1t is the republican party
which is in the dock. 1t is the re-
publican party which these revela-
tions expose. 1t is the republican
party, tried in the balance and
found wanting, which Judge Taft
ad Mr.. Roosevelt-the peoples best
witnnesse; to its bad character
are trying to save. But the sacri-
flee of Foraker will not suffice. To
prove themselves entirely honest,
they must throw Aldrich and Can
non and "Sunny Jim" Sherman
overheard.
No chapter of history, ancient
or modern, can be recalled to illus
trate SO wildly the present situa-
tion of the party led by Theodore
Roosevelt, usurping all leadership,
as that which relates the plight in
which the French found themselves
after Gravelotte. "On to Berlin"
had been the cry-never thought
to the contrary. Of a sudden, con-
fusion, disaster, defeat, with Sedan
ahead. So the republican party
at this moment. 1t never yet had
to face such conditions as meet it
whichever way it turns. Most
thoughtful onlookers concede that
New York is lost to it. The NOM
ination Of Lilley makes Connecticut
a doubtful state. Rhode Island and
New Jersey hang in the balance.
There is chaos in Ohio. Indiana,
faction torn, is gone past redemp-
tion. The prairie fires of an awak-
ened public conscience sweep over
Illinois, threatening to leap the
Mississippi river into Iowa, to cross
the Missouri river into Kansas and
Nebraska, and, impeded only by
the tenantless walls Of the Rocky
Mountains, to issue thence again
and to swoop down to the shores Of
the Pacific.
Well may the republican leaders,
intolerant and arrogant, used by
money and machinery to carry all
before them, whiten with dismay.
Well may they in their rage bite
one another like frightened beasts.
Their sins have found them out at
last! Scandals to right of them;
scandals to left of them; defeat in
front Of them-only the Taft-Sln-
ton millions between - Cannon
clinging to "Sunny Jim'-Aldrich
falling upon the neck Of Son-in-
Law Rockefeller-the thieving tar
iff exuding fat no longer, but max
ing quagmires for the robber trusts
the people disgusted on the one
hand, or indignant on the other
the grand old party of graft and
fraud is in truth sight to see!
Yet a little longer, and then the
boneyard, leaving only stencil be-
hind and this inscription
"Whilst it lived it lived in clover;
When it died it died all over.''