Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-12
POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE.

POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE.
The Republican party is somewhat
troubled just now with independent
voters and with "reactionaries, as
some western officers have been dubbed
by Mr.. Roosevelt. The center of this
independence is in the middle west,
and it has blossomed out on the tariff
especially. 1t reaches also to the cur
rency and asbroadening OF the Sherman
act, but in milder form, though the
approaching session of Congress may
see a far more heated controversy than
arose over the tariff. Senator Cum
Minis, of Iowa, has recently made a
speech in Chicago, outlining their pol
icy on this subject especially, when he
was enthusiastically received and APP
plauded. He paid his respects to the
Hon. Joseph Cannon, who has been so
bold as to assert that such Republicans
as Cummins, Deliver, Lafollette, Bev-
eridge and others should be read out Of
the party. The gage of battle has been
thrown down to those who would read
them out, and they have been told in
plain language that it they are ready
to undertake the reading out, they, the
reactionary senators, are ready
to be read out, provided, always,
that Mr.. Cannon, Mr.. Aldrich and Mr.
Payne are able to turn the trick. These
Senators have been long enough in the
Senate to see how this government is
run, they have seen that three men, in
reality those above named, have abso-
lutte control and form the closest corpo-
ration ON earth and the largest; they
have seen that their word is law, land
billion Of dollars is in their grasp each
year with all the patronage and power
that the government has behind it
added thereto, and that such power is
too great to be entrusted to so few.
Naturally those few have come to that
conclusion INDUCED in by Kings, that
their rights are divine. 1t is not long
now until Congress assemblies. AS the
tariff has been fought over, though not
settled, it will be incidentally aired
and its iniquities made more plain. 1t
is useless to try to conceal the fact that
there are many niggers in the tariff
woodpile These will become more and
more manifest as time passes. But the
great questions now before the country
are the currency and the Sher-
man act. Mr.. Aldrich has made tour
of the West, he "read" carefully pre-
pared speech in Chicago few days ago
on the currency. He then went before
the bankers of st. Louis and made
speech there. His aim seems to be for a
Central Bank of Issue, and national
bank monopoly. This will be opposed
bv those independent western Republi-
cans, and it is to be hoped by the DEM
ocats, but who can rely on the Demo-
Gratis Who on earth or in heaven for
that matter can tell what they will do?
Since their attitude, or the attitude of
part of them, on the tariff, they seem
hopeless, and as like as not we will find
some of them lined up with Aldrich on
the currency, and with the trusts on the
Sherman act. But the day of indie
pendence is here. There is to be no let
up with these Western Republican SEN
ators. The West is solidifying on many
questions and is beginning to find that
it has been held in contempt for many
years by the East. This is not pleas
ant to an ambitious people, they will
submit no more to it, and the day is
not far distant when the independent
element of the South and the West
will unite for emancipation from East.
ern slavery, and it will come even al
the expense of new party. It re.
quires very poor prophet to see this.
1t is in the air, and the storm will
burst sooner than many think.