Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-16
CHEERFULNESS IN
ADVERSELY

dSlTouS SITUATION WnlCn almost SnlllleS
them to the sympathy of those of their
fellow citizens who admire that quality
of mind which can simulate--if it does
not feel-cheerfulness in the face of
adversely. In this business of whist
ling to keep their courage Up" our
morning Republican contemporary is
one of the most persistent warblers
that the evil times upon which the
stand-patters of the grand OLD party
has fallen have produced. 1t publishes
dispatches from such stalwarts as Vice
President sherman to the effect that
the insurgent spirit throughout the
country is decreasing. 1t assures its
readers editorially that the insurgents
in its party are feather Drained fad
dists who do not represent the sent
ment of any considerable number of
the citizens of this country, aad that
insurgency is fad which viii soon
pass and be heard of no more forever.
All of which efforts to bolster up the
stand-pat cause furnish but another
illustration of how easy it is for men
to deceive themselves into believing
what they want to believe. At the
same time, our friends who are so
cheerful under adversely do not pre-
tend to explain how it is that in the
nominating primaries held III every
state so far the men who have made
themselves most obnoxious to the pro-
gressive element of the Republican
party, and to the country, by consti
tuting themselves the champions and
supporters of Cannonism, the Aldrich
tariff and other political iniquities,
haye been repudiated.
In the Iowa primaries the fight was
concentrated by Senators Cummins and
DolliVer, and the progressive element
of the Republican party under their
leadership, upon Congressman Hull,
who for twenty years had been a MEM
Der of congress, for many years the
chairman of one of its most important
committees, and gloried in being known
as a champion of Cannon, the tariff in
iquity, and everything else most OBJ
jectionable to the reformers.
Mr.. Hull, Notwithstanding the most
strenuous effort was made by reaction
ary Republicans, backed by the nation
al administration, TO secure his return
to congress, was completely beaten,
and as a result will be retired from a
position which he has held in congress
for twenty years, and which he has
used to betray the best interests of his
people, his party and his country.
The same fate appears to have over
taken that strenuous champion of high
protection, Cannonism and privilege
Congressman DalzeH of Pennsylvania.
There is no state in the Union in which
so much money is invested in protected
industries as Pennsylvania, and none
where the benefciaries of protection at
every election contribute so much mon
ey and effort to preserve and protect the
public career of their champions. Mr..
Dalzell had every protected interest in
Pennsylvania behind him. and they
contributed enormously both in money
standing all this, there is every reason
to believe that he was actually defeated
by his opponent, who had neither
money of his own nor help from rich
protected industries to rely upon. Mr..
Dalzelrs opponent charges that the
narrow margin which was given him
on the face of the returns was the re-
suit of election frauds of the gravest
character, and he has begun action for
the purpose of having a recount of the
ballots. So well founded appears to
have been his claim that Dalzell was
the beneficiary of fraud that the latter
and his friends have found it neces-
sary to oppose the recount of the votes,
which it was expected would show this
fraud. They have gone into court and
asked that the recount be enjoined,
and a contest is now going on to pre-
vent the opening Of the ballot boxes,
which may-and probably would-show
that the greatest apostle of protection
and champion Of Cannonism among the
from Pennsylvania has
been repudiated by his constituents,
and that the insurgent Republican who
made his campaign upon the issues
which Mr.. Dalzeu opposes has been
All of which shows that our Repub-
lican friends and their morning cham
pion in this city have failed to recog-
nize the fact that the reform movement
and the sentiment behind (which is
moving the majority of the people, and
dlsrupting the Republican
party-is not an ephemeral expression
Of a passing sentiment which will
shortly dissolve and disappear, but is,
on the contrary, one of those great
popular movements which constitute
an epoch in politics and government,
and which win continue until it has
crystallized in completely reversing
what has heretofore been a government
ravoring the classes at the expense of
the masses, and has established a gov
eminent that will recognize that its
first duty is to the great mass of the
American people, and that it owes no
duty to any class.