Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-20
ATTACKS LEADERSHIP
DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN NOT A
PROTEST AGAINST REPuR-
LIcAN PRINCIPLES.
LEADERSHIP IN CONGRESS
TO BE MADE THE ISSUE
Notes of Harmony Expressed in Jef-
ferson Day Banquets Shows Party
Has Better Chances to Win Than in
Many Years-AiI Party Ties Some
what Loosened.

what looSened.
Washington, April 2O.-The talk
about the Jefferson day banquets, al
with undated force This is due t.
the fact that these banquets, in a way
afforded an opportunity for getting al
the general democratic trend on the
eve of political campaign when the
outlook for the success of that party
is greater than it has been for eighteen
years. Everybody has wanted to find
out what the democratic leaders are
thinking about, and what they are
planning to do in the way of issues
for the campaign. The banquet in this
city called together many of the most
prominent men of the democratic par
ty, drawn from all sections of the
country, just such crowd as it is al
ways easy to get together in the capital
city while a session of congress is I'M
der way. The banquet at Indianapolis
was also notable for its guest list.
Taken together, these dinners may fair
ly be taken as putting into concrete
form the prevailing democratic thought
of the day.
The democracy has been accustomed
to defeat since 1892. Every election
since that year has resulted in repub-
lican victory. For this reason the
ante-election predictions of democratic
leaders heretofore have fallen fiat and
seemed forced and empty. Not SO
now. Thru all the banquet speeches
NO ~ l.
hope. The democrats believe that they
are to win the house in November, and
follow that with winning the presi-
dency There is no mistaking their
optimism. There is no sham about
their predictions.
Harmony in Party Sought.
Heretofore. the democratic leaders
have pulled apart, been. torn by ZEAL
ousies and conflicting opinions. Now
these leaders want to forget these past
differences and get the party together
for united campaign.
Republican leaders are discussing
these Jefferson day banquets quite as
much as the democratic leaders. MANY
OF them, like President Taft are pin
ming their faith that democratic VIC
tory may be averted on the enactment
OF legislation providing for a genuine
tariff commission.
1t Is evident to all careful observers
That this tariff commission proposition.
II carried out as the president under
STANDS 1t Will be carried out, will be of
great help in the campaign. II the
republicans retain control of the f1ouse
1t will no doubt be due more largely
to that than to any other single thing.
Without it, or something equally as
good" in the way of an issue. demo-
cratic victory seems more than a pos
sibility.
Not Protest Against PRINCIPLES.
Republicans are also relying on an
other matter: The protest which is
being made at present against the
party in power, is a protest against
republican leadership in congress. not
protest against republican prin-
iciples. The professors believe in pro-
lection. but they want 1t evenly dis
tributed; they believe in leadership
but not of the kind embodied in tn.
present leadership of the house and
senate. This being the case, the dem
ocrats should be prepared in the event
of success in November, for a policy
of broad and constructive legislation.
and general forward movement in
matters of government. Failing in
these things. their control will prob
ably be short lived
The balance of the political power
in this country is held in the central
west states, which, while inclinins
| toward republicanism, are remarkab,,
independent in political action. If the
democrats bring out the old thread
worn issues this year, and use them
1 in the sixty-second congress, assum-
ing their control of the house, as a
basis for legislation, the Independent,
voters of the central west will turn
| from them, just as they are now
threatening to turn from the repub.
| licans.
In word, the political parties OF
the future must be made over and
brought up to date and made to sym
pathize with the emotions and aspir-
atoms Of the present hour The pas
sage of an acceptable tariff commits
sion provision at the present session
would be a promise of the ability OF
the republican party so to adapt itself
to changed conditions of thought, and
as has already been said, the hope OF
the republicans in the coming cam.
paign will depend in very large way
on the success of Mr.. Tawney to carry
out the Taft plans in this respect.
Party Ties Are Loose.
| Discussion of the Jefferson day ban.
lquets is bringing all these points out
and IN discussion in both parties. will
| lie wisdom.
! Governor Marshall, of Indiana, calls
attention to a well-known fact, name
ly, that party ties are more loose al
present than they have been in this
country for many years. The insurgent
republicans regard this as a hopeful
sign They say they want the people
to do their own thinking, and to be-
come intolerant of boss rule and ma
chine politics.
| Governor Marshall, in common with