The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-01-24
WHY DO THEY kIcK7

The Los Angeles Times calls Atten-
ton to the previous political record of
the members of Taft's cabinet and
thinks their past associations have
been such as to entitle them to the
unprecedented of the knocks-of the
insurgents. The Times says:
The republican organization is not
lntoLerant has no purpose to dictate to
any man what his views shall be- The
regular republicans outnumber the Gin
surgents" thousand to one. This is
a country of majority rule. The re-
publican party is the American party
and therefore majority rule must pre-
vail inside Of the party lines. The whole
purpose of the smoking-out process is
that we may know just where each one
stands. There Is no attempt to force
the republican doctrine down anv ones
throat. The insurgents" have declared
against the party creed and vet insist
upon staying inside of the party lines.
Ihat cannot properly be. They have
proclaimed their views and must abide
the consequences. They are NOT re-
puollcans, have no place in the republi-
can party. Let them become regenerate|
or get out.
The effect Of the presidents action
In antagonizing the insurgents and
humbugs will probably be divided. 1t
is our absolute conviction that If win
stop the spread of false doctrine within
the party. 1t is an assumption we
would make bold to offer that most Of
them will take their medicine" Gle
down" and become good dogs" A
small number will try to continue their
disloyal fight and yet remain inside
OF the party. But these will be driven
where they belong.
The latest weak squeak and trans
parent subterfuge is that Mr.. Taft's
cabinet does not suit the rebels. II
would be interesting to know how rnanv
of the Taft cabinet are undesirabIes
In the eyes Of the insurgents" They
can hardly object to the secretary OF |
state, Mr.. Knox, who was in the cabi- |
net of President Mckinley and as such
became an inheritance to Mr.. Roose- |
welt, who found no reason TO look upon |
Mr.. Knox with Interpretation. It he
had been what these recalttrants
dream he Is, surely the strenuous Teddy
would not have brooked his presence
in his official family for so long time
AS for the secretary of the treasury.
Mr.. McVeagh, the "progressives" can
nave no objection to him. He is one of /
their own democratic allies, of kindred
kidney with themselves. Secretary
Wilson is hold-over from the Me-
kinney terms and also through that OF
Mr.. roosevelt. The secretary Of war.
Dickinson, is southern democrat. lust
as was General Wright. who served /
under Roosevelt in the same position.
Ihe two men are of the same tyne.
surely Meyer, secretary of the navy is
not the undesirable these fellows OBJ
Ject 10. He Is political bed fellow
or roosevelt, who first brought him in
TO prominence in public life. Do thev
object to Hitchcock, the postmaster
general? He held high office under
President Mckinley, and was Roose.
velt's right hand man i'm shaping things
for the republican convention in chi. \
cago two years ago. Frank Hitchcock Ii
was the man that lined up every south
ern delegation for Taft under the dirae.
ton of Roosevelt We know Ballinger
Is offensive TO the eyes and a stencil
In the nostrils of all the ''progressives !"
hut that is only a new antipata1y on
their part. In the Roosevelt admins
tration he was commissioner general OF
the land office, and Mr.. Taft took him
as kind of inheritance from Mr..
Roosevelt, The attorney general, Wick
ersham, is new man. There are prob
ably few Of the insurgents who do not ,
see His Satanic Majesty, horns. hoofs j
and all rise before their minds when
they think Of the new attorney general.
lie - about the only person in the cab ,
met for whom Mr.. Taft is entirely re-
sponsible.
We have just one comment to make .
IN this connection. II Mr.. Wickersham /
Is NOT an Improvement over Bonaparte, /
we will undertake to eat both Of them
raw without any pepper or salt. If
The fact Is, the Pinchot ins.1bordina-
ton, the CLAWS charges, the conserva- n
lion OF the resources in the national /
public domain, and all the other mat
ters about which so much noise ii 1t
made, are simply subterfuges. The !