Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-08-19
AN AWFUL MESS or GROW.

"And what fall was there my
countrymen Z" Unless the whole story
is untrue, there has been the most
humiliating surrender to the Insur-
gents by the regulars of the Republic
can party that ever took place. A sur
render is often the easier::thing to do, but
only can it lack humiliation when It
is forced by supreme strength, position.
or some ovei awning circumstances which
would render further resistance folly,
and this surrender must be by the
smaller to the larger force. We learn
in recent dispatches that meeting
was held at Beverly, Mass, the sum-
mer white honse, on Friday last. Sew
eraI men of great supposed Importance
were there beside the president. Mr..
Frank H. Hitchcock, the real head Of
the national icommittee, was certainly
there, and the meeting resulted in
what? Here is what the newspapers
say:
"Secretary Rallinger is to resign
on the 18th of September. Speaker
Cannon VIII not again WELD the gavel!
if returned to Congress, and the insur-
gent West is to receive such assurance
on this point, that is expected to bring
about party peace.
In the resignation of Mr.. Ballinger,
the elimination of Speaker Cannon,
and the voluntary withdrawal of Sena-
tor Aldrich from public life, the 'slead-
ers" feel that the Republican ship will
be trimmed for its voyage toward the
fall elections. They think that from
the shoulders il c.,:aefs OF President Taft bur
dens, which he has carried long will be
removed. Some go SO far as to say that
otherwise they could not face the COM
ing fight with any chance of success. "
Think of surrender on such terms.
The very thought makes the flesh
creep and the frame of q stalwart Re.
publican shake as with an ague. Faces
blanch when they read such news, We
are morally sure.
Mr.. Cannon is to be thrown into the
vortex.
Mr.. Aldrich is to be sacrificed fol
party good.
Mr.. Ballinger is to be cast overheard
to be swallowed by any whale, or eater
by sharks, or sink if he cannot swim.
Were there ever such terms made by
party faction as these? Are those
insurgents cannabals, or have they M
shame, no mercy, and no sense if pity
Are they making such humiliating ex
actions as these without a voice O
sympathy amongst them, raised any
where? Are Dolliver and Cumming
and Beveridge aud Murdoch SO inexoF
able that they require terms harsh
enough to more than satisfy Zult
tribe, or the Unstable appetite of thu
jewellers of the Congo? IT'S very pitt
able and where is poor, Mr.. Taft? HI
is, a tempting morsel to those who's
lust for human flesh is SO rapacious
Mr.. Taft must have committed griev
fous sin in the Insurgent eye, when b.
went to Winona and declared tn
Payne-Aldrich Tariff bill the best yet
Or he must have opened the eyes of tn
West to the enorimity Of the others
If he did this, this may be the cause Q
the present leniency. But whilst b.
may be further endured, it is safe +
say he cannot altogether be trusted
for: just a few days ago he was praisini
Mr.. Cannon to the skies. He is salt
to have more regard for the wisdom o
Mr.. Aldrich than that Of NEST any
man in pubiic4s, and as for Ballinger
we have his own words in the CLAW
Ter exoneration letter." that Ballingel
is as pure as the Alaskan SHOWS
Now to be compelled to eat his senti
ments and his words too, must bs very
hnmiliating. It must be an awfu
mess OF crow.