Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-11-17
The Campaign Of 1919.

There are no more Democrats in the
United States in l9l0than there were in
l90s-the year in which, on the popular
vote for president, the Republicans car
ried the country by a plurality of $685.
600. Nobody can point to a single
act of the Democratic party in the past
two years which would entitle ii to any
less Of the popular hostility than it com
manded at that time, says the ST. Louis
Globe Democrat. 1t has no national
leaders who command the respect of in
telligent. conservative men. 1t has no
constructive policy which is supported
with any approach to unanimity in any
locality. On the tariff Senator Aldrich
often had more Democrats on his side
than did Senator Culberson, the Demo-
cratic titular leader. In the house and
senate, Democrats in the special ses.
sion OF 1909 ostentatiously tore up the
tariff declaration which was made by
their party in 1908 Mr. Bryan publicly
rebuked large element of the Dem
ocrats in the house and senate for their
treason to their platform of the proceed
ing year. SO far as the Democrats are
organized at all. they are an organized
negation. In a speech at the Union
League banquet in Philadelphia year
and halt ago Mr.. Taft said that a
strong patriotic opposition is necessary
to make the Republican party, if it is TO
control the government, useful TO the
people. and defeat, at tines. would not
hurt the Republicans. The defeat is
here. but the opposition party is neither
strong nor patriotic. For half a century
the Democratic party has been an OBJ
struction to the wheels of progress 1t
Will continue this role for the next two
years, with this difference, that in this
time it will be in a position 10 make its
obstructlveness little more effective
than it usually has been in the past four
or five decades.
But the question may be asked, "Does
not the defeat of the Republicans for the
house of representatives in 1910 portend
defeat for the presidency. as we'll as
for the house and in the senate, in 1922,
Not necessarily. The Democrats carried
the house in 1886, halfway in Cleve-
lands first term. Yet the Republicans
won the presidency and house in 1888,
and retained control of the senate. In
1874. in the middle of Grants second
term, the Democrats swept the country
for congress, but the Republicans elect
ed Hayes in 1876. InlS1s the Democrats
carried the house as we'll as the senate,
but the Republicans elected Garfield in
1881, and gained control of congress.
Two years after Pierce, democrat, car
ried every state for president except four,
and won an immense majority, the Re-
publicans wrested the house from
Pierce's party. But this did not bring a
Republican victory for president two
years afterward. although many Repub-
licans thought it would Buchanan,
Democrat, carried the country for presi-
dent in 1856, and he won the house of
representatives by safe majority. The
Republican defeat merely means that
there will be divided power in con-
gress for the next two years The Dem
ocratic house will have its hands tied
by the Republican senate. The battle
of 1912 is still to be fought, and nobody
can now tell the issues which will be up
then. II is altogether probable that the
great bulk of the insurgents will be back
in the ranks of the Republican party be-
fore the next lineup of the voters of the
nation takes place. The Republican
seceders of 1872 had as leaders far larger
personages than did the boilers of 1910,
yet much more than three-fourths OF
them were back in the Republican camp
before 1876 arrived, A few months
close association with the Democrats
convinced their Republican allies that
they had blundered. II is altogether
probable that like experience is just
ahead for the boilers in 1910. Senator
Cummins recently denounced the Dem
ocrats in more vigorous language than
any Republican in good standing in his
party has used. His characterization OF
his new confederates is correct. This
unholy alliance cannot stand the strain
of another campaign. When the proper
time comes 1912 will tell its own story