Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-29
Things You Want to Knew
Congressional Gam
paign - Insurgency
in 1910.

conspiring to disrupt tho union. When
jefferson purchased Louisiana the New
England federahsts began to talk Of So
accession.
Unable and unwilling to protect American
shipping from European insults by war JET
ferson and the democratic congress passed
the Embargo act. which forbade American
ships to sail from American ports TO ports
OF any foreign countries Suddenly the
great merchant marine which had been
seriously crippled by British and French
orders and decreee. was totally destroyed
by an American act OF congress. The om-
barge created the greatest Indignation On
New England but Il caused even greater
suffering in the strongly democratic states
Of the south. New England sim had rs
fisheries and it's budding manufactures.
The embargo act was q most complete
protection against foreign competition
and the manufacturing state OF Pennsyl-
vania profited moro than IL lost. But Viz.
glnia was psralyzed.
The rederalists made the mistake "
openly sympathizing with England and ~
tactly encouraging disuuionism. The cam
/ pagn OF 1905 was bitterly fought but the
/ federalists were under suspicion OF dis
/ loyalty and the democrats achieved an
other overwhelming party victory. The Elm
barge act was repealed, and a Non-lnter-
/ course act substituted for IL, which, in
/ stead OF forbiddlng all commerce prohib-
tied only that with England and France.
/ In the meantime the British arrogance
was becoming more and moro intolerable.
/ British warships insolently patrolled the
entrances to Chesapeake Bay and New
York harbor. The British ship, Leopard,
captured and searched the American fri
gate Chesapeake. within a few miles OF
Norfolk The people were furious, but
neither jefferson nor Madison was willing
to 20 to war TO avenge the honor OF the
republic.
When the campaign OF 1910 opened the
people Of the whole country were furious
against England. with one voice they
cried for war They disapproved of the
weak and vaccilaung policy of Madison
and Jefferson, but they hated even more
the federalsts who were openly ympathiz-
ing with England. They resolved to elect
a congress which would substitute aggres-
2 sive measures for defensive policies, and
J yet they were unwilling to turn out the
= democrats by voting IN the federalists,
In nearly every congressional district In
I the whole country, the younger and more
T hot-headed element in the democratic
party put forward candidate for congress
who was pledged to the policy Of aggres-
p sion, even to the extent Of favoring sec
I ond war with England. These candidates
!, were nearly all young men, and the move
o ment responsible for their candidacy took
4 on the name of Young American" and
e. they we're known as Young Republicans. "
d Their political standing was very much the
n same as that OF the lnsurgent republicans,
e who are now, century later, giving an
n other off year election unusual interest
j. and Importance
d The young republican movement was sue
d cessful and of the 142 men who sat in the
; eleventh congress, sixty-one were defeated
o for reelection At the same time the fed
J. eralists lost ground in both houses of con
n gress and when the new congress- met the
3 house was composed Of thirty-siX federal
It lists and lO5 democrats, while in the senate
J. there were only six federalists and thirty
IS democrats The victory was complst@
@ Young America was in the saddle, thf
,r Of the fathers was done and the re-
blity for government now had p
& the sons.
n This was a new generation II ,
At concerned with the Issues which
lie vided the people in the trying
4 tween the close OF the revolution a
e. adoption OF the constitution. 1t no
ia feared the possibility Of a monarchiatr res
Is tablishment. 1t no longer was concerne
d. with abstract problems involving the form
g. Of government The constitution was &C
n, cepted. the union was formed. and nov
IN Young America was determined to estab
lish industrial prosperity, even at the eN
Id pense of political peace.
no While many OF the fathers stin were
no linger on the stage for several years
he come, this insurgent movement of 1910 a.
ed tually marked the beginning OF the secon
no epoch in the personnel of American states
IA. manship, II resulted in bringing Clay an
nv Calhoun into leadership; It brought job
a Quincy Adams into the democratic folC
ia II destroyed the dominanoy of federalis
On even in Massachusetts; it made inevitab
nv the far OF 1872, and II confirmed the nj
a tOnal independence and the national n
an spOnsibllity Of the American republic.
~ The election Of 1910 made certain the col
.as tinued dominancy of the democratic par
by effecting a radical and fundament
he revolution in the doctrines and tenents
m that organization. Young republicans
n. had the sympathy and support Of pract
Il cally all the people, to the extent that Il
~. years later Monroe received every elector
NJ. vote but one, and even that one was ca
,o, for another democrat. Fourteen yea
ms later there was but one party in the oOu
,ot try-the democratic
thei BX FREDERIC J. HABKm.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Campaigns.
OF YI-Ths Revolt o. the People.