The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-18
INSURGENTS WIN SOME MORE

victory for the insurgent candidate
for governor, Mr.. Hiram johnson. The
stand pat Congressman has also been
defeated, and the insurgent renominat-
ed. The returns also indicate the NOM
inatlon of Mr.. John D. Works for the
United States Senate to succeed Sena-
tor Flint. 1t appears, in fact, to be
sweeping insurgent victory IN Califor-
MIA all along the line.
In Nebraska the returns are close,
but the vote seems to have gone
against the bryan candidate for nom,
ination by the Democrats, Mr.. Hitch
cock beating Metcalfe, editor of Mr..
Bryan's Comoner, for the party choice
for the Senate by a substantial
vote is close but the indications are
that the insurgents carried their can
didates.
The great victories of thr insurg
erts or progressive Republicans this
year are extremely significant signs
of the times. 1t will need but little
more of such victories to assure them
the control of the Republican party.
The stand -patters appear to be hope
lessly left behind by the voters of the
Republican party whenever straight
forward, clear test is made.
1t is extremely encouraging to see
that the people reject the stand pat
leaders who exercised such misera-
bly, bad faith in the concoction of the
bunko tariff law. The people at heart
are honest. and while they may be be-
| trayed by their servants they take
those servants and vindicate them
selves, and that Just now appears to
be the proper and diligent work of
the Republican party voters-to vindl-
cate themselves and their party from
the bad faith and evil tactics exer-
cised upon the American people and
against their party pledges by the
stand pat gang In Congress last year.
II was all very well for that gang to
get together and patch up a fraudulent
bill III bad faith to the people of the
United States and in repudiation of
terpreted by President Taft in his
campaign speeches, but the awakening
was bound TO come, and the bump
tious, faithloss representatives who
in effect joined with Apostle Smoot of
Utah in his cry, "What the hell do l
care?' are now facing the reckoning
that the people demand. Smoot S dec
laraton was made, it will be remem~
bered, when the carded wool manu-
| facturers pointed out to him the in.
justice of not protecting them and at
the same time protecting the worsted
woolen manufacturers. They Justly
said that If protection is d vitally
necessary principle for the American
people and for the Republican party,
| III is Just as necessary for the carded
wool manufacturers as for the other
manufacturers and they pointed out
that if this unjust discrimination was
made against them the fraudulent ma.
ture of the tariff law would be appar-
ent and the Republican voters of the
country would be likely to repudiatc
those who made up that faith break.
lug measure and go Democratic.
Smoot's retort, "What the hell do i
care?" is well attested by those who
were present and heard it,
a fine expression, surely, for an
apostle of the church to make, and an
utterly reckless, scandalous decIara~
tion for politician who claims TO be
| ffol1 ,nfa foI in, ha III
success of the Republican party. Smoot
stands as the church Republican boss
IN Utah, made SO by the church vote
and the church Influence. If he does
not care whether the country goes
Democratic or not, where are his Re-
publican principles7 And if protec-
tion is vital issue, is a vital inter
est in American industrial life, why
should that protection be denied to
the carded wool manufacturers while
it is extended to the worsted wooden
manufacturers7 His position in this
is quite as inconsistent as his faithless
declaration that he did not care ga
cratic or not.
II is this sort of faithless work, this
dishonest trickery. this reckless favor
itism to certain interests in the bunko
tariff law and its oppression of other
interests. without regard to the inter
ests of the American people at large,
| that caused the honest, conscientious
! Republicans in Congress who are
known as insurgents or progressives to
break with the stand pat gang when
the latter undertook to enact this
fraudulent tariff law; and their proper
course. the vindicntion of principle
shown on the part of those progressive
Republicans, is what makes them fav-
orites with the people, and wins the
progressive Republican triumphs of
which we have seen an almost ,un;;
broken line since the people have had
a chance to speak and pronounce
Judgment on the bunko tariff law, and
the faith breaking gang that fraudu'
llently enacted it.
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