The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-06-17
The Flag is Still There.

dorsed. the Payne tariff act was
praised, and stalwart party deliver
ance was framed. This action was sig
nifcant Wisconsin is the state of
Senator La Toilette and Representa-
tive Lenroot. 1t is the birthplace and
radiating. center of insurgency. La
Toilette took to the warpath against
the Republican party earlier than did
Senator Cummins, and long before
Senator Dolliver or Repre- sentative
Murdoch. For more than half
dozen years he has been called Bry-
an Republican. Bryan, in 1908 and
earlier, claimed La Toilette as JEFF.
fersonian Democrat, which means
Democrat who stands for the fads
which were engrafted on the Demo
cratic creed in 1896, 1900 and 1903
1t has been assumed that La Toilette
and his lieutenant Lenroot, controlled
their state. But the Wisconsin Repub
licans have just repudiated La Toilette,
Bryan and their socialistic and pop
ulistic follies.
And just as this victory for robust
Republicanism was being achieved in
Wisconsin the final returns were COM
ing in frcm Iowa, which show that
the Republican victory in that state
was greater than the earlier accounts
indicated. Gov. Carroll, the straight.
out Republican candidate for re cleo
ton, has far longer lead over his in
surgent opponent, Warner Garst, than
the first returns foreshadowed. Sena-
tor Cummins, who went from Wash
ington at a critical stage in the rail
way bills fortunes to assist Garst in
the canvass against Carroll, is repu-
dated by his own state, and his pres
tige is seriously assailed. His strut
during the remainder of the term will
be less impressive than it has been
since the beginning of the special ses-
sion a year and quarter ago. From
present indications he will fare badly
in the state convention in August. The
regulars have secured large ma
jority of the delegates to that gather
ing They will control all the COM
will frame platform which
win praise the national administra-
ton, which will indorse the Payne
tariff, against which Cummins and
Dolliver fought, and they will urge
the people of their respective districts
to re-elect Smith and the one or two
other Iowa congressman who remained
loyal to their party throughout the
term. Moreover, the convention will |
be likely to condemn Cummins and |
Dolliver for impeding the national |
and for fighting against |
their party.
While the victory for the regulars
in Pennsylvania last week does not |
surprise anybody, those triumphs in |
Iowa and Wisconsin are particularly |
gratifying to Republicans all over the |
They show that even in its
especial and recognized Businesses in
surgency is not as formidable as had
been supposed. Moreover, they show
hat it is losing ground. Evidently it |
g not as strong in either Of those |
states as it was last September, when
Mr.. Taft went through them on his
our to the Pacific. La Toilette, Cum
Minis, Dolliver and their associates
lad just finished their fierce but in
effective fight against their party's
;ariff bill, and the country believed
hat their states stood by them in
the pledge made by the
platform of 1908, when their party
lad just carried out. But everybody
low sees that those senators do not
epresent the views of the people who
lected them. Walter l. Smith of the
linth Iowa congressional district,
gainst whom Cummins made an es-
'ecial fight, is renominated by large
majority. He is one of the inner cir
lie of the organization forces in the
louise. On all the divisions on the
ariff, the railway bill and the rest of
he important measures on the Re-
ublican programme he has stood by
is party. For this reason he was
ingled out for especial assault by
,ummins and Dolliver. A man of
bility and personal popularity was
ut up against him by the insurgents,
nd he made an active canvass Ev-
~ insurgent paper in the state, fol-
owing the advice of the states two
enators, attacked Smith, and urged
is defeat. But they have been re.
liked with an emphasis which has
urprised and pleased Republicans ev.
rywhere. Naturally, Smith is re-
ewing congratulations not only from
is fellow. Republicans in each branch .
{ Congress, but from members of the
arty in private life from other states.
IVA and Wisconsin have set the seal |