Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-01-27
PEACEMANER TAFT
PRESIDENT TAFT HAS INSUBOR.
DINATE PARTY TO HANDLE.
HIS Faculty of Healing Breaches Will
Be Taxed to Preserve Peace in
congress. The Situation Seems
to l.diCafe New alignment OF
National Parties.

National Parties.
blessed are the peacemakers. is
a Deat1tude which admiring friends
OF Mr.. Taft have often quoted as an
ipllcable to him. Nor was this praise
wholly without reason and Justice.
Although capable Of excessive irrita-
tion and Indignation on unusual pro-
vocation Mr.. Taft's ordinary temper
and habit of mind is sunny and good
humored. He has charm in his per-
sonal manner and he has shown in
the small matters of life and in many
great ones, tact and skill in harmon
lZlng differences and soothing ami
mosities. He has poured oil on many
troubled waters. In the Philippines,
between native and FOREIGNER, be-
tween soldier and civilian. between
ecclesiastc and layman, and even be-
tween intolerant Catholics and intol-
Grant Protestants. he was exceeding
~ successful under trying circum-
stances in negotiation and accom-
mOdatlCn. In Cuba, q marked and
unexpected success attended similar
excl lions to secure mutual cOnceS-
sion and accommodation between
hostile and contending factions But
in MS attempt 10 bring about recon-
Citation between the differing and
rapidly discovering wings of his own
political party which unitedly placed
him in the position Of its loader and
elected him President, he has entire
lY rallied. What is the reason?
1t seems TO us that the reason is
not fal to seek, and That IT. is full
iol nope for the future OF democracy
and true progress III the politics of
the United States. HAD the conflict
now openly III progress between the
Warring divisions 81 the Republican
party been superficial; had it been
over patronage or sprung from per-
sonal devotion 10 different leaders;
mad 1t even been only sectional, Nh.
ialt would nave scored another tri-
umph as peacemaher and comprom-
lser. But the differences were and
are on otner and moro fundamental
INES 1hey are differences 80ing
to the very bottom or u social and
political life. On one side are the
sturdy defenders OF privilege and
monopoly which have been in these
| later years turning the Republican
party OF ilncoln times into a far
different Kind OF an organization. On
the other are men democratic at
heart who have never broken away
! from the nominal political aftllia-
tlonS winch mad become to them al
most sacrasanct, and those OF
younger generation who have joined.
as they supposed, the party OF the
polltlcal falth OF their fathers. and
are discovering that 1t is leading
them to an entirely different social
economic and ethical creed. They,
too, at heart are lovers OF liberty,
equal opportunity and true democ-
racy. between these wings OF the
party, differing on fundamental and
basic principles, no final peace is to
be secured by negotiator, however
tacttul, however nen-committal, and
in whatever position of power and
leadership he may be.
This is the cause of Mr.. Taft's
failure. 1t points directly to a new
alignment OF parties, and to that
cleavage on vital issues which Will
bring the true democrats in both
parties into political struggle, not
between themselves, but against
foe. Whether in such contest, pres
ent party names, full as they are of
historical association and sentiment
al connotations, will give way to
others; or whether there will be an
exchange OF prisoners, and each
party, honeycombed as it is with per-
sons dissenting from its present dom
inant and more or less clearly indi-
Gated tendencies will purge itself of
those dissindents, cannot yet be fore
seen, nor is it in any wide sense ma
terial The fact remains that the
portents are all of a restatement of
political issues and new birth of
democratic feeling. 1t Is needless to