Arizona republican., 1910-06-10
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, JUNE 10. 1910.
The Real Cause of Insurgency.

Vice President Sherman's speech to
 the republicans of Wisconsin at their state convention Wednesday night, in
 which he urged party regularity" is
 of course but one of many such
 speeches which the republican elector- ate of the country will read and con-
 sider in the coming campaign. The complete text of the vice presidents remarks is not at hand. but presuma-
 ply the speech followed the familiar lines of urging republicans to stand
 by the acts of the majority of the party in congress-; that it argued for the party system of government, and insisted that we cannot have success ful party government unless the mi nority of the party yields in good faith to the majority
 MT. Sherman and the other honOred leaders of the party who will be heard on the stump this year already recognize that there is a serious division in the republican ranks, and they will do their utmost to allay the insurgent spirit by appealing to the party spirit of all republican voters In view of their intelligent recognition of the fact of discontent, it seems somewhat strange that the leaders who make these proper ap- peals for party regularity have failed for the disturbing spirit of insurgency.
 That they will find it necessary to frankly recognize this reason before the end of the campaign, seems to us obvious Baldly stated, the strength ot the insurgent movement is not due to the differences of opinion which exist in republican ranks over tariff schedules; it is not due to differences of opinion as to the kind of a con- servation law we should have; it is not due to differences of opinion as to the wording of new railroad legis- lation. These and other differences have provoked much acrimonious de bate in congress and have caused tenn porary divisions among republicans in the senate and house. But the spirit of republican discontent is caused by the belief, widely entertained, that the majority is not fairly obtained. iC hn force of the insurgent movement.
 A dangerously large number of re- publicans believe that the voice of the real republican majority in congress is frequently suppressed. They believe, that Senator Aldrich, at the head of a compact New England coterie and having Speaker Cannon as his ally. has by unfair and dishOnorable means time after time extorted majority" from the republican membership that was not expressive of the sentiments of that membership.
 We are not undertaking at this time to say how much justification there is for this belief; it is not to the point to speculate as to the extent to which republican voters have been misled by disappointed politicians and by a so-called independent press which is notoriously hostile to Presi- dent Taft and to the republican party. We are concerned only with the fact that the belief exists, and that 1t is the force behind insurgency. While l passing the subject, however, we can mention statehood for Arizona and New Mexico as an indisputable in stance of fine work in the suppress sion of the majority in congress Every intelligent observer of the progress of statehood measures during l the recent years knows that if the majority in either the Sixtieth or the Sixty first congress to date could have been heard there would have been an overwhelming vote in favor of admis- sion.
 Government by the majority IS principle ingrained in the American character The minority cheerfully submits to the majority, provided al- ways that the majority is fairly ob- tained. There would be very little republican insurgency anywhere If 1t were not for the conviction, widely | prevalent, that the republican rank and file has been denied a square deal in the halls of congress.
 Vice President Sherman and the other leaders of the party will find it necessary to keep these facts in [ mind in their campaign speeches. if appeals to party loyalty are to be made as effective as they should be.