The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-09
HATERS OF "INSURGENTS.

HATERs OF INSURGENTS"
Those who hate Independent per
sonal thought and action, are not only
falsifying the record in respect to the
action of the so-called Republican Con
gressmen, but the pinheads among
them are urging the driving of these
Insurgents out of the Republican
party and defeating them in its con-
ventions and at the polls. Such ad-
vice, faithfully followed, would make
absolutely sure the triumph of the
Democratic party not only in the Con
gressional elections next fall, but IN
the Presidential election of 1912.
The "organ of the Republican party
| in Utah. otherwise known rs the
Smoot booster, is of the latter class.
1t wants Senator Beveridge down and
out OF the Republican party, in spite
of the fact that the Republicans Of
Indiana Loyalty supported him in
their recent convention. Its utterance
on this point is as follows:
Taking the tariff law as test of Re-
publicanism. and II must be regarded as
| such since IL was passed by Republi-
! can Congress and approved by q Re-
| publican President, Senator Beverage is
outside the pale OF the party, and the
concerned, The tariff Will be the domi-
nant issue OF the next campaign almost
to a certainty. Mr.. Beveridge should
join the free trade Democrats at once,
| and at the same time attempting TO set
| a fire in the rear OF the party 10 which
| he processes TO belong.
That rule would sink the Republican
party in Indiana out of sight. And
il is not endorsed by any Republican
Of sense. in Utah or elsewhere. The
Ogden Standard decidedly objects 20
it, saying in opposition;
The worst enemy to the Republican
| partv is the fellow, claiming TO be a
| within the party who assert their indi-
viduality and attempt TO correct wrongs
real or imaginary. with which they be
| leve the party to be afflicted. Senator
| Beveridge favors a more liberal reduc-
| ton OF the tariff schedules on those
trust controlled articles. the, prices OF
| which can be arbitrarily fixed by virtue
of the fact that they are highly protect
| ed BY reason OF that position. he does
not lose his identity as a Republican
bur stands out prominently as leader
| right as he sees II and who labors to
guide the Republican voyasers away
! from the breakers Just ahead.
Senator Bcveridge has taken no more
| radical or progressive position than did
| James G Blaine, when the plumed
| knight declared for reciprocity, which is
| nothing but limited free trade under
more pleasing name.
Since the tremendous growth In our
| eXoprt trade, in which nearly every arti-
Gle Of manufacture has been represented.
I,l,. ~ alr-1
passed and today the tariff stands. not
so much as the instrument for spanning
the difference between the cost OF labor
| In foreign lands and In America as an
| equitable method Of raising revenue for
| the government.
President Taft was a good Republican
Of the Dingley bill. although that meas
ure had the stamp OF the Republican
party. and Roosevelt. ahead OF TAFT:
was good Republican when he declared
| for a reduction Of the tarln on trust
monopoized articles.
That the Republican party within its
organization voices protest against an
| extreme partisan View on tariff should
| be accepted as conducive 10 that nice
| balance which. when II leads TO COM
promise, stands for that gradual pro-
gressive evolution which even nature
marks as having the sanction of an all
wise Intelligence.
II the Insurgents were to be stthed,
the Republican party would lose mighty
| party is not obligated TO concede all the
insurgents demand but the protest with
In the party calls for advancement In
| response TO the requirements of the
times and which tends TO prevent mar
rowness OF view. should be received In
a spirit Of tolerance. for by so doing the
PARTY Will be strengthened and made
| more responsive 10 the Will Of the people.
From which it appears that Glas'
mann is himself an insurgeDt on the
tariff; else how could he say that "the
tariff stands, not so much as the IN
strument for spanning the difference be
tween the cost of labor in foreign lands
and in America, as an equitable method
of raising revenue for the Govern
ment7' Which is a square condemna'
tion of protection, and declaration in
favor of the old free.trade cry for
ga tariff for revenue only
Bot the real aim of the Smoot organ
was not Beveridge; it was the rather
small but earnest and active band of
real Republicans in this State who OBJ
ject to the offensive rule and dictation
Of the "Federal bunch" in politics
and their hoggishness in permanent
holding on to office and controlling the
public patronage for themselves and
their relatives and close clingers. II
is these voters that the Smoot paper
wants to kick out of the party, the
only real, vital element in it The
ring is in the party for the spoils. The
} ''insurgents are in it for principle
the gang are in it for what they
can grab. And the grabbers want to
; shake themselves clear of the men OF