The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-14
THE MAINE UPHEAVAL.

great achievement. When in 1885,
Maine gave but $4,000 Republican ma
iority at the September election, the
Republican campaign was supposed tC
be hopeless. Much greater figures
than that were expected from Maine
and Grant and Conkling were called
upon to save the day and to open the
campaign in Ohio, which they did in
mastery style, rolling back the clouds
of defeat and putting the party on the
highway 10 victory.
But now. with an adverse plurality
of over 5000, with a loss of two out
of the four Representatives in Con
gress and with apparently loss Of
the legislature. insuring the election
of Democrat to succeed Senator Hale,
Maine as usual foreshadows the general
result, and it is abundantly evident that
the outlook for Republican success
this year in other States is exceedingly
dark, The Democrats apparently are
on the crest of victorious wave. and
will sweep the country, clectiue the
majority of Congress without any help
from the insurgent or progressive wing
of the Republican party. But then, in
Utah, we don't care for little thing
like this. As Smoot said when the
proposition Of Democratic victory
this year was put up TO him, "Whnt
the hell do / care?' And there YOU
are. The big Republican boss of Utah
does not care anything about il; he
would as lief the country would 90
Democratic as not He has announced
through his underllng, Sutherland, that
there is no insurgency or progressive
ness IN Utah, that the old church
clutch still holds, and that the Utah
vote will be delivered by the church
bosses as usual this year.
Undoubtedly. local issues had their
effect in the Maine election. AT the
same time. there is no doubt that in
Maine. as in other States, the great
ssue, the turning. point of the election,
hangs on the shameful BETRAYAL of the |
people s interests in the passage of the |
'unko tariff bill which puts the com
,ines, trusts, and monopolies in control |
If all the markets Of the country, and |
'uts the people at their service and
command.
During the pendency of this tariff
cvision i'll Congress last year, there
we're repeated warnings from all over
he country that the people expected
he Republican pledges TO be kept in
.ood faith in the revision downward
f the tariff. The insolent and false
eply that no pledge Of tariff revision
ownward had been made, seemed to
i've the political bosses enthroneG in
Washington a great deal of comfort
hey refused to listen to the muttcrings
discomfort among the people. They
,fused to consider that there could be
lch. thing as resentment at their be-
rayal of the public interests Their
epudiation of the Republican pledge {
revision downward as interpreted
y President Taft in his campaign ,
oeeches two years ago was defiant, AS ,
hey were there in an impregnablc ma
'rlty in Congress, they seemed to think
lat there WAS no way TO reach them, .
nat they must always be in the same 6
aJority and in the same arrogant :
osition TO defy the popular demand '
nd TO disregard the plain will Of the +,
cople and the pledges of their own I
irty, The elections this year afford the 8
rst opportunity the people have had f
J get at those contemplate, knavish i
osses, and they are getting at them in s
-eat style. This turnover in Maine is '
effect a political revolution. 1t =
oud not surprise us in the least to +
C Massachusetts, elect n Democratic 6
overnor this year, and we consider I
lat Connecticut is sure to do that, Ohio
already lost to the Republicans, so +
p as all expert estimates can make i
, and the House of Representatives is h
st lining up the same way. a
The Maine election gives loss Of a q
.nator to the Republicans and gain I
a Senator to the Democrats. The h
IS of Ohio. which we consider sure, u
III SucW IL ihE tudbEe III JutI otaIc.
lc result is already determined; all o
at remains is to score the vote. a
Republican success looks hopeless in q
ew York, with the prospective loss of b
othcr Senator by the Republicans b
ON that State, ~
1t is no pleasure to The Tribune TO "
us forecast disaster to the RepubIi- :,
n party, for the writer has been Re 3,
lblican from his youth up, his first =,
tie having been east for Lincoln, and .
iformly for Republicans and Republi- y
II principles to this day. But when =,
publican bosses defy the will Of their J.
IN party, take into their treacherous =,
nds the task of wrecking the party. r.
I'd defy the party principles, then it is II
nc to call halt, and if that halt :,
mot be enforced in any other way .
an by the defeat of the Republican
rty then that defeat is not only sure, ..
t must be welcomed by all patriotic :,
nds, as IL right and much-needed dis ;.