The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-07-27
MAN
NOT PARTY
Not a Question Of Partisan Doc
trine, But of Getting the Right
Person Elected.
DEMOCRATS URGED
TO AID INSURGENTS
Senator La Follette's Magazine
Asks All Progressives to Unite
to Protest Against Pillage.

MADlSON, w u.s., july 2o.-AdVlSlnE
the progressives in all political par
ties to unite in common struggle
against Big Business" Senator La
Toilette in this weeks issue of La
Follettes Weekly Magazine, asks the
people in the coming primaries and
elections to place true representa-
tive government on higher plane
than party fealty Otherwise it will
mean that you may vote for a party
label and get not even a shadow of
representation" Published as it Is in
the same issue with an article by
Judge Ben B Lindsey, of Colorado,
urging every progressive dem ocrat to
lend his strength to the reelection of
insurgent republicans like Beveridge,
LaFollette and Dolliver," it is one
of the first indications that Senator
LaFollette will attempt to arraign
the progressives of all parties to fight
the Money Power" in politics
1T is not a question of republican
doctrine or of democratic doctrine"
says Senator LaFollette 1T is a
question of getting the right man
elected to Office
For the issue today is not between
parties We are not engaged in a con-
test to determine whether democratic
doctrine" or republican doctrine"
shall prevail 1t is a struggle between
special privilege and public welfare.
And good citizenship demands that
the people present a united front
against the common enemy. Repub-
lican Aldrich and Democrat Foster
united Big Business. Democratic
Fitzgerald and Republican Cannon
join hands against the people. Why
not, then, Mr.. Progressive Democrat,
and Mr.. Progressive Republican,
stand together for the cause of pop
ular government"
Lindsey an Ally.
In a similar vein Judge Lindsey de-
clares that he considers it the high
est duty of a Progressive Democrat to
lend any strength he may have to the
reelection of Insurgent Republicans"
1.-THE real struggle is not between
the two old parties, as now constitut-
ed. 1t is between the people and
privilege; and that contest is really
between these contending forces with
in each of the old parties. There
the struggle will go on until one or
the other is free. Intelligent and
patriotic citizens will therefore vote
for the man rather than for the par
ty, no matter what the politicians say.
I'VE are on he eve of he fiercest
struggle since the civil Wharf.-The new
struggle between human rights and
property rights, privilege and the peo-
ple-and in such a struggle it is a
part of the conspiracy of confusion by
the special interests to use the slo-
gan of party advantage against the
man who rings true. To follow such
false trial is not only the height of
folly, but it is the height of treason"
Protest Against Pillagc.
"Consider it the duty of a Pro-
surgent republican who is already in
congress, and has stood against Cam
nonism and Aldrichism, even if that
insurgent is opposed by a Progressive
Democrat who stands for precisely
the same thing. In the first place,
progressive democrat had no business
opposing an insurgent republican who
is marked for slaughter by those in
terests whose unjust aggressions he
dared to oppose. And where demo-
cratic politicians for mere party gain
seek the defeat of an insurgent re-
publican, the democratic voters should
rise above the appeal of partisanship
and respond to the appeal to patriot
ism. They should rebuke those who
would thus become the conscious or
unconscious tools of pillage within
their own party. They can do 1t best
by voting so as to insure the triumph
of the insurgent republican, thereby
standing best by their party, what
ever its name. For after all the real
party is not the name, but the idea
the spirit of protest against pillage."