Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-06-16
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REPUBLlCANISM VICTORIOUS

REPUBllCANISM VIZ lOniOOo
St. Louis Globe Democrat: Wiscon-
sin repeats the story told by Pennsyl-
yania and Iowa, and yesterday, in the
republican state convention IN MIL
waukee, President Taft was indorsed,
the Payne tariff act was praised, and
a stalwart party deliVerance was
framed. This action is significant.
Visions in is the state of Senator La
Toilette and Representative Lenroot.
1t is the birthplace and radiating cen
ter OF insurgency. La Toilette took
to the warpath against the republican
party earlier than did Senator Cum
Minis, and long before Senator Dol
liver or Representative Murdoch. For
more than half a dozen years he has
been called a Bryan republican. Bry-
an, in 1908 and earlier, claimed La
Toilette as a Jeffersonian democrat
which means a democrat who stands
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the democratic creed in 1896, 1900
and 1908. 1t has been assumed that
La Toilette and his lieutenant, Len
root, controlled their state. But the
Wisconsin republicans have just re-
pudiated La Toilette, Bryan and their
socialistic and populistic follies.
And just as this victory for robust
republicanism was being achieved in
Wisconsin, the final returns were
coming in from Iowa, which show
that the republican victory in that
state was greater than the earlier &C
counts indicated. Governor Carroll,
the straight-out republican candidate
for reelection, has a far longer lead
over his insurgent opponent, Warner
Garst, than the first returns foreshad-
owed. Senator Cummins, who went
from Washington at a critical stage
in the railway bills fortunes to as
sist Garst in the canvass against
Carroll, is repudiated by his own
state, and his prestige is seriously
assailed. His strut during the re-
mainder OF the campaign will be less
impressive than it has been since the
beginning of the special session
year and quarter ago. From pres
ent indications he will fare badly in
the state convention in August. The
regulars have secured large major
ity of the delegates to that gather
ing. They will control all the COM
mittees, will frame a platform which
will praise the national administra-
ton, which will indorse the Payne
tariff, against which Cummins and
Dolliver fought, and they will urge
the people of their respective dis
tricts to reflect Smith and the one
or two other Iowa congressman who
remained loyal to their party through
out the term. Moreover, the conven-
ton will be likely to condemn Cum
minis and Dolliver for impeding the
national administration and for fight
ing against their party.
While the victory for the regulars
in Pennsylvania last week does not
surprise anybody, those triumphs in
Iowa and Wisconsin are particularly
gratifying to republicans all over the
country. They show that even in its
especial and recognized Businesses in
surgency is not as formidable as had
been supposed. Moreover, they show
that it is losing ground. Evidently it
is not as strong in either of those
states as it was last September, when
Mr.. Taft went through them on his
tour to the Pacific. La Toilette, Cum
minis, Dolliver and their associates
had just finished their fierce but in
effective fight against their party's
tariff bill, and the country believed
that their states stood by them in
repudiating the pledge made by the
platform of 1908, which their party
had just carried out. But everybody
now sees that those senators do not
represent the views of the people who
elected them. Walter I. Smith of the
Ninth Iowa congressional district
against whom Cumnins made an es