Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-06
moMxEylNG WITH THE Blzz SAW.

President Taft has decided to hang up
the patronage of all insurgent con-
gressmen and senators be true, the
president has put himself in an eX-
tremely poor position and the fake
submission of Aldrich and Cannon is
fully accounted for. Moreover, he is
emphasizing for the benefit of the
country at large the evil effectiveness
of the spoils system in the hands of
spoilsmen, and the weakness of an eX
ecutive who has been disappointment
Endorsement and the election
pledges Of the candidate and made
him the successor of a strong and sin
cere president.
Not that there should be complaint
because appointments are withheld but
because the sanction of the executive
is refused in order to serve his own
purposes and the purposes of those
who insist that congressman and SEN
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represent their constituencies. The
west is insurgent against the ancient
order 1t is progressive in the spirit
of equality between the interests OF
the individual and the monopolistic
trusts; it insists on recognition of
the right of the western farmer
equally with the desire and demand of
specially protected trusts and rnonop-
u plistic combinations and asserts as
Just the proposition that the consumer
md producer is TO be heard along
with the middleman. And it will OBJ
back with its own sticks that it may
be forced into line behind Cannon
and .Aldrich and the leadership of the
representatives of trusts and com bin
atoms.
The president and those of whom he
seems to stand in trembling awe are
misjudging the temper of the country
A presidential declaration of war upon
congressman whose pledges to their
own constituencies have left them but
one honorable and loyal path, is more
than a mistake. They are not tc
be headed off at a cross road and
turned aside at the crack of the whip
of patronage. They must stand where
they have been put by the people who
elected them. The president can leac
a horse to water but he can not make
him drink.
A great change has taken place
within decade; the thought anG
thoughtfulness of the great west has
arrived. 1t ponders, thinks and con
cludes. Daily mail routes the marvel.
Gus increase in newspaper subscribers
readers of magazines and periodical!
wherein subjects of public moment ar,
discussed and analyzed, all the multi
piled and multiplying sources of infor
NATION and publicity have combined
to produce new people. The western
AtlAicA, iHoilSdSe IiuueH by the lOal
sharks of the east has disappeared. II
his place has come a man who read
much, inquiries closely, weighs wild
judgment and arrives at conclusion
which are hard to shake. These con
illusions are not to be shifted at tn
command of special representatives c
special interests or because patron
age" is withheld.
1t is the fault of the Statesman
who has been long in Washington
see little beyond the capital and forge
much. Otherwise it must be know
that insurgency is simply a sing
manifestation of great public unre.
and dissatisfaction. The rank and fl
Of the republican party are in serior
revolt against the present leadershj
and that leadership constituted as it
arrogant in the misuse of delegate
power is pitfall in the path of cor
tinued party supremacy. The plat
cold truth is that with the Cannon
and Aldrichs in the saddle and pushir
things the strength of the republics
party is the weakness of any organize
opposition.