Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-09-29
"JUST PLAIN REPUBLICANISM."
This is the Kind of Talk Vice.
President Sherman Thinks The
Country Ought to Have.
81. Louis Gtobe-Democrdt:

ST. Louis Globe Democrat:
sJust plain Republicanism," was
Vice President Sherman's answer when
asked what particular points he would
emhasize in his speech in Guthrie. His
audience showed, too, that this was the
sort of talk, which it wanted. In its
partisan sense the word Republicanism
ought to be descriptive enough to tell
what it means, without any explana-
tions. In these days, however, the
country is listening to talk in different
directions from persons calling them
selves Republicans which deserve some
other name. But the kind which
Guthrie heard from Vice President
Sherman and ex-Representative James
E. Watson of Indiana needed no quail
fieations or notifications to enable 1T
to come under that classification.
They told the benefits which the Payne
Tariff is comforting upon the country,
mentioned the aid which the postal
savings bank is likely to bring to the
Southwest, and warned their hearers
against the apathy or the folly which
would permit the Democrats to carry
the country in November.
Guthrie is a stalwart Republican
center, just as every other community
in Oklahoma is in which the Vice
President spoke. The same is true of
the points at which he has appeared in
Illinois and Missouri. Those three
states take their Republicanism
straight. While they are in the In
surgent belt, they are not hospitable to
insurgency. The Republican members
of Congress from Missouri and Okla
homa were on the orthodox side in
every division of the special and the
regular sessions of the sixty-first Con-
gress. The same is true of the Illinois
Republican members, except in a few
cases. No Republican need be ash am
ed of the position which the members
of his party in Congress from Miss
ouri and Oklahoma took on the lead
ing issues of the period which has
elapsed since the Sixty-first Congress
assembled in extra session at the mid
die of March 1909. And a large ma
iorfty of the Illinois members have al
so been on the right side on all the i'm
portant questions. In no community
in which the Vice-President has spoken
while on his tour have the Republican
masses been called upon to apologize
for anything which their representa-
tives in Congress have said or done.
1t will be we'll for the Republicans of
the rest of the country to understand
that insurgency has not so much of a
hold on the West as is popularity sup
posed. That fad has captured Indiana,
Kansas and Iowa, but it has not gone
much further. 1t won only fictitious
victory in Nebraska, where the Repub-
licans have re-nominated Senator Bur
kett, a stalwart.
Representative Tawney, the only
stalwart in the Minnesota delegation,
was marked for retirement by some of
the pseudo Republicans OF his district,
but there can be no reasonable doubt
that he will get a denomination. lie
has bsen an alert, faithful and indus
trious member of the party, aud Re-
publicans all over the country hope
that he will win at the primary In the
coming Congress the Republican party
will need all the loyal representatives
whom 1t can get. Many important
questions which will be presented in
the short session in December of this
year will have to be handed over "a
the long session of the new Congress.
On this account there is an especial in
centive for the nomination and elec'
tion of men whose Republicanism will
need no explanations or apologies
The canvass for such Republicans vii
be aided by the kind of speeches whict
Mr.. sherman has been making. The
Republican Congressional Commute,
made To mistake when II sent the Vice
President on his speaking tour through
this region At every point on the RI
publican line stalwarts should be plac
ed on guard.
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