Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-06-20
INSURGENCY
According TO VIEW OF RADICAL
STANDPATTERS.
Yet the Republican Party Was Born
In insurgency, and Has Ever Since
Been "lnSuraing." A Nation OF
StandpatterS Would cffeCiually
Block Wheels of Progress.

Standpatters Would EffeCiually
Block Wheels of Progress.
| The P.I. issue of June IA, in an
editorial, says that insurgents, in the
name of the republican party, are un-
dertaking to "repudiate the pledges
of the republican party, to repudiate
it's leaders, it's principles, it's policies
and it's history" and concludes it's Will
son harrangue by saying:
This insurgency movement is
wicked movement; there is no ex-
cuse for it and republicans of
Washington should help to crush it."
| Insurgency is Christian movement.
1t is the salvation, the holy water, the
crown and help for all the masses,
and not the classes, Of the PEOPLE
of the United States.
But let us read from an editorial
appearing in the Sunday Seattle
Times, issue Of June 49,
"1he republican party had its birth
in 1S55-held it's first National con-
vention and put forth its first candi-
dates for the two highest Offices of
the land in lS56-demonstrate that
that party must have been composed
Of members Of other parties, or it
could never have been organized at
all.
1T is familiar to the students of po-
litical economy as well as political
history, that the republican party,
which elected Abraham Lincoln to the
presidency in 1860, was scarcely more
than five years Old when that import
ant event occurred.
prior thereto the great contending
parties were the Democratic and Whig
organizations-bu so thorough had
been the change from whig to republi-
can that no candidates were nominat-
ed by the former party after the first
contest in which Lincoln was elected.
"The entire whig party in less than
a decade was transferred bodily into
the republican party.
at was the pride of all parties for
nearly one hundred years after the
founding of The Republic, that gold
and silver of equal value under legal
ratio, was the money thereof.
But there came time when the
opinions of men began to differ as to
their monetary systems-and of sud-
den. as if it had been an enunciation
) from the very heavens itself, the re-
publican party in its platform of 1896
forsook it's idol of bimetallism, though
a century old, and set up for it's mon
etary god, gold monometalism.'
"The men who at the st. Louis Ma
tional convention made this sudden
turnabOut were among the greatest
leaders the republican party had ever
had-and the man whom they nomin-
ated upon that platform, William Nc
ir10 1nd Of fhn ,0Cf
earnest advocates of a contrary doc
trine
And yet, in spite of discussion
most widely extended and more fully
elucidated touching the monetary
question, William Mckinley was elect
ed president of the United States
within third year after he had chang
ed his mind about the monetary syS-
TEN of the country"
Our pilgrim forefathers We're in
surgents - insurging from religious
persecution. So was George Wash
ington-insurging from British rule.
So was the republican party when it
insurged, ignored the Monroe doctrine
and reached for more territory.
1t was an insurgent when it de-
clared war on the South-to abolish
slavery of the negro.
So was William Mckinley and his
followers, when they insurged from
their idol of bimetallism, though a
century old to that of-"gold mono
metallism."
How many of the standpat republ1-
cans will declare that the foregoing
insurgency" movements were wick
ed?"
They were not called upon to help
crush them. On the other hand they
were requested and eXhorted to ad-
vocate them.
The P.-I. always refers to and points
out that the republican party is the
party of Abraham Lincoln. SO it was,
years, years ago. But conditions of
political affairs have changed since
Lincoln's time, as conditions of the
world have done. And who really
knows but what the immortal Lincoln,
himself, were he living today, may
not have changed his mind as re-
gard many old-time republican tradi-
tions? The world changes. Men
change with it-condtions of political
affairs give them clean, clear, per-
feet title to do so.
Today the world itself is "insurg-
| ing"-if the term suits you.
| LUE F. VERNON