The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-04-10

AWAKENING
OVERWHELMING DEFEAT IN
MANY CITIES AND STATES
CAUSE THEM TO REALIZE SEN.
TIMENT OF PEOPLE.
BY Tavenner.

Washington, April 9.-"Three cities
in Maine go Democratic! Republicans
overwhelmingly beaten in Massachu-
shetts."
Such messages as this have awak-
ened the Republican leaders to full
realization of the sentiment of the
country They have at last taken
cogniZance of the political signboard
which reads: stop, Look. Listen."
President Taft has iabored under
the false belief that insurgency was
practically confined to such states as
Wisconsin, Iowa and Kansas. Now it
develops that insurgency extends from
Maine to California. It appears in the
former state in opposition to the re-
election of Senator Hale. insurgency
broke out long ago in California in
the form of the Lincoln-Rooseyelt
league. The Republican party in In
diana is rent Squarely by the same
force that has divided it in Iowa and
Kansas. Ohio, too, is in the thrOes
of the malady. New York Republicans
are divided, and insurgency exists in
every Republican state in the union.
| The Republican leaders have revealed
| a political blindness that has been
almost inceiyable, as regards their es-
timation of the proportions OF the in'
| surgency movement. But now they
see it, one and all. The regulars are
trembling. The average Republican
| is willing to admit, though perhaps not
for publication, that the next house
will be Democratic. Here are a few
of the straWs which nave each played
part in awakening the Republicans
to realization of their peril:
| The anti-rules outbreak in the
| house.
The Democratic landslide in the re
cent fourteenth Massachusetts con
gressional election, in which Eugene
n. Foss, Democrat, was victorious
with a plurality OF $40, as against a
Republican plurality Of 14,250 only
| two years ago.
The sudden departureSof ex-Forester
! Clifford Pinchot for Europe, called
there presumably by cablegram from
The rel reported refusal of James R
| Garfield to run for governor Of Ohio
on the Taft policies.
The Democratic victories In the
| local elections of Maine.
The 100 per cent. gain made by
Dickinson, the Democratic candidate
over the plurality of the previous
Democratic candidate, in the sixth Mis-
souri, congressional election.
The result of the Success Magazine
straw ballot, which showed 517 Repub
licans approving, and 6,313 disapprov
ing the attitude of Aldrich (approved
by the preSident) on the tariff
The reducing Of the majority of the
Republican governor of Massachusetts
in an election in which the new tariff
law was the main issue, from 10000
to 5000.
How do the Democrats view the
situation, is asked. Chairman James
I. Lloyd, of the Democratic congr $
siondl campaign committee, believes
| the next house will be Democratic
But he believes it will be Democratic
only if the Democrats throughout
the country take advantage of their
opportunities. Success will depend
not only upon effective work in coun
ties, cities. wards and precincts.
|, Let us not have repetition Of
1880" said an Old Southern Democrat
to the writer In that year, not long
befor~ tho general election, Maine
went strongly Democratic Yet Gar
field, Republican, won handlly."