The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25
Insurgency and the Insurgents.

Gratis were hailing it as good sign,
disposed to sympathize and to make
common cause with it, we showed that
it bore the cloven foot. The Devil
was sick, Insurgency was nostrum.
Only this and nothing more.
The Republican party is nothing il
lot a Protectionist. Take from it the
advocacy of the High Tariff, and
nothing remains. If the people want
Low Tariff-a Revenue Tariff-they
need 60 no further than the Demo-
Gratis, who, whatever their differences
as to incidentals, are agreed and uni
fed On the Revenue as against the
Protectionist principle.
AS no Prohibitionist can be DEM
ocrat and no Democrat a Prohibition
list, so no Democrat can be a Protec-
zionist and no Protectionist can be
Democrat.
Beverage made thoroughly disin-
genuous canvass Of Indiana. He de-
served to lose and he did lose. He
could not fool the people. But Cum
Minis, arrived by process of elimina-
ton at least to leadership in Iowa,
threw off the mask and showed us In
surgency for precisely what it is,
dough-face in Liberalism, a Trojan
horse of Republicanism. The state
ment which he made i'm his Chicago
speech that he would rather suffer
the mistakes and inequalities of the
Payne-Aldrich tariff law for thou
sand years than to suffer the disaster
of the Democratic theory of the tariff
for a single month";" revealed him a
rank partisan of the foulest type. 1t
meant, il it meant anything at all,
IL I, +nw%
that makes wholesale extortion COM
mon than accept the honest dogma Of
tariff for revenue only.
He went even further than this, and
dived yet deeper into the mud of
partyism, when he said that he would
not accept the best Democrat on earth
as a substitute for any Republican
whatsoever. This after all his bold
professions and lofty pretenses, was
to say that much as he pretended to
dislike Senator Aldrich and Uncle
Joe Cannon and their practices, he
would prefer them to Democrats like
Harmon and Wilson, Dix and Gaynor.
A man who talks SO has neither cour-
age nor principle.
Commenting upon this attitude of
the Iowa Senator toward the close of
the late campaign and showing it's in
consistency, the Milwaukee Journal
made some observations which are
still pertinent and relevant and may
be read with profit. We produce them
as follows
THE head and front of the offenses
against party solidarity which the
Insurgents committed was their OPP
position to the Payne-Aldrich tariff
ronofod1Ir 1n01a rod
that this measure was dishonest and
made in the Republican national plat
form To advocate the reelection now
of Cannon or any other Tory is to
drive a knife straight into the heart
Of Republican Insurgency.
Henry Watterson truly said in this
connection According to Mr..
Foraker all of Insurgency that is not
agitation for q reduction of the tariff
schedules is 'froth, foam and false
pretense.' AS Col. Roosevelt's brand
of Insurgency is without any advoca-
cy of a reduction OF the tariff sched-
ules it is made up of 'froth, foam and
false pretense' if Mr.. Foraker is right.
And he is not far wrong
will it turn out that among all the
Progressive Republican leaders Sena-
! tor La Toilette is the one man who is
going to stand up and be counted I?
He has not hesitated to support Pro-
gressive Democrat in preference to a
Tory Republican, and it is not likely
that he will ever hesitate to do so. He
is certainly too consistent to help by
word or act the reelection of a man
like Cannon. He will never say that
bad Republican Is to be preferred to
the best kind Of Democrat"
The Journal closes it's homily by
the true and just proposition that $50
far as the Progressive movement is
concerned, the attitude Of none of it's
leaders is of vital moment. The cause
rests upon the intelligence and pa
triotism of the people. They are the
movement. They will insist upon
leaders who will wage straight and
uncompromising fight. They will have
leaders of this kind. They have many
now"
The Democrats of the Sixty-second
Congress will attend to the Tariff.
They will agree upon a fair Measure
of Tariff revision involving reduction
and reform. There will be nothing
precipitate, or radical about this. 1t
will take due account of the gigantic
interests involved. 1t will face to-
ward the changing Of public policy
from a Protective System to Rev.
enue System; but it will do this so
scientifically and cheerfully that the
money embarked in manufacturing
enterprises under the faith of the Pro-
tective System shall not be leopard
lied, but shall have time to transfer
and readjust itself to the new condi-
lions. "."
Insurgency was a makeshift. If
there be anything in Republfcanism,
1T was a traitor 1t will be revealed
as a doughface. For, when the Demo-
cratic measure of just revision, re-
duction and reform comes up, it will
be antagonized by every Insurgent
who has not made up his mind to turn
I Democrat.
| Thus it is that we shall get for 1912,
straight issue between A Tariff for
Protection supported by the Republic
cans and a Tariff for Revenue, sup
ported by the Democrats. On that is
sue we shall carry the country hands
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