The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-11-03
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NEXT TUESDAY, WAICR2
Battle for Righteousness but Defeat
will be Neither Hopeless nor Crush
ing Devotion to the Interests of
the People VS.. SubserviencY to
the interests.

When The Citizen goes to press
next week it will probably contain
the result of the State and Congress
ional elections which are to be held
on Tuesday, the Sth of Nov. Then
the first battle in the greatest cam
paign for human rights in modern
times will have been won or lost.
Which will It be?
At this writing no one can fore
cast the result with any degree Of
certainty. But this much is certain.
If it is a victory for righteousness
it will be a phenomenal one, but If
ii is a defeat 1t will neither be
hopeless one nor crushing.
But why call it battle for right
eousness more than in other SINH
lar elections. Because 1t is So In
the first stage of the fight the war
fare was chiefly between two FL
ements of the Republican party, the
Regulars and the Insurgents. The
Regulars constitute the machine gang
in the party that has for years
fattened thru an alliance with the
so-called business interests of the
country, which means that the real
rulers of the Nation are the great
trusts and corporations. The Insur-
gents are the enemies within the same
party Of these trust controlled ma
chimes. They are the friends of
popular government and they have
been fighting the battles of the
people in congress and later in the
various Republican primaries and
conventions.
The struggles of these two forces
have been recounted from time TO
time in the columns of The Citizen
as they have been waged in the var
ious states, and the prediction has
from first to last been made that
Insurgent victories in the primar-
les and conventions was the only
hope for the success of the party in
general at the polls I'm November,
and the latest developments seem to
justify fully that prediction.
Now the Insurgents won out in
the preliminary struggle and put
their candidates in the field In
Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas, Indiana,
Washington, California, Michigan,
New Hampshire, and New York, IN
fact in every State where the issues
were clearly outlined. IL was the
greatest house-cleaning process any
party has ever known, the more in
teresting and hopeful because it was
from within-undertaken and accom-
plished by members of the party it
self, and not forced from without by
rival party.
This party house-cleaning reached
its climax and became the most
spectacular in New York. There not
only the state Republican machine
was controlled by the money power
but a member of the national admin
istration was found subservient. The
machine was crushed by a popular
uprising in the party led by Mr..
Roosevelt who was unwllllngly drawn
into the fight.
But this defeat of the machine in
New York served well to show the
elements of danger in the final
election. The "Old Guard openly
threatened to bolt the ticket If the
Insurgents should win, and now it
remains to be seen on next Tuesday
whether they will carry out their
threat. If they do the Democratic
ticket hopes to triumph, and if this
turns out to be the policy of the Re
gulars in the other Insurgent states
the next congress is expected TO
be Democratic.
And this is the very thing to he
looked for. yet hoped against. Why
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