Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-02-22
DEMoCRACYS SUPREME CHANCE.


tentions impossible carry his his predeces
policies found has considered
proper defend the biggest breach OF promise his party ever
The Republican majority has shown itself I'M
willing support looking to the public good The he
publican minority proved itself poweress without Democratic
enanged apparently hopeless DIS
party organization And while letters through
day after day. passing of constructive remedial char
acter country feels its economic harshps and political Ills
grow and irksome.
the situation that the door of opportunity and
duty the party called Democratic trammed admin
ation divided Repubcanis and Disguised people
things lies the chance that came TO
Democracy within the past fifty years.
The embarrassment premier of England faces
scarcely than that of the president of the United
States The premier faces dssension in his own party ana o
customary allies the Irish and the Labor
both hanging aloof AS result now impossible
for the put through its promised legislation
put through the budget Under English procedure 1t
customary such for the existing government to retire IN
order country place power who act eec
uay America President Taft and his
cabinet and the Republican party would now withdraw
For party redeemed of its important pledges and
it plainly repudted its important pedgethat of
revision of the tariff Since the present session
congress opened the has been busy with argu
ments appeals and threats effort to accomplish five measures
statehood BILL the interstate BILL the postal savings
bank BILL bill finally the federal ncOrpor
ba of these has srven to put through and far has
failed put through 1t has called conferences of
ators and between the
White capitol special have been written
opportunity yet the administration
single definite accomplishment to which it point
overtowerng to which the people point
ing 1t the PayneAdrch tariff The people
promised relief this particular They given burdens
heavy heavier they already bore Tariff reform
notable plank the Republican platform of 1908
The embody in the platform originated in Mr.
Ta state the months that followed received his
repeated and the that touched
most closely vitality the general public 1t af
Republican party its widest chanSe to act squary by
people and to perform real service. . D.,
that pledge been fufdG In long and enormously
expensive session. congress enacted left the i'm
port high that made possible for the
packing sell beef five cents pound higher in America
than England that left farming implements costly ever
before brought the oppressive of food
country has known since its beginning And this the bill
which president signed He then showed reluctance and c
cm hastens its defense On Lncons birthday
he declared tariff to be the best OF its
nation had been given He might well have
pointed out that death by death by the
The hands of the administration however tightly
tied the hands of the party There
progressive Republicans finding it longer possible to retain
support their seespe and at the
time to follow the leadership Aldrch have
beed The pnest most unprecedented evidence of Republican
that light this break within the party
this band of insurgents confined to the house of
resenaves the senate 1t stretches from the doorwas OF the
house length continent 1t not only
incident idea that has broken loose is national de-
mand for different sort of management of public affairs
the Democratic opportunity the Democratic
sponsby In the house of representatives today the Demo
minority holds the balance of With its alliance the
insurgents have already broken Speaker Cannon domination
aid neither wing of the Republican party
political power which the country looks for
and which the people depend Whatever wise eec
tive legislation achieved in this will be due to the
Democratic element
This internal crack of the Republican party brings the Demo
great strategic But the broken pledges of the
Republican party brings them great moral moment for it
the the country large the fact that the old machine
only incapable of running but that from its inward
longer fitted to do the work which the American
Roosevelt succeeded beating the old Republican
chine essentially Democratic policy The regulation of
trusts the purgng of political corruption the square dathey
imported direct Democratic ideals The party
continued this century only because it has been
oiled every four years with Democratic doctrine
But manifold that despite this beating and oil
adjusting of the machine is after ALL old
self 1t has long time but isn't keeping with the
thought people We creang