Arizona republican., 1910-04-02
The Question of Insurgency.

lican are in the same class as insur- gents. the esteemed Bisbec Review. a very able democratic journal. eX- presses d belief that The Republican will not permit the Dispatch's state mcnt tn go without contradiction The Review seems to be of the opinion that We shall insist on being classed with the standpatters
 We are aware that this paper is d source "f worry to sundry contcm- porarics. local and otherwise But we believe it may be stated with ac- cUracy that The Republican speaks for itsclf-hc who reads the same has no trouble in understanding it. and no diagrams are necessary for the proper interpretation Of what it an organ of any kind. IL is not an organ of any man. of any men. or of any faction-not even of a political party. if you please The days of thick-and-th political organs have gone by. The Republican firmly be- licvcS in republican principles. but is not necessarily supporter of all re- publicans who happen to hold posi- tions of political prominence. This paper holds the opinion that the high est service to the republican party is performed when republican leaders render the best possible service to the whole country.
 Specifically. The Republican does not approve the emthods of Uncle Joe Cannon. while entertaining for him personally a considerable admiration. The Republican does not believe it is a good thing for the country-and be- ing bad thing for the country it pcrforcc is a bad thing for the re- publican party-for the national house of representatives to surrender into the hands of tue speaker tn" control of legislation But Speaker Cannon Is the product of system rather than nf his own efforts to be dictator. The tendency for many years has been to permit the speaker to grasp more and more power over congress. Whereas the constitution intended that he should be an impartial presiding officer. merely. the same as the non
 ( lrif iGh of commons. rules have been dcvcl- uped. as an outgrowth of partisan spirit. whereby tue speaker appointed the committees and bosSed the com mittcc on rulcs-which enabled him to hold whip over every ambitious member of his own party on the one hand. and whip over the entire house on the other hand. lt is wholly human for a man to grasp more and more personal power as opportunity IS given him SO to do. In the process of evolution u house procedure t IS likely that any other man of force would have become quite as much of a "tyrant" as Uncle JOe-for the aver age man thinks he knows just little more than his fellow men, and that it would be good thing for his fel- low men 1T he were in a position to be benevolent dictator.
 While. therefore, The Republican chcrishcs Uncle Joe as a good old mossback. it Is decidedly "agin" him as speaker. and believes it will he a good thing for the republican party and for the country when he is sue ccedcd by speaker shorn of tyran- nical power,
 AS to other matters, The Republican cunfcsses to an exceedingly languid interest in the insurgents. on some details of the tariff they are right. but on the whole they are not m touch with public sentiment, The country tx not with them In their de- sire to reopen the tariff question and unscttlr business The country iS at p high tide of prospcrity-a phon"mc- nal prosperity, lt appears to The ise- puhlicsn to he somewhat idiotic to insist upon wrecking the whole fabric of our prosperity In order that few objectionable schedules In the tarltf may he changed.
 AS to the insurgency against PrcS- dent Taft. we are "agin" that, also Mr. Taft has not yet had a flair show He is determined to do a good job Let us give him fair opportunity to make good While The Republican could readily suggest several ooJcc- ltnns tn the policies of Mir Aldr'ch and Mir. Cannon. q, K not SO narrow as to insist that Mir. Taft should meet them with q meat aN when they visit inc White House
 Ir thc esteemed Douglas Dispatch and RIsbce Review are able to make out ,t case of insurgency from these