The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-23
NONE WILL TRUST THEM.

While the situation in the House OF
Representatives, at Washington has
quieted down for the time being, 1T has
not lost interest so far as the lesson it
has conveyed, and the impression
made upon thinking people throughout
the country. The Democrats in the
House made the most Of the treachery
of few men elected as Republicans,
as the Democrats were expected to do.
and were justified in doing. from their
own party standpoint notwithstand-
ing their decentralization from Dem
ocratic precedent under very similar
circumstances. But the personal and
party perfidy of the insurgents" none
the less has removed these from the list
of men in public life who may be even
incidentally regarded as worthy Of
public confidence.
The situation is quite clear. A coterie
Of Congressman, not exceeding Is per
cent Of their political party in the ma
tional house, purpose to dictate to that
party and to its national administra-
ton. The fact that IS per cent of their
party representatives disagreed with
them cut no figure. The majority was
strongly against them; but to the Is
per cent 1t was not a question of ma
jority rule. 1t was solely question Of
that 10 per cent of the party running
the whole. If there had been real merit
in their contention, does any one sup
pose they could not have converted an
additional 40 per cent of their own
party-less than seventy men equally
as clear-headed as they? But with
them il was not a matter Of logic, or of
conversion, or of party honor and
fealty. The sole issue was to rule OF
ruin the present Republican admins
tration, and failing to rule it, they
adopted the ruin policy. and carried
it out as far as they were able. Be-
coming thoroughly apostate to all party
allegiance, and lining up with its enc
raies against the party which elected
them, they did it what damage they
could, then ''crawf1shed." DESERVING
their new allies. thus being guilty of
double treachery.
Now this coterie of turncoats in the
House want to come back into the Re-
publican fold, with none the less hon
orable motives than they possessed be-
fore-that Of either ruling or running,
through the fact of their holding the
balance of power. They have a small
coterie of coadjutors in the Senate,
composed of the notorious political
takers, LaFollette and Cummins, and a
few others who, like their House con-
freres, are determined to control the
Republican administration. or to defeat
It. But those insurgents" cannot get
back. They may vote at times with
the Republican party, but it never can
trust them any more than the Demo-
cratic party can. The cord of conf
dence is completely severed. no matter
what may be the effort at patching;
and no new condolences have been es-
tablished. An incident related of Utah
pioneer history gives a homely yet apt
illustration of the existing conditions.
An early settler. becoming angered at
not getting his way, left his state for a
time, during which period he made
about all the gross accusations he could
conjure up against his people. In a
few months he became conscience
stricken, returned to his state and
begged the forgiveness of a prominent
statesman. The grim old pioneer hit
the nail squarely on the head in his re-
ply: Brother, forgive you; but when
are you going to do it again?" The
same question regarding the ''insur-
gents" is in the minds of. the thinking
neonle Of this ratinn