The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-09-13
NATIONAL POLITICAL SITUATION
is Reviewed by the Atlanta C"nstitu.
tion-New Republican Party
Faces the Nation.

aces Enc NdlIOHs
Atlanta Constitution.
Tuesdays Republican primaries the
country ever wrote new ana nom
entous chapter in national political
history.
Here is it's significance:
The old Republican party, as we
have known it for half a century. is
in process of dissolution.
A new Republican party, as far
apart as the poles from the old or
ganization in practice and principle, is
swiftly forming its squares and bat
talions from the demoralized rank and
file of traditional republicanism.
The long-coming climax of the YER
dict at the polls last Tuesday shows
In Michigan, Senator Julius Caesar
the revolution as already more than
half accomplished.
Burrows has been Overwhelmingly re-
undated. Burrows was the alter ego,
the faithful shadow Of Aldrlch ana
Aldrichism. In virtually every ballot
upon the new tariff in the senate he
vo:ed with the Rhode Island dictator.
Their variation in action and policy
was so slight as to be negligible. In
him tie main prop, after Aldrlcn' OF
the peculiarly Republican doctrine OF
special privilege in the senate has
gone the way of Aldrich and OF Can
non.
In Vermont, accepted by the politi-
cally astute as the weather vane for
the later national elections, the Re
publican majorities have been reduc-
ed as at no time since 1870, with two
minor exceptions.
In New Hampshire, once as immoV-
ably stand-pat as Vermont, an insur-
gent governor has been selected.
In Wisconsin, La Toilette, probably
the original "insurgent," who typifles
the antipodal extreme to Aldrich, has
swept his reactionary opponent from
the running by vote of 8 to l.
In California the insurgents nave
captured the State machinery with
hardly a struggle. And all these have
followed Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and
other States in which Republican in
surgency has triumphed against the
old order.
In brief, in those preliminary battles
and skirmishes relied upon to reveal
the popular drift, the insurgents have
swept the country. They have writ
ten an imprimatur upon the Repubn
can party in language that is unnls-
takably that of possession.
Nor did it require the verdict OF
Tuesday to set forth that fact. For
weeks the most ingrained stand-pat-
ters have been repudiating Cannon and
Cannonism, Aldrich and Aldri:Aisla.
The rejection, from such source, OF
Cernon and that for Which be sta IDS
does not lack in elements o. pathos
and, partially, cowardlce. Many OF
the old-line regulars" now most
vehement in their reputation of the
speaker are responsible for the 5ys-
tenn of which he is but the expression
and the scapegoat.
He is a creature of their own max
ing and maintenance. They we're
ready enough to glory in his tyranny,
so long as it brought them the fruits
of patronage and political strength
and even measurably escaped public
condemnation.
Now that he stands isolated as the
principal representative of the old re-
gime with courage to deefnd its doc
trines and precepts, his previous ldo-
lators seek to save their own hides by
joining the pack at his back. 1t is a
species of Observation-Disclosures insep-
arabic from politics, but none the
more savory.
Where does this insurgency that
has now become instead a party revo-
luton leave President Taft?
If logic counts and consistency
rules, how can he escape being en-
gulfed in the storm that has overtak-
en- the Bourbon element of his party?
At a time when he could have re-
deemed his pledge to the people by
aligning himself with the progressive
sentiment, he was upholding the hands
of Cannon in the house, Aldrich in the
senate. At time when the insur-
gent. were making possible eI-cn q
s,'>>@'~-': redemption o. party Pledges