The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-29
THEY SIZE IT UP WRONG.

n curious sort or S1ue-SnOW ucNeioP-
ment in the political situation as re-
spccts the so.called insurgent Republic
ans, is the assumption by certain III
informed and over 2enlous d-pnt
organs Of the Republican party. that
1.-The so.called insurgents are "hirting
with the Democrats. This is simply
a taunt originating in vindictivcness
and uttered through ignorance and hate.
The insurgent Republicans so far from
"hirting with the Democrats, arc SIM
ply trying to have their own party man
ayers and leaders fulfill the pledges
made in the Republican National Con
vention OF 1905 1t is indeed a curl
Gus misconceptioD, both in thought and
in language, to attribute to the ones
who earnestly wish their party to do as
it agreed to do, to say they are " flirt-
ing with tho other party. II would
be far more appropriate and logical to
say that the party leaders who refuse
to conform to the pledges made by their
party, and who proceed with blind
stolidity that is destroying their party,
are flirting with party destruction,
The insurgent Republicans are the
real party men. Their feet are planted
solidly on the Republican National Plat
form. The so-called "regulars have
jumped from that platform into the
slough Of deception, bad faith, and in
solent wrong -headedness. They turn q
deaf ear to all demands that they should
act squarely with their party and with
the people. They ignore the popular de
mand; they ignore the rights of the
people; they ignore the platform of
their party, and the cause which their
party represents. The insurgents are
the salt which gives SAVIOR to Repub-
lican policies in Congress, and TO the
political forces which are sgitating the
country.
Let us suppose for a moment that
the question should be fairly put before
the people Of this country whether the
new tariff law was n compliance with |
the declaration of the last Republican |
National Platform for a revision OF the |
tariff, together with the fact that Pres
ident Taft in his campaign said express
ly that this declaration meant not |
only tariff revision, but revision down
ward. In view of these facts which
are unquestioned and questionable,
does anyone for one moment suppose
that the people would decide by their
ballots that the new tariff law conforms
to the Republican party pledges'
Already we have had sufficient indi-
'ation of the popular mind on this
question in a State party convention
md In three elections that have been
held. Representative De Almond per
shed in the burning of his home. His
Democratic successor was elected by an
majority; Democratic
gains were shown throughout the whole
district, with corresponding Republican
osses. Then came the Indiana State
Convention. expressly repudiating the
;ariff law as not In compliance with
Republican promises. Then came the
election in the Old Colony Dise.ict
If Massachusetts where tremendous
Republican majority was wiped out and
/ big Democratic majority substituted
n it's place. More recently there was
he Representative election in the
Rochester district of New York, COM
orising Monroe county, where the Re
publican nominee. Mr.. Aldridge, was
defeated by close upon six thousand
majority, whereas his predecessor had
oecn elected by 1000. All these events
snow with a clearness that is con-
and logic that is unanswer-
lble, what the popular verdict would
,e in case the question were submitted
o the people.
All along the line the policy of the
Insurgents is for good faith and the hon
st redemption of pledges; their posi-
ION is vindlcated by the popular YER
lict. And all along the line, the pol.
cy of the "staud Datters,'' the faitk
breakers, the party destroyers, is CON
lemned, and their policy Will undoubt.
,dly be condemned in the elections of
November next by the return of Dem.
'cratlc House of representatives