Semi-weekly herald., 1910-11-28
NO OCCASION FOR ALARM.

The New York Tribune processes
to be alarmed over the possibility of
an insurgent and democratic alliance
in the coming congress. 1t concludes
O lengthy discussion of the situation
as follows:
There is almost no limit to the va
carries which may emanate from a
congress in which the democrats con-
troll the house and the insurgents hold
the balance OF power In the senate. 1t
is entirely probable that before the
summer of 1912 the country will have
occasion more than once devoutly to
thank Providence for the presence In
the White House OF a man of sound
views, judicial temperament and abun-
dant force OF character to affix the
stamp of his disapproval wherever it
Is needed"
There Is nothing in the logic of
politics to suggest the rort of perils
the Tribune foresees. Inasmuch as
men invariably act in about the same
way under the same circumstances,
there is no reason to assume that
they are going to do now what they
have never done.
The insurgent movement has not
been a democratic movement nor
movement towards democracy. There
fore, instead of democratic-insur-
gent alliance now that the democrats
are where they can name the pro-
gram, there is every reason to look
for a realignment of republicans be-
hind the administration. Because
the democrats, for purposes of their
own. or even for patriotic reasons,
encouraged insurgency in congress,
there is not the slightest reason to
believe that they can take the in
surgents with them to the time
worn democratic tariff for revenue
and state rights.
Even at the time when 1t was
thought that insurgency might lead to
important political changes. there was
never the least thought that the new
party would be other than republican
in It's antecedents. II the dream of
Pinchot and Garfield had been real
lied 1t would have been new repub-
lican party. Just as the present re-
publican party is the old whig party
made over, SO any party Roosevelt or
any other insurgent would lead must
be related to the republican party.
There can be no progressive party
whose antecedents are democratic
Why this is so is written plainly in the
history of the past fifty years.
Champ Clark will not have made
up his house committees and an
nounced immediate tariff revision on
revenue lines, before 1t will be plain
to the country that the republican
party is unit in opposition. What
happened in Iowa in the recent cleo
ton will happen in congress and the
country over. In Iowa 1t was the
resurrection of the liquor issue, on
which the only democratic governor
OF recent issue was elected. In the
nation 1t will be the reassertion OF
the democratic dogma about tar.
iff for revenue only
President Taft is not doomed to
half the difficulties he himself con
templates. He will have the same
advantage of position that Governor
Carroll had in the election. He need
do nothing but preserve the even tenor
OF his way and extend the oourtesies
Of his office to republicans without
classifying or tabbing them. There is
nothing for republicans to do but t0
come to his support on any measure
that divides the parties. The issue
win be made up in short order for the
1912 campaign. and for at least one
more national election 1t will be the
republicans against the democrats on
historical and conventional lines.
After the next presidential election
there may come realignment. But
not before.