Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-15

 In virtually every ballot upon the new tarif in the senate he voted with the Rhode Island dictator. Their variation in action and policy was so slight as to be negligible. In him the main prop, after Aldrich, of the peculiarly republican doctrine of special privilege in the senate has gone the way of Aldrich and Can non.
 In Vermont. accepted by the polit- ically astute as the weather vane for the later national elections, the re- publican majorities have been re duced as at no time since 1879, with two minor exceptions
 In New Hampshire, once as inn movably stand pat as Vermont, an insurgent governor has been selected.
 In Wisconsin, La Folette. probably the original insurgent, who typifies the antipodal extreme to Aldrfch. has swept his reactionary opponent from the running by a vote Of to 1.
 In California the insurgents have captured the state machinery with hardly a struggle. And all these have followed Iowa Kansas, Ne breska and other states in which re- publican insurgency has triumphed against the old order.
 In brief, in those preliminary bat ties and skirmishes relied upon to reveal the popular drift, the insurs- ents have swept the country. They have written an imprimatur upon the republican party in language that is Iunmistakably that of possession.
 Nor did 1t require the verdict of last Tuesday to set forth that fact For weeks the most ingrained stand patters have been repudiating Can non and Cannonism, Aldrich and Aid richism.
 The rejection, from such source. of Cannon and that for which he stands does not lack In elements of pa thos and. partially, cowardice. Many of the old-line regulars now most vehement in their repudiation of the speaker, are responsible for the sys- tem of which he is but the expres- sion and the scapegoat.
 He is a creature of their own mak- lng and maintenance. They were ready enough to glory in his tyranny, so long as it brought them the fruits of patronage and political strength and even measurably es- capSG cOnuemnatiQu.
 Now that he stands isolated as the principal representative Of the old regime with courage to defend its doctrines and precepts. his previous fdolators seek to save thir own hides by joining the pack at his back. It is a species of chicken-heartedness inseparable from politics but none the more savory.
 Where does this insurgency thai has now become instead a party rev olution leave President Taft!
 If logic counts and consistency rules, how can he escape being en- guifed in the storm that has over taken the bourbon element of his party,
 At a time when he could have re- deemed his pledge to the people by alligning himself with the progress sive sentiment, he was upholding the hand. of Cannon in the house, Aldrich in the senate. At a time when the insurgents were making possible even 6 shadowy redemption of party pledges by grace of the demo crats. he was mailing La Toilette and Deliver and Murdock, and al lowing his name to be used in de vices of intimidation.
 The victory has been won without his aid-despite his opposition. Now that opposition has become polltics. suicide, and that curious and h. credible grace will come g p-ofessios 4 the new faith with 'Ee CLOCK os he lasc stroke of rbe hour that sounds the death knell Of the very things which he stood with Aldrich and Cannon at a time when he had the making of the new tariff bill in the hollow of his hands.
 From the loins of the moribund re- publican party new republican party is coming into existence
 It is the new product tha5 the dem