The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-11
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| pulling like strong team. Our own
beloved DR.. Sugg, in an urgent APP
peal to Republicans to stand together,
named four different brands But he
did not begin to complete the list. We
might as we'll have hitched up to-
gether the zebra and the ass; the
giraffe and the kangaroo; the hippo
potamus and the grounding; the lion
and the lamb and expected to have
accomplished results as by hitching
! together the various brands of Repub-
licans.
"As matter of fact Republicanism
has come to mean nothing to the gen
eral mind There is no Republican
party. AS though it did not already
have enough burdens to carry. at the
last moment there was saddled upon
! it the new nationalisn' to help
bear It down to the depths of utter
despair
The Quincy Wing expresses itself
en.phatically and to the point in an
article almost two columns long.
1t points out that out of the wreckage
of Tuesdays Republican disaster rise
the successful figures of two promi-
nent loyal and constructive Republi-
can statesmen, Joseph G. Cannon
speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, and Serene E. Payne, of New
York, author of the present tariff
law. Conspicuously. indeed, looms
the iron old man of Illinois, mistaken
and undaunted, simply remarking, as
he refers to the magnificent majority
o. Nv IL d;cfr ut
Republican. l have kept the faith
have endorsed and not apologizeu
for the legislation of this congress ;"
With these facts for text the Wing
says, among other things:
During the progress of the recent
campaign we were inclined to SYM
pathize with this sturdy. unflinching
exponent of Republicanism on which
Lincoln and other historic Republi-
cans made the party powerful for
the national welfare, when one by
one, those who had followed him in
the period of his eminence in the
popular esteem, and had been re-
| cipients of his favors and good coun-
sells, cravenly deserted him for what
they conceived to be a passing fren.
zy, and which they had previously
declared and knew to be based upon
| false pretense.
| But the recession of trimmers and
! truckers from the principles they
professed, and the wobbling that dis
gusted many Republicans and event
ually led to the defeat of many Oh
/ them, did not strip Joseph G. Cannon
of the hard-earned honors of his long
and usful public service. He will sit
again in congress, while many of
those who deserted him will be there
no more, though next time he will
| be among a minority, no doubt he'd.
under the restraint of the same rules,
which yellow magazines and bun
combe politicians have so severely
denounced, and which majority OF
4 the house, If inclined, can change.
And he will take to congress again
the same steadfastness of purpose
and the same Republicanism of the
old strain that will outlive all politi.
cal fads ard failacies.
1T has been pointed out that most
of the insurgents were returned to
4 congress- The actual insurgents
were few and confined principally to
Kansas, Iowa and Wisconsin. They
/ represent comparatively small por-
hon of the country, and their great
est accomplishment thus far seems
to have been a most crushing victory
by the Democratic party in the great
Republican strongholds, and to sub
stitute in the house of representa-
tives Democratic for Republican
majority. 1t Is true that they were
more consistent in the support of the
principles they professed than those
professed regulars who weakened in
4 the thick of the fight and surrender
ed the time-honored standards with
| which they had been entrusted by
their constituencies and which they
failed to uphold when the weather
thickened and the storm was at hand
i Because of this consistency-tho
i inimical to the success of the Repub
lican party they were respected above
/ others who blew both hot and cold
But they should be ashamed of boast
ing, if they still profess to be Repub
/ licans, in view of the consequences
4 of the schism they have created
in the party, and their failure to
discredit one OF it's truest and great
est leaders.
They boast of their own individual
successes, but do not count the cost
of taking from a Republican Presi
dent the support of one of the houses
OF congress by their inconsideratc
utterances and conduct during tbs
campaign. They have clamored about
progress and they have succeeded in
blocking the wheels of national leg
islation along constructive and rem
edial lines for the next two years
4 They have shouted loudly Of the
peoples welfare and have stayed
i the progress of remedial measures
already put in motion, until the Mex
national campaign shall be waged
Il They have protested against conser
! vatism while applying the brakes
! They have fought for new type o.
Republicanism in the speaker.
), chair at Washington, and have only
succeeded in giving to the countr!
a Democrat, who seeing the trend o
affairs as shown by the returns, al
though one of the Missouri Demo
: cratic extremists Of the Bryan wins
at ono time gives as the first kew