Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-04-21
PARTY NOT INJURED
REPUBLICANS UNHURT- BY FAC
TIONAL STRUGGLE.
Minor Differences of Opinion Will Be
No Bar to the Presentation of
Solid Front to Their Politi-
cal Enemies.

chapter of dramatic incidents
fraught with great, even intense, inter
est to the representatives of the peo-
pie in congress, and perhaps of as
great interest to the country, was
closed when the appeal from the ruling
of the speaker that the Norris motion
was out of order was supported by
vote of 1872 to 160. That vote Is fated
to stand out in the history of parlia-
mentary struggles as landmark. This
means a radical change from the proce-
dure in relation to the organization
of the popular branch of congress. The
possession of the power conferred
upon him through the framing of the
rules has been a potent asset of the
speaker, and in the case of Speaker
Cannon 1T was the power with which
he held in check the tide of insurgery.
tee on rules to be selected by the
house itself, he is a shorn Samson.
The insurgency is the element of
the Republican party to which Speaker
Cannon referred when he declared that
If they were Republicans, then he was
not one. 1t is most unfortunate that
the issue should have been raised.
1t is unfortunate because in the flush
of their new power the insurgents will
be diff cult TO direct in the paths OF
appropriate and needed legislation. 1t
Is unfortunate because it gives an un-
warranted color to the contention of
the ready writer's of the magazines
that there is a tendency toward a coali-
ton of permanent nature between the
radical wings of the two parties. II
is unfortunate because 1t indicates that
spirit of restlessness unjustified by
conditions, exists. But the so-called
victory is not apt to materialze the
Importance the persons quick with
conclusions advance for it. The Demo
Gratis will find 1t boomerang They
had counted upon playing the card
of Cannonism to their advantage to
secure control of the house. Now they
have wiped out the leading issue and
are dependent upon the bounty of their
Republican allies for any consideration
they may secure. AS matter of fact
1t has been an unholy alliance, an i'll
ordered and ill-a5sorted coalition; it
is rope of sand. and when the house
10 presented with Republican measures
1t Will vote them without regard to the
Democrats. There is only a difference
as to degree between the radicals and
the conservative Republicans in their
adherence to the leading Republican
proposals. All the Republicans be-
lieve alike in the essentials of the
party faith.
The temporary detection does not
represent any weakening. The radi-
Gals themselves declare it means a
Strengthening of the position of Presi-
dent Taft with the lower house. The
radicals can never secure Democratic
support for their Republican positions.
and they will find their true alliance
where it has always been The fight
has been against the speaker, and it
has been, as far as it went, a success
full fight The party is as coherent
and as firm-fronted as ever. The Dem
ocrats have nothing to be gratified
over, and the clearing of the atmo-
| sphere of the main cause for insurgen-
cy will tend to dissolve the ingredients
into their component parts. There is
apt now to be much less heard of in
surgency since the alleged cause for
its existence has been set aside. Speak
er Cannon has endeared himself to all
lovers OF a good, square fighter by his
unprecedented contest against deter
mined odds.
AS it was an odd fight, as we'll as a
| fight against odds. The Democrats
thought to ride upon the wave of the
victory against the speaker to a de-
lirious success. but they found their
limit very shortly. Despite the frenzy
of the hour of victory. despite the cries
of the Democrats for the evacuation of
the speakers chair by Mr.. Cannon, de-
spite the fact that a Democratic reso-
| luton to declare the position vacant
was actually introduced amid scenes
held tenaciously TO his position and
| the Republicans could not be induced
to perpetuate folly or injustice per
sonal to Mr.. Cannon. A defeat 1t was,
bL it was not defeat for the party,
nor was 1t defeat of the general bal
ance of the dominant party. The Dem
ocrats already are beginning to realize
| 1t was a meal of chaff they were so
eagerly grasping for.