Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1910-02-10

Despite the G safosed condition oI
affairs int) which the Republican
party has brought the country, as
we'll as itself. re cannot shut our.
selves out from tke fact that the Ele
phant has survived several very
disastrous Situations. This is by nc
means the frssfsnd within it's ranks,
and it has outlivsd them. The pre-.
sent battle would not exist a day
were il not that the thirty insur.
gents are backed By the rank and
die Of the psosle every where. Not
only are if-ss ~ % ssaad against
the most brutal tactics ever resort
ed to by a national administration
but by uniting with the Democracy
which is battling for the same popu-
lar cause, they have actually sue.
ceeded against that powerful ma
chine. Caunon's throne is totter-
ing and is not far from its fall
When all that is accomplished, the
Republ can party will still remain
the same. 1t thriyes by reason OF
its associations and it's triumph is
ever blow to The masses. The
whole policy of congressional con
duct must be rewritten. The de
feat of Speaker Cannon would be
the removal Of a figure. What the
Nation needs is the defeat OF the
system fostered by The Republican
mac Chine
TIE country is giving very clear
evidence Ofits wants as the date OF
the congressional campaign ap-
proaches. We know that the Mid
die West is in very serious revolt
and that even the most conservative
members OF the Republican delega-
tion from those Safes have seen the
wisdom not justice, for they long
ago saw that-of taking their posi-
ton in opposition to the program
mapped out by Mr. Cannon and Mr..
Aldrich and accepted by the Presi-
dent a, the party s legislative policy.
Now comes Ohio in thorough accord
with Wisconsin aud the earlier pro-
gressives TO declare through its con
gresSinnal leaders opposition to the
continuance = Speaker Cannon
Here then is the scemocratic oppor.
tunity. Joseph G Cannon as Speak
er OF the House OF Representatives
Is 20 b .t'eror no worse than b g party
policy II Dalzell, or Payne, or
Alexander, or any other Republi
can leader we're IN the seat occupied
by Speaker Cannon; If it were Nor
ris or Muddock we have no doub bt
he would endeavor with the same
ruthless hand to carry out the same
vicious policies of government for
which Cannon is now condemned.
| offer no defense for Speaker Can
non, but car not condemn him for a
policy formulated by a majority of
the Republican party. The Demo-
eracy must strike a vital spot in it's
opponent. Cannon is but one OF the
horns Of the critter we are after.
Aldrich NAV be the other. The pri-
vilege bearing tariff is the heart,
and it is on that question the c0mi o g
contest must be fought. Though
one or two members of our party
may for sectional reasons, feel in
clined toward protected tariff the
party policy is for a revenue tariff
Men ike Fitzgerald of Brooklyn,
may endesvor to defect that policy
even as Deliver, La Toilette and
others NAV seek to improve the Re-
publican policy, but in the coming
congressional conflict the issue will
again be the tremendous burden the
people are carrying by reason of the
privilege the tariff gives to entrench
ed monopoly.
When threatened by popular D.
rising, which is certain tocome. the
party will throw of a
few goats. Those OF US who have
lived long enough have observed
the aptitude as we'll az the cold
hearted way in which those who
have worn The yoke aud carried
the burden OF machines urfitness
are thrown to the wolves as though
their demise would be the creation
OF a new era. The recent statement
Of the Sugar Trust that the uufor-
tunate $l5 a-week men had used false
scales with which to cheat the gov
ernment OF millions OF dollars with.