The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-13

tween. the insurgents and the regulars
so-calIed.
] am hopeful as We approach the lines
Of battle for the next year the settle
can be effected without such a breach
OF the party as 10 prevent our present.
ing an unbrolscn front to the enemy.
Reason to Take Courage.
We among the Republicans may be dis
couragcd when we consider our own dis
scnsioDs but when we look to the pos
sibiIity of any united action on the part
OF the Democrats for any policy any
limo of policies. we must take courage
1t was General Grant who said that
when he first went into battle he had
IL great deal OF fear bat .hc ovcrcame
that feeling by maintaining .n his mind
tho constant thought of how lnucn more
affected his opponent was. And so we
who find ourselves at times given over
TO the thought that Republican control
Is At an end: should not forget to con-
but also that OF our ancient enemy II
the Democratic party were a solid. CO.
hesiyc opposition, guided by one prinCl-
Pile and following the same eCoDomi
views rs they hold, the situation would be
far more discouraging than il is.
Praises His Party.
The Republican party has been the
party responsible for the government for
the last seventeen years. II has dis
charged those responsibilities with won
49,
Of the Spanish war and those which have
come from the rapid accumulatorss II
has fallen to the party to meet, and
while they have not yet all had "A perfect
solution, the record is one OF which we
have no reason to be ashamed.
Mr. Roosevelt aroused the country and
the people to the danger we were In OF
having all our politics and all our places
or governmental authority controlled in
corporate interests and to serve the
greed OF selfish. but powerful! men Dur.
f,f l-r nj.
most may be compared TO a religious
crusade. he aroused the people 10 the
point OF protecting themselves and the
public interest against the aggressions
of corporate greed, and has left public
opinion in an apt condition to bring
about the reforms needed 10 clinch his
policies and 10 MAKE them permanent
in the form OF enacted law,
But as an inevitable aftermath of such
agitation we find condition Of hysteria
| on the part OF certain individuals. ano
| on the part OF others a condition ol
hypocrisy manfcstlng itself in the binc
denunciatlon Of all wealth and in tn,
impeachment of the motives of men o.
/ the highest character. and by demagogic
appeals To the Imagination OF a people
greatly aroused upon the subject o
party and honesty in the administrator
Of government
The tendency Is to resent attachment
to party or party organiza ton and to al
assertion OF individual ouinion and pur.
pose. at the expense Of party discipline
Inc movement IS lDWdTu lHCtlODallSI
and small groups, rather than toward
large party organization, and the loader;
of The party organization are subjected
TO the severest attacks and 10 the qucs
| tioning Of their motives without any ade
quatc evidence TO Justify IT,
Does Not Claim Perfection.
am far from suying the Republican
party Is perfect. No party which has
achieved such power as It, has achieved
sfor the last seventeen years could be cx.
pected 10 maintain either in its ranl
and ME or In It's management men o.
| tho purest and highest motives. and
am the last one TO advocate any halt II
| the prosecution and condemnation OF Re
| publcans. however prominent and pow
| erful, whose conduct requires crlmtna
or other prosecution and CONDEMNED lion
| II should be well understood that thC
| Republican party in its present condition
with the various divisions subjected I,
| the crosStirc OF its own newspapers am
| It's own factions. any halt or failure OF
| tho part OF those in authority 10 punisf
| and condemn corruption Or corrupt meth
DDS will properly be visired upon the