Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-26
The Republican Party Losing.

The following is an extract from an
editorial printed in the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat yesterday, referring to the
republican defeat in Massachusetts
last Tuesday:
| 1T is one of the signs which show
that the current is running against
the republican party throughout the
country. In the election for congress
| in the Sixth Illinois district a few
months ago to choose a successor to
Lorimer, who had been transferred
to the senate, the republicans retained
control of the district, in which, Lori
mer had a plurality of over $4,000 in
1908, but an <nsurgent appeared in the
field to fight Monkey, the regular, and
he obtained several thousand votes,
though Moxley carried the district.
The Sixth congressional district of
Missouri, on Feb. 1, 1910, in choosing
successor to De Almond, democrat,
rolled up democratic majority near
ly double as large as the average of
recent times. And now, on March %,
the Fourteenth congressional district
of Massachusetts, which Lowering, re-
publican, carried by over $4,000 in
1908, is won by the democrats by
more than 5000. In every one of those
contests national issues were at the
front. Every one of them was watch
ed by the country"
The Globe Democrat declares it will
be folly for the republicans to ignore
the results of the Massachusetts cleo
tfon, or. attempt to show that these
results have no national bearing. The
republican party, our conservative re-
publican, the Globe Democrat de-
clares, is plainly losing. 1t points to
the wrangles in New York, Ohio, ILL
nois and other states, the republican
division in congress, and increasing
lack of the cohesiveness and unity
which have carried the party through
so many hard fought battles.
And what is the Globe Democrats
remedy for the detection in the re
publican party, with the democrats
confident of victory in the next con-
gressional elections? Why, it says
that the only remedy is for the insur-
gents to return to their old place in
the party, and to rally to its support
in order to overcome the democrats
in November. If this is not done, our
standpat contemporary says, disaster
and defeat will overtake the regulars
and insurgents.
1t was the failure of the party, of
the leaders of the party, to fulfill the
pledges contained in it's platform,
which led them into the insurgent
movement in congress. This failure
was prominent in producing dissatis-
faction among the republicans of
Massachusetts, in the campaign that
resulted last Tuesday in great DEM
ocratic victory. This failure of the
party to carry out the pledges, sol |
emily made in convention, is the |
cause of general dissatisfaction among
republicans throughout the union,
north as well as south. east as well |
as west. Now to secure republican
victory next fall, the Globe Democrat |
would have all republicans unite, and |
continue along the lines of the regu- |
lars, whose unfaithfulness to party |
pledges has caused widespread discon- |
tent, led to the revolt in the house, |
and to the democratic congressional |
victories in the Sixth Missouri and the |
Fourteenth Massachusetts districts.
The Quincy Journal expects to see the |
democrats in control of the house, and |
reverse the present condition of
things. 1t believes that the sentiment
of the country demands it, and that
the results of the fall elections will
abundantly demonstrate that the I'M
surgent movement and the democratic
position fairly represent the dominant
and increasing public sentiment of the
nation