The Morris County chronicle., 1910-08-30
ARE PARTY LEADERS TO BE
DEPOsED.

l
| Apropos of Representative Long
worth's opposition to the reelection
of Mr.. Cannon to THE speakership, and
the declaration of other republicans
who in the past have been his warm.
est supporters, the st. Louis Globe
Democrat says
just how many seats the republi-
cans will have in the house of the six
| ty-second congress nobody will be able
to tell until the returns are counted
on the night of November Sth. A
dozen or more of the republicans of the
present house showed their hostility
to Mr. Cannon in the recent session.
Some of these doubtless will be in
the next house, but more than one of
them will probably be DEBATED in the
coming election. They have given a
good deal of aid and comfort to the
! democrats, but the democrats have
candidates of their own, and will re-
fuse to reciprocate. Chairman Lloyd'S
congressional committee is working
for democratic house, and not fol
one which will be democratic merely
through the help which the insurgents
furnish to it. The insurgents who
happen to be defeated in the coming
election may say that the democrats
are ungrateful. but their plants will
not arouse much sympathy from loyal
republicans. All the insurgents would,
if they had clung to the party which
elected them in 1908, and to which
they appeal for votes in 1910, be
stronger before the people in the
present canvass than now they can be.
If, as the democrats predict, demo-
cratic house should be elected in No
vember, the detection of Mr.. Long
worth and such comrades as he may
have will exert no positive influence
on subsequent events. The demo-
Gratis will elect the speaker of that
chamber, and the act of the seceders
will merely add chapter to the roll
of party recreancy which the back
sliders of 1872, 1884 and 1896 wrote.
But why should the republican
party want to remove it's old leaders
What offense has Mr.. Aldrich or Mr.
Cannon committed that they should
be singled out for sacrifice? Through
all their manhood years these men
have beer lighting the BATTLES of the
republican party. Since they have
been old enough TO take any active
part in politics these men have been
on the party's firing line. Nobody
has ever charged that either of them
faltered in his support of republi.
can ticket or platform. If devotion
to historic republicanism the re-
publicanism of Lincolny Sherman,
Grant, Mckinley, Allison and the rest
of the fathers or champions of the
party-be accounted in these latter
days a misdemeanor, then the party |
will have to adopt new code of
ethics. Then the deposition of Mr..
Cannon and Mr.. Aldrich will arouse
no dissent among the adherenJs.Of the
new school of republicans. But what
will the old republicans, the men who |
have been winning the party victories
during all the decades of the papty's |
life, think of this act ? If, after the |
series of battles in the wilderness. !
Grant had been removed just as he
was preparing to get the death grip /
on Lee which resulted in AppOmattox,
what effect would this act have had /
upon the fortunes of the union? What |
would the national armies of the east
or the west have thought about it p.
What would the friends of humans
freedom throughout the. world, whose4
battles Grant was lighting, have said9
about our governments. folly Yet
Mr.. Taft would have as little excuse |
for wishing to have the republican
members of the house depOse Mr.. \
Cannon as President Lincoln would
have had to remove Granbin the sum-
mer Of 1864 III the republican party
should decree the effnoemeDt of I
such chieftains as Messrs. Cannon and
Aldrich in this crisis of the party's |
life, the flag of historical pepubl
ism would have to be hauled down,
and another name, another creed and
other ideals and aspirations would
have to be adopted. ;"