The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-11-12
FIRST FRUITS
OF RESURRECTION
THE CHICAGO INTER OCEAN DIS
cussEs RESULTS OF THE IN
suRcENT MOVEMENT AS SHOWN
sY DISASTROUS REPUBLICAN
OVERTHROW LAST TUESDAY.

Chicago Inter Ocean: The frs
fruits of the instruction i'm the re-
publican party are clear, at last, t,
spread across the front page of ev,
cry newspaper in the United States
What are they?
democratic house OF representa-.
tlves, democratic governor Of New
York a democratic governor and can
didate for the presidency in Ohio, a
beaten and disfigured republican can
didate for senator in Indiana and sc
on and so on through a list of repub-
lican disasters too long land too sick
enfng TO be reviewed or even enumer-
ated.
That is the story of the Instruction
Of the republican party up to date.
Nothing redeemed, nothing reformed,
nothing helped. not even a prepara-
tion to reform, redeem or help!
Not single wrong redressed or a
preliminary step taken to redress any
wrong! Confusion, destruction. con-
sternation and defeat-that is the in
surgent record up to this date and 1t Is
published to the world from every city
and village in the United States today
What a collapse! Where is 1t like In
the recent history of American poll
tics2 The Roosevelts, Beveridges,
Garfields, Pinchots, Cumminses, La
Follettes and Bristows have done
their work, and fine piece of work
1t is. Compared with 1t the de-
struction wrought in the democratic
party by the organs, Watsons, Cox
fire to volcano.
Coming as it did upon the party that
has done the greatest work of all the
parties in American history, the
achievement of Mr.. Roosevelt and his
associates is absolutely tragic.
Think Of what the structure of the
republican party was when these
gentlemen were called within ii doors.
offered it's hospitality and clothed with
its greatest honors! Then think of
what 1t is today, after these same men
have spat upon all gratitude, turned
like wild beasts on the household,
torn the pillars from their sockets,
ripped the foundations from the fab
ric,' and, with the reckless egotism of
him who fired the Ephesian dome,
have applied the torch in frantic eff
fort to obliterate even the very ma
terials Of the walls and roof that once
sheltered them.
Probably not once in the campaigns
of the last ten years has it crossed the
mind OF a sinble insurgent leader what
would happen if he should succeed in
even the first, destructive. stage of his
career. We do not suppose that a
Ell ry1o ferH,V ~
ture has once fluttered drought the
harum scarum mind of Theodore
Roosevelt or Robert La Toilette.
OF the rest, it is certain that they
never looked day beyond the hur-
rah or handicap Of the moment. Bev-
eridge. Cummins, Bristow and their
kind have thought only from hour to
hour. How unprepared such shallow
brains are for any test of fortune has
been already illustrated. Those who
heard Senator Cummins plead in Chi
cago for harmony at any cost and at
any sacrifice Of principle do not need
to be told how weakly and impotently
these frenzied plungers finch from the
first sober sight of the consequences of
their own acts.
Roosevelt and La Toilette alone had
and have the brains to consider what
might come after the deiuge, but in
their boundless egotisln, in their fren-
zies of conceit, we believe, neither one
paused to take statesman's glance or
q patriots care for the future.
So here we are today with colossal
party organization--a great engine of
government, an enormous edifice of
an o. al In
sable shelter of popular constitutional
government-laid in wreck and ruin
before our eyes and with the sad, ar
duous and painful duty forced upon
the sober men of its membership to
seek to repair through months and
years the evil wrought by the fire
brands of insurrection and socialism.
AS man contemplates, this morn
ing after election, the confusion and
destruction spread through state.
county and nation, through the house
of representatives, through the state
legislatures and through the COVER
nors' houses of this country by the
Roosevelt insurgents i'm the last few
years, it is difficult to find a single
compromising benefit which they have
conferred upon us, with all their wild
hurrah and hullabaloo-unless perhaps
II be that they have demonstrated
once more how useless it is for noun
tebanks, blGviators. Caesarian level
ers, braggarts, socialist quacks and
political inebriates to win the conf
dence and gain the suffrage of Ameri-
can voters. no matter what manners,
DISCUSSES, or shibboleths they may as
sumo in their efforts to do so.
If there were only one great party,
it would be a different story: but, as
1t Is. no sooner do the political i'm
posters push to the front on the one
side than the people turn TO the other
and leave them standing outside the
pale of office. honor and power.