The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-04-01
REPUBLICAN LEADERS ARE
AWAKENING TO SITUATION

Washington, March 81. "Three
cities in Maine go democratic! Repub-
licans overwhelming beaten in Mas
sachusetts!"
Such messages as this have awak-
ened the republican leaders to full
realization of the sentiment of the
country. They have at last taken
cognizance of the political signboard
which reads: Stop! Look! Listen!"
President Taft has labored under the
false belief that insurgency was prae-
tically confined to such states as Wis
consin, Iowa and Kansas. Now it de-
velops that insurgency extends from
Maine TO California. 1t appears in
the former state in oposition to the
reelection of Senator Hale. Insurgency
broke out long ago in California in
the form of the Lincoln-Roosevelt
league The republican party in In
diana is rent squarely by the same
force that has divided it in Iowa and
Kansas. Ohio, too, is in the throes
of the malady.
New York republicans are divided,
and insurgency exists in every repub-
hcan state in the union. The repub-
lican leaders have revealed political
blindness that has been almost incon-
ceivable, as regards their estimation
of the proportions of the insurgency
movement But now they see it, one
and ALL The regulars are trembling.
The average republican is willing to
admit, though perhaps not for publica-
tion, that the next house will be dem
ocratic. Here are few of the straws
which have each played part in
awakening the republicans to a re-
alization of their peril:
The anti-rules outbreak in the house.
The democratic landslide in the re-
cent Fourteenth Massachusetts con-
gressional election, in which Eugene
N. Foss, democrat, was victorious with
a plurality of 5,64O, as against a re-
publican plurality of 14,250 only two
years ago.
The sudden departure of ex-For-
ester Clifford Pinchot for Europe,
called there presumably by cable
gram from Roosevelt.
The reported refusal of James R.
Garfield to run for governor of Ohio
on the Taft policies.
The democratic victories in the local
elections of Maine.
The 100 per cent gain made by Dick
inson, the democratic candidate, over
the plurality of the previous demo-
cratic candidate in the Sixth Missouri
congressional election.
The result of the Success Magazine
straw ballot, which showed SIT repub-
licans approving and 6,31S disapprov-
ing the attitude Of Aldrich approved
by the presiden) on the tariff.
The reducing of the majority of the
republican governor of Massachusetts,
in an election in which the new tariff
law was the main issue, from 10000 to
5000.
How do the democrats view the sit
uation is asked. Chairman James t.
Lloyd of the democratic congressional
campaign committee believes the next
house will be democratic But he be-
lieves it viii be democratic only if the
democrats throughout the county take
advantage of their opportunities. Sue
cess will depend not only upon effec-
tive state organizations, but upon the
organization work in counties, cities,
wards and precincts.
Let us not have a repetition of
1880, said an old southern democrat
to the writer In that year, not long
before the general election, Maine
went strongly democratic. Yet Gar
field, republican, won handily"