The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-09-29
TAFT Trip EXPLANATORY
AND MOI A POLITICAL TOUR
La Toilette Only Politician Of Note Left at the
National Capital SideIishts on Family
Fight Among G. o. P. Men

would control the executive and leQiH-
lative branches Of government for the
first time since Cleveland gave way to
Mckinley.
And with such a contamination the
insurgents disappear, as the Populists
and Free Silverites in due time disap.
peared. They become a political mem.
Dry. The country recalls them in
general way. At Washington the old.
sters talk Of this insurgent senator and
that insurgent representative. A few
insurgent careers stand out with some
prominence, but their battle for prin.
ciples and policies is lost, as far as any
party identity is concerned. Others
may be striving for much that insur-
gents strove for, but the achievements
are engrafted upon other banners which
some party bears aloft.
When Insurgency Is Regular
Your insurgent sees the oblivion that
is yawning ahead for him if all this
transpires and il the obvious thing as
to the next presidential campaign
comes about. But he is fighting to
keep it from happening. The so.called
certainties Of politics are very tickle.
The valiant insurgent faction, born OF
the West and Republican in fiber, hopes
to turn the currents back. They want
to retain good fighting ground. If the
odds be not too strong against them,
/ II they can save something substantial
out Of the great national turmoil they
believe that with the evolution of
events there will be new Republican
party and that insurgency will become
regular and that the now insurgent
leaders of a faction will be the regular
leaders of a party. They would shove
the present regulars into oblivion and,
then, instead Of cooperating with pro-
gressive Democrats, would turn their
guns upon the Democracy and attempt
to wrest from that party the credit for
progressiveness which the Democrats
are come to championing in the house
and also, to very general degree, in
the senate. The contention is really
Of mighty political magnitude 1t may
not be as mOmentous as that which
swallowed up the old Wing party but
/ in some aspects it is very like that
| struggle. The Wings went down be-
cause OF divisions over slavery and in
ability to cope with the issues growing
out Of it. The new party built on
the ruins Of Whiggery then triumphed
over a Democracy, likewise divided but
largely dominated by slavery forces
Liberal and Conservative.
If Democrats now become the pro
/ gressive party, as there is promise of
their doing, the sound and compelling
excuse for Republican insurgency will
apparently be wanting. The inevitable
logic would apparently be that the in
surgents will in due time disintegrate
as an organization and disappear The
/ progressive idea has become so formid.
able that it plainly must be a great
/ political force in the United States.
/ II must, sooner or later, completely
/ dominate one Of the two great parties
or there will be a third party. History
seems to demonstrate that there is only
| room for two political parties in the
! United States Men of wisdom were
| telling us years ago, that sooner or
later we would all be liberals or con-
servatives as to politics and that is
] probably true. For the moment the
chances certainly seem to favor the
Democrats becoming the liberal party;
Republicans the conservative party. AS
such the Democrats will probably have
their day at the control Of the federal
government. 1t may be short; it may
be long.
Regular Republicans appear to wei
come recognition as the conservatives
of the American people Their leaders
are not blind to the trend They are
not waging the battle of determination
against the insurgents in Ignorance of
the consequences or the prospective
outcome. And their program is quite
definitely arranged to fight through to
a possible 1912 defeat with n particular
end in view. In defeat, they count with
assurance on being able to reorganize.
They can state their platform of prin-
/ ciples with unanimity. In numbers
/ they undoubtedly exceed greatly the in
4 surgents. The latter would be driven
out Of the Republican fold, unless will
ing 70 take the oath Of allegiance. Re.
fnbHcanism would mean conservatism,
not necessarily renctiOnisnl.
md while the insurgents seem TO
/ have organized more aggressively for
iho fmy which means SO much. Il Is
doubtful whether they are Organized
~ nll more effectively than their rogu.
lar brethren. The latter nan tho sfra.
4 feelc places still IN the big and influ.
oniial liopublican statos. In the clash
II sfralRhtout contest they can over.
power The regulars IN the national
house are three or four times as many
ne the insurgents Ia the senate they
are twice m thrice M many.
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