The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-03-17

and especlalny the Republican pan1.y is
about TO walk thrcugh the valley Of
the shadow. The promenade will be-
gin when the SIXTY Second Congress
meets. The party win not come again
into The sunlight untll 1914
Thus remarked a fsw days ago
one of the most eminent and respect
cd of living American statesmen. The
prediction sounds gloomy. 1t may be
too gloomy. Its justification lies in
the visible situation created by hhe
adjournmennt of the Sixty-First Con-
gr5ss yesterday.
Whatever else 1t may foreshadow,
the end of hte SiNty-Flirst Congress
marks plainly the ind for some time
of cohrert governmental policy
OF a policy which has am agreed goal
for House, Senate and Executive
alike and toward which adj three move
in reasonable agreement as TO methods
and rate CT progress.
Whsn the Sixty-Socond Congress
NESTS the House Will be fully contrCll-
cd by the Democratic party. And II
is net yat certain that The House
Democracy has quite fourd itself or
is quite clear in its own mind precise
ly what 1t wants to do or how it is
to be dome.
The Senate will be in the balance.
1t WIFI be mere Democratic than 1t is
new. That is about all that can be
said with assurance. And what that
n:ally means, no enc knows as yet.
For there have Developed in the
Senate what are. in fact, four panties
Regular Republicans, Insurgents
cabling themselves Republicans, Regul
Democrats and Insurgsnt Demoora S,
And no one knows from day to day
what combination pf thtse warning
and shifting groups will secure even
temporary dominion.
AS for the White House, NO man
knowath from day to day whether its
aims will be radical or conservative,
and scarcely whether its principles of
action will be such as may be called
Republican or such as must be called
Insurgent.
I'm view of these conditions, predic-
ton as to the fate of any ronlbrovcrt-
ed measure or as to what general poll
cy will be followed becomes futile.
For instance, with panty alignmen.s
dmeoralizad as they have beun, and
PARTIES largely broken into msre
groups, no one can now tell what will
happen to Canadian reciprocity.
There is net sign i'm any quan.er
of definite and coherent PARTY pol
icy for dealing with great subjact.
Local interests, group interests, fac
tional interests, and desire to do only
what may be most profitable for the
struggle of 1912-nather than halmOni
GUS agreement ON party pnincdplcs-
are likely to dictate notion on the
largest issues.
The PRESENT chaos and confusion
will, of course, thrash themseIlwts,
out into some SORT of order in time.
Some of the present groups will in
time prove the rods of Moses and
Aaron which will swallow up the 9th
ers4 Popular government cannot mby
forward with its leaders and agents
facing i'm every direction. And party
governmental will move forward and
the Republic endure. There is no
doubt of that.
But until that day comes ilhe gov
at Washington, ard all the
people with it, must walk in a land
of shadows unoertain Df beth the goal
and the road.
That is the condition We hav. 60
confront, and the prudent man will
tallm his sail with regard to 1t and
keep "a wary eye fer squalls and his
hand ever ON the hdim OF his cwn
Dark of fortunes. -Ghlcago Inter-
Ocean,.