Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-21

Oo bno ufSt rSSudIof rom tnlS SlO- rious state.
 Co to it. Bill If it developes that you have as good a show for the senate as you have lon the road" you will be on hand at thet-fnish And in comparison with the numer- ous dubs. who imagine themselves senators. governors and so on. you would tower as a senatorial candidate as the San Francisco peaks tower over the painted desert.
 DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP. (N. T. TimesD
 | In the situation that has arisen for the democratic party in the last year there is great need. great op- portunity. and considerable promise for the production of adequate lead
 ership. not merely in the national organization or that of the states, but throughout the party. The change that hss. taken place is very great. It is not merely that the re publican party has been sharply checked by "a movement of general protest. That has happened before without producing very serious re- suits. The most significant. fact is that the republican party not only has beer defeated in a national cleo ton. but has been distinctly divided on a question of essential policy. and not only that the party has been divided but that it's official leader. the president has abandoned his previous attitude of submission to the old leaders. and has taken long steps toward the progressive policy of the dissidents. This makes it possible for the democrats, If they have the wisdom to seize the oppor- tunity, to enact substantial portions of their own program and to put the remainder in the way Of accomplish ment. In other words they have a chance for constructive work that can win the approval and confidence of the people and for mthe basis of further dyance.
 ! And the work that awaits them is worthy of the best efforts of the best citizens. In substance, it is the abolition of privilege, the withdrawal of legislative favors from private in- terests, the divorce of the govern. ment from demoralizing partnership with private greed, and, as a sure re suit, a direct and great relief to all classes of the people, and most re- | lief to those least able to bear bur dens. It is a task that appeals to | the sense of justice which. if 1t can 1 be reached, is the strongest motive power in the politics of a democratic community. Ie- is a task which, If pursued faithfully and intelligently, | is sure to arouse the interest Of the young men of the country and to en- | list their energy, courage, and fidel- iity. It is this fact that makes i'm mensely important the leadership of the party which last fall received a tentative mandate to take up the great work of sound, practical, and permanent tariff reform.
 It is not to be wondered at that the party of the moment is not so fully equipped with leaders as it might be. For the last fifteen years 1t has been engaged in a hard strug. ! gle to retrieve the terrible. errors of Bryanism. This has been a work, not of political management and ma lnipulation, but of popular education. , It has been toilsome and costly. But We believe that in great part 1t may now be said to have been accom- tplished. On the one hand, the mass of the party has come to see that a much greater and more solid princi- pie Is itself involved in tariff reform than in the crude propositions of Mir. Bryan's active and inconstant jmag- ination. On the other hand, the mere politicians have been convinced by repeated defeat that Organism is not a profitable cult. Withins the last few years, and, notably. within the past year, there is a marked ten ,deney toward the development of leadership in the essential task of the party. In congress this has not been so marked as in the country at large, but there are men in each branch of the national legislature such as Judge Underwood of Ala bama. ex-Speaker Williams. now Ih the senate; Senator Stone Of Mis- souri, and Senator Gore, the repre- sentative of the newest state-who bid fair to follow a path of enlight. eneG policy. On the outside. there