Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-12-12
PINCHOT ON LEADERSHIP.

The Hon Clifford Pnchot is at has best when,
from his altitude Of superior virtue, he is rcprov-
ings somebody or correcting something. Mr.. Pin
chot has taken occasion to remark that he is no
longer to be regarded as a Mercury for the
.Jovian Theodore, but he implies he has his
thluderbots TO launch For instance the Hon
Gift has awakened to the fact that the pro-
grcSSive republicans making no progress and
ne seems to regard this stationary trouble as
partly due, at all events to the fact that insur-
gents do not like to submit to leadership Pos
sibly the Hon Gift could point his finger to the
desired leader, and he would, but at this June
lure, recognizing the inevitable, he prefers dis
erection
For this is the very sound counsel that Mr.
Pincho preached the other day in address
before the Insurgents club Of New York City
This movement +" urged MIR. Pnchot, 'must have
concrete expression in leadership, as every other
great movement Of political and social thought
has concrete expression in the figure OF one
man
The history of the ins,rgent movement il
the republican party, however demonstrates that
the refusal to acknowledge leadership is the in
spiratiOn and motive of insurgency. The lnsur
gents have been and still are inSurging agains
such concrete expression in the figure OF ont
man, as Mr. Pinchot finds essential if the in
sllrgents would accomplish anything besides in
Surgng or progress anywhere Their nomina
leader, the president Of the National Progressiv
league, Senator Jonathan Bourne, .Jr, Of Ore
wearies of expressing his conviction tina
political salvation is to be found in "the com
positc citizen The whole movement of nsnl
gency has been protest against leadership am
it has spread far that it is protes
against representative government, teaching TIL
people to believe that in the referendum, tn
initiative and the recall the transference Of leg
slative power from Representative to the peopl
themselves, lies the panacea for all the ills t
which government is heir.
Insurgency had its birth in the Sixty frs
congress, when the minority of republican repre-
SentativeS. chagrined because they could not OF
tain the prominence and power to which the
thought themselves entitled, revoted against TIL
authority Of the speaker Of the house of repre-
Sentaves, Joe Cannon, and the leader of thei
own party. They were followed by a handfl
Of senator's, who started similar insumectio
against the leadership Of Mr.. Aldrich. With
tremendous flourish Of trumpetS, Joseph Canno
and Nelson w. Aldrich were published throughor
the country the arclenemies Of popular ru
The insurgent members of congress, elected II
publcans, refused to acknowledge the leader
chosen by the majority and refused to meet
caucus with other republicans and to accept
will of the majority of their party associates.
The term insurgency which the boltcl
are now anxious to replace with that
progressivism,' exactly describes the inspiratio
of the movement and its present deporabe cond
ton, which the Hon. Clifford Pnchot now appea
to be at some pains to correct
Mr. Pinchot is wise enough to see II
weakness of the movement which he did niue
to promote and to realize the necessity for o
ganized leadership. Moreover, he has explicit
stated his conviction that there will be no ind
pendent party organization growing out Of Il
progressive movement, and that the candidate
the next republican convention will be accep
able to the progressive wing of the party.
Senator Works Of California had already sec
the handwriting on the wall some weeks ago, pr
dieting the denomination of Mr.. Taft and iii
arming the presidents enemies in California I
announcing his intention to support the cho
of the party The republicans i'm this state wi
are still following the ignis fatuus of la 70
lettiSm will do well to heed the counsel Of the
right honorable friend and prophet, Mr. PinehO