The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-05-18
INSURGENTS NOT (ALDRICD RE
PUBMCANS.


Beast (Jake Gallinger) for president
pro tenn of the United states Senate
are not Republicans. That may be
true. But those Insurgents are right
lust the same. They are true and
honest representatives of the people
of their states while the Jake Calling
ers represent only and exclusively the
monopolies and overgrown wealth Of
their States. Everybody who has O
grain of sense knows that Bulkeley.
Crane. Smoot. Dupont, Guggenheim.
oliver. Penrose. Stephenson. Warren,
Hepburn and that crowd do not rep
resent the people Of their states
Those men were elected by corpora
tions to represent corporate monopoly
and interests which extort from the
people and rob them most outrageous
ly.
The Republican party in many
states has become simply a stalking
horse for these monopolies and the
real power has been grasped by them
Therefore, If those men are Republi-
cans II must be true that such real
Representatives Of the people as Cum
minis and Kenyon and LaFollette and
Clapp and Works and Bristow and
Brown are not the same kind Of peo-
pie and II the former should be call
ed Republicans it is almost certain
that the latter should be called some
thing else.
Rut there is one thing certain and
that is that the Insurgents do repre-
sent real republicanism, that they
represent the people of their states
and that they do not represent the
Raast or the octopus. They believe
m a government of the people Tor the
people and by the people and not IN a
government Of monopolies. for mon
onolies and by monopolies. They hold
the principles Of the Immortal LIN
coin while the other crowd take ther
principles from the arch-conspirator
Aldrich. There is no more reason
why an honest representative OF the
people should be satisfied with the
extortons and infamous robberies by
statute of Adrich than that Saint
should be satisfied with the environ
ments and birthstone seasonings OF
hell
But the notion Of declaring them
outside the Republican party is hne'
That will amount to a straight ripping
of the party asunder and most that Is
decent and of good report as mat
ter of principle. will be with the In
surgents. We have observed that those
men represent their states and when
they are thrown out of the party
their states will go with them La
Eollette'g vote was 141,0O0 to 41.000.
He has more than three times as many
as follow the Octopus in Wisconsin
There is one-third of the old Repub-
hcan strength, of the Electoral
College, in California, Oregon
Washington, Wisconsin, Michigan, In
diana, Minnesota. New Hampshire
the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas
twelve states. There are also very
considerable number Of Insurgents in
the other States. In fact here in Ohio
all the great Republican newspapers
are about in line with such men as
Kenyon and Clapp. the moderate In
surgents. The Ohio State Journal
the Columbus Dispatch. the Akron
Beacon Journal. the Youngstown Tel
egraph, the Toledo Blade and many
other Republican journals are no
much behind Cummins and LaFol
lette on the great central doctrines
of an honest tariff and reciprocity anc
conservation and economy
The loss of the Insurgent States tC
the Republican electoral column, We
take It, will be o serious matter. II
fact without those States no Repub
ilcan can be elected President in 1912
And no man can carry those State'
who does not stand for the rule of the
people and against the old bunch oi
South Sea pirates led by Aldrich anc
including Bailey of Texas They
stand for distinctively plain propo
sltion that is fundamental and ne
joekeying with names, no talking
generalities. no appeal to party preju
dices ov to the old sentiment of Re
publicanism Will answer
The people Of the great Northwes
are the best educated in our countr,
and they know what they want. They
intend to get It, too, or have row
and fight. They are very closely
allied In practical affairs with pro
gressive Democrats and have the same
ideals Hence, with q little jostlinl
and shaking Of the sack, soon all th'