Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-13
SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT WOULD
ANAL eAMATE CONSERVATIVES
OF BOTH PARTIES.
ALL DEMOCRATS DEMAND
IS CHANGE TO CONSERVATIVE
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1ryanism Of Recent Ysars-champ
Over Old Guard Responsible For
Coalition Movement.

fully as sharp and pronounced as that
in the republican party. A leading
southern democrat, a member of the
house of representatives and formerly
a judge on the bench of his state, went
to the White House and made a
definite proposition to President Taft
for an amalgamation OF the conserva-
tive democrats and the republicans. He
told Mr.. Taft that all the conservative
democrats asked was a change in the
name of the republican party. He said
to the president:
IF you will call the republican
party the conservative party we will
deliver to you the electoral vote of
both Carolinas. Georgia, Florida, Louis
lana and Tennessee, with more than q
fair chance to add Alabama. But the
six states l first named are a certainty.
The people of those states have no
further use for the democracy as 1t has
been conducted in recent years. They
want to break away. But they do not
know where to go. 1t is impossible
for them to carry winning vote to
the republican ticket because Of the
prejudices which linger in the minds
of many. But simple change Of title
would bring heavy majority Of the
voters Of those states away from the
democratic party.
do not assume that l am making a
chimerical proposition. Nothing could
be more serious or more certain OF re-
suits One man in this country can
break the solid south, and you are that
man, and have shown you the way to
do it, !, myself, can go back to my
district and run on the republican
ticket and be elected as often as I
want to, but I will not do that because
of the way some of my own family
still look upon the name. republican"
Progressive Democrats to Control.
It Is not known that the president
gave his caller any encouragement, as
to action on his part. but he did re-
ceive the proposition seriously.
The reason for the accentuation OF
the split in the democracy at this time
lies in the capture OF the new house
by the progressive democrats. Champ
Clark's adherents. finding themselves
with clear majority Of the next house.
have arranged to run the road roller
over the conservative democrats. They
nave decided upon their ways and
means committee. They have thrown
every conservative democrat OF that
committee and have packed the COM
mittee with democrats pledged to vote
to place raw materials upon the free
list. The democratic program as to the
tariff Is fairly we'll set forth in the
bunch Of free trade bills introduced by
Representative Mann Of Illinois Satur-
day He did it as a political trick,
probably at the instigauon OF Speaker
Cannon, who is supposed to be respon-
sible for most of the things Mann does.
Treatment Widens Breach.
The result Of this treatment Of the
conservative democrats has been to
make very much wider the breach in
the democratic party Most Of the con-
servative democrats are tinctured with
the protection doctrine. To be tied to
a party which proposes to place a
great number Of protected articles upon
the free list is to them a calamity.
Some o. them. like the southern Judge
who called upon the president, want to
break away. and It is certain that some
Of them will break away II they can
find a way to work great damage to the
democracy in doing 1t.
II had been the hope Of the conserva-
tive democrats that they could control
the new house. Had they accomplish
ed this they would have revised the
tariff on alleged tariff for revenue
basis, but would have been careful not
to disturb the protective features Of
the law. As 1t is they are many votes
short Of enough to control. They see
the prosperity Of many Of the produce