Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-06

slstency within insurgency. 1t ~ hot
ours to account for or to explain. Nei'"er
is 1t our province to exaggerate or cure
It. 1t is Just q fact which shows t'ia'
lille insurgency in the House co-opera'es
with the democracy for RECIPROCITY IL
opposes reciprocity in the Senate. though
TO mono effect. We are glad that 'he
democracy in both Houses has iaporen
| unitedy in the public interest, ana Gan
Tot but note that insurgency In the sen
ate has steadily banded against the puohc
interest on the straight reciprocity pro-
gram.
The House insurgents comprise no can
didates for the presidency. That Aihol-
ton Is not danged before their eyes.
They are for their own re-eiec'ioh' 10 DC
sure. and are likely to achieve II, but they
are not tied up to accomplishing or pre-
venting any republican presidential NOM
nation. The Senate insurgents comprise
Al least two presidential nspirants' La
Toilette and Cummns. though the latters
friends may urge him for the second
place on the ticket, and Tafts FRIENDS
| may put him there in n way to require
La Folettes arrows to pierce Cummins
before they can reach Taft himself, at
whose feet they would foil blunted and
harmless The democracy may be said to
be assisting this situation by mastery
differentiation OF policy toward House
and Senate insurgency
In the Same way other conditions as
| sist the democracy and embnrrass the
republicans. The democracy mas no In
| cvitable presidential candidate. From the
| body of death known as Organism that
| party seems to have accomplished Its
dellverance. On the contrary. republican
Ism is bound to the denomination Of Mr..
Taft. most OF It heartily, some of 1t
reluctantly the whole of It inevitably. To
re sure, he is their best. but to their
worst he is an inevitnblity, and La Fol-
lctte's ambition supplies precisely the
| contrast and the ridiculosity that would
acquit sheer unanimity for Taft at this
| time of conspiracy or coercion. While the
democracy Is tied up by events to no
one man. It has developed. since It's
| deliveranCe from Organism. n line of
men satisfactory to Jefferson's inquiry:
rs he honest Is he capable. Is he faith
ful to the constitution" Whoever he
| may be, he IS,
| And In the States controlled by the
| democrats the executives. Judges or rep
| reScntatives there Of democratic presiden-
| t'al size can be permitted to send their
| friends to the convention. next yenr, thor,
| to compare and t. consult and tn settle
| choices. Their candidate may not mat /
| Taft in experience or judicial poisr. hut
their party conditions mry ;utmat"h the
conditions Of Taft's party, md next year
| party conditions are likely to be acton
of decisive Importance. That may or may
not be so 1t bids fair to be SO now, nnt
the surety that no unfit or lropOssibl,
II an Will be named for chief mn,i%trat,
lY either party now appears to ba ante
Ccdontly pre-cstablshcd.
/ There never w3s n more intcrestn.
year before a presidential decision. Their,
never was a year in which insurgency
the aftermath Of mugwumpcry, could b'
discounted by its own divisions more cf
| feCtvely. There has never been a yea
in which democratic support of repubi
can presidents best purposes has beer
50 essential or so ungrudgin rendere l
| Never before has the test of interest ant
sclnshness of shortsiCh tedness and politi
cal rnyopia, been more exactingly applied
to our insurgent friends The nearin,
future may hold surprises in its claspc'
hands, but the accomplished neutraliza
ton of the scheme of secret and democrat
Ting contributions, by the act requir
ing full publication Of money subscrip
tons, and of the list Of personal and cor
roration subscribers, before election ma
relieved one Rad factor from considera
ton. while "the era of good feeling,
which has heretofore set In after election
now seems TO hive set in even before
nominations. and seems likely to continu
through the canvass itself,