The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-07-12
is REPUBLICAN CONTROL LOST

LeSlle'S: Ine TACT tnat the re-
publicans have been unable to elect a
successor to me as president pro tenn
pore shows that our party does not
control the senate" These words
from Senator Frye, who resigned that
office, ought to have SOLDERING effect
on the insurgents, who have been hold
ing up their party in that chamber
and casting their votes for impossible
candidates. BY breaking away from
the party which elected them and to
they have kept the Office vacant from
which they still pretend to belong,
which the Maine senator has retired
on account of age and falling health.
On the face of the figures there is
republican majority in the senate of
eight, but the boilers have taken away
any body. If republican CONTROL of
the senate is lost, who is responsible
for it?
Do the insurgents intend to continue
their fight on their party till election
day in 1912? If so, by what right do
they call themselves republicans?
Some of them it is presumed, will
|seek reelection. On what ticket will
|they make their campaign? Viii! they
have the effrontery in 1912 to ask fav-
ors from the party which they have
been fighting since 1909? Their fac
tionalism reveals itself in the house
of representatives, with its democratic
majority of sixty-five, chosen last
November! How do they like that
specimen of their handiwork? do
they want to give the democrats the
presidency and the senate in 1912, as
we'll as the house of representatives?
1t begins to look that way.
Would anyone of the ten or twelve
insurgents in the senate ever have
been chosen to their present posts by
the democrats? Will any OF them
look for favors from the democrats in
1912? DO they think their states
Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa,
Michigan, Oregon and the rest of
them-would be bettered by change
to the democratic side? Can they find
anything credible in their masquer-
ade as republicans while talking and
voting democratic? Are they not
aware the fight which they are making
on the republican party embarrasses
the republican president, hampers the
republican party in it's endeavor to
regain ascendency in the house and
gives the democrats aid and comfort in
their campaign to win complete SUI
premecy in the government of 1912?
Are not the insurgents of the senate
and house aware that the democratic
victory of 1910 is the principal cause
of the torpor in the trade 1911? The
|insurgent fight against the republican
party began in the extra session OF
1909 and it gave check to the trade
revival which set in that year. At
first the country thought that the in
surgent assault would end with extra
session of 1909, but it was renewed in
the regular session, and then the cur
rent turned against the republicans.
The effect of the change was seen in
the principal special congress in those
states in the early February, 1910, in
Massachusetts in March and in New
York in April The result in the
bye-election for congress in those
states in the early months of 1910
were foretaste of the big republican
defeat in November of last year. In
dustry saw the menace early in 1910
and the wheel of trade gradually
slowed down. The industrial situation
| is worse in 1911 than it was in 1910
and the insurgents are responsible for
it. Do Messers. LaFollette, Cummins,
Bristow, Clapp and their boiling asso-
ciates want to bring in 1913 apanic