Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-12-12
GALLINGER
MAY SOON
Dust BACON
IF G. 0. P. CAN WORK IT
Planning to Get Together For
His Election

ers are In progress between the re
publicans and the Republican progress
sives looking 20 an agreement whereby
Senator Gallinger will be made Presi
dent pro tempore of the Senate
through the remainder of this Con-
gress. 1t is expected that a few of the
senators who bolted the Republican
ticket and became simon-pure progress
sives by entering the party organized
by former President Roosevelt will
refuse to join in this movement, but
that there are enough Republicans of
the other brands to put it through@A An
effort will be made to reach an agree
ment on this point this week, and if it
succeeds, it will be the result of the
desire of the leaders of the two fac
tons in Congress to get together. 9th
err steps in the reorganization of the
party could then be taken up with
greater facility than now seems pos
sible
On account of the opposition of the
Republican insurgents at the last ses-
sion, the Republicans failed to elect
President pro TEN, with the result that
Senator Gallinger and Senator Bacon
(DemocraD, of Georgia, divided the
honor and alternated in presiding over
the Senate in the absence of the Vice
President. This arrangement still
exists
While the plan suggested by such
Republican progressives as Senator
Cummins, of Iowa, and Senator Borah
of Idaho, for a reunion of the factions
of the G. 0. P. seems entirely feasible,
no great amount of enthusiasm ap-
pears to be manifested by many of the
leaders of the regular Republicans. 1t
is too important proposition, in their
opinion to accept, without a great deal
of deliberation and mature considera-
ton of the numerous questions in
volved, both in the demand for a re-
duction of the representation to ma
tional conventions of the Southern
States States, and the full reorganiza-
ton of the rights of States to determ-
inc precisely how their respective del
egates to conventions shall be chosen
irrespective of any rules which may be
laid down by the national committee
In the opinion of some Republicans.
the time is not exactly propitious for
the contamination of any plan for the
reorganization of the Republican party
These men contend that the G. 0. P. is
still too near dying state to be af-
fected by even drastic treatment. They
say the wisest course at this time is to
let nature take her course and build
up the party in her own way Never
theless, the proposal of the Republican
progressives may prove to be the ten
tative basis upon which the factions
ultimately will get together.
There is recognized merit in the
proposal to change the basis of South
ern representation, since those States
never choose a Republican presiden-
tial elector, and rarely, if ever, send
Republican to the Senate or the House,
or elect a Republican governor And
as for the rights Of States to determ-
inc in their own way how delegates to
national conventions shall be chosen,
it must be admitted that there is merit
in this proposition also.
But as for calling a national con-
vention to take action on these and
other questions that may be submitted
with view of cementing the factions,
that is generally deemed impracticable
for various reasons. In the first place,
it would be difficult to determine the
basis of representation to such a con
vention
Next it is doubted that the Republ-
can rank and file could have their in
terest stirred sufficiently in such
project to justify it. Again, it is be-
lieved that a great deal of the prelim-
mary work toward reconstruction can
be done by the Republicans in Con-
gress themselves, and by the national
committee working in conjunction with
State organization, and by the main
tenance of national headquarters in
Washington.
Furthermore, it was contended by
number of national committeeman who
have been in Washington the past
week that the best way to begin to
build up the party is not through pro-
nouncements of committees or factions,
but through the State organizations
themselves This has already been
undertaken in such States as Ohio
Missouri, New York, Massachusetts,
and elsewhere.
Rich or poor-see Hazel!
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