The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-07-30

OF things would duOpt 10 pOuCy buit
.ke to one who has r, emf Repub-
lcan for years, as the writer says nc
las been, but that on the contrary
would institute changes of paralyzins
ea.ct upon industry and labor. That
is the price the publlc must pay II
1, shall allow itself 10 be drawn IN
to the spiders web o. politicaf ''isms'
and promises.
yJe do not believe i,ns Republican
would contribute to such a result. He
might better save himself from In.
evitable qualification by openly leav.
ing the Republican party and joining
the Democracy or the Socialists.
The writer refers to progressive
RepublicaDism." There seems to be
a wide divergence of opinion as 10
what "progressiveness is. In a
general way no two "progressives
agree. Republicanism itself is the
highest duplication Of progression we
have on our politics. The record
proves 1t conclusively. When we get
away from the concrete policies Of
Republicanism we find open to us
more progressive" paths, many OF
5hem devious, than there are trails
to deer lick. The progressive"
view has not yet crystalized. II may
at the Roosevelt convention; but at
that we find the leading Republican
progressive" Senator LaFollette, in
violent disagreement from the col,
onel. radically opposing him and
charging boldly that he has done
more than any number of "standpat'
Republicans to retard the cause Of
Republican progressiveness."
Senator LaFollettc is going to con.
tinue to make his fight within the
Republican party. He will not par
ticirate in any guerilla warfare in the
interest Of the Democracy.
Senator Borah is cited as type OF
progressive" meeting the approval
of the writer, yet Senator Borah's po.
si,iop is identical with that Of 'rhe
Statesman in the abstract. He did
not obtain all he hoped for, but he
refused to bolt. He Is going to con
tinue his fight within his party and
not enlist under the banner OF mug
wupery and bushwacking to aid q
party whose basic principles are
wholly at variance with his views and
from which he knows there is abso
lutely no chance of obtaining the
changes he desires no matter how
many promises may be made as vote
getting expediences.
The best plan for the Republican
who believes his party is a trife be
hind him is to stay with it and aftel
it and spur it one and not stab i
and leave it PROSTATE in the road t.
be trampled on by the victorious enc
my from which nothing can com,
agreeable to either Cassius or Brutu
or Anthony.
The Statesman has been and i
making its fight within the party
and had Colonel Roosevelt been nom
mated it would have supported hin
and resumed the contest for the su
premacy of those policies it believe
to be wise and beneficial and for tn
Graduating of those II believes to b.
foo lisb and demoralizing.
But at all times The Statesman ha
published fully the news of boz
sides which, ate" all lis its chief mis-
sion That from the standpoint of tn
reader Is the real reti III. For, q
WAS stated In the beginning, every
body disagrees from the newspape
at some time. No editorial policy vii
S, 1t Eli Only the trlicu,6nt and SCI
vice and backboreless would try Il
Eut the newspaper that gives tn
news-that suits all That's wha
The Statesman does, and It is proud
or Of that fact than of all the editor