Arizona republican., 1912-12-11
When There is No Peace
Philadelphia North AmcricanD

Philadelphia North AmcrcanD
 As sequel the conference between President Taft and William Barnes jr, il is nounced that still more imposing gathering wu be held the Astor New York, 'n December 14. With President Taft this time ba Scna- tors Root. Lodge, Burton and Crane; President IIadley. Yale, President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, Harry New Indiana. Sct1 Low Of New York and others They are to devise pro for the rehabilitation Of the republican parer reduced by their policies to it's pra.""t almentable condition.
 The list made known does include the Penroses the Harnesses. the Big Stoves the irrncrs and like tacticians who operated in Chicago .iast June. The inference is that this cOnsutafi"n i+ 10 bc conducted by the notable defenders Of the acts which wrecked the party, rather than by the actual perpetrators Senator Root alone is ctE&E jct015 member of both classes-a distinction which should award him the chairmanshp of the conference.
 No official outline of the plan U be proposed has been given Root however. Gave a hrt rule In address the New Yorl, chanrDcr Of commerce he deplored that "massns of the citizen ship ignorant" of affairs and 'sounded note of warning. thus faithfully tranen'ittCl by Holland" newspaper writer wI,o i1 hunbIcr way than the senator voices the *I2"s of ne sam" interests:
 The great peril in the tinted States ar lhe present time is one which is due . ignorance and misunderstandings. Senator Root seems be Of the opinion danger is increasing. He be- leves that the only remedy for it is catioa pa tience and the presentation before tho American people by in whom the people have confidence. Of the facts as they are which relate to industrial commercial and financial conditions"
 If MT. Roots view prevails. the coming ference is start with the premise that the party wrecked because of the people g- norant and can be restored only by educating those benighted millions into a knowledge of their ptabc errors.
 As the conference progresses it will appear that the party machinery Tory hands
 The republican national convention will not meet until June, 1916 The power 10 call and organize that convention. to it's delegates and dictate it's decisions has been irrevocaby taken from party and conferred upon the
 
 the eight states and the insuar possessions And their recognized leader and source of authority Mir. Barnes
 Twenty-seven of these men-a. majority-will have the power to set aside any number of dele gates. elected by majorties no matter how great, precisely was done last June, and seat others having shadow of title but having the approval of the masters of the party bosses And their power will actually have behind it the sacred force of precedent.
 When the rational committee perpetrated last summers crime in ChicaEo-when. by the of the fraudulent roll disfranchsed whole states. threw out delegates elected by overwhelming majorities and others hand picked" by special privilege its revolutionary in utter defiance not only of justice, but of party custom. The next rational committee-made up largely of the same men-wiH be in a much stronger and more com rortable position committing a similar crime It will not have to make precedents for steaihs votes. simply follow them.
 In the conference imagining. therefore it becomes apparent that the majority have been invited into party in which they are disfrancmsed' that all power s the hands of twenty-seven men with Barnes a their head. This absurd position is discussed vigorously and at length. We fancy rep resentatives the ignorant masses growing elo- quent upon it. Senator Root replying with suaNe dignity and force And at last a speaker begs leave to offer d suggestion that may break the deadlock
 Tt is clear" he says. that face an obstacle which we cannot pass round. nor climb over, nor tunnel under. The only solution seems to be to re- move it. blow up. I propose that we start steps to dissolve the national committee, put the whole matter back to members of the republican party and let them their decision.
 Instantly Root and Mir. Lodge and Doctor Butler are their feet faces blanched. hands up raised and trembling. No! No!" they cry. And the last state is worse than the tlrSt
 What is the excuse for our labored attempt to picture what such meeting might be? simply |" demonstrate the utter folly of the proposal the utter in1DOssibitY of the situation these repup- 1ican leaders have made it. They do not or Will not see that the decision has been made, the issue drawn Mir Root and his fellow "restorers or the narty do not believe in popular government Ill representative democracy, in social ana lhduStIlhl iuStice in doctrines of Lincoln; the ma1orltN o inc voters do believe in those things To talk oi harmonzing these ideas is the essence or futlltE.