The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-08-17

lQlNluudl WIN 81 Didtdhby uSSioiih
; against things Republican? If you do
and If your experience is in any wa!
, similar to our own this is what yot
VIII find: that the fellow is himself
DEMOCRAT, or he is disgruntled
discredited, repudiated "nanger-on' o.
the Grand Old Party. A sort OF fly
on the sticky paper, whose feet have
become so thoroughly entangled that
he cannot extricate himself and all
he can do is buzz a little while he
looks forward helplessly and hopeless
ly to his final ignominious collapse.
The fact of the matter IL the Demo
Gratis stand absolutely no chance of
winning While it is true that the fail
ure on the part of certain hide
bound" Republican politicians to ap.
preciate the necessity of readjust-
ment of many of the established us
ages of government to meet the new
demand of more progressive age
a failure by-the-way, in which they
were amply supported by the Demo.
Gratis then in public life-resulted in
the election of a majority of democrat
representatives to the lower house of
congress two years ago. 1t is never.
theless, admitted by many close stu
dents of political economy that this
result was brought about not so much
because of desire on the part of the
voters to elect the Democratic party
TO power as because, the Democrats
being the only ones available, they
were used as an outward expression
Of the popular dissatisfaction with
things. Having succeeded, however,
in calling attention to the changes
desired and having impressed these
desired objections upon the minds OF
those responsible for their enactment
the Independent voters returned to
their respective parties to await the
result of their action. Meanwhile ar
rogating to themselves the honor of
pVSh CiCttcu UtCduSe Iuey
were Democrats" and not as the out
ward expression Of popular unrest,
witness the spectacle of these rep
resentatives" in congress! Was
there ever such a rough-and-tumble.
such a neck-breaking scramble, to do
something that would Strengthen the
party for next fall?" All thought of
building up the country, of enacting
solid, substantial, constructive legis.
lation that would tend to the greater
development of the nation thrown to
the winds, and in its place a wild or
gle of insane and insipid "readjust.
ment" inaugurated,
Measures Of the gravest concern
measures that had called out the best
thoughts of the centuries in their for.
nation and development were care.
fully CD analysed and passed upon
by this crowd of Legislators" many
of them IN A SINGLE NIGHT! The
tariff, which during the growth and
development of the republic has stood
as bulwark Of protection around the
nation and its people, is seized hold
of by this willy band and made to do
service as the finder out of which
they will draw their political fuel.
Wool, lead, sugar-with their mil.
lions of dependent beings-given as
little consideration as would be Civ.
EN- them by set Of irresponsible
school boys! A wild, turbulent scrom.
Bile for notoriety out of which emerg.
ed more presidential possibilities"
hitherto unknown, than the nation
had since its inception.
What the result of it all might have
been; to what depths of misery and
shame the nation might easily have
been sunken by this game Of political
'cetch-as-catch-can had not fate de.
creed otherwise, none can say? But
the thing was not to be. The nation
born in day" was destined to con.
tinuc, and out of the chaotic mass.
dominating the whole with his smil.
ing personality, there energies the
figure of the wise President Taft. His
Tart, the Republican, Taft, the Presi. |
dent of the WHOLE United States
the preregative to pass final judgment
upon these hastily gotten together de. |
cisions. His the solemn duty of view.
Ing each measure in its workings I'm
the ultimate. His the sacred respon.
sibility of declaring fearlessly and
firmly for the WHOLE PEOPLE and
not for any particular set or party,
And how well he has borne out that
trust let the student of events decide
for himself.
NO this is not a Democratic year!
me people of the Unites States are