The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1912-10-18
REPUBLICAN PARTY SEALED
ITS OWN DOOM.

We heard a former Republican Office
holder in Kentucky say the olier day.
well. ] suppose we are due for o's
house cleaning this elections; but after
and put the old party back on its fe l."
Our Republican friend is deluding him-
self with false hopes. His party. IS
represented by the Taft-Sherman ticket
and the PenroseBarnes Bradley machine
can not survive the coming election The
wreckers. not content with smashing up
the furniture and driving all the folks
out of the house. hav, made 1t impossi-
BILE for any of the evicted 20 return 10
their old political residence.
| When the little coteri, of political
highbinders that defied the voice of
the people at Chicago had finished It's
theft of the party organization and the
nomination. it made its work final by
perp tuating the system through which
it was done.
The approval of the old rules govern
ing the National Committee was the
last and fatal act of an uDrepentant
gang. When the Penrose-Barnes-B Bradley
outfit refused to amend the rules If
til Republican party in harmony with
popular ideals they closed the party
door against the return OF the progress
sive element: they did it deliberat ly.
1t was intended to serve notice upon
those who believe in popular government
and social justice that they are not
wanted i'm the +; publican party. Its
effect was to retain the organization Of
the Republican party in the hands Of
the reactionary crowd and continue in
the National Committee tn, veto power
over the choice of the people.
To confirm this attitude the Republi-
can party refused to includ in its plat
form an approval of the presidential
primary and thus went on record as sus
tanning the whole vicious system of boss
controlled conventions, by which the
standpat element was able to prev nj
popular control.
There is no hope of saving a panty 20
utterly and mady determined to des-
people will find the Republican organize
ton, il its remnants liv. till then, still
bOssed by a National Committee that
derives no responsibility or authority
from the people and that exercises an
autocratic rul, over party affairs The
voters who attempt to achieve ANYTHING
through the Republican party will be
confronted by precisely the same obsta-
cles and the sam. chcanery Of method
Barnes and Bradley have put up the
bars and ar. inside with a shotgun.
Every impartial observer comedies that
the Republican party will be in third
place after the November election TIL
drop from the dominant position in the
politics of the Nation to tha. of an
also-ran will prove to the people the fol
~ of wasting time with an organization
that has lost its power anu prestige,
and that is no longer useful.
The exist nee Of a great new marty,
clean. vigorous. controlled by the people
and having Nationwide strength
and following. ev n il it is not victJ-
riOus in the election of its ticket, will
further emphasize the absurdity of try
ing to degenerate the Republican party.
There is no futur, for the Republican
party. When the Penrose Barnes Brad .
crowd stole the nomination and adopted
the old rules for another four years tn :,
simply crawl ID into their coffin and
screwed the nuts on the bolts that clany
down the lid.-Louisville Herald.
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