Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-16
THEIR STRENGTH
WILL RETURN
IN A REUNION
TWO Wings WILL Unite
New York World Regards This
as Outlook

B
he a party of his own, as his state
ment of today makes him out to
have?
/ When he was nominated last summer
by a boiling convention, the republl-
cans, already sharply defeated at the
elections of 1910. nevertheless had
control of the executive departments
at Washington, majority in the SEN
ate and 162 members of the house of
representatives. They were in pos
4 session also, in whole or in part, of
/ the governments of one-half of the
states.
/ A few months hence the national
executive departments will be manned
exclusively by democrats, both houses
/ of congress will be democratic. the
republican membership of the house
having fallen to about 1870, and in only
sixteen or seventeen states will the
republicans have any important con-
nection with local executive govern
ment. This includes republicans of
every degree. progressives as we'll as
regulars.
When the progressives set up for
themselves there were twenty three
republican governors, sixteen of whom
might be called progressives, although
not all of them were boilers. Eight of
these signed the call for the Roosevelt
candidacy. Six of the states represent
ed by these pioneers-viz., Missouri,
Nevada, New Hampshire, Kansas, Ne
braska and West Virginia-voted for
Wilson, and eight republican govern
ors in various states will soon give
place to democrats
When the progressive campaign OPP
ened in August there were in the
house of representatives about twenty
progressive republicans who could be
depended upon to support reforms de-
manded by the people. In the. new
house there will be only ten or twelve
aVowed republican progressives. In the
senate there were at least six repub-
lican progressives who staunchly with
stood the elder statesmen Next year
only two or three progressive republi-
cans in that body will refuse to enter
the party caucus.
So far as the republican party or
ganization is concerned the third-term
campaign has left it about as it was
year ago 1t is still for the most
part regularly republican Even in
California and South Dakota, where the
lrogressives suppressed the regular re-
publican ticket and in Oklahoma.
where they fused with the regulars,
the combination goes under the repub-
lican name. In Pennsylvania, where
progressiveism is gossed by Finn, it
is known as the Washington party. In
Wisconsin ii is a LaFollette party
largely. In several Western states
where the progressives are in control,
such as Missouri, Minnesota, the Da-
kotas, Oregon and Washington, the
machinery is in the hands of men who
are republicans first of all, and who
will not give up the name.
1t is true that Mr. Roosevelt re-
ceived more votes than Mr. Taft, but
this shows what the progressives did
for Mr.. Roosevelt, not what they did
for anybody else. 1t is the remnant of
the republican and not the advance
guard of the progressive party which
is to be found in the minority in con-
gress and in the state governments.
The number of boiling progressives
who have been elected to office of any
kind is hardly worth consideration.
y here men calling themselves progress
sives have triumphed at all, princi-
pally in the West, it has been as re-
publicans.
These facts all seem to prove what
many people have forgotten, that the
great republican quarrel of 1912 was
neither moral nor religious, but who'll
ly personal. One wing refused Mr..
Tafts leadership. The other wing re-
jected Mr. Roosevelt's leadership.
There is hardly another question on
which they cannot come into substan-
tial agreement, just as they have in
the past
No doubt the feeling resulting from
this contest will be lasting in some
cases. but most republicans are likely
to see that nothing is to be gained by
perpetuating the feud. Both factions
came out of it with empty hands.
Neither one of them has enough of 4
political estate, taken by itself, to
worth a painstaking inventory. In
spite of all that has happened, the
republican party name is stronger than
any shibboleth devised by progressive
or regular
If Mr.. Roosevelt and his friends are
to have a political future We shall look
for it very confidently within the ranks
of the republican party.
Mr.. Gnaggs-I want you to under
stand. Mrs. Gnaggs, that | am no fool.
Mrs, Gnaggs-For once l agree with
you; fool and his money are soon