The daily sentinel., 1913-11-14
(By EDWARD KEATING,
Congressman at Large From Cole

ISluI us lTuLl -hdSSdCHustltS, NEW JtE-
sey and Maryland, show that the
Democrats will continue to win just
SO long as the Republicans and Pro-
gressives continue to fight" is the
sage remarks of one of Washington S
standpat newspapers. All the lead
ers of the old Tory element in the
Republican party echo this sentiment.
They do it to the accompaniment Of
many sighs and much sorrowful wag-
ging of heads, making a brave at
tempt to give an impressive imita-
/ tion of the tender-hearted father who
/ is anxious to welcome the prodigal
son to the family rooftree.
] All of which raises the question:
why should any real Progressive re-
turn to the Republican party.
Has the leopard changed his spots
or has this particular Senegambian
provided himself with a brand new
skin
Isn't Boss Barnes still boss in the
republican machine in New York?
Isn't Penrose still supreme in Penn
sylvania? Has any one questioned
the leadership of Uncle Joe Canon
in Illinois? And in our own beloved
Colorado, have the Stevensons, the
Devines and the ,Howberts changed
their political principles?
The trouble is that the political
Bourbons who are endeayoring to
salvage the republican wreck do not
appreciate that the differences be-
tween the standpat republicans and
the genuine progressives are funda-
mental and cannot be adjusted by a
redivision of the pie. Most of the
men who quit the republican party
because Roosevelt was steam roller
nlF In, ha wi
wander back to the old fold, but the
men who left the party because it
had become the tool of special priv
ilege and no longer responded to the
best thought of American manhood,
will either continue to rally around
the progressive banner or will seek
congenial resting place with Wilson
and Bryan in the democratic party.
There are enough of these progress
sives for principle in every northern
and western state to permanently de-
termine the political complexion of
/ that state. l believe whenever they
are forced to choose between the old
republicanism of Taft, Cannon and
Aldrich and the new democracy of
/ Wilson and Bryan, it will not take
them very long to make up their
minds.
There are no better democrats in
congress than Murdoch of Kansas,
Poindexter, Washington, and Noland
of California. .---I, haze eenlsreading
the speeches recently delivered in
II Colorado by Edward p. Costigan,
Merle Vincent and Ben Griffith, and
if those gentlemen have not been
preaching simon pure democracy,
then | do not know the meaning of
the term.
There is plenty of room in the
democratic party for those, men, and
for the tens of thousands of progress
sives who think as they think, and l
know of no good reason why they
should not join our ranks. AS for
the "speckled and spotted progress
sives,'' who defied personality and
never comprehend a principle, we
would probably be better off without
them.
People Endorse Wilson.
The election returns constituted a
most gratifying Endorsement OF Pres
ident Wilson and his policies. l be-
!. lieve this is the first time in the re-
cent history of this country that the
party which "tinkered with the tar
iff" did not sustain severe losses in
the election next following.
We all recall the democratic land
slides which followed the enactment
of the Mckinley bill in 1889 and
1890. The famous author of the bill
could not carry his home district and
was compelled to temporarily retire
to private life.
Then came the Wilson bill, that
miserable makeshift which disgraced
the democracy and disgusted Presi-
dent Cleveland, who declined to at
tach his signature to it. The repub-
licans were swept back into power
and the democrats were left with an
insignificant minority in the house.
Coming to more recent history, we
find that the men responsible for the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill were driven
from public life and their party over
whemingly defeated as soon as the
voters had an opportunity to register
their will. Roosevelt, the keenest
politician we have ever had in the
presidents chair, regarded the tariff
as red hot poker and he refused to
approach it during the seven years
he occupied the white house.
II remained for Wilson to break
the hoodoo which seems to attach to
tariff legislation. The democracy
did not only not lose ground in the
recent elections but 1t developed a
very marked increase in voting
! strength in the sections which have
heretofore been regarded as the
| strongholds of protection.
| Assures Currency Legislation.
One of the immediate results OF
l this surprising vote OF confidence In
the president will be the passage OF
the currency bill by the senate. Wall
street had looked forward to cleo
I. tion day with some confidence believ'
ing it would reveal the ebbing of the
/ Wilson tide. If we had lost Massa-
! chusetts or New Jersey every organ
! of the Interests would have proclaim
ed the Reputation of the president
and would have urged that as rea.
: son why the proposed currency leg
} Iislation should be defeated. 1t is 9
3 poor rule which will not work botf
ways The people did not repudiatt
4 the president Instead they indors
A ed him and their Endorsement consti