Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-15

publican party as a matter Of course. They have seen
the fearful effects Of a divided party-a democratic
administration, an administration elected by a minor.
ity vote.
Another moving cause is the present .niQutous
tarif law, which the progressives, and a good many
democrats, too. cannot stomach. The plain people,
seeing the approaching blight on business, labor, man.
nfacturing and agriculture, caused by the new tariff,
are shying away from the experiment" in the White
House and congress-.
The progressives, seeing that neither themselves
nor tho republicans will ever be able to- beat the
democrats, as long as they remain divided, realize
that they must "get together And they are" getting
together. Any political prognosticator, Judging from
the Maine and Pennsylvania results, can see that the
two wings of the old party are drifting together.
This movement keenly observed in congress, has
given great hope to the republican leaders, and has
sobered the democrats at the capitol.
There are some republicans who boldly state that
the 1919 elections will overturn the huge and unwieldy
democratic house majority, and a republican house
will sit in the capitol in 1915. Others, not SO certain
Of this, believe, however, that the next senate un-
doubtedly will be republican. The democrats have a
bare majority of six in the senate now. and 30 sena-
ttors are to be named in the 1914 campaign by popu.
lar vote. The republicans are counting on the ad-
verse effects Of the tariff bill to give them a handsome
majority In the next senate. Their hopes as to the
senate seem we'll founded.
AS to the 1916 presidential election-it would be
hard to find a single republican on Capitol hill who
does not firmly believe that the democrats will 60
down to disastrous defeat in the next presidential
election. They base these hopes on the efftcts of the
new tariff law. E..!.s.g .,ilIi
The new tariff law will wreck the democratic
party. The democrats have made the fatal mistake
Of going to the other extreme from the Payne law
rates, and reducing the schedules too low, with too
many products placed on the free list. Everybody
now recognizes that the Payne law rates were entire
ly too high in many schedules. The democrats have
reduced the protective tariff too low. Just as the
people reVolted against the too high rates of the
Payne law so will they %repudiate the too low rates
of the Underwood-Simnon schedules, and particular
ly placing farm products on the free list.
Then, too, the proposed democratic currency bill
More than %, 900 banking institutions Of the country
voiced their protest III Boston against the half-baked
currency measure. The currency bill has been prac-
tically r%epudiated by all Aemrican bankers before it
is born. President Wilson is d determined, however, to
ram the currency bill down the bankers threats, de-
spite their strenuous objections. Will these bankers
support the democratic policies and the Wilson adj
ministration in the 1914 and 1915 elections?
Word comes from Paris that women vii! have
pockets to put their hands in this winter. That is.
in the daytime. Married women already have pockets
to put their hands in at night.