Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-26
The Natural Solution.


by the rabid element of the new party
| and the Democracy, that so many
| members of the new party should tire
of it SO quickly and take up the name
of the departed one? We don't see how
| even the Lewiston Journal with all its
| other Inconsistencies and indeeencies,
| can claim that these men have been
| bought back or kidnapped by the old
party because. according to its own tes-
timony anonymously given every day.
the "Old Guard were wiped out. oblit-
Grated. blown away, last November
But it is fact that many men who
rebuked Taft, who voted for Roosevelt,
and who perhaps thought they saw
a new, clean and righteous party
in embryo. are now taking up their po-
sitions as bearers of the principles that
have made this nation great, and now
stand for conservative Republcanism.
These men believe in beginning their
house cleaning from within, instead of
attempting 10 buiy tlie sti uctutc III
mud.
Let us not be misunderstood The
Republican party has had such a shak
ing up and clarifying as would have
wiped a party founded on selfishness
and non constructive policy out of ex-
istence. But principles never die. and
the name Republican will go down
through the ages, name with which
to conjure the ablest, most earnest and
most respected.
And let US prophesy that the very
men who made felt their rebuke Of
Republican leaders mistakes. will be
the ones to stand in the front ranks
| leading to honor and victory.
1t is useless for such as the Lewiston
| Journal to protest and proclaim. de-
nounee and deny-not only hundreds in,
Maine, but thousands in the Third dis
| trict. who rebuked Taft in 1912 are up
| holding the banners of honest conser-
vative Republicanism in 1918. 1t is their
privilege and their duty. They were
est impulse, as they have been moved
again this year. Their movement of 1872
has served its purpose. They have no
need and no desire to insult or injure
those who did not see as they did last
year.
Today it is matter of common
cause. against a common enemy. and
for mutual advantages and hope.
To defeat W. r. Pattangall and all
for which he stands, part of which is
repudiated by his own party, it is
necessary for all imbued with Repub-
liean principles and spirit to stand
together.
| One by one the leaders and publica-
tions, last year devoted to the Progress
sive movement. are dropping their
Progressive" affiliations and are
standing for constructive progress with
the most effective utilities at hand.
Frank A. Munsey was one of the first
of these to advocate getting togeth-
err" He sold the Boston Journal to a
| Bull Moose Syndicate" which entered
actively, earnestly and conscientiously
into the field for the Progressive party.
The Boston Journal is one of the
newspapers which has seen the hope
lessness of a cause the only nourish-
ment of which must be from bitterness
in one of the old parties, for the hostile
| parties precluded natural turning to
the new party leaders.
The Lewiston Journal is not typi
, cal We would not place such a stigma
, upon the Progressive movement. The
former conservative political pulse
finder and pulse stimulator of the late
Congressman Dingley has become a pc
liticdl outcast. from its jealousles ant
| it's libelous attacks upon all who re-
| fused to be domfneered by its bigotry
| 1t is now struggling desperately /,
maintain a shelter under the discon
tent of 1872. 1t cannot do so. 1t mus
soon do as has Munsey. the Bostor
Journal and others, or live on as 1t hai
in recent years--a political pirate ant
j. | despised by honest men of all partie
who are posted as to general condI
tons.
OF the Progressive movement til
Boston Herald independently says
The progressive movement has thu
served its purpose. Its day is done
1t is no wonder that the Boston Jour
nal, which was purchased from MI
, Munsey in order to give expression I
d more militant school of progressiv
thought. after he had become an advo
cate of malgamation, recently an
nounced that ii was no longer Du
moose organ. This experience is symp
tomato Of the times. Dan Hanna
newspaper in Cleveland has turned Il
the same direction. Municipal election
have everywhere told the same story.
Il In Maryland, which has an importan
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