New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-13
sorah Tells Party's Hope.


gorah Tells Party's Hope
Then Senator Borah. Of Idaho rose 10
IN he diners what the Republican party
-,he marty whose greatness dated from
1.incoln-stood for. the disaster IL mao SUI
fered. the promise OF its renaDiii'auo"
and its progressivism. There were ho'
reu. prescnt who looked upon ms spee0"
as a hid for the next Republican nomlla-
ian Cor the Presidency. And they gave il
correspondmgly close attention. lie s@l"'
MIR President. when the returns came
IN last November year and IL Wa
known that the then dominant part! hau
arrived hut two states the opinion qute
generally prevailed that one OF the most
interesting and remarkable chapters III
the annals OF political parties was Draw
inc 10 a close. Indomitable and agrees
sive. directing with remarkable skill anu
judgment the course Of government lof
fifty wears. the party now seemed nearing
complete Reorganization.
"Eut the signs were miSTead. II was
not dissolution. but evolution. This fear
ful wreck simply proved in grim, con-
elusive vav that a new era in politics
had been mustered in that the voters had
determined. i'm their own way. that the
organization OF the party must be al all
times the servant and not the master
that political parties, regardless OF their
traditions and past achievements, must
le kept and conducted on high plane
and held in touch with the demands and
needs Of the hour. Subsequent events
disclosed that the latter Interpretation
was correct
The first call TO arms after the defeat
vas out I'm the great State OF Michigan
out there among those people where over
half a century ago, at a meeting under
the oaks, the party was organized. In
that contest through the sheer courage
and party devotion OF the rank and file
IN. Republican ticket won over all com
retitors Not only hundreds, but thou
sands, who recorded their votes Of protest
II The preceding election renewed their
allegiance 10 the Republican party.
The same thing in the same way hap
pened in the Congress election in Maine
The spring registration IN several states
disclosed the same tendency. In the last
November election in the State Of New
Jersey nearly hundred thousand who
had voted the third ticket returned in
MARYLAND fifty thousand out Of ffty-seven
thousand
In other states the same trend was
equally marked and unmistakabe. This
exceptional showing vas almost as start
linz as the result OF the previous Novem-
IL.
liant Young chairman OF the now domi-
nant party the published statement that
the real adversary Of his party In the
next campaign would he no other than
the Republican party.
Mr. President. the division at Chicago
arose by reason and on account Of an an
cient and dlScrcdited method of holding
rarity conycntions-a method in vogue
With all parties. hut out OF date and MORT
hund. nevertheless. NO one vas there
seeking honor and place at the hands
~ that convention who would not have
oeen giad TO utilize the party as a party
had the results been satisfactory.
Those who afterward left the party
had expressed no doubt OF the wisdom Of
It's established policies. or the integrity
and purpose and progressive bent of its
membership. or as 10 the efficiency OF the
party as an instrument FOR progressive
legislation and administration The fact
that they were there seeking honors at
us disposal proved conclusively that they
were In accord with It's principles, had
faith in It's policies and relied upon il rs
an instrumentality OF progressive ad-
Nancement.
TO suppose otherwise would he t.
charge them with duplicity and insincei-
fly. charge which | would be the last
10 make In fact IL was charged then,
and IL is charged now. that the ma Jority
Of the party-that is. the Voters-were
one way and the organization another
upon no other theory could the action
which followed be Justified. I entertained
and I entertain that opinion myself
III seemed 10 some that II was wiser
10 get out and fight from the outside II
seemed 10 others who were equally sim
ere that il was lacking in strategy and
effectiveness. II not in courage 10 give IN
the vantage Of name and prestige OF
honor and achievement when the sole .