The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-10
NO REPUBLICAN
CAN REFORM HIS
GRAND old PARTY
Attempt to Reyivify it With Progress
sive Principles Will End
in Failure.
PARTY HAS KEPT ON
SHINING SINCE 1910
Progressive Patty Eot Movement
Born of Colo Ambition Of
Disappointed Man.

DtS AtolbeS, Ia, Jan. I.---DlSt IN
Snlshed Republicans who are at
heart inbued with Progressive Drin~
ciples nevertheless will utterly fail
to install. prosrcssi'ism into the Re
publican party, declared William f..
Cadmus, national organizer of the
Progressive party here tonight, at
the state conference Of the Pro
sressivcs. Those Republicans who
think they tan reform their party
rom the inside and rcvhafy it with
Progressive principles will end IL
failure as have great conservatives
Of history who could not make up
| their minds to des0't their old be.
liefs for the new which had come to
! AXE Their place, Mr. Cadmus assert
ID.
The speaker likcncd Senators
cummins and Borah and former
;o,2rnor Hadley, OF Missouri, to
iamalicl who could not forsakc
the Hebrew faith at the behc8t cf
his pupil Paul, to Erasmus, who
would not follow Luther, and to
Webster and Clay.
'All the distinguished talent OF
lowa's senior senator and a hundred
like him cannot fashion the Rcpub-
lican party into Il living Progressive
party said Mr.. Cadmus.
Webster and Clay used all the
powers of their unequalled elo-
quence TO maintain the old order OF
their day, and signally failed. Tho
party to which they had given their
illustrious serttice perished. Ii per.
shcd because it had come to repre-
sent wealth and the aristocracy
'ather than the common people.
What are the g.bunds for Mr.,
Jummins hope thai the Republican
party can be made progrc siyc? Ger.
ainly there was nothing in the re-
'ent mcotjng of the Republican Ma
tional committee to give life to sucll
hope. The meeting was not ruled
| wen remotely by Mr.. Cummins, or
by Progressive RcpUblicans, any
more than was the National convcn-
| ion at Chicago in 1912. From be.
| thinning TO end the committee was
| ruled by Boss Barnes, the arch
| ,tandpattcr of New York
Mr.. Cllmmins in ai5 Grant clug
| speech. confessed his grievous dis
| appointment at tho action of the
| Republican National committee in
not voting a convention. But why
expect anything else? What old
party history ever changed its ma
ture and became new?
| Mr.. Cummins and Mr.. Iiadlcy and
| Mr.. Borah. instead of coming ont
with the people. spend thci" time
| and their superb talents attempting
to patchup an Old machine that
keeps on turning out cobs and con
suming the ccrn every time it
yrinds,
There are those, and especially
Office holders under the old regime
who would have us fondly believe
that having been so sorely defeated,
the Republican party now has !earn-
cd a lesson and will hcnccforth
mend its ways. Did the Republican
leaders learn a lesson by the defeat
of 1910? No, they sinned more
deeply in 1912. and in spite of theil
crushing defeat went on in 1913
to vote down Measures demanded
by the people. The Republican
party for long period has been {
conservative party. The mucl
vaunted progressive legislation o
the past. to which its leaders point
has been dragged out of them b.
force and is hopelcssly behind TIL
humanitarian legislation of mos
European goernmcnts. Neither o
the old parties, not even their bes
leaders, understand the real signifi
cance of the progressive movement
Some benighted ones think it is
movement born out of the colossa
ambition of an arrogant and disap
pointed man. The Progressive be
lieves in six fundamentals of popu
| lar government. The primary, til
! Concluded on Page Three.)