Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-23
Saturday, May %, 1914.
Why the G. o. p. Is Coming Back"

The return of Republicans IN great
numbers to their old party is the I'M
pressive lesson of last Tuesdays vot-
ing. No one with any claim to in
telligence can fail to take it to heart.
Those who went out of the ranks two
years ago and assisted in giving the
Democratic party temporary hoid on
power have seen their error.
They accomplished nothing by that
action which they wished to accom-
plish. They have seen industry matt
ed. business assailed and demorallzed,
thousands of men thrown out OF en-
ployment and governmental policies IN
augurated to which they have always
been hostile. Many of the leaders OF
the third party movement returned
early to the Republican ranks, seeing
that there was no future in the Fro
gressive party Every successive
bve-election has proved that the ranks
of the Progressives were breaking up
everywhere and the Republican party
gaining a corresponding strength
Tuesdays primaries show that TINS re-
turn is in full progress in Pennsyl-
yania. The Republicans are regalhihs
their lost strength and will soon De
again victorious and tnvincible.
The country prospered and grew rlch
and great under the rule OF the re
publican party. 1t has been from It's
birth a great constructive party ana
the only constructive party, ana lts
work has lived. The Democratic party
brought into power through the tenn
porary division of the Republican
party has directed it's efforts to I'M
doing the good work of the republican
party and injuriously amending some
of its best measures. 1t has stimu-
lated the importation of foreign goods
To displace in our own market the
products of American workmeh' Inc
promise that mo legitimate American
industry shall suffer- has not been
kept under the ruinous policy OF IN
creased importations which the Demo-
cratic tariff was designedly framed 10
promote.
The opportunity given to the Demo-
cratic party to do the industry and
business of the country the prodiglous
injury it has already wrought ana
seeking to intensity by the pending
caucus measures was created ny ne
publican division. 1t Will END as
soon as Republican unity can make u
self effective through elections. Inc
urinary election on Tuesday marked
an important step in the restored unity
and dominance of the Repuoliean
party in Pennsylvania, and Is
nrophecy of a reunited and reinvigor-
ated Republican party. showing It's as
fcendancy throughout the nation anu
in fullness of time regaining the con-
troll of the Government which, TO the
lasting advantage of the country ana
with little interruption. it has hello
since 1S61.-Philadelphia Press.
The reason is not far to seek. Brag,
buster, hypocrisy and balderdash may
daze a people for time, but common
sense prevails at last. Pretense tnat
everybody else is dishonest does not
give a party the character or the abil-
itv to establish safe government poll
eies or to maintain the welfare OF a
nation.
The shouting Of "old guard or
stand pat' in connection with the
name of every honorable man who has
shared in the making of American
prosperity in the last quarter century,
does not convict any one of them OF
wrong doing. But it does convict the
shouter of a purpose to deceive by
carrying the impression that ola
suardsmen', and "standpatters" are al
WAYS second story men or cutthroats.
The people are beginning to see the
folIy of much of the automatic, self
operating. cure-all, eock-ano-puh
legislation and to wish to high heaven
they had all stood pat" years ago.
OF course the Republican party is
coming back, because the voters OF the
country are beginning to realize that
the salvation of the country depends
upon the tried and successful policies
of the Republican party, TO which
some men have had the courage 10
stand true. 1t Is easy to go with the
fabbie and the blare, but. as a rule
real men are afterward ashamed or
having participated in mob, what
ever may have been the excitement
The man who refuses to go, is sneered
at as a "standpat," but in time he is
sure to be envied for his common
sense.
The Democratic party has pitlfuliy
failed. and the country, which should
have known better. listened to its
promises and it's pretenses. is grievous-
ly disappointed.
The Progressive party, grounded in
disappointment, easily slipped into the
bands of it's most bitter and envious
proponents, who perverted the high
purpose of the rank and file into an
instrument for getting square" Is 1t
any wonder that practical men" come
back" to the Republican fold as soon as
they discover the truth?
The people Of America have had
enough Of both Democratic discredited
policies, and Progressive pretense of
being a little too good for the earth