El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-28

HE struggle between inc Olu IIut
Republicans and the progress
sives. who followed Roosevelt
out of the Republican party, IS one OF
jOckeying for position, which means that
they viii not merge this year.
Col Roosevelt's friends are active IN
/ keeping up the organization OF his party
while he is in South America. Like IN
! Pennsylvania. where PinchOt IS to run
| for the senate. and California, where
Johnson and Heney arc running like
! twins, one for the senate and the other
] for governor, and Kansas, where Victor
/ Murdoch is after BristOw's toga, evi-
! dences all over the country indicate that
I the progressive party will be very much
alive through the year 1914.
In this contest. where the progressives
seek to outstrip the Republican Organi-
zation, the colonel viii be called upon
to run for governor in New York. And
the colonel is apt to do it. If the pro-
gressives were to fizzle out this fall it
would be all over with Roosevelt. There
fore it is safe to say that this remark
able man, who carved the progressive
party out of the Republican body for his
own use and purpose, Will see to 1t that
his party is kept alive through this year
for that same use and purpose.
Col. Roosevelt is so infinitely superior,
in the knowledge of human nature, as
well as in the hearts of million or so
people, to any combination in the Re
publican party, that his chances are good
for jockeying into a commanding position
as the result of the coming elections.
After the November votes are cast it is
my guess that the stand pat bosses viii
still be in disfavor, and that the colonel
viii still be Teddy in the eyes and
hearts of his idolatrous followers.
If this prophecy proves true, that is
if he out Jockeys the Republican lead
ers, the country may then look out for a
merging process. The presidential con
test, with the willingness of the colonel
to be forced into taking a nomination for
president, and the patriotic willingness
of the old line Republicans to settle mi
nor differences in the hope of getting
back into office, may lead to a merger /
in 1916, by which the Republican party !
would be absorbed by Theodore Roose- |
welt.
All Of this means that the Democrats /
Will win the 1914 elections, while the .
and Republicans are spar
ring against one another, because neither /
the prOgressives nor the Republicans ex-
pect to win anything this year, except
IN those very few states where although
divided they outnumber the Democrats
With both of them the 1914 elections
are being offered as a sacrifice with 1916
in view.
a int Il L.
president Taft, published recently in the
Evening Post, bears ont these
observations. Mr.. Taft sees no present
prospect against the Democrats. His
nope for the old line Republicans to win !
gam IS set many years ahead. At pres
mt his whole thought is upon the unde-
Inability of the leadership Of Col. Roose-
-elt.
In the meantime the Democratic
'arty continues to grow in wisdom, in
numbers and in political strength. Presi-
ent Wilson makes no mistakes. In
Washington, he, the cabinet, the senate
nd the house, working in unprecedented
armony, are step by step putting into
lw the great fundamental demands of
he people
After being a subject or contention
Or so many years the tariff is settled.
liter being a demand of the masses of
Il parties, blocked year after year by
dictionary influences, the income tax Is
ecomplished. After being a matter of
so long the currency system
as been brought out of the dark room
nd can now stand the light. All this
uring one session of congress!
The trust problem IS going to be
lived without delay. The captains of e
dustry are bowling before the captain {
men. The present J. P. Morgan is dis y
owing the saying of his father, the late y
P Morgan, to the effect that eggs C
uld not be unscrambled, by disinter-
'ating the interlOcking directory sys-
m which was built up by his father. {.
Thomas F. Ryan, the foxy man of a
all street. the smoOthest manipulation S
the combination of business and poll il
IS, who came so near putting his plans Q
er at the Baltimore convention, and Il
hose manipulations were overcome and Il
evented by the superior generalship ii
William Jennings Bryan, this Thomas W
Ryan, of the Harvey-W attersOn incl ID
mt, who led the fight against the nom <
alton of Wilson to the last, has bowed d
respect to the greatest president of W
T time. He closed remarkable inter \
ew on the currency bill, recently pub d
he'd throughout the country, with this
ntence HE is a great man and &
eat president, and the greatest thing c,
out him is that he plays no favorites." &
n
It is a remarkable achievement of the ! a.
esdent, indeed, to have put life into n,
e Sherman law, through putting vigor
hind it, and at the same time to have .,
ne so with such fairness as to com 81
md the respect and confidence of the d,
ople against whom the law is being en- ia
reed. pl
Not only has the Sherman law been K
ought to life, and not only have the tn
sdatOry interests been brought to re- I'll
ect that law, but the Democratic party a
going to supplement it, without i'm Oh
iring any of its virtues, with addi-
nal statutes, so that the old law and
2 new statutes taken as a whole viii
re the trust evil as it has existed. and !
went the future creation of trusts.