Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1915-04-07
WHAT DID THEY EXPECT?

# (From the New York World.}
The people Of New York are dis
appointed in the Whitman Admins
tration and Disguised with the Leg
/ islature; but what did they expect?
The Republican platform adopted
at Saratoga Aug. 10 was the mos,
reactionary declaration Of politica
principles that New York has known
/. since the days Of Plat. It reeked
Y with Hanna1sm. 1t deified the dol
lar and cons ecrated every process
by which the many can be plundered
for the profit of the few.
This platform was the free and
spontaneous expression of the po-
( litical thought of the Republican
leaders Of this State, from Elihu
!, Root down. It recorded what was
in their minds and hearts. AL of
!, Mr.. Roots recent jeremiads against
the regulation of corporation abuses
by Government can be found in this
platform. g.
The people of this State innocently
thought they were voting Tammany
out OF Albany, rebuking Murphy for
his political iniquities and rewarding
an able and honest and faithful Dis
trict Attorney. The Republican lead.
ers knew better: They were re-es-
tablishing in New York the old
Bourbon Republicanism that has
been driven out Of Washington, and
that is the kind Of Republication
that the party leaders are trying to
re-establish throughout the Nation.
:, It is easy to abuse Gov. Whitman,
but he is between the devil and the
deep, deep sea. Unfamiliar with the
State Government and with State
affairs, he must learn as he goes
along. He himself is an organiza.
ton Republican. He has no guild
ing support outside the organization.
The organization is hostile to pro
gressive government in every form,
and the people of New York are ask
ing the Governor to do what they
themselves refused to do-compel
the Republican Party to be progress
sive. It is an impossible task. Back
Of Brown and Hinman and the other
bany are the real leaders of the
these are all in sympathy with re-
action. They are all apostles of re-
action, and all Of them are ready
i w
out their main purpose.
These men are only remotely in
terested in the Governor and the
Legislature. Their real interests are
centred in the. Constitutional Con-
Evention. Twenty-one years ago the
Republican Party was returned to
power in this State to frame new
Constitution. Mr.. Root was the mas
ter-mind OF that convention, and the
Constitution that was framed was
the kind of Constitution that Wall
Street and organized property want
ed. This year. the Republican Party
Is returned to power again, and a
new Constitution is to be framed.
Mr.. Root is to be the master-mind
of ( this convention. When Wall
Street and the corporations turn to
the Republican Party to frame
Constitution for New York, theey
know what they want and they
will get it.
Before fall the people of this State
( viii have a clearer perception than
they now have Of what reactionary
Republicanism means. The country
will have a clearer perception too.
What is happ ening in Albany is a
reproduction in miniature of what
win happen wherever the Republican
Party is restored to power under
its present leadership.
Root and Barnes and Penrose and
Z Cannon and Gallinger and Lodge are
not accidents. They are organized
Republicanism. They are its. mind
and its soul. If the people of the
United States wish to- know what
will happen if this kind of Republi-
canism triumphs In 1916, let them
survey the Government of the State
Of New York