Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-30
tremendously unite. That is the essential

harnoniously unite. That is the essential
thing.
Republicans Must Rule.
Republicans must never again permit
the democratic party TO prance dry shod
into power through any Red sea cleavage
in the republican ranks. The republican
convention OF 1912 had braln-storm-an
epieptic fit, and fell into H. There was
really little difference among the dele
gates az TO fundamental policies, so far
as these were national in scope; but there
were dominating personalities in that con-
vention whose motto seemed TO be rule
or ruin The issue was not party prin-
ciple but personal power, from which
conflict there emerged a new party, with
q party platform radical in many
respects. Radicalism. said Larmartine, is
but the desperation OF logic. Its history
has shown that the republican party is
not radical neither Is IL reactionary--it
IL national and big as opposed to sec
tional and small. II Is the only pro-
gressive party n progress means the ec-
complishmsnt Of permanent good. for It
IS the only party that has ever done
anything that ultimately did not have
20 be undone-
Once Republican, Always One.
but I am one OF those who believe In
letting by-gones be by-gones; OF letting
the dead past bury It's dead. I do not be
lieve that a man who ever called himself
a republican would be happy TO be called
by any other name. wherefore we must
get together. not as hyphenated republi-
cana but as rejuvenated republicans.
The republican party is big enough and
tolerant enough to include men differing
as widely In opinion as Mr.. Root and Mr.
la Toilette. II Is really big enough tc
include Mr. Roosevelt unless he insists
upon fiocking by himself; for our party
is concerned not at all with sections OF
individuals, but only with the nation and
the people as a whole.
There can be but two great parties
In any nation. All others are Bpordaic
ephemeral. tangenital-or any other high
falluun word you are pleased TO cal
thom--comets. zigzRgging through space
bound for God knows where--all tail ant
no head-all gas and no substance. Fo
just as in chemistry. antagonistic sub
stances fall apart at the first shock &
their enforced union, so in politics tn
alliance of opposing interests can neve
/ last, Stephen A. Douglas said as mucl
| IN his debate with Lincoln. and IAncol
did not deny the statement No thinkin
man has ever denied It. And the Teaso
OF Il inhores in the very nature @
things. Science tells sthat every mole
cule of the universe is in motion. In
cluding perhaps the very atomies tha
mako UP the substance Of our thought
Science tells us that this motion is rotar
: and that rotary motion evolves tw
forces; centrifugal. away from the Gel
ter; centrifugal. towards center. an
that each force acts as a check and ba
anoe upon the other. Everyone OF us
, conscious of these opposing tendencb
in his own mentality. and Is attracted
the school OF Hamilton or the school
= jefferson. according to his dominant pr
1 clivity. For Hamilton and Jefferson we
and continue TO be symbols of opposir
tendencies. Jefferson, born an aristocra
1, proud Of his antecedents. was. neverth
less. in his theories OF government ce
trifugal. Jealous OF centralized power, b
lieving that It's exercise should be diffus,