The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-30
Republicans Would Control
Senate, Says Democrat Leader.
Use Congress as Club to Make
Hughes Behave.
TO READ MOOSE OUT OF RANKS
Former PrOgressives Will Not
Forget, Says Mccormick.
Men Like GalIinger Are Real
Spokesman for G. o. p.
BY VANCE C. MCCORMICK.
chairman Democratic National Com

chairman Democratic National Com
mittee.)
New York. Aug. 30.-The force of
Senator Gallinger's attack last Friday
upon the Progressives must be realized
by the members of the party by now.
Their foremost newspaper champion,
the Philadelphia North American,
headlines its account of the proceeding
in the senate:
"Standpat senator read Progressives
out of G. o. P. ranks-Gallinger raises
flag of AIdrich and Cannon-bring re-
buke from Gronna. insurgent, old
guard leader goes back to Payne tariff
for inspiration"
The Washington correspondent of
the North American characterized the
proceeding as the batting of Progress
sives and Progressive Republicans by
the Republican reactionaries of the
senate.
one of the original insurgents in con-
gress, took exception to the aspersions
of Senator Gallinger, and an alterca-
ton followed, from which the North
American correspondent drew this
conclusion:
1t was clear from his (Gallingers)
remarks that the standpat Republican
senators have made up their minds, in
the event of a Republican victory at
the polls this fall, to seize control of
the senate and use it as a club over
Hughes to compel him to do their bid
ding. They are doing all in their pow
er in the senate to convince the coun-
try they still have much to say about
the Republican party.
1 do not believe the Progressives
are men and women of so short mem
DRY that they will not sense the true
significance of this attack upon them
from this particular quarter. Can they
disassociate the New Hampshire SEN
ator's reading them out of the G. o. P.
from his opposition to the confirma-
ton of President wilson's appoint
ment of Mr. Rublee, a Progressie, on
the federal trade commission?
Will they not be forced to the long
prevalent opinion of the rest of the
country that Senator Gallinger's OPP
position to Mr.. Rublee is not personal
but poiitical-that it is inspired by
the disposition of the standpat Repub-
hcans to carry on a war of extermi-
nation against the ProgresSives?
Oceans Spilled Long Ago.
Such an episode as this one in the
senate must inevitably carry the con-
viction that the Republican party is
still the unregenerated, unprogressive
organization that it was before the
Progressive revolt?
Some of the newspaper reports say
Prograssiyes spilled the beans,' but
L should say they were spilled long
ago and beyond all possibility of their
ever being gather I'd up again by Mr..
Gallinger or Mr.. Penrose or Mr.. Can
non or Mr.. Crane or Mr.. Barnes or Mr..
Hughes.
What could Mr.. Hughes do if he
should be elected and should attempt
to gather up these beans? Suppose,
under the promised 5000" arrange
Inent he should appoint to office some
outstanding Prog-essive-a man of the
type that Woodrow Wilson has APP
pointed to office? Suppose he should
request a standpat, reactionary con-
gress to enact legislation for the ben
eft of all the people instead of in the
interest of special privilege which the
Republican party is bound by all OF
its present generation traditions to
serve. would the Callingers and the
PeEroses and the Cannons spill those
beans again?
Is Vital Question.
This question of the difference be-
tween Mr. Hughess promises and his
reactionary party's ability to make
them impossible of fulf1liment is one
that no independent voter should pass
lightly.
Especially will the Progressive. who
comes out from the Republican party,
weigh the probabilities against their
being permitted to participate in the
"50-50' basis, either in influence or IN
patronage.
MIR. Hughes declares that he is ''the
spokesman of the national Republican
partv.'' He is mistaken: he is only
the nominee-and the nominee not of
choice but of necessity.
Senator Gallinger and his like are
the real spokesman of the real Repub~
lican party and they are the men
against whose power the Progressive
thinking voter must weigh the prom
ises of a candidate who would be UNI
able after election to fulfill any of his
pledges that the Republican bosses
might not wish to have fulfilled