Williams news., 1916-07-06
PARTY 0F MONOPOLY
Republican Headers" Cannot
 Change It.
Organization Always Has Been With Big Business" and the Interests of the People Have Received
 Small Consideration.

Our neighbor the Tribune. which has spasms of honest radicalism now and then, has delivered an ultimatum to the Republican leaders, parts of which we take pleasure in reprinting. says the New York World:
 Do those whom a certain fondness for the obsolete phrase still moves us to call the leaders of the Republican party desire to re-elect Woodrow Will son?
 "The thing can be done. In fact. 1t can be done with ease and with merely incidental campaign activities if only Penrose, Barnes, Gallinger and a cer- tain number of equally eminent gen. tlemen turn their entire effort to the task.
 The Democratic party cannot save MT. Wilson, but the Republican party can save him as easily as 1t assumed the responsibility for electing him four years ago."
 The trouble with the Tribune is that party. The Penroses, the Barneses, the Gallingers and the rest of the old guard are not accidental leaders clothed with a little brief authority. They are the Republican party. They represent the things that the Repub- lican party represents. They embody it's principles, and if they were to re- tire, other Republicans who embody the same principles would succeed them.
 These men are the links that con- meet the Republican party with the great financial interests, with the great corporations, with the tariff monop- olists and with all the clements of special privilege without which the Republican party could not survive. The Republican party is essentially a property party, and when these men put property first they are promoting the true Republican doctrine.
 It makes little difference who the Republican candidate for president Is. his political environment makes him the candidate of property. Whether Hughes or Root or Roosevelt or Bur ton or Harding or Fairbanks or Mc- Call is named at Chicago, he will be named by the cohesive power of prop erty, and if elected he will give the country property administration. He could not do otherwise is he would. A Republican congress is bound to be a property congress, Republican ad- ministration is bound to be a property administration.
 No other president ever ranted so much against property rights as Roosevelt, and no president was ever more docile when he was confronted with crisis that involved property rights. Yet Roosevelt merely followed the genius of his party, and when he gave assurances to Wall street that "the administration will not run amuck,' he was only announcing that the Republican party controlled the government.
 The Tribune cannot expect the Re- publican party to be anything but the Republican party When a political party has championed property year in and year out, it cannot change it's habits if it would. Nor is there any real desire in the Republican party for a change. Every Republican leader knows that the one chance of Republi- can success next fall lies in a massed attack of the great property interests on the Wilson administration. With out the support of Wall street, of the stock exchange, of the banks, of the railroads, of the predatory tariff cor porations, of big business, of steel, oil and the like, it would not be worth while to hold a Republican national convention and nominate candidate
 The Tribune must take the Republi- can party as it is. When it assails the character of the leadership of the par ty, it is assailing everything that makes Republicanism Republican.