Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-12-25
EAGLE RIVER, WISCONSIN DECEMBER Is, 1921


The report that independent and insurgent Senators
were to be Tread Of the Republican party made an
impression of queerness the public mind. There was
element of amusement in it, An element OF ser
Gus concern toofor is this all that the Republican par
ty has learned from the elections? BY what right does
anyone interpret the election of Mr. Coolidge as man
date TO suppress the spirit of sefcriticism to the bal
ance and efficiency of party in power?
It may be inaccurate to lay this action to the Repub
party since the party has not been consulted about
it, Republican of1cehodefs at washington 90 not con
stitute the Republican party Republican Senators Go not
constitute the Sanhedrn of the Republican party La TACT
the Republican party represented by the Washington
ofcehoders was dscredlted and beaten ana Woud now
have been facing woefu Fourth OF March had not the
personality of Calvin Coolidge commanded the suffrage
of the people Wherefore them do these offcehoders
who owe their presence Washington to republican votes
take upon themselves to GUST from party cousels men
lust as honest and earnest themselves who their
presence at Washington to equally impressive mandate
of Republican votes
To say that Senator LaFolette and Senator Ladd
shall have voice in the counses of the party equal
to saying that the people Of Wisconsin and North Dakota
are ousted from the Republican majority OF the United
States It simply cannot be done, and only men blinded
to the import Of the times would think of attempting it.
We mention Senators LaFoette and Laid especially be
cause these personalities of such eminent respectable
ity and their work has been OF slc charactef nat
protest reused in their behalf in the very citadel OF
American faf-indedness When their own constituents
repudate these Senator'S it will be time for party
ellis to consider action Until then they Senators OF
the United States and representatives of great common
wealths And they more than that they are repre-
senatives of certain tendencies in American political
thought which the Republican party will have to give
serious heed during the next four years. find itself
in a more critical situation than it this year Ad
mtedy there boWhards among the Senators called
progressive there shaoWpated notor1ety seekers
who are insurgents simply because they have neither
the ability the experience to be regular but neither
Laid nor LaFoette fits these descriptions They are
men of experience attanments and their IN
the Senate has been useful to the nation True the nation
rejected LaFoette the Presidency and viii continue
to it also rejected Taft and Hughes 1t IS not
every man who should be President But Taft and Hugh
es found places of usefulness IN the public service
and so has Mr. LaFoette To attempt to read him out
of the Republican party is to exhibit degree OF partisan
sWeheadedness possible only to the most egregous po
ical pompousness 1t will give the utraradlcas who fas
new battle cry 1t will accentuate the tendency toward
hidebOund superiority in Republican party councils
Above all it will notify the country that the Old Guard
of Repubicansm interpret the elections as private
grant of power and it is certainly anything but that
had the voting public believed that such interpreted
ton would be made of their action the result would have
been different Anyone who derive justification OF
observation-disclosures from the last election by that TACT
Judged as politically incompetent.
In the last analysis it is not the fate of the
municated Senators that matters If the taboo stands
they will doubtless find compensations in the re-
action which will follow throughout the country The re-
gretabe element is that the party IN power should eX
hbt such petuent such childish reSentments
of healthy criticism such dwarfed views OF party dignity
The way to purge party OF insurgency is TO make
the party SO big and clean and progressive that forward
looking men will not have to go outside to find place
to work The Republican party will die earlier from the
dry of the Old Guard than it will from the political
aveness of who believe that the frst duty OF any
party is to serve the people as whole
It would require lot of testimony to make the peo
Die believe that President Coolidge is in sympathy with
this custer movement.-Dearborn Independent.