The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-12-27

they possessed courage and lndepend-
ence in that fight. There was no
cringing. They laid their plan and
they went through with it.
Of course, do not mean in that
crowd to include the distinguished
Senator from Idaho Mr.. Baroh), the
distinguished Senators from Nebras.
ka (Mr. Norris and Mr.. HowelD. and
some others. but I mean the old
standpat, reactionary part Of the Re-
publican organization of this body.
They are known-their work follows
them. Those Senators did not give
way; they went through; they car
ried their point; they drove these
men from the councils Of their party.
They said they were unfit to ~.
sociate with them: that they could
not sit within their councils or
around the council table. No longer
would they be recognized as Repub-
licans, nor be permitted to obtain
committee places IS Republicans or
answer to the Republican roll call.
And from the National Republican.
the official organ of the party. to
which the inspiration and policies are
given direct, if not its editorials
written by the chairman of the Re-
publican National Committee, who re-
Gently died political death upon
the bosom Of his friend Calvin, amid
the historic surroundings Of old Mas
sachusetts. Here is what he says in
his issue Of November %. 1924, in m
editorial headed
Overheard With the Scuttlers
Not for punitive purposes. but as
a measure Of self-preservation, the
Republican party should set its face
firmly against the astounding pro-
posal that public officials elected Is
Republicans, who in the last Campaign
passively or actively sought the de-
feat Of the Republican national
ticket, shall be permitted to partic-
ipate in Republican councils or be
accorded recognition as Republicans.
Senator La Toilette announces that
he returns to Washington to CO.
ordinate and reorganize the forces
behind him preliminary to the next
campaign. Shall he and his SYM
pathizers be permitted longer to plan
from within the Republican camp an
attack upon the Republican position?
The pusillanimity of such a course
is inconccivable. Against it
would arise a wave Of protest from
the rank and file of Republication.
and from honest men in general,
certain to submcrge all those rcspou-
sible for such betrayal Of party
and public trust.
Overheard with the scuttlers if they
are sufficiently lacking in honor and
self-respect to longer demand tolcra-
ton from the crew of the ship they
have vainly sought to sink.
And in it's leading editorial Of Dec
ember 6, 1924, the same organ says:
The charge that the Senate Repub-
licans have undertaken to Tread"
those Senators "out Of the Republican
party" is without any justification
whatever. It might we'll be said that
at the close of the World War the
Kaiser was read out of the French
Army.
Those who are Republicans not for
what they can get out Of the Repub-
lican party for themselves but for
the service they can render their
party and their country through their
party are becoming what the Social
lists call "ciass conscious" They
are no longer to be used % doormats
of ambitious politicians to whom .
party name means nothing but .
means Of getting on in politics.
The election result demonstrated
that there was little back Of the
noise they made. Il proved that Z
political party could get on better BY
telling these malcontents where to
head in than to continue to try to
placate them.
Nnth;nw hoe honround IN thu rncnnt