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tion of a senator by tho Indiana state convention.
It may not bo doubted that the rank aiid fllo of
Ohio democrats, deoply interested as they aro
In tho making of a roal rather than a bogus-fight
for reform, do not take offonse becauso The Com
moner has made tho samo suggestion to Ohio
that it made to Indiana, the samo that it makes
to Nebraska and to other states having senatorial
elections In view.
It is just ns natural for Tho Commoner to
advocato measures that will put popular election
of senators into practical effect, as it is for tho
Houston Tost to oppose such measures. The
democrats of Ohio understand, just as tho demo
crats of Texas do, tho motive that prompted
Tho Commoner to givo that advice to Ohio
domocrats and they understand, also, tho mo
tive that prompted tho Houston Post to take
Issue with that advico.
A GOOD FIGHT
Tho insurgent republicans under tho leader
ship of Senators Cummins and Dolliver made a
good fight. Although they did not secure every
thing for which thoy contended, they pushed
tho administration forces to tho wall and they
succeeded in defeating Mr. Hull, one of tho most
obnoxious of tho speaker's lieutenants. Mr.
Taft's candidato for governor Mr. Carroll
was nominated with tho small margin of 7,000.
Had tho full voto boon obtained tho insurgents
would probably have won all along the line, but
many men who have heretofore been enthusias
tic republicans have lost all hope that the repub
lican party may over be made of real service
to tho public interests.
Now that tho domocrats of Iowa have nomi
nated as a candidato for governor Claude Porter,
who is in every way worthy of confidence, it is
reasonable to believe that a suflicient number
of tho rank and fllo republicans Avill vote for
him in order to insure his election.
Plainly Iowa is a battle ground for tho
democracy.
AT AGREEMENT
In order to win tho party must do right, and
alnco wo havo Tho Commoner to advise tho
several stato organizations, there is no occasion
nor excuso for failure. -Houston Post. Only
tho old excuso of having mixed the right advico
up with the wrong occasion, in which the demo
cratic party has been letter porfect these manv
years. New York Tribune.
The Now York Tribuno and tho Houston Post
mf?y. (1pi)en?od uPon to agree upon questions
affecting the democratic party's attitudo toward
tho special intorests. While one calls itself a .
republican paper and the other calls itself a
democratic paper, the editors of both of these
papers squirm whenever tho monopoly hide is
punctured and sneeze whenover tho monopoly
chief takes snuff. uuyoiy
A REPUBLICAN MEASURE, TOO
,Co!lieBWcokly' a Publication that supported
Mr. Tuft for the presidency, has this to llv
of the Taft railroad bill: United States sen
ator who is not a democrat and who was not an
insurgent preceding the consideration of the
railroad bill spoke thus in private conversation
Tho man who drafted that railroad bill in the
form in which it was first introduced in t hi
senate is tho greatest traitor to the American
people since Aaron Burr.' He referred to th a
cunning intent necessarily back of the aubtWv
WltS & MH was drawn to g ve the rail
roads all thoy want under tho appearance of
subjecting them to restrictions. It remain! to
be said that the senator is ono of the best five
awyers in tho body and has a habit of intellect
tual accuracy which abhors hyperbole." cuec
"AN IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT"
In a long editorial entitled "An IrrenrpRdhi
af'Mfl Philadelphia North lmori?anSayl
that tho fight is on between the masses and tho
classes. Tho North .American says that Rav
Stannard Baker in the American MagaziSo
wrote "solemn truths" when ho said- "it
common knowledge that tho great corporate in
torosts are reaching out to seize water powers"
sites, absorb coal mines on government iS!'
grab the remaining timber, occupy mTnlng aSds'
get firmer control of public franchises in citfes
and of groat insurance and banking inst tutions
rle movement for conservation of our
S, Sfff0?"5? h?B no 8lsniflcance save as i
is an effort to check the aggression of nrivatA
capital upon public wealth This ?s the innor
meaning of the Pinchot-Ballinger controverst
SUS Se eovornineiit of our fathers ba govern
ment of, by and for the people, just as Lincofn
meant; or a government of, by and for tho
spoclal interests, just as Aldrlch and Cannon
mean7"
Wo have read such things as this in the
Philadelphia North American on many occasions
prior to election day and then wo have seen
the North American givo its .great influence to
tho election of tho Aldrich-Cannon ticket.
Is there any reason to believe that this great
newspaper will fail to lino up in support of tho
republican ticket in tho coming eloction re
gardlesB of tho influences that dominate tho
party.
A POOR EXCUSE
Representative James P. Latta, tho democratic
member from tho Third Nebraska district, voted
against tho postal savings bank bill. When re
minded by the Washington correspondent for the
Lincoln (Neb.) Journal that postal savings banks
were endorsed by tho democratic national plat
form Mr. Latta said: "When the people turn
clown a platform as' they did ours two years ago,
it s not so binding as if they had endorsed it.
Anyhow, the platform does not bind me on this
bank proposition."
When Mr, Latta offered this excuse, he per
haps foi-got that both of the national platforms
declared for postal savings banks. It is, there
fore, a mighty poor excuse for him to say that
he voted against the proposition because the
people turned down" the democratic platform.
Mr. Latta would do better to stand upon the'
statement, "anyhow the platform does not bind
me. That is not a first-class excuse, but it is
really better than the other one.
OREGON PLAN IN NEBRASKA
The democratic stato committee for Nebraska
In session at Lincoln Juno 4 adopted a Kesolution
declaring it to be the' sense of the committee
that democratic candidates for the legislature
should fllo with their nomination papers a
declarat on agreeing to vote for the candidate
for United States senate who at the polls In
November receives the largest number of votes.
IMS was well done. 'Everywhere popular elec
tion of senators is a growing reform and demo
crats particularly should make an effort to put
that reform into practical, operation pending the
adoption of a constitutional -amendment provid
ing for It.
Whether the next senator from Nebraska be
democrat or republican he ought to be the choice
of a majority of the people and the Oregon plan
provides, at this time, the best possible method
of obtaining that result.
"COMPROMISE," INDEED!
The Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Republican, de
fending the Payne-Aldrich law, says: "There
s not a taxation law enacted that does not have
inequalities in it. At best such legislation is
still compromising between ever contending in
terests. It is easy enough to attack a tariff bill
when it is made."
But why did the republican party push the
tariff up when they had, by implication at least
promised to put it down? Is it the republican
dea of "compromise" between the people and
the interests, that the demands of the people
for relief are to be answered by the imposition
of new burdens?
TRUTH
In response to a request for a Memorial rinv
sentiment by the principal of the Green school
Lowell, Massachusetts, Mr. Bryan wrote the fo!
lowing: "You may say for me that the peace
sentiment is growing. Truth, whether it be
political or moral truth, grows and at last
triumphs The proposition that disputes should
bo settled by arbitration rather than by force '
s both a political and a moral truth? ad must
in timo prevail." ' a must
PRECAUTION
T.heiSt L?uis RePublic says: "We surest
h, "le AneXt ,CabInet be investigated befort
J5?d' A.J?d m?thod of ma1dng that practt
cally possible would be to renuiro LE
parties, to publish, prior to Slon day the
source of their campaign funds. '
McHARG REWARDED
i on?1"61"8 ,W,eekly' known in the campaign of
1908 as a stalwart Taft organ ha tHr
the administration it hep!d to eUt" XfV
Harg forgot? Perhaps, by a race whioh ff 5C"
occupied, and rightly, with business babiol Zu
S??nfnnV?erCVlCerilB ? viftuobipXbate
are; but not by the powers that ho ci vi
Harg: 'The RoosevoKolicies11 are'all rot? He"
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was then driven from tho department of com
merce and labor by what great men call public
clamor. That was months ago. Sufficient time
has now passed, and he has been appointed
ir,1San1AAatt?rney by tbe President. Salary
$10,000. McHarg would- not know a tribe if
he saw one, but he has his reward."
PRIMARIES FOR 1010
Pennsylvania held its nominating primaries
June 4, Iowa June 7, South Dakota Juno 7
Other primaries will be held as follows: North
Dakota, Juno 29; Vermont, June 30; Texas, July
2S; Kansas, August 2; Missouri, August 2
Oklahoma, August 2; California, August 16-'
Nebraska, August 16; Idaho, August 30; South
Carolina, August 30; Wisconsin, September 6
New Hampshire, September 6; Michigan, Sep
tember 13; Washington, September 13; Illinois
September 15; Washington, September 20; Ore
gon, September 24; Massachusetts, September
t 1?W sometime in October, but not
THERE ARE OTHERS
On the day before the Iowa primaries tho
.lClUXCIty Jnrnal standpat republican, said:
l he democratic leaders are watching -Iowa with
something very like intense interest. The
democrats, it may be noted parenthetically, are
not supporting the Taft administration."
It would seem now that the people of Iowa
are not giving enthusiastic support to the 'Taft
administration.
PRACTICAL QUESTIONS
PnfStaw0iV1en,0f Oklalloma has written to
Comer s Weekly the following interesting letter:
Permit me to register with you my cordial
approval of Mark Sullivan's suggestion of how
1 ba,ve an insurgent congress by questioning
tinn itatnS' Jwtead 0f private individuals ques?
Honing candidates on Cannonism, however, it
wou d be more effective to have organized groups
?n c uhf SinW WiSb etter party government,
in clubs, in leagues, through farmers' unions
through granges, through labor unions, etc
one?hft0ni an(idates not only on Cannon?sm but
on the initiative and referendum, which is the
'ThtnUinV111'' aine -polit cs!
The precinct boss, under the present coriveiir
tion system, by packed precinct meeting! S
on short notice, at inconvenient places, elects
the precinct delegate to county conventions The
county convention, composed of boss-chosei dele!
gates elects machine men to the congrlsional
and. sta e conventions. Thus the cSss ionll
convention and state convention has 52
t VlTte? (S,tate or congreionln
cnosen by the delegates (county) delegated hv
the precinct delegates of a machine .bora who
are not chosen by the electors of the precinct
theXo de,eSateS 1 M?
elect.rr6s?tUeNo"nty de'egateS (2) se,eoted tte
by"tAheeelector0sTr No?""1 deleSates (3 seIeot?d
ele'ctors?11 Nof delegat6B (3) selectea . j
.'ns a can1idate so nominated for doncress
really nominated by tho people? Not 0nSre?s
"s a candidate so nominated for' Kovernor
.h0mi?ated bJ the PePl? Certafnly no"
the Stn ?dad SSTf Z thedtfnr, del6ea oi
by which selfish taSrests 'eltLpr'mtf1107
sT?r?'a1' omlnt naidlef faoranfe ?o
ectea byei3araf en such ndldSes are
Question candidates in this fashion:
n twoUfs wbe E5Z tSSSL
gonmentnegalnedTd1 f ? party '
lost art." regained and Cannonism is. a.
and send in your renewal. S ffCl at mc
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