Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1911 — The Issue Defined. [ARTICLE]

The Issue Defined.

“The statesmen who tried to put President Taft in a hole, prepared a pit for themselves/’ says the Lafayette Journal. “The unholy alliance between democracy and self-seeking republicanism turned out just as all such alliances terminate. The democratic leaders had only contempt for republicans who, would act as traitors to their party; they had the greatest respect for those republicans who stood by principle and fought the open battle. This regard for the adversary of the open fight has always been held, while contempt for the traitor has always been entertained. The President by his firm stand, has called, attention to the principles of his party, and democrats of congress respect him for it Those few republicans who played into the hands of democracy had a final choice between republicanism and democracy, and they stood by republicanism. The issue is now clearly defined. The argument - over the tariff has enabled the democratic statesmen to get a great many ‘tariff speeches in the mail without postage, and now they can go forth and claim that they tried to revise a tariff. That they tried with no ghost of a chance is a matter of importance; they have made the grandstand exhibition and they can talk about it. The insurgent republicans were ‘played for suckers’ by their supposed democratic friends. The Issue is now clear between protection and democratic free trade.