Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1910 — A PLEA FOR HARMONY. [ARTICLE]

A PLEA FOR HARMONY.

iAt least Senator Beveridge has thrown himself out of office and possibly Congressman Crumpacker and the state officers. At any rate it looks as though he had done something .which is contagious and may spread to other states.' It will, no doubt, take some time"to patch over-the hole shat Beveridge lias ripped in the Republican breeches. Crown Point Star. (Rep.)

- President Taft’s plea sot harOtTony in Republiacn party ranks was very timely, for there certainly never has existed a period since 1884 when there was" more acute discussion, and it is very doubtful if, at ' any time since the organziation of the party, dissension was so widespread as it is to'day. It is a favorite saying of Republicans now that the Democratic party has shown itself to be so divided, so incapable of united action, that there is but little danger in a national campaign from the differences that have arisen in the ranks of their own party. That is not the true feeling, however, of the active leaders of either faction of the party in power. They recognize clearly and fully the impending danger, and it was to avert it that President Taft and , Attorney-General Wickershani made the addresses they did last Saturday night. The trouble with the party is that whether through change of sentiment of many of its members or whether by force of conditions and circumstances it could not control, it is split uporr the tariff policy, which, from the very foundation of that party, has been.the corner stone of the Republican edifice. The demand for revision made in 1908 by the national convention,: it seems, was taken in earnest by a large number of Republicans, and they* thought the revision would her downward. They feel that the party has not yet fulfilled its pledge to the members of the party and to the people at large. "T _y Y They want another revision, and are not backward in making it in the form of a demand. It is not a theory that the Administration has to deal with. The conditions are right plain, to be seen, and the difference-, are of a nature that they cannot be adjusted at a conference, cemented in a conclave nor thrashed out of existence in a discussion. ' ( The conditions have passed beyond the control of the leaders. The rank and file-are in mutiny at sthe ballot box; as was seen in Massachusetts. "Missouri, Wisconsin and elsewhere in recent elections.—Cincinnati Enquirer. (Ind. rep.j