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Show THE TWO PARTIES IN CONGRESS. . The "regular" Republicans of Congress seem to find consider, able support within the Democratic party and' this is particularly ihown on railroad legislation, which leads us to belieyxj that the Democratic party is as divided as the Republican forces on the great issues involving: the restraint of powerful industrial and financial combinations. The Democrats who have lent quiet aid to tlie regular Republicans Republi-cans have done more to make the labor of the "insurgent" Republicans Repub-licans a hopeless task than any power within the Republican party itself. After all, the people ore learning that they must give equally as much attention to the alliances of the men they send to Congress as to the party allegiance of those men. There are too many representatives of "the interests," and too few defenders of the rights of the people, in Congres-s, and eventually the voters will have a day of accounting when those who have been persistently on the side of the monopolistic mu&t explain. |