| Show THE INSURGENTS' We do not like the status of the Popular Elections bill in the American It is a stigma upon the Republicans and the insurgents who combined to betray Not much was to be expected from the But the gents were born with the pledge of popular rule upon their and hold their commissions upon the honor of platforms which bind them to the direct election of senators by the If the Republicans have been consistent in the insurgents have become disreputable in betrayal of the principles which distinctly carried them to their seats in the The direct election of United States senators is the greatest popular movement of the progressive era in which we It stands for the re-enthronement of the people in the gov which was passing into the hands of tricksters and traders and graft and Four times the great measure has been voted by the house of Twice it has had clear majorities in the And in the hour of its apparently certain with more than a two-thirds majority in its it is strangled by an amendment coming from a senator who calls himself a progressive and classes himself with the And as with so with the insurgents who followed Saving only the loyal and intrepid Borah and the handful who rallied with the insurgents stood in disreputable rank behind the amendment which they know will kill and ought to kill the Even Lorimer had to be and arrived in the nick of time to decide with his Lorimer's vote the- proper way to elect United States senators in Jones of the renegade shared with the unenviable notoriety of this betrayal of the The Bristow bad in becomes disgraceful 1 because it makes impossible a ratification by three-fourths of the Every senator who voted for the Bristow voted against the popular election of and gains it Senators know what they are There are plenty of but mighty few fools in the citizens everywhere will regret that the alleged insurgents are more and more aligning themselves with the Popular Elections with the Bristow amendment hung to is now in the hands of the joint committee of It is hoped that the real friends of the people's measure in that conference committee will refuse to agree It is better to defeat the entire than to accept it betrayed and condemned in advance by the Bristow predestined to |
