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Show SENSELESS FIGHT. The ''holier-than-thou'-' attitude assumed as-sumed by a mere handful of congressmen congress-men elected as Republicans does not augur well for party success in the near! future. If we understand the situation' aright, Mers. Gardner, Leu root and others of their ilk propose to reduce the present Republican leaders to the rains and rebuild the party around d:iel Keawevelt. the p.-rpefal .andt-da:e .andt-da:e f.- pre:de!i TMs is another c.ie oi the tail attempting to wag lue d. ,. I a,:d it will undoubtedly Lo attended with th,: u-ual p'suits. .Jut at the pres-'!! pres-'!! t Nioiih-nr ir t- not definitely known v.'hh-h party will organize the houc and j dcrt t::o speaker. Neither has a clear, majority of the -I.'J-j ni'-mbr-rs. The advantage, ad-vantage, however, will lie with the Lb-ifiocniU if halt a dozou so-'-alled Republicans Re-publicans who are for Roosevelt first, and party la.-t follow out the plan advanced ad-vanced by Mr. Gardner aud acquiesced in by Mr. Lr-nroot. With so many tremendous tre-mendous economic problems before the country, the members of " all parties should be seeking common ground in order to legislate for the country's good, int.-ad'of starting a factional fight in the interest of a repudiated politician who days the game for himself only. |