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Show ROOSEVELT ON REPUBLICAN HARMONY. fl President Rosevelt has done his party, and fl through It the country at large, a conspicuous JH service In his emphatic condemnation of factional S fights in the Republican ranks. His first out- :fl spoken counsel for harmony was delivered, with a H snap to it, to the Republicans of Texas, who were H fighting among themselves for the Federal patron- fl age. He told them that the ones who did the best jS work for the party as a whole wero the ones to jH bo recognized, so far as purely political appoint- 'M monts were concerned, and that the thing for all H of them to do was to get together and all work M to the one end of building up the party; that flH knifing should cease, and personal preferences be H sunk when necessary for the general welfare. H The President has now repeated that advice, jH with emphasis, to the Republicans of the State H of Washington. In discussing the factional dif- M ferences among the Republicans there, he said, 9M "I nave no use for a man who cares more for tno H defeat of a merrber of his party, who belongs to H another faction, than he does for the defeat of tho H common enemy, the Democrats." It is a golden H text on party obligations. It is idle to undertake H to carry out any given party policy If members of H the party sacrifice the principles involved on the jH altar of private hate. It is useless to try to work H in harmony with men who are governed by some other motive than a common desire to see the m triumph of the principles the party has adopted, Men have no right to call themselves Republicans M who refuse to support the principles of their party, and the candidates who represent those principles, but vote for the opposition party, thereby falsify- M lng their own professions and putting in office men 'jM who disgrace tho state. It is well that the Presi H dent says he has no use for such men; It is cer- H tain that other Republicans are of the same mind jH as the President on this subject. In Utah, we are ,H glad to say, the Republicans see the point which 1 the President was at such pains to emphasize, that "now Is the time to meet the Democrats with a jH United front Instead of indulging In controversies H and bickerings over issues of a minor nature." H |
