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Show Things Political THE REPUBLICANS in half a dozen states are so torn into factions this year that the H Democracy have more substantial hopes of H a triumph in November than they have counted H upon before for seventeen years. The ostensible H wrangle of the Republicans Is defined by the terms H standpatters and insurgents, though mixed with H It is much personal animosity. H With such men as Garfield and Pinchot the H masses trace the way back right or wrong to H Theodore Roosevelt. At least that is the eastern H impression. In California what is called the in- H surgent movement is when traced to its source, H hostility to the Southern Pacific railroad. This is H an animosity which dates back to before the time H when the old Central Pacific company sup- H pressed practically confiscated the Sacramento H Union, filled the legislature with its supporters, H and pretty nearly dictated legislation and the decisions of the courts, and laid heavy hands fl upon such business men as could not be con- H trolled. Hence the contest in that state is purely 'H local, no matter what pretensions may be urged. ,H In Kansas and Iowa the insurgent movement fl which seems to be urged against Speaker Cannon H in particular, has two grievances which are con- H tinually urged. One is that the speaker is arbl- fl trary, unjust and tyrannical, the other that the new tariff Is not a tariff downward in places where it should be. In New York, to judge by the proceedings in the late convention, the wrangle was little more H than a test whether the state should or should ' not endorse Col. Roosevelt. 1H These differences all along the line are what U give the Democracy hope. fl We predict that no matter what the election H may result in, no one will be satisfied, for the reason that the sentiment of the whole nation, In H both the great parties Is that something In the LB Government Is radically wrong and no inspired M H mind has as yet pointed out what is wrong, and H fk from what source the remedy must come. Hji From the White House the daily news is that H 1 tho President is not proposing something which H I tho people need, but rather that with some bung-HI bung-HI ling mechanics he is busy trying to repair his M j broken down fences. From Oyster Bay the only Hnj note we hear Is one of anxiety that "my policies" HVk may not be carried out. From the supposed states-Hi states-Hi I man-like senators Aldrich and Hale, no word H' I comes except that they have had enough and H f will retire. From all the noisy western states-H' states-H' ' men there is nothing except that the tariff re-H re-H vision was not such a revision as they approved. H From the foremost Democrats there is no word H except the exultant one that a victory seems most H possible this year which will but presage the H great victory of 1912. In all this there is noth-M noth-M ing to assuage the nameless unrest which is upon M the country. M That unrest really comes from the fact that m despite the mighty wealth which is poured out B 1ii from farm, forest, orchard, factory, and mine, H J( there is a depression on business and a perpetual B apprehension of trouble to come in the minds of HI tne people; just such as comes to the young man B who has a princely income, but finds himself be- M coming more and more involved in debt every B year. M And that is exactly our situation as a nation. M The balance of trade in our favor is more than m all absorbed by what is paid out to foreigners in M interest and dividends, in fares and freights, in M the money spent abroad by tourists. m" Meanwhile, our export trade with half the M'' world is destroyed and no sensible effort is be- m ing made to regain it, and the trade we should ' have, a continually growing trade, is being taken H from us because our flag has disappeared Irom M, the seas. Finally, less than twenty men can so - corner all the gold in circulation, which is our f only real money, that they can at their pleasure H - spring a nation-wide panic when they please. w What party has even hinted a policy which will ' arrest and turn back this swift progress to ruin? J1 |