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Show S 00 ( WHY THERE CAN BE 1 NO REORGANIZATION A number of Standpat governors met in the east last week and wound i up their conference ty resolving to reorganize the Republican party. They started on their mission by making overtures to Progressive leaders in Washington, but they round that simply sim-ply resolving on their part could not close a breach that had been long years In forming. , The Salt Lake Tribune, commenting on the proposed reconciliation, said a restoration of harmony within the Republican Re-publican party is absolutely essential, '4 but in the reorganization Roosevelt y muBtbe eliminated. The Tribune has re- fi peatedly declared that Roosevolt Is all ; there is to the Progressive party If i that be true, the first requisite to harmony is the obtaining of the con- l sent of the colonel to be swallowed ! up. The truth Ib tnat RooBevelt isj only one of over four million citizens J of this land who have turned with dis- gust from the corruption and rotten j ness within the Republican organlza- rJ tion and no conference of half a doz- J en or more men can bring them back to that which they have spewed out. Colonel Roosevelt is n. natural leader lead-er of men, but the Progressive uprising upris-ing waB well under ay before he returned re-turned from Africa; and he was not the first to sound a earning nor to mark an independent course to be followed. fol-lowed. He was hailed as the right j man to continue the revolt, because of his sympathy with the movement ! and his personal fitness as a wise counsellor and guide He is respected and admired by the four million Pro- gresslves and any attempt to offer him an affront in the name of harmony within the Republican party will lie j resented and bring the wnole proceed ings tQ a sudden and farcical end. But what has the Republican party, as today constituted, to give that is inviting to the Progressives? Tho breaking away of the Progressives was brought about by the knowledge that the organization was in the control of Iflve or six men who were absolutely ievoid of sympathy wtth the wants of the great mass of the American people and who were the represents.-- represents.-- tlves of privilege and spoliation. An t effort was made to purify the party by ousting the corrupt leaders and their f followers from control, but, in a last desperate Btand, the Ballingers, Gug- j! genhelms, Lorimers, AldricheB and CraneB won by resorting to brigan- " " " i dage, The victory they gained retained retain-ed for them complete mastery of the organisation, such of it as remained, but destroyed the party's good name and Its usefulncaa for years to come, IT not forever The Republican party, with General Barnes at its head, has nothing enticing entic-ing that might tempt the Progressives to yield their platform and party spirit. spir-it. Having been disenthralled, the subscribers to the tenets of the Progressive Pro-gressive organization cannot bo coaxed, coax-ed, flattered, wheedled or beguiled back into political bondage They make up the most nggressivel.v con-structlve con-structlve force in politics in the United Uni-ted States and they aro content to go on in their own way, laboring toward the fulfillment of tho promises made In their declaration of principles. When tho governors proposed a reorganization re-organization of their party, they virtually vir-tually confessed to tho need of reformation, refor-mation, although up to this time many of them have been defenders of tho high-handed methods which brought about the present crisis in their party's welfare. Had they thought of tho necessity of doing some reforming and of exacting better stewardship at the time the Progressive leaders were battling for cleaner politics within tho party, they could have saved themselves them-selves the present embarrassment. oo- |
