THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
Clapp, Senator Moses E.
"The Parting of the Ways" By SENATOR MOSES E. CLAPP HARMONY will not come to the Republican party by the agreement of a few men in Congress. The Republican party does not and never did reside in...
...And if every one of us could hold up our hands and swear eternal allegiance to the dictum of any one it would not harmonize the contending forces that He in the background, and of which we are but the representatives...
...There is the secret of our misfortune ; there is the secret of our dissension...
...Whatever good came from the last session of Congress was pulled out by insurgent Republicans working with progressive Democrats, in spite of the corrupting influences of the special interest?, which are eating like a canker into both parties...
...Hit may pertinently be inquired why, if President Taft is a man of progressive tendencies, he persistently throws his politi-f cal weight into the scale against the leaders of progress in the affairs of the Republican party.—Form, Stock and Home...
...Nor is there any reason why honest differences should result in bitterness...
...John T. Dufur, Kalama, Wash...
...We must have differences...
...The Republicans party does not and never did reside in Congress, except in a representative capacity...
...when ^the policies of that party are proposed to be handed down instead of being received from the parly itself...
...I would hate to belong to a political party that had a dead level of intellectuality and which was never ruffled by independent thought...
...It is right that we should have...
...The San Francisco Star...
...In differences and debates therefrom we get the best results...
...It lives in the hearts asd purposes of the American people, and harmony will come whenever we return to the old theory of recognizing the voice of the people as the voice of the party...
...The trouble is that we have come upon a time when we forget that the secret of Lincoln's success was not along Lincoln's greatness but his desire to wait that he might reflect the purpose of the people...
...We forget that we have come to a point when the time-honored policy, the very basic law of the autonomy of the Republican party, is violated...
...CONVINCES THE READER" **T T pleases me to read such a clean, yet aggressive, paper as JL La Follette's...
...Not the parting within and among those who may feel themselves the self-constituted leaders of the Republican party, but between ua as a party and the people will come the parting, unless we heed what we know to be the will of the people.—Senator Moses E. Clapp in Waekingtonia...
...We stand to-day at the parting of the ways...
...I am against the regulars and Special Interests and for the insurgents, the people and a square deal...
...Your paper shows the Special Interests and their supporters up in just the right way, without abuse, bombast or bluster...
...The Republican party does not and never did reside in the White House except in a representative capacity...
...You make them stand on their record and show wherein and where they serve with fidelity the interests of the Special Interests, and you do it in such a gentlemanly and clean way as to convince the reader...
Vol. 2 • August 1910 • No. 32
