COUNTRY ABOVE PARTY
Country Above Party I AM A DYED-IN-THE-WOOL REPUBLICAN." said Senator Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota, in a recent speech at Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, "but I contend and hold to be unanswerable that a...
...This made the farmers' free list not only possible but urgent, and paved the way for the La Follette wool bill...
...No party has a patent to government...
...I yet believe that we, as Republicans, and the progressive Democrats, as Democrats, will be able to throw overboard the men who have scuttled our party ships...
...And now the charge is made that the insurgents are putting Taft in a hole...
...The debate exposed the Taft sham reciprocity...
...That party which has will have it only through the will of the people...
...And the sole message of March concerning the periodical field appears to be that, as yet, all's well with the honest magazines, and therefore with their readers.—Philadelphia North American...
...Party leaders preach party regularity, so that you and I may glare at each other and grow warm in debate upon party issues, yet when we pull aside the veil which hides us from these same leaders, we find them, in many, many instances, seated comfortably around the same banquet board, devouring the same meal of bipartisan political spoils...
...I hold my country above my party...
...Senator Clapp riddled the objections of President Taft to the recall of judges...
...It is not wrong for you, my Democratic friend, and me to shake hands together and to agree upon those things which are for the greatest good of our great country...
...The indispensable weeklies, Collier's, The Outlook, The Literary Digest, and La Follette's, are improving, if there b« any change...
...PRESIDENT TAFT CALLED a special session after consulting with Penrose and other agents of special privilege, who assured him that reciprocity would pass in a few weeks and adjournment be taken without annoying complications...
...We must remember," he said, "that every public official from President to postmaster, is a servant of the people...
...If my party is wrong, the people who make the government should get what they demand through another party...
...But the hole in which they are putting Taft was digged by himself, by party pledge breaking, by treachery to the Roosevelt policies and by his espousal of the cause of special privilege against the interest of the people who put their trust in him and his promises.— Philadelphia North American...
...And this is the exact truth...
...said Senator Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota, in a recent speech at Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, "but I contend and hold to be unanswerable that a man should not only have the right party, but that his party should be right...
...If the recall is a menace to the good judge, shall we repeal the laws against theft because they are a menace to the good citizen...
Vol. 3 • August 1911 • No. 34
