OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1907.
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Every true woman will rejoice with
the mother and maternal grandmoth
er of the new heir to the Spanish
throne. Queen Victoria's youngest
daughter Beatrice received many
snubs after she married the German
princeling Battenberg. She was a plain
faced, old maid who seemed to have
a hard row to travel compared to her
more fortunate brothers and sisters.
But now her daughter Is queen of
Spain and her grandson will be king
of Spain if he lives. Beatrice's life
has had a Cinderella tinge.
FROM THE ARCH OF STARS
By Henry Watterson in Louisville Courier-Journal
THE RETROSPECTIVE.
Captain J. P. Shaw and W. B .Staf
ford have hit upon just the right thing
as a subject for a fair or festival In
Oregon City, Clackamas county raises
the best of all fruits in large quanti
ties 150 acres or more and In qual
ity unsurpassed. Let's all put our
shoulder to the wheel and boost the i
Strawberry Festival.
The United States supreme court
has decided that states have a right
to compel railroads to make connec
tions with competing lines. That has
little Interest In Oregon where there
are no competing lines. Still It gives
us a better excuse for swearing when
trains are late.
A man at Wilkesbarre, Pa., has been
arrested for stealing a half dozen rail
road rails. If he had wanted to be
exempt from arrest he should have
taken 3000 miles of rails. Ask Ed.
Harriman.
The government bureau of labor
has just learned that prices are high
er than for 17 years. The man who
pays the bills found that out long
ago.
W. T. Stead says American wives
are spoiled. The average housewife
who works about 18 hours a day Is
probably spoiled by too much work.
Politicians are trying to guess
whether Roosevelt is for Taft or
Hughes. They don't have to guess
whom he is against.
"Costly raids upon flocks of sheep
are being made by wolves In the Lit
tle River range on the East Umpqua,
according to the report brought to
Roseburg by Aug. Schloemann, of
Oak Creek. So bold have the wolves
become that they 6lay sheep in sight
of the herders. One steer has also
fallen prey to the varmints.
WANTS GROWERS NAMES.
Captain J. P. Shaw requests all
growers of strawberries who desire' to
make an exhibit at the proposed
strawberry festival in this city to
send their names and addresses to
him at Oregon City and in a week or
two he will call a meeting to discuss
details for the proposed festival.
W. W. H. Samson was out at Frank
Grimm's three miles south-east of
Meadowbrook, Saturday morning cry
ing a sale.
Gently moves the Tmwm and at the
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To one who was born In a party
camp and grew to manhood on a po
litical battle-field, who can distinctly
recall the circumstances and the per
sonalities of the antediluvian period
which witnesses! the break-up first
of the old Whigs and then of the old
Democrats, the present situation In
the United States; presents many
points of parallel and some of con
trast; and surveying the field from
the safe vantage of a philosopher's
loitering on the farther side of tha
dividing Ocean, I cannot resist the
temptation to pursue what some may
thtnk the phantoms merely of preju
dice and fancy
It Is human nature, rather than his
tory, which repeats itself. Men are
largely the creatures of environment
and like conditions produce like re
sults. The process of reasoning by
unology may have Its drawbacks, but
for a long time the leaders of the Re
publican party, their character, course
and conduct, have brought vividly to
my mind the leaders of the Demo
cratic party, their character and their
course and their conduct, when It
was a militant and triumphant party,
charged with the government of the
country barring three short Intervals
from'lSOl to 1S6L
I need not encumber these pages
with the Jefferson and Jackson leg
end. As Jefferson walked away with
Hamilton and Adams, Jackson walked
away with Clay and Webster. The
party of "Jefferson and Jackson had
an easy thing of It until the slavery
question became a vital force. Then
there was trouble.
The extreme Southern leaders of
the Democratic party boxed the com
pass on Van Buren in 1S44. This lost
them the succession in 1848. But, hav
ing plenty of reserves, they found in
Pierce a radical States' Rights Demo
crat from New Hampshire, the Iden
tical "dark horse1 that was wanted
In 1S52, and with him swept the coun
try against Scott, who, though a Vir
ginian, was black-balled as a Free
Soil suspect. The defeat of Scott gave
the signal for the Whig break-up. The
Southern Whigs went largely Into
Know-N'othingism, the Northern Into
Republicanism.
The state of parties and public opin
ion on the threshold of the Presiden
tial election of 1856 may be fairly
compared with the political conditions
at this moment. Old party lines and
Issues were disappearing. A single
great Issue had crowded them off the
scene and was slowly but surely sec
tionalizlng parties. That was the
slavery issue. The repeal of the Mis
souri Compromise clause of the Kansas-Nebraska
act. had cost the Demo
crats, led by the Pierce Administra
tion, nearly alf of the Northern States.
The Democratic party stood for the
Constitutional Right of the slavehold
er. Property In man was as plainly
recognized by the Constitution as
property In houses and lands. The
moral sense of the North, long stirred,
began to revolt The conflict became
irrepressible. Things looked gloomy
for the Democrats. But a party long
dominant and in the saddle, has al
ways a knave or two In Its boots and
an ace or two up Its sleeve; so, when
the Democratic National Convention
of 1856 met at Cincinnati, the wise
ones got together and did the wise
thing. ,
They could safely nominate no one
of the faction fighters who had been
implicated in the queer politics of
1854 and 1855. Neither Douglas nor
Cass, still less Pierce, was available.
But, they had a man "hid out" as It
were. James Buchanan had been sent
in 1853 by Pierce as Minister to Eng
land. It was regarded a kind of hon
orable exile. He regarded it an hon
orable interment. It proved the mak
ing of him. He was the one leader of
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prominence who had not been tarred
by the Kansas-Nebraska controversy.
He hailed from Pennsylvania, and
Pennsylvania was Indispensable to
Democratic success. He appeared as
clearly mado to the party hand In
lS5ti, as Pierce had appeared In 1852.
So, he was nominated, nnd there was
yoked with him a brilliant and hand
some young Kentucklnn, John t
Hreckenrldge, and the two of them,
"Buck and Brock," carried all before
them, securing; the Democrat? four
more years of power. By 1800 the
Slavery Issue had become a prairie
fire. The Democrats divided among
themselves. The Republicans march
ed through the breach, and excepting
for two Inconsequential terms of Qrov
er Cleveland, they have had a rather
easy thing of it ever since,
In place of the Institution of Afri
can Slavery read the Organised
Wealth of the country. Just as the
Democratic party was the friend of
Slavery, Is the Republican party the
friend of the Corporations. Slavery
had its Constitutional Rights and
guarantees. So have the Corporations.
Slavery carried things with too high
a hand. So have the Corporations. As
the moral senso of the North arose
against Slavery, so Is the moral sense
of the Nation rising against the Cor
porations. In Harriman, with his
dangerous and frank garrulity behold
Robert Toombs, who would be satis
fied with nothing short of "calling the
muster-roll of his Slaves beneath the
Shadow of Bunker Hill Monument."
The Democratic party could not es
cape Toonibs. Can the Republican
party escape Harriman? I scarcely
think so.
The Democratic party was nothing
if not the party of Slavery. The Re
publican party is nothing If not a
rich man's party. Out of the Slave la
bor the Aristocrats of the South were
accused of grinding their supposed
wealth, although when the flag finally
went down upon them they had little
except their debts to Bhow for It Out
of the Protective Tariff, the Manufac
turers of the North and East have
ground their vast fortunes, levying
tribute upon the whole people, and
making community of Interest with
the railways and other aggregations
of organized capital. If another Mrs.
Stowe should write another "Uncle
Tom's Cabin," It would probably be
called "Uncle Tom's Castle," with
Rogers, or Rockefeller, cast for the
role of Legree, Tom Lawson, perhaps,
as "Little Dva." But can a Republi
can President reconstruct out of the
party of Privilege and Protection, a
party of Liberal Progress, drawing to
his side enough Democrats and hold
ing to his standard enough Republi
cans to constitute a popular majority?
Can a party change front In the face
of the enemy? Concede that the Dem
ocratic ( party missed Its opportunity,
when it had it, and that ever since it
has been floundering through a slough
of incertitude and vagary, can the Re
publican party appropriate to itself
and apply successfully so much of
the lost popular quality as It needs to
rescue It from the taint of tainted
company? It created the Monster
I Monopoly, invoked the Supreme Be
jlng of Steel and Iron, originally set
;up at the bidding of Pennsylvania
.thence it has drawn most of Its sus
tenance can It now deny this, and,
by a simple shifting of scenery and re
arrangement of stage effects, unmake
its man-made Maker? Is Theodore
Roosevelt to be another Pygmalion
calling out of the stone quarries of
the Robber Tariff and the bronze scrap
heaps of High Finance the living fig
ure of the Star-eyed Goddess of Re
form? Or will he prove but another
Frankenstein, dragging down upon
himself a demon of destruction?
This brings us to some of the con
trasts. Mr. Roosevelt has broken all the
records. Tyler, Fillmore, Johnson
and Arthur long ago paled their in
effectual fires before him. He Is a
law unto himself. Nothing seems to
phase him. Doing wrong things out
right, or good things in the wrong
way backing and filling as the case
requires making Issues of veracity
with the proof against him choleric
in method, cynical in action by turns
a shifty temporizer and a rash assail-
ant a practical politician among the
I most practical politicians, a reform
ier among purists inconsistent as a
J conservative, illogical as a radical
I there still exists in the popular mind
a fixed belief in his essential virtue;
... ,..3 fewv'. iMiciiiiijun, inn mutiny
and courage. His enemies would
agree that if you offered him a bribe,
he would knock you down. The good
in bad men, the bad in good men, are
sometimes magnified and sometimes
denied; but here is a man who gets
credit for good and bad alike, and,
there Is nothing so successful as suc
cess. Yet, nevertheless and notwithstand
ing, the President is going to find
Jordan a hard road to travel, and, In
; the end, if he is able to keep his par
ty together and Issue from the fray
drums boating and IIurs flying, he
will be fortunate Indeed; because ho
can no more divert the Republican
party from Its nature, kilt In It the
reason of Its being, than he' can out
Bryan In the estimation of the Demo
crats. '
If the country wants an overhaul
ing of policies it will not go to the
author of those policies for trained
workmen and a chest of tools, The
whole people may not bo quite ripe
for this overhauling. Or they may
consider that the Democrats are not
ripe for it. Thus, there may be one
more victory for the Republicans In
U'uS, as there was for the Democrats
In 1856. But this will have to bo gain
ed by a change of riders and a strad
dle, for the talk about a "third term"
Is the purest nonsense, lucking the
President behind it and having de
feat before it, a flagrant and hot-party-Ism
which the patronage of esse can
not afford., nor the discipline In posse
will not brook. The best the Presi
dent can hope for In the next National
Convention, In my Judgment, Is a dog-
fall.
What Is tho Republican lay out?
From a distance it seems to be this:
Taft. entered by the President, first
choice of tho ladies and gentlemen In
the Grand Stand; Fairbanks and For
aker from the Senate Stables, backed
by the knowing ones; and a field of
favorite sons; Uncle Joe Cannon, from
Illinois, for all that may be in sight;
Knox to hold Pennsylvania for con
tingencies; and the list of entries not
yet closed. In sporting parlance, such
appears at long range to bo about the
size of it.
There la material here for the wid
est and wildest guessing.
Eminent Jurists make disappointing
candidates. You may remember that
before the last National Democratic
Convention I said something of this
sort about Judge Parker. It Is equally
applicable to Judge Taft. Tho Presi
dent has overworked Judge Taft as
a man of all work, made him too
much of a fetch-and-carry. Those
who still Insist that Mr. Roosevelt Is
secretly conspiring for a third term
might see a deep design In this. There
are others who declare that he Is un
der pledge to the Secretary of State,
rather than the Secretary of War. But
great as Mr. Root's abilities and ser
vices must be conceded to be, the lino
which events have drawn upon the
corporations makes the nomination of
the most eminent of the corporation
lawyers unlikely.. I take It that tho
President wants the Secretary of War,
that he means It. and that as surely
as Jackson stcx)d by Van Buren, Rikjsc
velt will stand by Taft
Whoever Is nomlnafed will have to
beat Taft. It will be Taft against the
field and the field against Taft. But
let It not be forgotten that Fair
banks Is in that field and that who
ever Is nominated will have also to
beat Fairbanks. If the Republicans
are true to themselves they will nom
inate Fairbanks.
The Vice President Is an old, acool
and hefty hand at the bellows. Ho
U the Incarnation of orthodox and
conservative Republicanism. Indi
ana Is a pivotal state. What Foraker
may do to Taft In Ohio remains to bo
seen. Even if Ohio goes back on For
aker, may not the country be a trifle
tired of buckeyes? If It rejects Taft,
can Taft still pull through a National
Convention as Cleveland did? LeHs
and less has the furore trick worked
In these gigantic mobs, as more and
more the trick has come to be under
stood. Two, even three can play It.
The professionals prepare for It. In
advance, they discount It. The wiser
among the Republican leaders well
know that the party Is treading that
narrow strip of political territory
which lies between the devil and the
deep blue sea. Concession and com
promise Is bound to be the order of
the day with men invested with such
transcendent responsibility. They
will think long and work hard against
an unreasoning stampede
Every delegation in that convention
will have Its price, every delegate his
tag. Factionalism will rise high, but
It is unlikely to run straight Taft?
Why not Roosevelt himself? Fnlr.
banks? Why not Harriman? Fora
ker! Why, anybody can beat Foraker.
Uncjo Joe Cannon? Good enough,
but too old. Knox! FIddle-dee-dee!
Crane? A little shadowy. Root? Too
bad we dasn't! And so along the ga
mut of likes and dislikes, preferences
and aversions a very ton-pin alley
where men aro. set up only to be
knocked down.
Our National Conventions are grow
ing more and more like our race
courses where to the knowing ones
there are few surprises. Being In
France, I am going to buy "a Paris
Mutuel" on a dark horse I picked near
ly a year ago that is In June, 1900
though I' see my "long shot' is be
ginning to show In the betting, to
wit, Charles E. Hughes, Governor of
New York.
I met Governor, then Mr. Hughes,
familiarly in Providence during the
1906 Commencement of Brown Unl-
vtjisnj, wmcn conrcrred degrees up
(Contlnued on page 8.)
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