| Show WOULD LD PUNISH insurgents I 1 regular republicans start movement which means trouble for members who deserted their leaders washington through though the formation on wednesday of an organization which its leaders claim represents a clear majority of the entire senate and to bo be made up wholly of regular republicans a movement was started to settle wh whether ether the senate shall remain conservative become radical or be thrown into political chaos as far as concerns any coherent policy on the administration pro gramme to senator aldrich was given the leadership of the movement senator aldrich called the regular republicans together and confronted them with a grim description of the possible political effect of their apparent defeat at the hands of the insurgent republicans and democrats in the fight over the traffic agreement section of the administration railroad bill he asked his associates whether they were ready to submit to domination by such a combination any such surrender he warned them meant the failure of the tatt taft policies and the downfall of conservative control cont not anly in congress 9 ress but in tho the republican party geu gen 1 orally the entire tone of this conference was belligerent toward the insurgents this was the dominant note let us get together and stand as a unit against every insurgent proposition it if mhd insurgents propose anything good well take it over bodily and put it through as our own it if they propose anything bad well stamp it out it was stated president taft had been kept fully advised of the situation and was entirely lu in sympathy with the plan and virtually pledged to it the inability of the two factions of the republican party to get together Is the immediate cause of danger to the legislative pro gramme each side ride blames the other the insurgents sur gents say the fault lies iles in the arrogance and intolerance of the longtime long time leaders of the majority toward the progressive gres sive policies represented by most of the republicans of the middle west the regulars charge the insurgents are simply trying to destroy the republican party by attempting to discredit its time honored leadership and principles and to ride over the ruins to power |
