The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-11-16
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STATE POLITICAL "PAT' is WARMING UP


STATE POLITICAL "PAT" is WARMING UP.
The Minnesota political pot which
has been sleeping since the adjourn
ment of congress with an occasional
boiling, has finally reached the stage
where it was deemed dangerous by
the conservative wing of the party
and a compromise plan on the tariff
has been proposed and possibly
arranged as a result of the recent
gathering of republicans in the
Twin cities, incident to the visit of
Senator Nelson w. Aldrich.
Part of the plan is understood to
have consisted of strong representa-
tons made to Senator Moses Clapp
that it would be wise for him to omit
making the kind of speeches he
made recently at Northfcld, where
he INDUCED in a radical low tariff
argument, attacking the bill recently
passed by congress.
Senator Aldrich has not been
medling in Minnesota politics and
has not discussed the tariff, for
which he is said to be so largely
responsible, but his coming was,
nevertheless, indirectly responsible
for the pacifcation plan that is
understood to have been arranged.
Strangely enough Senator Albert
Baird Cummins of Iowa is another
indirect cause of the pacifcation
plan. With Senator Aldrich, the
arch standpatter of the country, and
Senator Cummius, the trail blazer
for tariff reform, acting as the in
direct causes for harmony in Min
nesota, the result should be start
lingly dramatic in it's outcome.
According to George F. Author,
the political writer for the Mime
apolis Tribune, the organization
Republicans profess 10 believe that
in the speech of Senator mmins,
made recently in Chicago before
the Marquette club, in which he
endorsed the Republican platform
declaration on the tariff, declaring
he was for that measure of protec-
ton which insured that amount of
protection measured in the difference
of cost of production at home and
abroad, plus reasonable profit, and
lntlmated willingness to leave it
to tariff commission to determine
that difference, the olive branch was
put forward by the leader of the low
tariff insurgents.
They are willing to accept the
branch and return it with their COM
pllments. Cummins' speech, follow
ing as it did the visit of President
Taft to Des Moines, induces them
to believe that it was made after
conference and possibly with the
approval of the president himself.
This belief is made the more pro-
nounced by the fact that Senator
Cummins will confer with the presi-
dent relative to future policies of the
administration.
The Cummins speech was dis
cussed among the Republican lead
ers during the past two days and
it was generally agreed that here
was an opportunity for Republicans
to get together, and an effort is
being made to do so. They say
that in the position of Cummius
and in that of any other Republican
who endorses the Republican plat
form, there can be no difference of
opinion. They insist the only differ
ence of opinion that can exist is
relative to the bill recently enacted
and with the we'll known reluctance
OF the country to enter into any new
tariff argument, it is practically
impossible to secure any immediate
legislation on a subject that is so
likely to disturb business conditions
while the discussion is pending.