Bisbee daily review., 1909-10-31
ABOUT THE INSURGENTS.

When the correspondent of the Chi
 cago Tribune at Des Moines the other
 day asked Senator Cummins and Dol
 liver whether they were going to con
 sent to be read out of the Republi
 can party, Senator Deliver replied
 rather tartly for him:
 Tt depends on what you call the Republican party. It depends on whether the Republican party con sists of the people or subcommittee of the Senate. If it is the latter, We can't be read out of the party. for we never were in it"
 These words indicate a somewhat different view of the immediate and ultimate situation from that which MT. Taft has taken. It has been tao itly assumed by the president that the action of congress on tariff re- vision was the action of the party, binding on it's loyal members. and substantially conclusive. He has al so implied that former Republicans who did not like the action of con gress and would not accept it as a finality must seek refuge in the ranks of the opposition. Evidently Senator Deliver looks at matters in a who'll ly different manner. He intimates that the controlling body in recent To -sr-Nr. h tsaa of the Senate, to which he and those who believe and act with him did not belong and to which they are in no wise bound to submit. Of course the ready answer to this view Is that the subcommittee of the Senate was sup ported by the great body of the Sen ators and Representatives of the Re publican party, and that this support commits the party. But there is an equally ready and pertinent rejoiner to this plea. The Senators and Rep resentatives who supported the re- vision upward violated the pledges and defeated the professed aims of the Republican party in it's National Convention. As between this treach- cry and the loyalty of the so-called in- surgents to the party faith, there can be but one complete arbitrament, that of the party itself.
 This is what the insurgents pro pose to seek, Senator Cummins an nounces:
 There will be no change in my po- sition-no recession from the attitude I among others took during the tariff debates. The fight will go on, and, if anything, it probably will be al broader and hotter fight lin the fu- ture. I have found no reason to change my conviction that the pres ent tariff law is not a genuine re vision downward and that it far from complies with the promises of the Republican party to reduce the rates to a figure that would cover only the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad and a reason able profit to the manufacturer"
 Now, Senator Cummins will not content himself with this simple an- nouncement of difference from the president He Is preparing to enter on sustained campaign of speaking in the Middle West, in which he will carry before the people the proofs that have convinced him that the tar if revision was dictated by the great interests protected by the high rates Nor does this campaign lack an ob- jectiye of practical sorL. The Trio une reports that on the day MT. Taft spoke in Des Moines to a large but chilly crowd the chief topic of discus sion among the Republicans gathered for the occasion was the probability 1 that in 1912 Iowa would present Sen ator Cummins as a candidate for the | presidential nomination, and would | expect the support of the Middle | West. That means that the advocates 1 of real tariff reform propose to carry their contest to the party, that they | will not go over to the Democrats and 1 leave the field to the standpatters, but will strive for victory within the party. They will have a clear issue. Last year the party declared for a re vision according to plain principles involving substantial reduction. Has it got it? That is an issue not O. opinion but of fact, and the facts are not on the side Of the president.-