The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-03-27

very good friends of the Vermont del.
esation al Washington that they gem
uy admonish the incense-burning Mr..
Harris against censOring the Vermont
press SO earnestly and faithfully i'm
their behalf on all occasions. and that
they cordially invite him not TO rep
resent them as abused every time
some man that voted ior and approves
them generally has The temerity to
dissent from one of their opinions and
have a mind Of his own-St Adams
Messenger
What the Insurgents" Won
The letter which appears on this
page. written by John b. Harris is a
document Of some poignancy in re-
gard TO the late victory OF the in
Isurgents over Uncle Joe Cannon. The
Herald was happily delivered from
some O. the more garish infelicities
ci jas bre thren iu regard 10 Inc con
quot of Nermonts delegation, FIRST. be-
cause the revolt against The speaker
was ln actually mere revolt AGAINST
certain rules. and second because il
never believed that Messrs. Foster
and Plumley desired anything more
than reasonable revision Of certain
RAJ s--a purely routine affair which
has happily and agreeably come to
pass. ID is well not to let the wish
govern too irrevokably the expressed
thought in these matters.
Editor of the Rutland Herald. Sir.
| note that the Bennington Banner
regrets not TO. find the name of Da-
yid j. Foster in the list of insurgents
against Cannon and his rules" A clio
ser inspection reveals the fact. dis
heartening beyond measure that the
great and good name of Frank Plum
ley is likewise not in the list. The
heart of the St. Adams Messenger.
like French Pete's is also filled wit
sad for the same reason. Very like
ly there are others. Why not convoke
a lodge of sorrow, and also send down
a delegation of the righteous to look
after the strayed brethren? 0, Deari
What can the matter be? For weeks
! past the columns Of divers and sundry
state papers have been flooded with
editorial forecasts of what Messrs
Foster and Plumley were confidently
expected TO do to Uncle Joe and the
rules as soon as they were unleashed,
and 10, neither at the head OF the
list Of immortal patriots or at the tail
of IL were the names Of Vermonts
Abou Bens
The blow nearly killed father in
certain Vermont newspaper offices. it
was inCOmprehensi5le. What could
have happened? Whence this recre.
ancy 20 The highest and noblest Of
purposes? We're Nermonta two sand.
bagged kidnapped or fed with knock
out drops IL is most bewildering
When we rouse from our stupor we
must have clear and lucid explana-
tiUn etc.
There are any amount of excellent
and entirely conclusive reasons why
The names Of Messrs. Foster and Plum
ley are not found in the list and one
does not have 10 be in their cOnfid-
cnce 10 be able 20 state some OF them
one is this, Neither Mr. Foster or
Dir. Plumley is a traitor to his party
or its candidates. Nor to its Well de-
fined aud definite policies, they are not
renegades, and they do not desert to a
combination Of Democrats and Repub-
lican bushwhackers and soreheads.
They are honorable Republicans. faith.
ful to their party. They refused to
desert under fire and array themsel.
YES with the open enemy and bunch
of fragrant traitors. this is one reason
for the Banners regrets"
In the second place neither Mr.. Fos-
ter nor Mr. Plumley is an irreclaim-
able and hopeless ass. Whatever
may be the opinion of a citizen of the
Dog river or the Champlain valley
from a superficial reading of the pa
pers he comes to know the facts as
TO men and things of national moment
on investigating them at close range.
Both Vermonts representatives dis
cover the actual facts and act accord
ingly. Being Republicans and also
realizing that it is the right and pro-
per thing to do, they vote for the
speaker and the rules which have ser
we'd the party and the country so well.
They refused to commit political su.
iNiNN tA " 0uuN'li AutlI OWN lnNtlll-
gence to any opinion conceived in ig-
norance of the facts. There are other
reasons, but these may suffice.
The Messenger speaks of the in
surgents who won the great victory
for the modernizaton of the rules"
/ In no essential respects were the rules
'modernized" or changed nothing
whatever than the majority cared ia
contest was won by the combina
ton of Democrats and traitors. In
one of two minor instances slight con.
cessions were made to relieve the
speaker of responsibility but not iot
of his power was taken from him. In.
Gle Joe was overwhelmingly reelected
and, as before has the naming OF
every member of every committee
The statement recently published by
you from the New York Sun correct
ly summarizes the situation.
There are several wonders One