Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-16
IDAHO SENATOR TO BECOME Ac.
lively IDENTIFIED WITH
INSURGENTS.
WILL BE THORN IN SIDE
OF ALpRlcH-HALE CROWD
Only Prevented From Becoming Full
Pledged Rebel by Pressure From In
forests in Own state-corporation
and Railroad Matters to Be conspie-
uous In Next Session Of Congress.
Especial correspondence.l

| Especial Correspondencel
| Washington, Aug. 16.-Look out for
trouble next winter from the direction
of Senator William Edgar Borah, Of
Idaho. Reliable reports are afoot to
the effect that he will be one of the
leaders of insurgency in the senate. He
may be expected to take his place
alongside of Cummins, LaFollette,
Bristow, Dolliver, Beveridge and the
others who are bent on breaking the
back of the old Aldrich-Hale organi-
cation and to ccupy most prominent
part in the proceedings. Friends of the
Idaho senator say there Is NO one who
has been here or hereabouts for many
long day who is possessed of more
Astounding capacity for stirring up
trouble and keeping 1t boiling hot for
long period of time than "Bill'
Borah. He fell into the system of in
surgency when he was studying the
ways Of the unhonored and unsung but
strenuous mules which he used to
! break down in southern Illinois. He
supplemented this by some experience
in bleeding Kansas. Nobody questions
Borah's nerve and courage He's nat
ural born scrapper and nature set
down the marks of pugnacity in his
countenance
The case Of Senator Borah has been
peculiar All thru the special session,
he has shown repeated symptoms of a
great yearning to jump the reservation
and to go ont looking for the scalps of
: the senate leaders. But, much against
his will, he has been obliged to main
tain certain measure of regularity.
! He has been under great pressure from
his own state to watch over the rates
1 of duty on certain of its products. In
order to get these rates. he had to line
up with Senator Aldrich and his forces.
When 1t came to the corporation tax,
Senator Borah bucked but for local
reasons he felt it was impossible for
him to vote against the tariff bill altho
mented that he was so tied up he had
and Borah's hands are free. 1t is
! learned that he intends next winter to
align himself with the senate republic
can progressives and to take q. leading
part in compelling change in the
present senate conditions that make it
possible for the few insiders In the
senate family" to run the institution.
At the next regular session, corpora
tion and railroad matters will be much
at the front On these things, Rorah
has some advanced ideas. He ranks as
one of the ablest of the senate lawyers
and will no doubt be one of the leaders
in the forces of the young senators In
their struggle against the older ele-
ments.
One of the few senator's who have
not yet left Washington is Jonathan
Bourne. Jr, of Oregon. Senator Bourne
is lingering around these parts with a
view to promoting the work of the new
senate committee on public expend-
lures. He is bent on making the work
of the new committee effective and
thinks millions may be saved to Uncle
Sam by it,
The publication of rumor In the
past few days that Speaker Cannon
had decided to retire from public life
was received in many quarters in
Washington and out OF it as more Of a
Joke than anything else. There have
come to light within the past day or
two, however, incidents which lead to
the belief that the retirement Of the
speaker is the object sought by several
members of the house who have here
tofore been regarded as his Intimate
friends.
Mo-, Nf hN, 1,ov -
realize that so long as Joseph G. Can
non remains in the speakers chair
there will be strife and that with him
rs speaker there will always be in
surgency. The constant detection -evas
troublesome while the tariff bill hung
in the balance so much so that Pres
ident Taft was appealed to to- save the
situation. Prominent members of the
house, too, have at last come to real
ization of the fact that there are GER
tain members who can not return tc
their districts and avow friendship for
Cannon or anyone that stands for Can
non. There are number Of such mem
bers in the house and it. is expected
that their strength will continue to in
crease.
If the speaker runs for congress
again-and his friends say he will--ht
will. of course. be candidate for re-
election as speaker. In that contest he
will find himself the center of the BIZ
terest contest that has been waged 70,
years. The insurgents are already de-
vising ways and means to accomplish
the defeat CT the srea!.c: and the
speakers friends know It, Some 81
these men, who have always been tbs
friends of the speaker. are beginning t.
wonder whether it is wise to continue
to. have the majority party in the
house continually split and frequen.i,
voting with the minority, largely be.
cause of the antagonism felt for ths
speaker and the way he conduct.
things. Mutterings against the speak.
er are not new, but they are beginnin,
to be more persistent and there is gooi
reason to believe that some OF TIL,
speakers best friends who are inter
ested as well in their party would b,
relieved if "Uncle Joe" would grace
fully remove himself from the center O
storm which will rage about him jus
as long as he continues to be candi
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