The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-02
PRESIDENT P||| TO
| HAVE HIS WAY
Insurgents Promise TO Sup.
port Favorite Measures.
ASSURANCE PLEASES TAFT

Issders Hayes and Gardner Call at
White House. and Explain Attitude
on Party Platform Pledges--Execu.
tive Issues Statement Which Clears
Legislative skies and May Call For
Similar Action on Part Of Regulars
In Lower House.
Washington, Feb. Both the reg.
olar majority members of the house
of representatives and the insurgent
Republicans are endeavoring to have
President Taft line up on their partic-
ular side of the fence which separates
them. The leaders of the insurgent
faction have informed the president
that they represent the only real
friends that the administration pos.
Besses in the lower house of congress.
They have told him, too, that the op-
position faction was conceived of the
devil, and that he can not possibly
do any business by Harvesting him
self and the administration with that
wing of the party In congress. The
regulars have told Mr.. Taft that If 1t
were not for the insurgents the ad-
nipistration program would have
summer sailing through the house.
The insurgents have all along in
sisted that they we're with the presi-
dent but against the organization, the
rules committee and other adjuncts
90 legislation which Mr.. Cannon and
his friends control The insurgents,
however, passed the buck to the reg.
ulars when Representative Hayes of
California, one of the leaders OF the
anti Cannonites, and Representative
Gardner OF Massachusetts, who also
leads at times, saw the president and
told him that the time had arrived for
all true insurgents to come TO the
aid of the administration.
The two insurgent leaders ard the
president were pleased with the con.
ference, and after 1t was over the
White House issued the following
statement:
THE president received visit
from Messrs. Gardner and Hayes,
who had been appointed to call on
him as a committee at a meeting of
the so-called insurgents Of the house.
Messrs. Gardner and Hayes said that
they called on behalf of their associ-
ates to assure the president OF their
good will toward him and their earn
est desire to aid him in the passage
OF the postal savings bank bill, the
conservation measures, the Injunction
bill and the interstate commerce bill
recommended by him in conformity
with the pledges of the Republican
party platform. The president was
much pleased with their assurances"
Insurgent leaders now feel that
they have forced the hand of their
regular brethren In legislation. II
seems evident to them that the regu-
lars must come out with equal reas-
suring advances TO the president, and
then the next step will be a settling
down to work on the promises. But
the insurgents scored first In the ef-
fort to show allegiance to the admin.
istration.
One thing that seemed to have
been accomplished by the insurgent
gathering was the hushing up of all
talk Of a caucus Of Republicans on
the proposed change In the method OF
selecting the committee OH rules. The
insurgents, II was said, will not seek
20 have such caucus called.
Altogether II now looks as II the
legislative skies were clearing and
that the president was TO have bis