The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-20
By Ernest G.. Walker.

BEVERLY. Massachusetts, August ,.
The overrunning Of the West by IN
surgents will be the big theme hence
forth in the Republican councils over
the congressional campaign. Chairman
w. B. Mckinley. of the Republican
committee, is scheduled to visit Beverly
soon for a talk with President Taft.
The plans have been 10 open the con
gressional campaign in earnest along
in August or early September.
When congress adjourned late in
June, the campaign leaders and mana
gers, practically all of whom are regu-
lars, reasoned that they had the situa-
ton well in hand. When Representa-
tive John w Dwight, of New York, one
of this coterie of managers, talked with
the President at Beverly about three
weeks ago. he had received reports
from the West which he thought war
ranted him in assuring the President
not only that the regulars We're on deck
but that they were getting under way
SO that the next house OF representa-
tives would be Republican.
The favorable impression upon the
country of the President S legislative
achievements and the claim that the
regulars were winning primary contests
in the great insurgent section-the up
per Mississippi valley-formed the
basis of this confidence. Preliminaries
for the congressional campaign, which
were sanctioned, if they did not origi-
nate. at the summer capital, proceeded
in conformity with regular views.
Thought All Understood.
It has been well understood among
politicians that the congressional COM
mittee was thoroughly committed to a
campaign along those lines. Speaker
Cannon in his private and semi public
utterances during the spring voiced
the keynote often when he declared
that he would rather see the Democrats
win the house than have it controlled
again by an insurgent group through
the instrumentality of balance of
power. Republicans, who are supposed
to subscribe to that view. have been
almost the only influential politicians
to confer with the President since he
came to Beverly. As far as known at
the summer capital, the President has
not said he would not care for another
Republican house, where insurgents
held the balance of power, but he has
shown decided sympathles with the
basis of campaigning which the regular
leaders favor.
Now Change.
Republican candidates for congress
are now much disturbed over what Kan
sas and Iowa have done Those, in
districts at all close. will be rushing
to the congressional committee for some
change of policy that will save votes
Party authorities say there is little
danger of the loss of many Republican
seats in the heart of the insurgent coun
try, because Of insurgent triumphs il
States like Iowa and Kansas. Senator
Bristow, the insurgent leader in Kan
sas, was claiming before congress ad
journed that not only would all except
two of the Kansas districts nominate
insurgents for congress but that the
insurgent nominees would be elected
Regular Republicans in the West are
of the stalwart variety and vote tht
ticket pretty generally. When Re
publican congressman has been defeat
ed for reelection in that section, in
decidedly Republican district, it ha
been by nsurgent votes. The defea
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Wisconsin, Of James T. McClearv, il
Minnesota; and Col. w p Hepburn, il
Iowa, was brought about i'll that way
The prophecies of Democratic victo
ries in Wisconsin-a notable insurgen
State-have gone awrv in recent year
because the insurgent tickets Their
have been supported by the regular
at the polls. This has invariably fol
lowed the bitterest kind of factiona
Republican warfare in that State.
Regulars Demoralized
The decentralization that comes to tn
Republican congressional committee b,
insurgent victories in the West is du
more to the effect that these victorie
Will have in the older States this sid
of the Mississippi The Democrats ma,
capture two or three Republican seat
in Iowa districts that are normal,
close, but their hopes of winning tn
house rest upon States like Illinois, Mis-
sour, Ohio, Michigan, New York an,
Pennsylvania. There the regulars ar
pretty generally in control. The in
surgent vote is the independent facto
in those States.
The congressional campaign manager
depend much upon loyalty to the Presi
dent to command the support of voter
N off-ycar elections. They are nov
doubly worried, because the effective
ness Of the party appeal is lessened
Indiana Republicans, in their State con
vehtion, refused to give him a cordia
endorsement last June, and this attitud
Of dsloyalty to the administration
emphasized by the action Of the low
Republican convention.
Republicans on Defensive.
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