The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-11
Document Is Making Big Stir
Among the Leaders
INSURGENTS ARE LEFT OUT
Book Is Compiled BY the stand-patters
and of Course Does Not Suit the
Other Faction of the
Party

Washington, September 10-(SpeciaL) }
The republican campaign textbook has
only been out a few days, but has al
ready raised hades, not among demo-
Gratis who are grinning, but among
republicans, who see in 1t nothing but
the gasps of dying men vainly endeav-
oring to save a lost cause. Criticism
of the book is universal not SO much
for what 1t contains as for what it
distinctly avoids. The tariff is made
a secondary issue, while past perform
anoes" are crowded to the fore. The
republican party, so long vigorous and
in the forefront, is by this book,
crowded back into a party of has
beens."
The insurgents and their friends are
especially displeased with the compil-
alton. They claim that more than half
| the book is but a reprint of official
reports having no connection whatever
with the live politics of today and that
in the enumeration of great acts OF
| legislation no reference whatever Is
made to the greatest piece of legisla-
tion enacted within so years, viz, the
modification of the rules which robbed
the speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives of autocratic power anc
paved the way for the downfall OF
Cannonism, which they claim is now
assured.
Boutell's Performances
| Boutell, the arch standpatter from H.
linois, is given 22 pages of the book
to glorify past performances, full halt
of whose glory belongs to democrats
as we'll as republicans, with not &
whimper for the democratic and in
surgent rule (which made the Hous,
of Representatives a truly deliberate
body. Insurgents chuckle. however
and say wait until Illinois gets
Through her house cleaning and IL vii
| be found that 'Bouten has been rele.
gated to private life along with the
twoscore other standpatters already re.
tired"
| Professor Shinn, statistician for the
democratici committee, has furnish ed
list of standpatters already discred-
| tied by republican primaries and re-
tired to private life by republican
voters. rhe list is as follows:
List of Dead Ones
| Kansas: Charles Frederick Scott
James Monroe Miller. William Alexan-
der Calderhead, William Augustus
| Reeder.
The insurgents of Kansas knock ed
these four out In the first practice game
and they are now politically dead
Daniel Reed Antho ony and Philip Pitt
Campbell still await their slaugh ter
| Ing in November.
| Iowa Albert Foster Dawson, John Al
bert Tiffin Tull.
Michigan: Julius Caesar Burrows
Washington Gardner.
Missouri: Harry M. Coudrey.
California: Duncan e. Mckinley, James
McLachlan.
Idaho: Thomas Ray Hamer.
Maryland: George Alexander Pearre,
Sidney Emanuel Mudd, John Kronmil-
lef
Nebraska: Edmund Howard Hinshaw.
Ohio Ralph D. Cole.
Pennsylvania: Henry Wilbur Palmer
Alfred Buchwalter Garner, John Merri-
man Reynolds, Charles Frederick Bare
lay, George Franklin Huff, Allen Foster
Cooper, Nelson p. Wheeler, William Har-
rison Graham.
This makes a list of "a members of the
House and one senator who have already
been sent to the boneyard.
Per Cent of Losses
The republican membership of the
House numbers 217 in a full membership
of 391. 1t will thus be seen that II per
cent of the republican membership
all standpatters and devotees of Can
non--have been turned down, diseredited
and retired to private life Only about
one-half the nomina tions have bern made
hue hi1f fpbarv m date exCeadS II
cent
Tawney and Nye in Minnesota are slat-
ed by republicans for the death throttle.
Humphrey of Washington stares defeat
in the face, while the insurgent. Poin-
dexter, from the same state, seems like
ly to be called up higher-to be nominated
by republicans for the Senate of the
United States Boutell and Mann of IL
linois are both marked by their friends
fol defeat, while other standpatters,
viewing the wreckage and headed by
Longworth are tumbling head over heels
In mad effort to repudiate Cannon.
OF the republican committee that sent
the campaign book into the world, four,
Manner of Idaho, Miller of Kansas,
Pearre of Maryland and Hinshaw of Ne
.barska. have already been repudiated at
the polls, butchered because republican
votes helped to swell the poeans of a
triumphant insurgency. When the No
venber ides shall have passed the roll
of victims will be swelled to greater pro-
portions and a democratic House pro-
claimed to the world. In the Senate the
record is equally frightful Seven stand
patters have already been driven to wide
open political graves, viz. Hale of Maine,
Aldrich of Rhode Island, Flint of Cali
fornia. Warner of Missouri. Piles OF
Washington, Nixon of Nevada and Bur
rows of Michigan.
EVERYWHERE insurgency and insurgents
are on the crest of the wave. Not one
TO them has suffered defeat and there is
no prospect of such a condition.
The republicans Of the House, how
ever, despite the ungrateful slide of Long
worth and his cohorts into anti-Cannon-
ism, are still for Cannon. In a caucus
of republicans Cannon would win out,
and the only hope for the ultimate tri-
! umph of insurgency is In Joining the
democratic party and in pushing 1t to
power.
What Maine Will DO
'Uniess all signs fail Maine will send
| two democratic representative TO the
next Congress- 1ndga arker,
former presit this
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