Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-06
ANGRY AT PUBLISH.
ED REPORTS THAT ADMlNIsTRA.
TON WILL WITHHOLD PATRON.
AGE FROM THEIR MEMBERS.
CONSIDERITLIFEAND
DEATH STRUGGLE
BELIEVE WAR HAS BEEN FORCED
ON THEM BY CONTESTS START.
ED IN THEIR DISTRICTS AND
THEY'LL FIGHT BACK.

washington, d. G., Jan. SIT is ,ex.
pecteu the insurgent Republican mem
pers Oh the house will call meeting
q. an early date to give earnest con-
siaefatlon to the situation arising
llonl the announcement that the adj 4
lnlnlstratlon would no longer counten-
aiice lnsurglng" in congress and
would withhold patronage from the
Irecalcltrant members. The most ratii
cal insurgent leaders on the house
SIDE feel that with the elections hut
Few months distant it Is life and
death struggle with them and conse-
quently when forced into the fray
they should have no hesitation about
CARRYING the war to any extent. The
efrort to defeat insurgent congress-
men by starting fight against them
IN their home districts, as was re-
ported yesterday, had already begun
IN several districts in the west. has
MT hard and the congressman SO at
lacked probably will make no choice
or weapons in defending themselves.
Taft Not Fully Decided.
FROM source close to the admin
tlstration the declaration came today
tnat no hard and fast determination
mad yet been reached by the presf-
dent not to recognize the insurgents
IN matters Of patronage The subject
Is under consideration, but 1t was said
the tentative determination had been
reached that 1t was a matter Of self !,
protection in the ensuing success Of
e presidents policies.
War to the Finish,
The battle broke suddenly yester.
day afternoon. At first 1t was a single
shot; then scattered firing: swiftly
the thing spread, until last night it
has taken on the aspects of gem
eral engagement the consequences
of which cannot be foretold. The
substance Of 1t is that the senators
and congressman who have taken
stand against the present administers
tlon and who continue to align them
selves with the opposition to the pres
dents policies are to receive no con-
s1deration in matters Of patronage.
Utterances such as that made by
senator Cummins at recent dinner
in Des Moines, by Senator Bristow. in
previous speeches, anti-Taft articles In
Senator La Follette's magazine and a
recent interview by Senator Clapp on
the price of foodstuffs are said to
have stirred the president to action.
It had been reported further that
some of the Republican insurgents In
the house have tried to secure an
pointment under the administration OF
men more or less openly out of har.
mony with the Taft regime.
Will Be Candidate In 1912.
Mr.. Taft's closest friends advised
him that it would be impolitio for him
to afford sinews of war to those who
they warned him, might even cooper
ate with the Democrats in congress-
against the Taft Legislative program
and in the country at large by Great.
Ing ant1-Taft sentiment in advance of
the 1912 convention.
At the White house last night II
was stated without reserve that the
president has listened to such advice
and has decided to follow it, which
means that he Is a candidate for re.
In support of the position taken by
certain leaders of the administration
the battle is not with the tariff ins,lr.
gents. 1t was pointed out last night
that Senators Nelson, Brown, Burkett
and Borah, all Of whom voted against
the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill, are per.
soma non-grata at the White house,
postoff1ce department. land Office and
Internal revenue bureau, where fed.
eral pie" is served.
No politician who would discuss the
at all last night dared hazard
an opinion as to the political outcome
Of the contest. Some insisted that IL
would arouse bitter opposifion RI
President Taft, while others declared
that the effect would be to make all
Republicans line up for or against the
president and smoke OUT those who
have carefully kept neutral position
Representative Miller OF the Eighth
Minnesota district was the man chief
y instrumental in GLOWING the lid
of" of the situation. He did it by
statement to the effect that Postmas
ter General Hitchcock had informed
him yesterday that his (Miller's) rec,
for presidential post