The Detroit times., 1910-09-19

cue and Important insnrDent Victory
m California. was the fear Of Sea-
Tor Flint, . standpatter, TO submit
himself 10 the direct primaries Tor
denomination to the United States
senate. For governor. there was Q
bitter night on clear Issue of insur'
gent aeAinst standpxIter. The tnsur-
gent, johnson. won; also. two OF the
most powerful stAndpatters In CON
gress, McKinlay and McLachlan. wero
defeated for denomination by such
thorough going insurgents a. VIM.
Kent and Mr.. Stevens. kents pres
ence In the next congress will be .
powerful addition to the insurgent
strength.
In Kansas the fight was clear and
simple. Kansas has eight members
in the lower house OF congress. Two
OF the present members. Madison and
Murdock. are Insurgents. The others
are standpatters. In the Tight for re-
nomination, Murdoch and Madison.
Insurgents, were unopposed. In each
standpatter's district there Was q
hard fight. Four standpatters were
defeated. In the new congress Kan
sas will have six insurgents and two
standpatters.
In Iowa and North Dakota. Repub-
lican state conventions adopted
strong insurgent platforms and con-
demned the PayneAldrich tarifY. Lat
or Michigan nominated an insurgent
for governor and for the United
States senate defeated one Of the old
Romans of the Aldrich crowd, Bur
rows. who has been In public life for
40 years and was q member of the
finance committee.
To Dominate Finance Committee.
The passing of Flint, Burrows. Aid
rich and Hale. removes four stand
patters from the powerful finance
committee OF the senate and Will en-
able the insurgents In the next SEN
ate TO dominate that committee,
which has been the stronghold OF the
interests for moro than . generation.
In Washington state, although the
sentiment Of people was overwhelm.
ingly insurgent, there was but one
insurgent representative ut Washing.
-Poindexter. At the recent pri.
mary, Poindexter was promoted to
the nomination. for the United States
senate, and the insurgents swept the
state with the exception Of one mem.
Der Of congress-
In Idaho the people had their first
chance to vote on the fnsurgent YER
sus standpat issue. and they defeat.
Cd Cannon congressman, Hamer,
nominating In his place, French, who
n pledged In opposition to Cannon.
Another very conspicuous step In
advance for the insurgents was the
Republican state convention In In.
diana In May, which was dominated
BY Beveridge, and which adopted Z
thoroughgoing insurgent platform.
In Illinois. one Of the worst Of The
reactionsry Republican congressman,
Boutell, was retired, while Cannon
and all the other standpat congress
men had largely reduced majortties
In the primaries.
Two other events which gave great
moral strength to the insurgent move
ment were the voluntary retirement
Of Hale and Aldrict. Hale. six
months ago. foresaw what was to
happen In Maine In September. He
knew he could not b. reelected. and
he abdicated The can of Aldrich
was q little different. He could read
lily be reelected from Rhode Island
but he knew that II he returned to
Washington his power In the senate
would be gone. He did not care to
wander about like the impotent ghost
Of Caesar. and he, too, abdicated.
South In Line. Teo.
Meantime. there was growing uT
I'm the Democratic party . movement
almost exactly similar to the insur.
gent movement In the Republican
party. In Florida, Napoleon b. Bro
ward, running on . platform Of pro-
gresslve principles there, similar 10
the Insurgent Republican body OF
principles, defeated an old corpora
ton fAvortts. Taliaferro.
!. In Georgia, Hoke Smith defeated
Brown for governor.
Oklahoma 10 Q Democratic state In
which progressive principles are clear
~ on top. Senators Owen and Gore,
IN their speeches and In their votes,
are always TO DO found In the COM
pany Of the insurgent Republican SEN
ators like LAFollette.
II the Republican party held . M
tionnl convention today, with dele
gates elected BY the people. the in
surgents would dominate the con-
vention.