Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-05
: INSURGENTS ARE
AMAZED AND MAD
At Reports That They Are to be
Singled Out by Administra-
ton for Punishment.
NOT AGAINST TAFT POLICIES.
Rep. Madison Says Trouble Will be :.
Get sAldrich and Cannon to
Support Them.

Washington. Jan. 5.-with amaze
ment, in some cases bordering on
anger. the insurgent Republican MEM
pers OF the house today read the pub
hShed reports that they were TO be-
singled out by the administration for
punishment for their "rebeIlious con-
duct as members of the majority
party of the house.
Several of them were unsparine in
their denunciation of a policy which
sought to punish man for indepen-
dence OF thought and action, as thew
expressed it. Not a few were Ioath
to believe that President Taft would
lend his aid to an effort to administer
castigatIon to them for supporting the
very principles and policies for which
they claimed the party itself stood
pledged.
'INSURGENT' POSITION.
Representative Madison OF Kansas
expressed view OF the matter to
which several of his associates sub
scribed. He said:
I'VE insurgents. as we are called.
are not against Taft or his policies.
We are unanimously. i believe, in
favor of every leading reform to
which the president and the Republi-
can party is committed For instance,
| am in favor of postal savings banks.
conservation of natural resources. re-
gulation of injunction, reform OF
federal court procedure, government
regulation and control of industrial
and carrying corporations. the publlca-
tion OF campaign funds and other re-
forms, Most of the other insurgents
are for these same things.
TT Is slandcrous TO say that VIC can
be swerved from the course of sup
porting these reforms by the with
holding OF any official patronage by
ANYBODY or be induced to support this
or that proposition by the offering OF
official sop of any kind. We are COM
mitted to the principles which L have
enumerated because we believe they
are right and not because the presi-
dent or anybody else Is for OF against
them.
ut is not the insurgents of the
house but men like Aldrich and Can
non whom the president will have 10
induce to support his policies, The in
surgents are for them already and
haye been all the time
Representative Norris OF Nebraska
added his approval of this declaration,
as did Representative Hayes OF Cali
fornia. who said his fight was solely
AGAINST the rules of the house and lis
present organization. On the latter
proposition, said Mr.. Hayes, he was
ready to fight to the finish 1t was
the Independence of the representative
i'm Congress which he was conterdlng
for, he said
MAY HOLD MEETING.
The Insurgents are discussing the de-
STABILITY Of holding an early meeting
and ascertainiug from President tart
where they stand. The calling OF the
meeting is In the hands OF RepreSen-
tative Hayes of California.
There was no apparent sign OF tne
insurgent difficulty. on the senate side
of the capitol further than the nunsr-
Gus conferences which insurgent Rs-
publicans from the house side were
holding with the senators from their
states regarding the policy which me!
were to pursue.
Senator Cummins said he had expert
enced no difficulty with the postotice
department or any other government
department in regard TO his patronage
READY FOR DEATH STRUGGLE
Most of the radical insurgent lead
ers on the house side feel that with
the elections but q few months ais
tant il is a life and death struggle WIN
them and consequently when forced
into the fray, have no hesitation apUue
carrying the war TO any extent Inc
effort to defeat insurgent congressman
bv starting a fight against them IN
their home districts, as WAS reporteu
YESTERDAY had already begun In several
districts OF the west, has mt marc an"
the con n-ressmen SO attacked will prob
ably make no choice of weapons In oe-
tending themselves
II was expected that some Statements
would be forthcoming today from tne
admInistration side as to its attltuue
Regarding the insurgents SO fsr rose-
master General Hitchcock has remain
ed silent under the statement cmanat
ing from Representative Miller OF Min-
nesota to the effect that MT, Hltcn-
cock was holding up the appointinen,s'
Of postmasters, recommended py III
surgcnt Republican members OF tne
house Published intimations tnat tn,S
course was being pursued with rsIel-
ence to a number OF congressman iiS
Minnesota and Wisconsin mas so Isi
hrought no formal denial from any eo
ministration authority. r. q.
Postmaster-Gen Hitchcock, Wno 10
generally regarded as the closest pon',
ical adviser OF the president, oechneu
to make any statement for puoiication
regarding the question. lie did not
deny having a conversation win nep
rosenfatiye Miller of Minnesota one oil
the insurgents. in the course oil wn,c"
he intimated to him what the au",n u.
istration's position was likely to oe. ne
was quito sure that whatever defer
mination might be reached BY the pres
ident respecting federal patronase
would affect not merely the postomcs
department, but all branches OF tno
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