Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-12
Congressional Campaign
As Good as Begun.
President, Speaker and Sec.
rotary Of State Plan Trip
Even This Early There Is Tremen
dous Call for Republican Orators.

cial.) 1t looks at Washington as
though the Congressional campaign
was as good as begun. Already there
are fireworks and the booming of
heavy guns. The generals are direct
ing "Reminiscences in force. Skirm-
ishinS of a vigorous order is in
progress. And all this when it is yet
six months-With the exception OF
Maine and Nermont-When there will
be bdllotting throughout the country.
| Little wonder that such d feveriSh
political town as Washington is UNI
able to keep it's mind upon legislation
and administration, when the country
is already firing up with politics. The
big Republicans find some difficulty in
sticking to their places here. They
all want to be afield. engaged in the
really serious business of furthering
the campaign.
I While the President is travelling
much as the first official willing to go
to the people in his official capacity
because of the physical impossibilty
of the people going to Washington, he
is none the less interested in the
political observations. which his trip
will afford him the opportunity to
|
the tariff and speaking for the legis-
lation he wants Congress to pass
The Southwest. according to reports
to Washington. is not as fcrvent for
| Democratic doctrine as some chroni-
cles may have led the people to think
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
| NaGcl. who is a MiSsourian, so re-
ports. Vice President Sherman. who
h.lc cot,
into that section, where he made a
tariff speech, brought back similar
| word.
Ana as the President goes carrying
orthodox doctrine into the Southwest
Speaker Cannon has gone carrying
orthodox doctrine into New England
The Speaker journey into that section.
| loaded for bear. He went ready to
Delay the insurgents. just as the
| President and Secretary OF State Knox
went into the West and Southwest to
Delay the people who prefer the name
| Republican," when modified by some
adjective. like progressive Republic
can. for example. There will speed
lily be more journeys like those of the
| President and the Speaker and the
Secretary of State for the regular Re
publicans are preparing to swarm out
of Washington and sound the alarm in
d campaign of education. They have
their fighting clothes on and propose
to give it to the enemy good and
plenty during the six months enter
val.
Indiana. with penchant for holding
the center of the stage, is hot with
politics, 1t is claimed that eX-Pres
dent Theodore Roosevelt is going
there t." speak for the reelection Of
Senator Albert J. Bcveridge and right
on the heels of that announcement
comes the assertion that William j.
Bryan. hegorra, will himself take a
Whirl through HosSierdOm making a
few of those easy speeches in behalf
of John w, Kern, whom the Demo-
Gratis in convention assembled have
designated as their candidate for
| United States Senator.
Well, we'll such things stir the
spring pulses of official Washington
and start folks to wondering how far
the c"nilasration will spread. IF
they get T. r. into the fight" said a
| wise politician and friends here the
other day, and he gets mad. Just look
out He will Jump right out and
take the stump in every state from
| Maine to California; wherever there is
a campaign worth mentioning and he
will carry the people with him-thc
people and tn" VOTERS
| The representations that Roosevelt
| would support Taft are borne ont bv
authoritative word coming to Wash
ington of late and that makes the adj
ministration and regular Republicans
generally feel more percy. The ex-
| President always was a regular Re
publican when it came around to cam
paign time and it turns out that there
is to be no exception with him this
year. The Western Insurgents who
have been making a fuss all winter
long in Senate and House, have t"
take notice of this turn of events be-
cause they have been banking upon
the eX-President giving them aid and
comfort This leaves them a little
up in the air and it looks as though
| they would need II short time to get
themselves adjusted to the new condi
tons Meanwhile the administration
authorities are pounding away al
these opponents within the party in
the hope of obtaining fun submission
before the forward word comes t
) move upon the common political en-
emy-the Democracy.
Whether there are Fundamental diff
ferences between insurgents and Re
publicans which cannot be brdged
over during the campaign is yet to be
demonstrated. The insurgents keep
claiming that the two factions are
wide apart but the regulars say the
chasln is not SO broad or so deep as il
has been painted. They think il
largely "A question of fighting tempera
ment and if they can give the insur-
) gents "A few more wallopings-all ir
, the family of course-they reason
, that old time discipline. for which the
Republican party has become famous
will be restored and that the party