The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-01-15
The NATIONS CAPITAL
Fight Between Progressives
and Standpatters
Causes Much Annoyance to
President Taft.
LaFollette Sits and Votes
4 With Democrats.
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Especial to the Irish Standard.)
Washington, Jan. 12.-Warned by his
friends that the real insurgents of the
House and the real progressives of the
Senate will oppose his nomination for
second term in the White House,
President Taft has determined to rid
the republican party of all "undesir
ables" without further ado and thus
avoid interference later on.
Z The action of the President in reach
ing a final decision as to progressives
and insurgents is thought to be direct
~ due to information supplied by Sen
ator Aldrich, Speaker Cannon and 9TH
-er reactionary leaders, with whom the
president is cooperating and in whom
he has the greatest confidence. The
import of their advice was to the eff
feet that the progressives and insur-
gents are involved in what practically
amounts to a conspiracy to interfere
with Mr. Taft's ambition to succeed
himself as president. this being the
fourth plot against the chief executive
that has been uncovered by the reac-
tionary sleuths since March last.
After having given the matter much
careful consideration. the President has
come to the conclusion that the views
of his friends are we'll founded, and he
has decided to act without further
waste of time
"All those insurgents who remained
on the warpath after the passage of the
tariff bill must be driven out of public
life" is the command that has been
issued from stand-pat headquarters
They are preaching Democratic doc
trine abroad in the land and are there
fore Democrats. Annihilate them to
the last man.
The insurgents and progressives are
practically at the mercy of their foes
now. While in Washington they are
in the enemy's country. They are do
ing little more than to lie close to
their guns, all communication between
them and the White House having been
severed. In the war of politics. the
public's money is the ammunition
which counts, and of this the stand
patters are in complete possession.
The insurgents have not given up
hope, however. They believe that
whatever reverses they sustain now,
they will more than make up for in
the skirmishes that are to take place
in the Congressional elections this fall,
particularly in the West, which the in
surgents regard as friendly territory.
Washington, Jan. 14.-Back of the
action of President Taft in openly de-
claring war on the insurgents, stalka
the ghost of Theodore Roosevelt.
i Mr. Taft wants a second term in the
White House, which is perfectly nat
ural and highly laudable ambition, and
IS here <<ronicled merely because 1t
yis the fact. Wanting the job himself
ut is also natural and human that Mr..
Taft does not wish anyone else to heat
him out of it-and that he is going to
take every possible precaution in an
endeavor to prevent anyone from doing
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., The one man who stands a better
chance than any other one man of in
terferring with the Presidents ambi-
tion to secure denomination at the
hands of the next republican national
convention, is. MIR. Roosevelt. The whole
country realizes this. so of course Mr..
Taft and his advisers know it, too.
a Foreseeing that it must ~ Taft or
Roosevelt, Mr. Taft and his friends
are doing what any other politicians
would do under the same circum-
stances, if they were wise politicians.
Mr.. Taft, with able assistance, ia using
the federal patronage to build M a
machine which, it is hoped, will make
IT possible to pack the next republican
national convention in, favor of Taft
and against Roosevelt.
y The recital of this fact is not in.
tended to carry any criticism of Mr.
Taft, or of anyone. 1t is all in the
game OF politics as it is played in the
United States, and Mr.. Roosevelt
would do the same thing under the
same circumstances. mr. Taft's activ-
ity Is here described simply because it
lls the fact, and an interesting thing
TO know.
$F
The man whom Mr.. Taft depends up.
On to pack the next republican national
convention against Roosevelt is Post
master General Frank Hitchcock, who
has q natural talent for such work.
sEhis is the test Mr.. Hitchcock applies