The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1910-01-12
IGNORES STATEMENT
Tawney Says Manifesto Was Not
Issued by Committee.


Gay Night Insurgents viii Take op-
portunity to Say Some Sharp Things
About Chairman Mckinley and Sec
retary Loudenslager - Many Men,
bers Fear They Will Lose Their
Scalps Through Loyalty to Cannon.
Washington, Jan. 11.-There may be
the livelist Kind of row among the
regular Republicans of the house over
the statement given out at the head
quarters OF the Republican congress
sional committee and purporting to
come from the organization in which
notice was given that the insurgents
we're little better than Democrats and
that their recent activities placed
them outside the pale of the party.
1t became known today that the
statement which kicked up a lot of
excitement at the capital was not au.
thorized by the Republican congress
sional committee as represented but
was given out by Representative Nc
Kinley of Illinois and Henry Louden-
Slayer of New Jersey.
The first intlmation that the state
ment which has aroused the insurg-
ents was not authorized by the COM
mittee itself but by some of its Off
GERS came from Vice Chairman James
A. Tawney of Minnesota.
1.-THE statement that appeared in the
newspapers this morning purporting
to come from the Republican congress
sional committee never came under
my eye until | saw it in print" said
Mr.. Tawney. That is all Mr.. Tawney
would say on the subject
Caucus on Wednesday Night.
A caucus of the Republicans will be
held on Wednesday night to ratify
the selections of the various state
delegations of their nominees to the
Republican congressional committee.
The insurgents will take advantage
of the opportunity to say some sharp
things about Chairman Mckinley and
Secretary Loudenslager and the affair
may wind up in a fight.
Some effort doubtless will be made
by the insurgents to ascertain wheth-
er the sentiments expressed in the
document bearing the label of the Re-
publican congressional committee are
entertained by President Taft.
Some of the regulars declare that
the statement sets forth precisely
what is in the presidents mind and
foreshadows. they add, drastic action
by the administration to beat the in
surgents into line or drive them out
of the party.
If Speaker Cannon would only
make statement that he is satisfied
with the honors that have been heaped
upon him in his long career in public
life and would not be a candidate for
reelection to the speakership of the
Sixty-second congress it would please
a good many of his friends who are now
in imminent danger of losing their po-
litical scalDs by reason of their known
loyalty to him.
One of the biggest Republicans in
the house. man who is respected by
Republicans and Democrats alike for
his ability as member and his integ-
rity as a man, said that he had no
doubts his refusal to repudiate the
speaker would lose him the nomination
in his district next fall.
The situation in the house is getting
more acuate every minute, there
seems to be no doubt of it.
Representative Gardner (Mass),
who has been in a state of revolt ever
since the rules row in the house at
the beginning of the special tariff ses-
sion of congress and in which he took
an active part, smeared himself with
war paint again today and is now
whoopmg it up as lively as ever.
Mr.. Gardner said: 81 am not even
remotely opposed in personal way to
Mr.. Cannon but merely to the system
by which this house is run"
"Get Out Of the Party"
The insurgents held a meeting last
night at the home of one of them and
talked over the statement purporting
to have been issued by the Republican
congressional campaign committee
but which Vice Chairman Tawney
says he never saw and which Mr.. Taft
is now understood not to have graced
with his o. K. Several of them ex-
pressed the opinion, which all seemed
ed to share, that If as reported Chair
man Mckinley and Representative
Loudenslager had put out this get
cut of the party statement without
consulting their colleagues 1t would
do whole lot to irritate members
who are row wavering between love
and duty, between allegiance to the
Cannon cause through the memory OF
past favors and a desire to bolt the
reservation and save their political eX
istence and bring them into the in
s1rgent camp.