The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-23
President Will Try to ReOr-
 ganize His Party
NOW IS TIME FOR ACTION
to Drop Ballinger, But It Is Not Certain That This Will Have
 the Desired Effect

Washington. November 22.-(speeial.)- President Taft Is to get a good straight Ifrom-the-shoulder talk after his Thanks giving dinner From Friday on there will of number of his friends who want him
 to try to display some initiative in an at | tempt to reorganize the republican party. The Presidents friends are fully aware l that, the President Is devoting much more thought to his Thanksgiving dinner thar he is to the entire republican party. Ii all looks as If It were hopeless task but they arc going to make an effort tc have him look at things seriously. Some of the Presidents friends have | been privately chafing at the absence oi the President and do not hesitate to say
 that there was no really imperative de-
 mand for the Presidential presence at
 Panama and that MT. Taft could have
 helped the party situation great deal by
 staying in Washington, where he could be reached. By doing so and cutting out the Panama trip, it is held, the interests of the country would have in no way suf- | fered. Now that he is back again in the | United States, republicans of all shades
 and opinions who are in Washington are appearing to present their views to the | President and urge action upon him. It | is recognized generally that all trace of l harmony between MT. Taft and Colonel | Roosevelt has disappeared and that their political paths from now on will be sep arate and distinct.
 Taft's Future Mapped Out Recognizing this fact, friends of the ad-
 ministration are eager to have the Pres | ident strike boldly out for himself in ar effort to carve his way to public esteem and confidence. In other words, his l friends are preparing to urge MT. Taft tc play White House politics in a big, broac way, regardless Of Roosevelt and wha1 Roosevelt does. He Is to be urged tC
 make his forthcoming message to Con gress so distinctly progressive that 1t will compel the support of the insurgent re- publican senators, who through the last session and since have been distinctly hostile to him and his administration, or convict them of inconsistency.
 It is urged that MT. Taft can do this in way that will have none of the ab- Jectness that characterized this blunder- ing announcement some months ago that hereafter no attempt to punish insurgent senators and representatives by with holding from them the patronage o which they are entitled For one thing some advice will be given MT. Taft con- corning the Ballinger problem which will again become acute soon after Congress convenes next month, by reason of the presentation of the two reports of the Ballinger- Pinchot Investigating commit- tee one of which will smear over the Secretary of the Interior the expected coat of whitewash and the other of which will daub him with denunciation as an unfit and unworthy public servant, recommending his dismissal from . the ca binet.
 The President has heretofore proved immovable on the Ballinger question and has needed not the appeals of his friends to divest his administration of the dead weight of Ballingerism. That he can be shaken in his attitude now Is doubted by those closest to him, but the effort will be made none the less and he will be asked whether he can afford to retain in his cabinet a man toward whose re- tention the sentiment of the country Is plainly opposed
 Changes in the House
 The clerk of the House of Representa- tives today Issued an official list of the IL members, the republicans 163, socialists 1.
 An analysis of the personnel of the next House affords some interesting fig ures Of the 390 members of the next House, excluding the one socialist vote, 266 of the membership will be composed of men who are serving in the present House or served in some previous Con- gress When the new House is con vened 125 men will take the oath. none of whom has heretofore served in the House About one-third of the member ship of the house will therefore be com posed of new men. About the same ra- tio is maintained between the two parties. Of the 227 democrats 145 will be veterans, while S2 are new men. Of the 163 repubi- cans 121 have served at least one term, while 43 take the congressional oath for the first time.
 Regardless of the landslide it Is claimed by clerks at the capitol that new House usually brings in about one-third new members. In some mys- terious way where the election fails to be landslide and the House Is close the work has been done in the nominating conventions or primaries with the fortunate legislative result that where there is one new member there are two experienced members.
 Kansas Solid Republican
 According to the figures furnished Kansas Is the only state of any size which has a solid republican delega- ton. A number, however contain only one democrat, among these thus included being Iowa, Minnesota, Cali fornia and Wisconsin
 All of the southern states have solid democratic delegations except Mary land, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennes- see. Maryland and Virginia each have one republican, while Tennessee and Kentucky each have two members of that party. Colorado is the only north : ern state represented entirely by dem- ocrats, but Indiana, possessing much larger representation, presses close upon her heels with 12 democrats out of IS members.
 Illinois has II democrats in her mem bership of 30; Massachusetts 1 out of IA: Michigan 2 out of 12; New Jer- sey out of 10; New York 2S out of 37; Ohio 16 out of 21, and Pennsyl- vania 9 out of 32. Missouri's delega- : tion consists of 13 democrats and 8 republicans.
 The Nebraska delegation Is evenly divided. three and three, as is Maines s two and two: Oklahoma has two re- publicans and three democrats; Wash ington is represented by three repub- f1. rtre< "a