The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-11-11
COterie Of Regulars Close 70 Nissc11I
Statesman Are Urging Ksepin
Of AL Power That Cannon
Has Had.
II Clark Listens To This AdvIss
There viii Be Bitter 0pposition
BY PrOgressives.
BY gibson GARDNER.


gram OF last year and consents to tnk
ing away from the speaker the powo<
OF appointing committees he undouh(-
eddy will be elected.
But there are reasons to beliov1
that the coterie OF standpat Demo
Gratis close to Clark, led by Under
wood Of Alabama and Fitzgerald GA
New York, are urging the keeping "a
all the power that Cannon has had
and using It for partisan advantaGe
IL Clark listens to this advice he with
md within his own party revolt
against, Ciarkism greater and m0f1
powerful than any Republican revolt
against Cannonism.
AT least "a progressive Democr1i&
from southern states will fight 70 thu
last to redeem the implied promises
OF the party to destroy the autocrokie
power of the speaker. Most OF thet&
men are strong friends OF Cham1
Clark and will vote for him, bnt only
on condition that he takes advances
progressive ground, that he favOrE the
election OF all committees by the
house and that he does not honor the
Fitzgerald faction OF Cannon Demo
Gratis who saved Uncle Joe at the 30
ginning of the present congress. Pro-
gressive Democrats from northern
and western states will swell tho
ranks of the progressive DemocrafA.
VIII Lead Insuruent Cause.
Hay of Virginia, Henry Of Texas.
and Sims Of Tennessee, will be lead
ers in this new Democratic '.insur-
gency." Hay absolutely opposes any
An.o vHr1Nf I'd
Reed rules in letter or spirit. He u
in sympathy with all that the n.
surgent Republicans OF the middle
west demand az to legislative ro-
forms. conservation and the tariff. He
may be candidate for speaker.
Henry OF Texas Ia q radical pro-
gressive whose political views accord
with those OF La Toilette and other
advanced progressive Republicans.
He may have an eye on the speakers
ship, and he certainly VIII insurke AZ
CLARK attempts to continue the Read
rules. Henry Is an out-and-out radl-
cal, known In Texas as the implac-
able political foe OF Joe Bailey.
Sims of Tennessee is a radical
Democrat whose record in WaShing
ton has been made on the District Of
Columbia committee, where he fought
the gas and street car companies and
other public service corporations. He
is pledged publicly and privately to
break the power Of the speakershir
or to break up his party.
Hay, Jones, Flood, Glass and Saun-
ders OF Virginia, Kitchin and Webb Of
North Carolina, W.. s.. Howard and
Hardwick Of Georgia, Taylor OF Ala
bama, Sisson of Mississippi, Floyd.
Cravens, Macon, Robinson and three
new members from Arkansas, ia OF
the Texas members, comprising the
entire delegation with two exceptions.
Sims. Gordon and Garrett of Tenneas
see, Thomas OF Kentucky and probably
Shackleford of Missouri. These men
are not opposed to Champ Clark. but
they are opposed to a continuation 81
the Reed rules under which Cannous
ism has been fostered and perfected.
Sheriey Wants To Be Speaker.
There will be a strong faction o.
standpat Democrats who will do their
utmost to continue the present 70
gime, but not all of these are for CLARK
for speaker. One of these. Sherloy
of Kentucky, has his eye on the speak
ership. The standpat Democrats VIII
meet determined opposition from their
brethren, who will insist upon the
redemption of campaign promises.
When the Democrats organize the
house the people of the country VIII
see q division which viii show tn4
difference between progressive and
standpat Democrats just as the last
sessions OF congress showed the DIFF
ference between progressive and
standpat Republicans, but there ara
many more progressive Democrats
than the insurgent Republicans ever
we're able to muster.
In the north and west many peo-
pie think the south Is entirely renc'
tionary. AS q matter Of fact, ever
progressive measure in the past few
years has received a majority OF 10
Affirmative votes from southern Demo
Gratis.
What is called insurgency" IN the
north captured the Democratic parry
in most OF the southern states In lsst
through the agency OF the farmeu
alliance. Texas. Arkansas, Okiahoma
Alabama and Georgia have corpor~
ton laws even farther advanced tnaA
those OF insurgent Wisconsin
Every southern state except en-
has direct primary laws including ~
ofBrara