Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-08
NOT AT ADMINISTRATIONS Ac-
TIoN. BUT AT FRANkNEss OF
DECLARATION.
INSURGENCY GROWING IN WEST,
CAUSE HELPED BY EDlcT
Serious Split Seen in Republican Party
and Some of Tafts Pet Measures Are
Threatened With Defeat-Hitchcock'
Patronage Department Declares Open
War.
Especial Correspondence

Washington, Jan. S.-Representative
Clarence Miller of Minnesota stirred up
a fine political muss with his an
nouncement that he had been denied
recognition as republican, in pa
tronage matters, because he was re-
garded as an insurgent.
The people who were least surprised
were the insurgents. Tho they had
not been saying much about it, they
had realized for months that they were
more or less non grata with the pie
passing authorities. There is hardly
one among the group who voted against
Cannon for speaker, against the re-
adoption of the rules. or against the
tariff bill, who has not had good reason
to suspect that his recommendations
were very much discounted at the
postoffice department. Until the ex-
plosion which Representative Miller set
off, however, there had been no open
hostility between the postoffice depart
ment and the insurgent members. Both
sides were feeling their way along; the
department was putting off insurgents
with various excuses, and the insur-
gents, tho fully convinced that their in
surgency was the real reason for their
bad standing, were maintaining rela-
tions, dropping in to see the depart
ment people, pressing their cases, and
generally going thru the motions just
as if they expected to win all they
asked
1t was a highly difficult and en-
barrassing situation for the insurgent
republicans. Many of them were under
strong pressure from home to get APP
pointmentS. No congress member likes
to confess that he hasn't enough in
huence TO fix his postoffice matters.
The politicians back home promptly
set down such confession as the evil
dence of utter failure in Washington.
So the two sides were playing along.
each waiting for the other to commit
some overt act.
Insurgents Are Stunned, But Helped.
| The insurgents We're rather stunned
at first with the announcement, and it's
prompt confirmation on what seemed
the best authority, that the admins
tration was going to repudiate them.
But they soon got their breath back
and insisted that their surprise was not
because of the seriousness of the posi-
ton in which the administrations I'M
friendliness placed them, but because
they had never dreamed the admins
tration would frankly take such a posi-
ton in public way.
Not to be able to control our home
patronage was serious thing to u.s.
said an insurgent leader But to nave
our patronage frankly taken away from
US because we are insurgents-why
that's another thing. l don't think
there is one man in the insurgent force
in house or senate, who will not be
stronger at home when his people know
that he is being punished because he
opposed Cannon, or the rudes, or the
tariff bill. or all three of them. 1t will
be evidence to the country that the
insurgents have been getting action
and making themselves felt.
The one difficulty that has beer
confronting insurgents this session i:
the problem of demonstrating to oul
constituents that we have been accom-.
plishing something. The people a
!. home don't know how nearly impossi'
BILE it is for us to get any effective re.
SUITS. Ihey want results eslueHSe Lila
we are still fighting.
"The postmaster generals attitude
as now developed. has given all thu
demonstration any insurgents distric
will require. We are being punished
, land you watch us come back after thu
. next election. 1t certainly fixes me TO
denomination"
In the same group was another in
surgent Il think" he said, that
will injure me somewhat. The politi
clans. the people who want the jobs
will be disguised with a representativ
who can't control his home patronage
, My district is close, and they will b
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