The Washington herald., 1910-10-13
g. D. 2. Campaign Managers
in Michigan Shy.
STANDPATTERS IN CONTROL
Personnel of Party Management
New ThrOughout-DOIIIy @WiId
Western" Speeches Not Wanted.
Ditto Cummins and La Toilette.
New YOrk's stand Approved.


I
on the Republican ticket. TO find out in a
very few minutes that insurgency or pro-
gresHvism has no place in that party in
this State
| The day when the newspapers were car
rying the attack upon Roosevelts stand
pat" platform in New York made by the
newspaper in Des MONIES controlled by
Senator Cummins. l sat talking with
members of the Republican State com
mittee
"NatlOnaIlsnl" Not Wanted.
THAT was great work at Saratoga,
said the chief. 1T will help US a lot
here IN Michigan We don't want any or
4 that stun La Toilette put into the Wis
consin platform Our voters stand for the
Taft administration and all il means We
don't want any talk about revising the
/ tariff downward. nor any populism Ike
| the Roosevelt Osawatomie speech. Wed
/ like 10 have the colonel speak in our cam
paign U he would talk 10 that New York
/ platform but no new natiOnalism' for us
/ Michigan Is an cid line Republican Itate
/ The party is in an Overwhelming majority
here. We haven't had a Democratic Rep
Iresentative in the last four Congresses,
nor Democratic United States Senator
IN the memory Of the present generation.
alone"
What" I asked. about the defeat OF
Burrows for denomination. and that OF
! Representative Gardner"
Fight on Burrows.
We'll. you've read OF late months a
good deal about the veterans OF long and
! distinguished service who proved unable
to come back The people who run the
Republican party IN the State had been
cunning for Burrows a long time. He
had served long in public life, and every
/ year made a few more enemies. His old
machine had been allowed 10 disinte-
CRATE. many Of the rich men who had
/ helped 10 finance his campaigns had lost
interest and dropped out. But It was not
an insurgent fight or a standpat fight.
II was purely a personal fight on Bur-
rows. The man who beat him was
thorough standpatter in the House. and
only tinctured his speeches during the
campaign with the very mildest susges-
ton Of insurgency. Townsend never at
tackled Aldrich. or the tariff bill. or the
general character OF the TAFT admins
tration. The fight was one between men.
not between principles. and the Repubh-
can voters wanted new blood.
Gardner ofends Temperance Folk.
"As for Washington Gardner, that.
too, was a defeat caused by personal
aferFf for tfc
unfailing adherence to the regular wing
at Washington. Post-ofices had more TO
do with il than principles. His opponent
in the primaries J. NJ. c. Smith, is
bright young fellow a ready mixer and
talker. and had the advantage Of getting
his wires laid while Gardner was kept
tied down 10 the Congressionalsservi In
Washington. There is story. too, that
Gardner resented somewhat brusqueiy
the presentation OF a dry petition 10 him
as he was leaving church with his family
one Sunday Everybody knows that by
personal habit ard moral conviction he
is on that side. But he thought the time
and the manner Of presenting the petition
were nl-chosen and offensive. Perhaps
he had case of nerves. Anyhow he re-
fused 10 sign in such manner as 10 give
offense TO a number OF people who had
all been his friends and supporters. It
was the personal argument altogether
that caused his defeat"
"WiId western" Speeches.
You will find this sort OF sentiment all
through Michigan among public men.
There is not enough progressivism in the
Republican organization here TO merit
notice True, the manager of the Repub-
lican speakers bureau did tell me that
Dolliver was popular as a speaker. and
they'd like 10 bring him into the State If
he wouldn't make any OF his wild West
ern insurgent speeches" But the prefer
ence was apparently for a safe man like
Charley Lands. Of Indiana. or Burton.
Of Ohio
In brief, lumber. copper, iron ore. wool.
salt, and sugar beets still hold their old
place in the hearts Of the Republican
managers Of the Wolverine State. and the
party faction that does best in a tariff
way with these products is still safe.
Organization Personnel New.
To the progressive Republican or to
the Democrat who sympathizes with
that element in the dominant party, this
situation is more discouraging because
Of the fact that the present personnel Of
the managers OF the Republican party is
entirely new. With the change the op-
portunity was afforded to put Michigan
into progressive ranks-if not as far
along as Wisconsin, at least shoulder to
shoulder with Minnesota or Iowa. But
while new in names il clings TO the old
ideals The long procession Of scandals
attending the three terms of Office of
Governor Warner-scandals ranging from
incompetent management of public in
stitutions to graft and even brazen en-
observation-disclosures the party 10 purge
itself Of the odd guard But while this
has been done and new list of captains
appears on the headquarters letterheads,
the "Old guard" principles seem to be
cherished Prudently they do not intend
to let Governor Warner speak, neither
would they let Cummins nor LaFOllette
nor even Roosevelt unless under pledges
as to subject and treatment that none of
these three gentlemen would ever agree
10.
To several party leaders I showed the
Wisconsin platform. asking If they did
not think the time ripe to join the for
ward movement in the nation. The
responses ranged from ridicule 10 pro-
family The organization Republicanism
of Michigan to-day is as far from that If
Wisconsin or Kansas as Tammany Is
from the Prohibition party.
Mr. Roosevelt has weakened himself
somewhat in the middle west by agree
ing TO an earnest Endorsement of the
Taft administration But in Michigan he
strengthened himself All of which shows
that this is a big country, and perhaps