The Carlisle independent., 1910-04-14
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l neFs silence. MT. Roosevelt was met by number of men who had with them the insurgents tale to tell, while there were present only one or two at the meeting with the colonel to enlighten him as to the administra- tion's side of legislative progress in the United States Of course, Mir. Roosevelt found letter from Senator Root at the Khartum postotfice, and this probably gave him the most elab- crate account of American doings from the administration point of view.
 Some Conflicting Sentiments.
 A good many members of the in- surgent faction in the lower house of congress are members of what has l been called the Back from Elba club" although it is hardly necessary to say that this club has really no actual existence as an organization.
 One of the curious things that have come out of the Roosevelt silence is the recent outspeaking of some of the Dem ocrats who for reasons of their own seem to want to impress it upon the Republicans that MT. Roosevelt is the only man with whom the latter can hope to win the election in 1912. It is entirely probable that. inasmuch as this is advice from their friend the enemy" the Republicans will be lit tie shy of accepting 1t at its face value
 In a speech delivered in the house recently Representative Palmer of Pennsylvania spoke of Theodore Roosevelt as the first insurgent of them all" This was intended by the Democratic member to let the insur- gents understand that he and presu- mably others of his party believed that MT. Roosevelt was the chief apostle of the movement which had resulted in the taking away of some of the power from Speaker Cannon, and in other 1 movements in which the insurgents are or were engaged.
 Suspicious of the Democrats.
 A Democratic member of the house committee on agriculture recently told i a group of Republicans that if Mir Roosevelt should run again for the presidency he could carry Georgia and North Carolina and would come pretty close to carrying South Caro- lima.
 Other Democrats have been telling the Republicans in cloakroom and in corridor, and occasionally on the floor of the house, that the majority party's in Th hnir fo cess can be placed is Theodore Roose- l welt. In fact. the Republicans have had this dinned into their ears by the Democrats so long that even those who were inclined at the first to believe that their Democratic advisers were telling the truth are now asking them selves what motive the Democrats have in view.
 If the Democrats Control?
 Republicans in congress are spec ulating good while in advance, It Is true, as to what the Dem ocrats will do if they secure control of the lower house in the Sixty-second congress. The Democrats themselves are consulting privately as to what will be best for them to do if they come into a partial possession of the legislative fat of the land.
 There is practically no chance that the senate of the United States can become Democratic before the year 1913, when new administration also will take hold of the reins of power. Therefore If the present minority party should become the majority in the house in 1911 1t could not hope to secure the passage of much legis- lation that would receive the sanction of the senate and the president.
 Some of the Democrats say that the best thing that their party can do if it succeeds in getting control of the house is to start straight at the work of formulating and passing an out-and- out downward revision tariff measure, then to send it over to the senate to be killed. The militant Democrats say enthusiastically that this is the only way to impress on the country that they they are true to their old standards and that they believe the way to decrease the price of living is to attack high prices through the high tariff. Some of the prominent minor. ity members believe that if on com ing into power in the house the Demo crats pass a tariff bill that the coun. try, seeing that they have the courage of their convictions, and having come to the belief tEat the tariff is too high, will see to it that a Democratic senate is returned and that Demo. cratic president is elected to succeed William H. Taft
 Ideas of the Leaders.
 There are other Democrats, how. ever, who contend that if tariff bill is introduced into the house in the day of party success. that of course it cannot become the law of the land because of Republican senate, and that 1t will be something worse than wasted effort.
 Moreover. there are some of the leading Democrats who say 1t was 1 shown during the Payne-Aldrich bill l discussed that many of the minority l party members were mt in full sym.