The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-29
William Allen White Says Pro
gressiyes Will Hold Bal
anCe of Power.
FAMOUS KANSAN TALKS
FREELY ON SITUATION
Looks to See Regulars Lose
Ground in the Next
Election.
BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.

BY Leased Wire to The Tribune,
NEW YORK. May 2s.-Willam Allen
White OF Emporia. Kan, Is in New York
on one of his occasional visits. The cause
Of the trip-and II takes a good one to
pull the insurgent away from Red Rocks
his comfortable home on Exchange street
the only asphalt boulevard in EmporIa-
Is TO give an address to Phi Beta Kappa
which he will deliver at Columbia uni
versity next Tuesday
Fresh from the center OF things politi-
cal, he has arrived at a few conclusions
as to the complexion of the next con-
gress.
The insurgent senators will hold the
balance OF power In the United States
senate next fall. said Mr.. White as he
cast ti, the political horoscope. lin spite
OF anything that can happen. For a
larger percentage OF insurgent senators
hold over next year In proportion to their
numbers than hold over either in the
lars.
Analyses Situation.
There are speaking broadly. seven in
surgent senators who, since the passing
OF the tariff bill. have voted consistently
as insurgents on every roll call. They
are Beveridge, Bristow, Borah. Clapp.
Dolliyer, Cummins and LaFollette. There
are five more who have voted with the
insurgents on n half a dozen Of their
projects in the present congress. They
are Nelson. Bourne, Dixon Brown and
Burkett. or the regular insurgents but
three come up for reelection this year
Beveridge. LaFollette and Clapp II is
impossible to lose more than one of the
three.
"On the other hand the insurgent SEN
ators expect TO gain two In North Da-
kota. one in Washington, where they will
help Miles PoindeNter. n representative
who Is a candidate for the senate. and
with loss OF one Of the seven they will
come back with nine regular insurgent
votes. Brown Dixon and Nelson will hold
over. giving the insurgents twelve rea-
sonably certain votes.
In place OF Hale. a progressive Re-
publican is expected and a progressive
Republican is more than likely to be re-
turned from California.
Assuming that the insurgent Republi-
cans arc equal 10 the regulars in the New
England states and West Virginia and
Pennsylvania, the Democratic gains in
Ohio, Missouri. Nebraska and one of three
middle western states, each Of which Is
TO elect n senator, VIII reduce the reg
uIar Republican vote and increase the
Democratic vote to point where the in
surgents with nine sure votes and four
or FIVE votes which are with them most
of the time, making an average vote of a
dozen, will hold the balance of power In
the senate"
Party Lines Erased.
AN alliance of the regular Republi-
cans and the mossback Democrats can
not beat them. 1t is not unlikely that
Republicans of the Penrose. Gallnger.
Brandegee type. with Democrats like
Bailey of Texas, McEnery and Hughes.
And IL. as is very likely. we have Demo-
cratic house OF representatives In the
next congress, party lines, so far as rec
ord votes are concerned. will be hopeless
ly obliterated.
The progressive men OF both parties
will vote together and the conservative
men OF both parties will vote together.
In a measure they are doing so now.
Would you say party lines are being
lost In congress-
Party lines are being confused in
congress. The majority in congress right
now Is not Republican. The majority in
between the progressive Republicans and
progressive Democrats. and in the senate
today the majority is not defined.
Some Of the time the conservative
Republicans and the conservative Demo-
Gratis win under Aldrich and McEnery.
and some of the time the progressive
Gratis win under Brlstow and Bacon.
There is no party control in either
branch OF congress today The lower
house is progressive and the upper house
is In doubt Al the next congress both
are likely to be progressive"
do you think the control OF the par
ties In the government is PASSING"
Change in Parties.
mo, but a great change is going on
within the parties. Conditions are analo-
gous to those of the hfties. We are
coming TO a new national definition and
view Of the rights Of property. That is
what all the commotion is about, That
Is why both parties are split. That Is
why that questions before congress divide
men, not only on party lines. but upon
views of the essential rights Of property
come into contravention with the rights
of men or the community"
do you think there Will be q new
party?'
'It is not necessary IL the insurgents
gain control OF the Republican party
At present the organization and leader
ship in congress are In the hands OF an
old olgarchy. The fight within the Re-
publican party to control IT is a fight
for n new lease of life.
But either tho insurgents will have
to control their party or get out Of it,