The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-24
for the Country.
Especial from United Press.)

tSpSCla1 ITOIu Ou1lSo T ICSS.y-~
 Washington, May 2+With "Roose- welt and insurgency for battle cry
 during the campaign for reelection
 .rext fall. the House Progressives are today planning to sweep Theodore
 Roosevelt into the midst of the turbu- lent situation which confronts them.
 The insurgents base their assurances
 on Roosevelt's active support in the
 light against "Cannonism The slt. .uatiou revives an unpublished report made to the insurgent organization ln caucus in March. 1909. by the insurgent committee. Representatives Nelson.
 chairman, Madison Republican! Kan
 sas) and Gardner Republican. Mass
 Eharsed with the mission of obtaining khe endorsement of Roosevelt for the hnsurgent policies in those strenuous Eclosing days of the strenuous adminls- Hration The following statements, Incorporated in that report and known
 for over 8 year to every House 1nsur- fgent, are here made public for the
 first time. In March. 1909, Theodore Roosevelt proposed to give Represen- Native Nelson. chairman of the insur- fgent executive committee, a letter en- [dorsing the fight on Cannon and the IHouse rules. He expressed himself as Thoroughly in sympathy with the pro- greSsfve movement, particularly in
 Fhe fight against Cannon as he said:
 Cannon has been the greatest ob- HEtacle in the way of my efforts to se- fcure good legislation for the people of kthe country. throughout the seven wears of my administration"
 On March 4, after spending the ev- .lening of March with President-elect ETaft, he begged to be excused from writing the letter. As a ground for
 from conversations with Taft he was afraid such a course would embarrass his successor.
 One of the last acts of Roosevelt's administration as he stood in the Pres eddent's room in the Senate wing of sthe capitol, was to take Representa- ] tives Gardner and Nelson by the hand. lead them over to Taft and plead with the President-elect to take up the in surgent cause.
 The story of the endorsement that
 was given was outlined to the inSur- gent caucus by the executive commit k~fee as follows:
 Representatives Nelson, Gardner and Madison of the executive committee fof the progressive caucus were present tvelt's endorsement of the insurgent at- ktack on Cannon and the rules. project Led by the progressives to be made dur ling the special tariff session that con- {vened March 15, 1909. They had ar kranged an appointment with President NfoOOSeF6lC LOT the d1ISrIOOn OI TCIl tS- The eleventh hour of the Roosevelt Hdmin istration was at hand and Roose- Welt was moving out of the White tHouSe- The executive offices were in kconfusion. Clerks were hustling in and out of the Presidents office and Roosevelt led the insurgent commit t tee into the old cabinet room. He kdragged chair from the cabinet table lover into a corner and the conference Twas on
 | Nelson, as chairman of the commit ttee, outlined to the President the plan of attack on Cannon and the rules, 1.-the object and chances of success for Ithe entire insurgent program. and ask Ted Roosevelt to endorse officially the movement Roosevelt raised himself lin his chair. drew one leg up beneath fhfm. in his fayorite deliberative atti- Fhead and said:
 Now. boys. let me think out loud" Then for thirty minutes he proceeded ito outline his position in the impending Legislative struggle. He pointed out Ito himself and the insurgents that tCannon and some of his followers in Ethe House had opposed measure after measure that he had advanced and ad- fvocated He said, in the beginning, ftbat personally he was in sympathy with the insurgents and with what they were trying to do. He paused kfcr a moment. Then he continued kSaying that he was now getting out of the limelight. that another man would take the reins and that new sPresident might not like to have them Etaken out of his hands. Roosevelt tdeclared that it seemed to him that he Ewould be encroaching on the preroga- Etives of his successor if he publicly endorsed the insurgent' movement Lthat he had been dealing with these