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to submit to domination by such a COM
bination. Any such surrender. he
warned them, meant the failure of the
Taft policies and the downfall of con-
servative control, not only in congress
but in the republican party generally.
Some one reminded Aldrich that SEN
ators then gathered together were not
in agreement on all points He re-
piled that they must get together
otherwise, he said, congress- would ad-
journ without accomplishing a single
item of the Taft program
The entire tone of this conference
was belligerent toward the insurgents
This was the dominant note: Let us
get together and stand as a unit
against every insurgent proposition. If
the insurgents propose anything good
we'll take it over bodily and put it
through as our own; if they propose
anything bad we'll stamp it out
It was stated that Taft had been
kept fully advised of the situation and
was entirely in sympathy with the plan
and virtually pledged to 1t. It was
said in behalf of the conference that
while the measures resorted to were
heroic they were necessary in defense
of the administration and the integrity
of the republican party and as means
TO any effective legislation whatever.
ALDRICH LEADS MOVEMENT
To Senator Alrich was given the
leadership of the new movement
Aldrich left late today for Rhode
Island, and will not return before Tues
time" Every hour brings additional
evidence of the widening breach be-
tween the regulars and the insurgents
in both houses. Conservative repub-
lican leaders, with hardly an exception,
confess that in neither house is there a
tonight, the prospect from the repub-
lican point of view is anything but
aluring. The inability of the two fac
tions of the republican party to get to-
gether is the immediate cause of dan
ger to the legislative program Each
side blames the other. The striking
thing about the whole situation is the
evidently sincere conviction by each
party that it is, itself, loyal to repub-
licanism and wholly in the right, and
the other is either willfully recreant or
fanatically self-deceived, and is, more
or less consciously, a band of public
enemies.
DEMOCRATS PLEASED
Meanwhile the democrats in both
houses are looking on with "go it
husband, go it bear expression.
They say that whichever loses we
win," or as Senator abbey put it the
other day on the floor, ~The only policy
we have in this affair is to keep both of
you fellows irritated."
Majority Leader Serene E. Payne of
New York sounded the only optimistic
note that could be heard in a canvass
of the house. 81 haven't seen or heard
anything on the house side which indi-
Gates a great split in the party" said
Payne. Have you?" he inquired, with
a broad smile II think those fellows
in the senate are unduly alarmed"
On the other hand Representative
Vreeland of New York, one of the ultra
conservatives, said:
This insurgency is not becoming
serious. 1t is already serious"
Representative Needham, a conserv-
atiYe from California, said: 'Tnsurg-
ency in it's national aspect is rapidly
becoming anti-Taft and nti-protection.
When this fact becomes generally
known there will be a change in the
sentiment Of the country regarding it,
Practically all the insurgents in the
house attributed the split in the party
to alleged intolerance of such leaders
as Cannon and Aldrich.