The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-01
REVOLT AMONG
INDIANA G. 0. p.
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stands sauarely on the iusurgent plat
form. Watson s friends are laughing
at the suggestion Of his backing down
| from the attitude he has taken since
the tariff bill became a law. They as
scrt that Chairman Lee Will not dare to
call him in and tell him that he can t
speak under the direction of the com.
mittco. If Chairman Leo goes TO that
limit, they predict that he Will cause
n breach within his party that cannot
be healed
If Watson is not permitted TO speak
under the direction of tho organization:
his close friends say that he will speak
Independently of if. His followers are
showing signs of bitterness over the re-
port that he IN TO be squelchcd unless
he becomes an iusurgcnt. On the other
hand, Senator Beveridgc's 9 Gcutenants
are saying that Watson s defense of
he tariff is being made for the pur-
pose of splitting the party so that Sen
ator Beveridge Will be defeated as II
candidate for reelection and the cause
Of the insurgents killed in Indiana.
In Watson's plan of campaign, the
insurgent element prctends TO see a
scheme of the Payne Aldrich contingent
at Washington to deal a deathblow to
the new movement. They believe that
battle-ground between the insurgents
and stalwarts because this has been re-
garded as a pivotal state in every ma
tlonal campaign in recent ycars. The
conclusion has been reached by the mon
at the head of the party organization
that nothing Is TO be gained by COM
promising with the known enemies OF
Senator Bcveridgc: hence the dctermin-
alton to have n straight.out insnrgcnt
Af....
deliver speeches in the Tenth district.
represented by Congressman Edgar
Dean CrumpackeT, a member of the
ways and means committee, but no
other district IN the state has lndorScd
the Payne Aldrich tariff.
Spirit Of Insurgency Rlfo.
The spirit OF insurgency is rife in the
other congressional districts, and the
indications now are that no stand. pat
tarif candidates viii be nominated by
the Republicans, Since the state con
Nontlon, movement has been launched
to defeat Congressman Barnard of the
Sixth district for denomination, because
he voted for the Payne Aldrich tariff
lie and Congressman Crumpacker are
the only Republican representatives
from Indiana. Word comes from Bar
nard bailiwick that he will not be
able TO handle his own convention.
Members OF the organization. which
IS lnsurgent, and controlled by Senator
Bcveridge and his friends, insist that
the atmosphere has cleared wonder
fully since the convention adopted a
platform in which the Payne-Aldrichl
tariff bull was snubbed. They assert
that Senator Beveridgo's keynote
speech, IN which he went after the
interests rough-shod and asserted that
he WpnI Ip y c.DnI
ules in the Payne Aldrich law. has
helped matters greatly for his party. !
On no other platform do they pretend
10 believe their party would have stood
ghost Of Il show this year
On the other hand there are reports
OF dlsquetlng nature from the farm
ing districts to the effect that the TIN |
ers of the soil are in favor of the |
Payne, Aidrlch tariff because Of the alb |
normally n hlgh prices now being received
for their products, Stories are being
told Of farmer delegates who Quilted |
The convention hall in'high dudgeon
after hearing Senator Reveridpe WALTON ;
the Payne e-Aldrich tariff.
The staunch advocates OF the latter /
measure, such as Watson and former |
Senator james A. Hemenway, assert .
that the farmers, who have saved the !
party from many defeats. are not In
9. hP'thl WIN lHc lnSuTRGnC movement /
Many manufacturers arc showing their
dlsapproval of the stand taken by Sen
ator Bevcridge, and it is declared that
theY intend TO refuse to contribute. rs
usual, TO the campaign fund, Senator
BeNeridge. however. has warned the
party that it will be without funds.
while 1t is probable that their enemies
will have 'coin to burn
What Old Timers Saw,
Old-time politicians say that The sit.
nation presents so many new and odd 4.
angles That no one can predict with Il
certainty what is going TO happen at 4
the polls, The result two wears auo /,
shows that the two parties are so nearly Il
equal IN strength that small percent. /.
age OF either could defeat it's ticket 1
by failing to 90 TO the polls or bv II
voting with the opposition What is
feared most by tho insurgents is that
the stalwarts among the farmers and
will not 90 TO the polls.
The insurgents arc confident that the
,tand-pat clement Will not vote with tbc
Democrats on ''tariff for reycnuc
only platform, vet if the former arc
indifferent and refuse TO vote, there
may be such slump in the Rcpub
ican lineup that the ticket will he
defeated. 1t is being conceded now
hat the adoption of the insurgent plat.
Iorm means that there must be n can-
paIgn of education in Indiana similar
10 the one IN 1896, when the money
question was paramount.
Members of the state organization
arc showing no grave concern over
President Taft's attitude. They have