The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-06-01
INSURGENTS HAVE EX-PRESl.
DENT WITH THEM IN FIGHT ON
CANNON AND HIS RULES.
THEIR CHOICE FOR NOMINATION
And a Well Defined Rumor Is Afloat
That the Strenuous, Bie-Stick
Wielder is Willins-Aldrch and
Cannon in Panic.

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Nelson -Madison-Gardner report to the
Roosevelt insurgents that was made
public this week for the first time
show clearly that the insurgents in
fighting Cannon and his rules in the
house and Aldrich and the standpat-
ters in the senate, were not cropping
in the dark, but that they had be-
hind them the spoken word and moral
support of former President Roosevelt
at every moment of time.
That report makes clear why it was
that Beveridge defied the Taft admin
istration in Indiana and is now fight
! ing for re election within the organl-
zation at home, but as an insurgen
outside the breastworks of the repub
lican national organization. 1t dis
closes why Nelson of Minnesota, Dol
| liver of Iowa, Bristow of Kansas. La
/ Toilette of Wisconsin, with the seven
other republican senators and % or 80
republican members of the house, have
practically severed friendly relations
with the administration and fight it
as though they comprised
third party, lining up with the demo-
Gratis when it suits their purposes and
again with the standpatters when
their actions are in line with their
own plans.
Roosevelt is their chosen leader.
That he will indorse every one OF
their political acts and approve them
individually as patriots and true repre-
sentatives of republican principles
shortly after his return to the United
states admits of no possible doubt.
Beveriige's expectations that ne will
campaign Indiana for his return to
the senate will be fully justified.
The report of the insurgents com
mittee shows that in the last days of
President Roosevelts term he ap-
proved the insurgents5 program and
did his best to induce Taft to do the
same thing.
The insurgents entered upon the
fight against Cannon in the house and
Aldrich and his crowd in the senate
within ten days after Roosevelts term
expired.
Roosevelt went out of office on
March 4. 1909. and the extra session
convened on March Is.
From the moment the gavels of the
speaker and the vice president rap
ped upon the desks announcing that
the extra session had convened the
fight was on, and it has been waged
with never-tiring bitterness and conf
dence ever since.
Force is given to the faith OF the
insurgents in Roosevelts backing by
the statement of the proprietor of one
of the three great Chicago morning
papers. who was recently at the capt
tai. He is one of RooSevelts closest
personal friends, was in intimate
touch with him during the seven years
he occupied the white house, and has
always supported the Roosevelt meas
ures in his paper. He sent one OF
the ablest correspondent in the Unit
el States to greet Roosevelt on his
emergence from the African forests,
who remained in the closest touch
with Roosevelt until he reached Ber-
lin
The correspondent returned only a
few days ago loaded to the muzzle
with Roosevelt memoranda.
This newspaper publisher, respond
ing to a question, stated most posi-
lively that Roosevelt would accept
the nomination for the presidency in
1912.
He will not ask it," he declared,
but he will throw no impedimen.s in
the way of friends who will demand
for him the nomination. He is too
much OF a patriot" he continued, TO
decline a spontaneous and unanimous
call to again assume the reins of gov
erument = the call shall be made. The
country can depend upon 1t that If il
wants Roosevelt fer president in 1912
it can move for his nomination with
/ the assurance that he will DO nothing
| 10 thwart its efforts
The report OF the insurgent com
mittee has carried CONSERVATION TO
/ The standpatters They see in its
revelations probable overthrow Of ali
their pans. In Rooseyelt's return and
/ political course they contemplate the
re-opening OF the tariff agitation and
his demand that the republican plat
form pledges upon the tariff shall
be fully observed by the next con-