The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-22


Especial to the Statesman) Western
republicans have developed the aggra-
waiting habit of suddenly appearing for
breakfast at the insurgent camp ana
upon finding the patronage table bare
Shining back with the regulars in time
for dinner.
AS a result of the confusion 1t is
extremely difficult TO tell in these days
of the dissolution of the republican
oartv inst who is entitled to call him
self an iasurgent or a progressive. the
object of more than one member Oh
the present congress is to be consid-
cred a regular here in Washington
and an insurgent at home. But all
who insurge are not insurgents.
There's William Edgar Borah of Ida
no for instance When the tariff bill
was i'm the making Senator Borah in
sur;,ed over half a dozen pages of the
congressional record. When news came
that the sugar trust had returned some
$4,000, 900 it had stolen from the gov
ernment by underweighing sugar, 1t
was Senator Borah who stated that he
for one was not surprised that social
lists were multiplying in the United
States.
When the mot above No. 16 Dutch
standard in color sugar joker-esti-
snated to be worth a million dollars
word to the sugar trust-came up for
vote, the Idaho ''insurgeht' quit in
surging long enough to vote for it.
Later. when Mr. Aldrich cracked his
whip, Senator Borah voted for the
Payne -Aldrich- SmOot bill in its en-
tirety
Before the present session of con-
.ress convened Senator Borah came to
Washington insurging all over He
wanted an investigation of the sugar
trust frauds, and he wanted it quick.
Senator Borah used such high notes in
his conversations with the Newspaper
men that the attention of the president
was attracted The Idaho senator was
called to the White House post haste.
mix on that sugar trust investiga-
ton talk" counseled the president.
We don't want any investigation. 1t
might interfere with the administra-
ton of justice in New York"
Whereupon the Hon. William Edgar
affixed the proverbial soft pedal to his
sugar investigation interviews although
he still admits being an insurgent.
An insurgent is not necessarily a pro-
grcssive All who have opposed the
present rules and the power they con-
fer upon the speaker are c,assed as in
Surgents. AS distinguished from these
men who are merely insurgents upon
the rules and the power of the speaker
there is small band of genuine pro-
greSsives. These are the men who are
in favor of fair play not only upon the
door of the house of representatives,
but also favor fair play for the people
at large. They are against syndicate
control in business and syndicate con-
troll in politics. These are the real pro-
grcssives and there are but a handful
cf them.
Some members of the house are in
surgents and not progressives. They
have rebelled against the domination
of the house. They have not rebelled
against the syndicated domination of
the country.
The declaration of eight Ohio con-
gressmen that they would not again
vote for Cannon was neither an evil
deEce of progressiveness or insurgency.
That declaration contains no real hope
for the advancement of either cause.
1t Is evidence, however, that the renel-
Iicu against Cannonism is making
Roadway with the people. AS a straw
indicating the drift of public opinion, it
WIS WelCOIneu. however, Inoro was
more joy in the camp of the real in
SurgentS over the announcement Of
Uncle Joe" that he will not retire,
and the announcement of Aldrich that
lac will insist upon being returned to
the senate for another six years, than
there was over the declaration of the
O.lioans The Cannon and Aldrich
personalities, at the present time, are
valued assets of insurgency and of the
progressive movement.
Gibson Gardner. Washington CORE
spondent and close friend of Theodore
Roosevelt, is one of the many promi-
nent newspaper men who foresee that
the next house of representatives will
he democratic Taft, has earned de-
feat for his party by his desertion of