The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-04-11

Washington, April 1.-THE use of
the word treason by the attorney gen.
eral, George w. Wickersham, in re-
ferring to the house and senate insur-
gents at the dinner in Chicago Satur-
day night will very likely be the cause
of some talk on the floor of the senate
that will make the attorney genera,
think he has started something. .
Treason to party or to any other obli-
cation carries a meaning that lasts
on a mans memory and the attorney
general indicated too closely to admit
of doubt to whom he was pointing
when he used the words.
One senator who did not wish to be
quoted himself said that Mr.. Wicker
sham, being a Wall Street lawyer, at
torney for the sugar trust and the Bel
monts, had no little political expert
sence that there was some doubt as to
whether he voted for Roosevelt or
Parker in 1904, and that he could not
be blamed if he went west to read
the republican senators from prairie
states out Of the party, though the
west would perhaps ask who 1t was
that was doing the reading out stunt
Representative E. H. Madison OF
Kansas, discussing the speech OF the
attorney general, said last night:
80 far as / am informed, no com
mission was issued by the republican
party to the attorney general to read
out of the republican party men who
exercise that freedom of speech and
action within the party that the presi-
dent himself commended. The house
insurgents have insisted that the pres
ident's legislation should be passed
Their fight on the rules simply sought
to make possible the passage of legis
lation that the people want. If the
administration really wishes to ac.
complish results the better way
would be to quit lambasting the in
surgents and turn attention to the
men who are holding up the bills in
committee"
Senator Bristow said: "The progress
sive senators are not worried about
anything and they do not feel that il
is necessary for them to be running
around and making speeches defend
ing themelsves. They are standing
by the principles they believe to be
right. They are standing on the re
publican national platform and are
confident that their constituents will
approve their course"
"Mr Wickersham's mistake" sale
Senator Cummins of Iowa, SIS one
that man of his training is likely te
make. Until he became member oi
the cabinet he had had little If any
Interest in the republican party and
had done little or nothing for it. He
was a comparative stranger to its
spirit, purposes and policies and
( therefore he easily fell under the de
lusion that he sees the whole party
when he sits at the cabinet table. A
short experience will convince him Of
the error of his conclusions. He will
soon learn that the party expects loyal
/ ty to principles, not to men, and that
it has not delegated to any official
however high his station, the approval
or disapproval of its senators and rep
resentatives"
Senator LaFollette was unwilling tC
talk on the subject last night, but Il
was given out at his home that "whai
he has to say he will say from the
floor of the senate" LaFollette II
scheduled to speak on the railroad bill
today, and it was said last nigh
that the reason he shut himself up il
his house was that he proposes to re
I wise his speech, much of which n