Arizona republican., 1910-05-05
DOWN WITH
 INSURGENTS AIdFiCh al Head of New Movement to Crush Them 0RGANlAT ION FORMED
Embracing a Clear Majority of Senate and Composed of Regular" Senators Who Agree to Submerge Their Own Differences

Washington. May i.-Through the formation today of an organization { which the leaders claim. represents d made up wholly of regular republi cans. a movement has been started to settle whether the senate shall re- main conservative. become radical. or be thrown into political chaos as far as concerns any coherent policy on the administration program. Senator AlJrich called the regular republicans together and confronted them with grim description of the possible political effect of their sp- parent defeat at the hands Of the insurgent republicans and democrats in the fight over the traffic agree ment section of the administration railroad bill
 He asked his associates whether they were ready to submit to dom ination by such a combination. Any such surrender. he warned them. meant the failure of the Taft policies and the downfall of conservative con- trol. not only in congress hut in the republican party generally.
 
 that the senators then gathered were not agreed upon all points. wfereupen he replied that they must get to- sether and agree to stand together and let the details be secondary Otherwise. he said. congress would adjourn without accomplishing a sin gle item of the Taft program.
 The entire tone of the conference was belligerent toward the insurgents. This was the dominant note: Let US set together and stand as 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 had. we'll stamp it out" :,
 Mir. Aldrich stated that President Taft was fully advised of the situa- tion. and was entirely in sympathy with the plan. He said in behalf Of the conferees that while the meas uIes resorted to were heroic. they were necessary in defense of the ad- and the integrity Of the republican party and as means to any effective legislation whatever -hi- -hidi ith NdS gwen tut ltdutISillp of the new movement.
 MT. Aidrich left late tonight for Rhode Island and will not return be- fore Tuesday. The plan meanwhile is to mark time and hold the fort. There will he many conferences at the White House and elsewhere t0 perfect the militant plan. The intention is to avoid test votes upon any subject of importance until next week.
 Every hour brings additional evil dence of the widening of the breach between the regulars and insurgents in both houses. Conservative repub- lican leaders, with hardly an excep- ton. confess that in neither house is there a coherent majority. Even those with the plans of the new senate organization seem awaiting the return of MT. Taft to see what. if any thing, he can do to get at least some remnants Of his program through con gress. AS matters stand tonight. tho prospect from the republican point or view is anything but ailurins. Each side planes the other
 Congressman Payne's view that tha senate is undulv alarmed does not seem to be shared bv others. Conscr- vatfve representatives consider the in surgency dangerous 10 the party. The say the party will be united if Cannon and .Aldrich are eliminated.