The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-06-09
APPROVED CAUSE
BEFORE LEAVING

Theodore Roosevelt Is with the III
surgents, heart and soul, is the gist
of hitherto unpublished report
made by a committee of insurgents
to caucus of the house progress
ives in March 1909. The endorse
mcnt was given the insurgents in
the strenuous closing days of Roose
velt's administration.
With this support behind them
the house progressivcs, with Roose-
Welt insurgency as the battle cry,
are planning a terrific campaign
next fall that will sweep the form
CT president into the whirlpool of
politics.
The endorsement which forms
the groundwork of the campaign
planned, was given to Representa-
tive Nelson (WisD. Representa-
tive Gardner (Mass.) and Repre-
sentative Madison (kan). The
three representatives We're sent as
a committee by the insurgents to
Roosevelt to obtain his endorse
ment of the irsurgent policies
They appeared before this caucus
and made a report of the result of
their mission The report is here
made public for the first time.
On March 5 1909, the report de-
clares, Roosevelt proposed to give
Representative Nelson, as chairman
of the Insurgent committee, a let
ter endorsing the fight made by the
progressives on Speaker Cannon
and the house rules. He express
cd thorough sympathy with the
progrcssives, and said: Cannon
has been the greatest obstacle to
efforts to secure good legislation
throughout my legislation.
On March 4 after having spent
all evening with Taft, Roosevelt
asked the insurgents to excuse him
from writing formal letter incor-
porating these views, on the ground
that such letter might embarrass
the new administration.
Standing i'll the president 5 room
i'll the senate wing of the capitol,
Roosevelt took Gardner and Mel
son by the hand, and turning to
Taft, urged him to take up the i'll
surgent cause. That was one of
Roosevelt 5 last acts during his adj
ministration, the report declares.
The insurgent executive commit
tee gave the following outline of
their visit to the president before
the inSurgcnt caucus:
Nelson, Gardner and Madison
endeavored, on the afternoon of
March 3, to secure Roosevelt en-
dorsemcnt of the insurgent attack
OH Speaker Cannon and the house
rules, to be made during the spc-
cial session of congress to revise the
tariff. Roosevelt was moving out,
and the executive officers were in
confusion. The former president
led the committee into the old cab
met room, where Nelson, as chair
man of the executive committee,
outlined the plan of attack that
had been made, defined its object,
estimated the chances of success of
the insurgent program, and ask
ed Roosevelt to endorse the plans
officially.
Roosevelt raised himself in his
chair, drew one leg up beneath
him, a favorite deliberative attitude
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