The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-11
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 Attorney General wfckersham deliv-
 sred at Chicago. Saturday night, the first of the foreshadowed speeches in tdefence of the Taft Administration ana in exclamation of it's policies. He de- lcIared it to be "the determined pol k4ey of the Government to attack all special privileges and undue prefer fences, whether obtained by illegal com E-binations by brioing public officials, by rebates or special advantages in Etransportation or by any other meth Bod
 But the most interesting part Of the tspeech related to the Insurgents. He $decIared that it was time now for Re Espublicans to choose either for or against the President and the Repub- e1ioan party. and added that if they can't make a positive choice it is up them to retire from the Republf- kcan party. He said.
 1 speak to an assembly of loyal Re s1<1bIfcans. I am sure voice your hing with the hare and hunting with 1.-the hounds is over, and every one k1nust choose whether or not he is for E party ssHe that hath no stomach to s1Ilel f1ght'' let him depart. Treason .salas ever consisted in giving aid and comfort to the enemy. If any one
 wishes to join the Democratic party faef him do so. But let him not claim Ito be a Republican and in and out Df season work to defeat Republican aneasures and to subvert the influence of the Republican President. l Such language cannot be misfnter- preted It is confrmatory of Speaker lCannon,s assertion that if the 1nsur- 1 gents are Republicans he is not. and as it is announced that the Attorney Generals speech had received the ap- | proyal of President Taft. 1t can have but one meaning. viz, that so far as the power of President. Attorney Gen eral and Speaker extends. the Insur- gents are tread out of the party"
 But MT. Wickersham went further. After applying the word treason to She Insurgents action. he declared that they would be weighed in the balance at the next general election and in the end cast out and scorned. In other
 words, the influence of the Admins fration and the power Of the party machinery would be exercised against their reelection to Congress. This is iRepublfcan discipline with a ven geance.'' It means that any Repub lican who, in the exercise of a. free mans Independence of thought and action, dares to oppose the will of the nartys constituted authority. is to be called a traitor and forthwith read sout of the party
 There is, witIin the feeb1est memor- ses an Illustration Of how such dis cfpIine will work. The Indiana Re- publican convention. held last week, endorsed specifically the record of a Heading Insurgent Senator. Beveridge, and urged his reelection. Indiana Republicanisn is. therefore. in the Taft Wickersham view. not of the true kfype. but traitorous, and every mem Iber of the late State convention is Fazrged by the Administration to join the Democratic party.
 Applying the same principle to the Bridgeport situation, there are some ] thousand or more local Republicans who boIted their partys ticket at the Hast election and who thus became, ac- cording to President Taft and Attor- ney General Wickersham, guilty of treason.
 It is a very unusual situation. per- haps Unprecedented. The Middle West. strongly Republican heretofore. prac- tical1y Tread out of the party''-such States as Ohio. Illinois, Indiana. Wis consin. Iowa, Kansas and Minnesota, declared "outside of the party breast works