Arizona republican., 1910-01-16
MT. Taft as Peacemaker.

 ful appreciation of the rank and file of the republican party by telling both factions in congress to stop quarrel ing and get down to the party legis- lative program as quickly as pos sible" In talking with the members the president has amplified this good advice, and, as our Washington dis patches for the last day or two have shown, republican representatives and senators are coming to the conclu- sion that they cannot do better than follow the course suggested by MT. Taft
 In taking this attitude, Mir. Taft has justified anew his reputation for fairness and sound common sense. The hysterical dispatches of a week or so ago, to the effect that the presi- dent had taken a definite stand against the insurgents" and pro- posed to take the lead in reading them out of the party were inherently not believable. The alleged dictum did not sound like Taft"
 The insurgents have two plans in their platform:
 L They are not satisfied with the new tariff law, and at least some of them-the conspicuous leaders of the movement-desire to have the tariff rraSfio,, raonapad i'm
 2. They are not satisfied with the house rules; they are not satisfied with Speaker Cannon's operations un- der the rules, they have more or less objection to him personally, and they propose to amend the rules by taking from the speaker the power to appoint the republican caucus, after the man. ner- of the senate.
 In proposing to reopen the tariff question for prolonged debate and new legislation by congress, with its consequent disturbance of the busi- ness of the country, the insurgents
 
 of the party are not in sympathy with their policy
 As to reformation of the house rules. the sentiment of the country and of most republicans is with the insurgents, although their violence and their evident carelessness of par -l;- scribe the house insurgents and bar them from participating in the re- publican caucus merely because they have a quarrel with the speaker-to read them out of the party, in other wordsworth be the height of po- litical folly.
 And yet we don't doubt that Uncle Joe" Cannon honestly believes that these discontented members of con- gress ought to be excommunicated, and by bell, book and candle" driven out of the party. The old gentleman is so ''sot in his ways" and so unre- captive to new and progressive ideas, so filled with assurance of his own infallibility, that he cannot understand how any man can be a sound repub his views as the embodiment of re- publicanism. And like every man occupying a position of great power the speaker is of course surrounded by time servers who tell him he is absolutely right in everything he does. MT Cannon no doubt thinks it is a sides" in this controversy and aid the speaker in chasing the malcon- tents into the democratic party, where they belong" according to the narrow dogmatism of MT Cannon. But Mir. Taft takes broader view of his duty to the party. He is justly impatient with some of the insurgents for their insistent tariff agitation. for their lack of horse sense in failing to recognize that the tariff bill had to contain some compromises and that it had to carry disappointments for some people, MT. Taft among them. As to this phase of the in surgent movement he is justified in holding that the insurgents are act 1 ing unwisely as republicans; that the | present prosperity of the country l ought not to be disturbed by new tar if legislation, and that any needed | reforms should await a more con- venient season. But aside from this, | Mir. Taft does not propose to enter l into the controversy. He will not | approve boycott of republican con- gressmen because they don't worship | MT. Cannon, or because they wish to reform the house rules
 MT. Taft, with all other broad minded republicans, recognizes that | if the party is to continue as the party of progressive ideas and live s1