Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-09-08

the last campaign. The people of
the west and middle west expected a
downward revision of the tariff by the
Taft administration, but have been
disappointed. They believe Mr.. Taft
has not been sincere in his attitude
on the tariff, and that he has not per-
formed what he promised. At this
time Mr.. Taft has assumed the rule
or ruin attitude, he will drive all from
the republican party whom he cannot
rule in the matter. 1t looks, also,
as if he would succetd d in driving the
republican party from control in the
nation.
following is the article from the
Washington Times:
president Taft does not expect the
the support OF insurgent Republicans.
He proposes to make no efforts to
conciliate them, but on the contrary
his policy henceforward will be to
defy them, to drive them out of the
party, and to get his denomination
and reelection without them. Such
is the political conclusion from the
presidents bitter arraignment Of the
insurgents in his speech at Hamilton,
Mass, Saturday evening. After that
denunciation there can be peace.
"Mr, Taft will carry on his forth
coming western tour, carry the war
right to the states and districts of the
insurgents, and make the defiance just
as strong rs possible. The gag gage will
be taken up instantly by the insur.
gents. Two of their leaders will re.
ply TO the Hamilton speech within
the next few days. The tariff split
in the Republican party is to be rip
ped wider and longer All efforts to
bandage, stitch and heal it up are at
an end.
THAT means the president is deter
mined to renew his fight upon the in
surgents and to carry it right down
to the doors of the national convention
hall is regarded as certian in view of
his speech at Hamilton. 1t comes as
a surprise to many prog ressives, be-
cause the tone, manner and temper of
the tariff vetos handed down in the
last day of the congress session were
regard ed as indicative of willingness
to extend the olive branch.
"What the president said at Hamil
ton about the ins urgents is just what
he has been saying privately for
weeks past to sympathetic callers at
the white house. He has been bitter
in denunciation of what he called
playing politics" with the tariff.
"But this tone of rancor was ex.
cluded from the veto messages giving
rise to the belief that the policy was
to be one of placatng the insurgents.
The Hamilton speech ends all posi-
bility of such course being pursued
The president denounced the anti
Taft Republican leaders in unmeasur-
ed terms and in the speeches on his
coming western trip into the heart of
insurgent territory he will have to
play the same string.
He cannot escape denouncing La
Toilette in Wisconsin, Cummins in
Iowa, Bristow in Kansas, Bourne in
Oregon, Poindexter in Washington,
Clapp in Minnesota.
SIN doing this he will put an end to
all thought of accommodation and re-
concilation. The effect of such a
contest will be chiefly important, not
for IFS influence in the preconvention
campaign, but for its weight in the
election struggle in which the insur
gent west and midwest will be of crit.
ical Importance to the presidents
prospects for election
mir. Taft has reverted to his policy
of 1910 when he withdrew the coun-
tenance of the administration from
those Republicans who had been hos
tile to z him during the Payne
Aldrich revision. All influence Of the
national organization and patronage
power were used to defeat these men
for denomination. Cannon was sent
to Kansas, and Sherman to Wisconsin
to cry down insurgency. They met
such small success that this time the
president will himself assume the