Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-25
Republican Factions in Me-
braska Still at Odds.
BUT TAFT FORCES CONTROL
Regular Leaders Declare They Have
Overwhelming Majority.
MAY 1NDoRsE THE PRESIDENT
Insurgents, However, Declare They
VIII Fight Any Step in
That Direction.

LINCOLN, Neb., July 25.-The Taft and
La Toilette factions in the Nebraska re-
publican organization entered the state
convention at noon today without having
reached an agreement The Taft adher-
ents. headed by the Omaha delegation.
before the call to order announced that
they held absolute control Of the situa-
ton. They made known their purpose to
ask for frank Endorsement of the Presi-
dent
THE insurgents have not more than $50
OF the $50 votes In the convention said
one Of the regular leaders.
The insurgents admitted they could not
control the convention, but insisted that
they would fight the adoption of any
Endorsement of President Taft
The Introduction of a Taft resolu-
tion," said one Of the insurgents, would
be followed Immediately by the introduc-
ton of La Toilette resolution and then
the fight will be If the regulars
want peace they must refrain from in
dorsements of any character"
Makes Plea for Harmony.
A. ". Jefferis of Omaha. as tempo
rary chairman, In opening the conven-
in the party.
My DESIRE, he said. is the future
success and welfare of the republican
party in the state and in the nation,
and 1t is my Judgment that future sue
cess depends IN large measure upon
our stating in a positive manner our
approval and appreciation of the works
state affairs, without regard to any of
the so-called degrees of republicanism."
As showing the Inconsistency of the
democrats, Mr.. Jefferis said
''Of late the democratic press and the
democratic party have been hanging,
as 1t were, medals of encomfum upon
the breasts of those of our party
who happened to differ upon some
matters of mere detail with the Presi-
dent of the United States. only there
after to turn their batteries upon the
ones upon whom they had previously
poured forth their encomiums and praise.
Denunciation and Ridicule.
when Cummins and La Toilette an
nounced their opposition to the Canadian
reciprocity treaty, the democratic party
and its press transferred their batteries
from encomiums and praise into denun-
citation and ridicule of them both.
They then charged that Cummins had
abandoned the cause of the common peo-
of protecting the print paper and pulp
manufacturers of Wisconsin, and to DEM
onstrate their further inconsistency the
democratic party voted in favor Of Cana
dian reciprocity. in favor of the policy
of Taft, the very man whom they had
previously. denounced and tried to under
mine and destroy in the estimation Of his
fellow countrymen-
Stand of Nebraskan Senator's.
''The strange part of it is that our
democratic senator from Nebraska voted
with our republican senator in support Of
Canadian reciprocity. II would seem that
our republican senator had captured a
new republican to assist in the enact
ment of the Canadian reciprocity treaty
proposed by President Taft
II. for one. have not lost my interest
in the republican Tarty because of Ca
madam reciprocity. This is not the time
10 be carried off our feet by momentary
ideas, nor is it time to be carried from
our feet by the reading of articles which
have been hastily published by some ed
ftor to create a sensation
1t is not the time for hasty judgment.
1t is the time to think calmly and rea-
son soberly."