The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-28

fOuch absolute ignorance OF the effect
lof legislation and with such willing
fness to sacrifice business interests to
political ex1gencjes as in the present
LEGISLATION which has just been de-
Heated.
The Washington Times says in it's
I6unday evenings issue:
Another Winona Speech.
president Taft does not expect or
kask the support of insurgent Republi-
leans.
HE proposes to make no efforts to
fconciliate them, but on the contrary
Mis- policy henceforward will be to defy
Them. to drive them out of the party,
and to get his denomination and re-
pelection without them.
"Such is the political conclusion
Etr0m the Presidents bitter arraign-
ment of the Insurgents in his speech
nat Hamilton, Mass, last evening. At
Fter that denunciation there can be no
Apeace.
"Mr. Taft. will, on his forthcoming
Western tour, carry the war right to
the states and districts of the Insur-
tgents, and make the defiance just as
lstrong as possible. The gage will be
taken up instantly by the Insurgents
Two of their leaders will reply to the
Hamilton speech within the next few
ldays. The tariff split in the Republi-
lean party Is to be ripped wider and
llonger. All efforts to bandage. stitch
land heal It up are at an end.
Lafoliette Replies Thursday.
!, Senator Lafollette. at whom the
tive. will make his first speech, fol-
Moving the close of congress, to the
Pennsylvania State Grange convention
ut Harrisburg next Thursday. He said
to-day that before that occasion he
tshould have no comment upon the
President's Massachusetts address.
! From this inference Is drawn that
1.-THE Harrisburg address Is likely to
IGound the counter defiance of the man
whom Mr.. Taft designates by name as
head Of the lnsurgent movement
THAT the President Is determined
Ito renew his fight upon the insurgents
and to carry 1t right down to the doors
of the National Convention hall is re-
garded as certain In view of his
kspeech ut Hamilton. It comes as a
lUurpriso to many progressives. be-
lcause the tone. manner and temper Of
1.-THE tariff vetoes, handed down in the
Hast days of the congress session, were
bregarded by them as Indicative of will
Ningness to extend the olive branch.
HE cannot escape denouncing La
Hollette In Wisconsin, Cummins in To-
iva. Bristow in Kansas. Bourne in Ore
kgon. Poindexter in Washington, Clapp
lin Minnesota.
I'm doing this he will put an end
ito all thought of accommodation and
Reconciliation. The effect of such a
contest will be chiefly important, not
Nor it, influence in the preconvention
campaign. but for it's weight in the
detection struggle. in which the Insur-
kgent West and Midwest will be OF
tcritical importance to the Presidents
prospects for election.
ooss Back to Old Policy.
''Mr. Taft has reverted to his policy
nance of the Administration from
those Republicans who had been hos.
title to him during the Payne -Aldrich
!revision. All the influence of the ma.
ltional organization and patronage pow.
ler were used to defeat these men for
denomination. Cannon was sent to
Kansas and Sherman to Wisconsin to
icry down insurgency. They met such
tsmall success that this time the Presi.
ldent will himself assume the mission
and invade the enemy's country to
sound the battle cry against all In
ksurgency."
John Callan O'Laughlin, of the Chi.
cago Tribune. says in = dispatch to
THAT paper today:
President Taft has accepted the
gage of battle Haunted before him by
tthe progressive Republicans and in his
flight for denomination and reelection
will class them and the Democrats as
shis common enemy.
II this Interpretation placed by poll,
lticians here upon the speech he de.
Llivered yesterday at Hamilton, Mass
lbe correct. he will on his coming west
,ern trip not only defend himself but
jsharply assail the progressives in their
own communities.
That 10 to say, he will denounce La.
toilette In Wisconsin. Clapp in Mime.
sofa. Gronna In North Dakota. Craw.
ford in South Dakota. Cummins and
Kenyon in Iowa. Bristow in Kansas
Borah In Idaho, Poindexter in Wash.
lington. Bourne in Oregon, and Works
in California.
= will be trip famous In political
history, marked by thunderous utter
ances. the reverberations of which will
reach every corner of the land.
Prosrssslves Welcome Attack.
The progressives are frankly graft.
fled BY the change in the President's
attitude. Up to this time they have
been embarrassed by the charge that
they - Republicans, were attacking q
Republican President The Hamilton
spssoh. containing such sharp criti-