The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-28
t a # an d Insurgents
H a We Split Too
Far Apart.
BOTH Sill ES ARE
EAGER FOR FIGHT
From Now On President Will
Seek to Drive His Enemies
Gut of Camp and Secure Re-
nomination and Re-Elec-
ton Without Their
Support.

Washington. August 27.-President
Tart does not expect or ask the sup
port Of lnsurgent Republicans.
he proposes TO make no efforts to
cohciliate them. but On the contrary,
ms policy henceforNard will be 10
defy them, to drive them out of .be
party. and TO ge, his renomina ton
ana reelection without them
such Is the political conclusion from
inc Presidents bitter arraignment of
me Insurgents in his speech at Ham
iiton. Mass, last evening. After that
ueHuhclatl on. there can be no peace.
AIR. Taft will. on his forthcoming
Western tour. carry the war Fight 10
the states and districts of the Insur-
gents. and make the defiance lust as
strong as possible.
They VIII Reply.
The gage Will be taken up instantly
oy the Insurgents. Two of their lead :
ers VIII reply to the Hamilton speech
within the next few days The tariff
split In the Republican party is 70
Ne ripped wider and longer All er-
iorts to bandage. stitch and heal IL i'm
are at an end
senator La Toilette. ut whom the
resident aimed his Hamilton invec-
I'VE. VIII make his FIRST speech, fol-
'pp Pms, me close of Congress. TO the
pennsylvania State Grange conven-
''on at harrisburg next Thursday. He
SAID to-day that before that occasion
ie shonia have no comment to PASS
upon the Presidents Massachusetts
- from this, inference Is drawn that
NC harrisburg address is likely TO
m.n ,.'e counter-de.iance of the man
"hotn MI TAFT designates by name as
mead of the Insurgent movement
Kew days later Representative Nor
10 OF Nebraska. will speak in behalf
" the House Insurgents before tho
NEBRASKA state Fair. This meeting ha G
oeen arranged with the frank purpose
% having the Insurgent cause stated
~ 1ne plainest possible terms. and Mr.
.o.ris mas accepted the commission.
80, ."e understanding that he is TO
zen his reasons why, as a RopuhIican
ne asks his State TO send an anti-Ta =,
ue!esauon to the national convention
next year e'' ''on
Speech Surprise.
NAT the President is determined to
renew his fight upon the Insurgor,s
ana 70 carry II right down 10 the doors
Vi ,he national convention hall is re-
saraed as certain. in view of his snaech
al hamilton. II comes as a surprise m
many frogressives. because the tone
manner and temper OF the tariff vetoes
%a oo"n in the last days of the
them as indicative OF Willingness ~
extend the olive branch.
"hat the President said at Hamilton
ABOUT the Insurgents is just what he
i'as oeen saying privately for weeks
past TO sympathetic callers at the
white House. He has been bitter In
uehuhciation OF wha..r he called play
'"E ponies with the tariff.
hut TINS tone OF rancor was excluded
at
| 10 the belief that the policy was To he
one OF placating the Insurgents The
hamilton speech ends all possibility of
such course being pursued. The
resident denounced the anti-Taft Re-
publican leaders in unmeasured terms
ana In the speeches on his con,in :,
western trip into the heart of Insur.
gent territory he will have 10 play the
same string.
He cannot escape denouncing La
Toilette in Wisconsin, Cumnins in
Iowa, Bristow in Kansas. Bourne in
oregon, PoindeXter in Washinoton
Clapp in Minnesota.
IA doing this he VIII put an end to
an thought of accommoda ton and
reconciliation The dmect of such a
contest VIII be chiefly important. not
ior us influence in the pre-convention
campaign. but for its weight in the
election struggle. in which the Insur-
gent West and Middle West will be OF
critical Importance to the Presidan
prospects for election
Mt TAFT has reverted to his rolic..
OF 1910, when he withdrew the com
tenance of the administration from,
those Republicans who had been bos,ua
10 MIN during the Payne AIdrich re-
vision. All the influence OF the ma
'ional organization and patronage
power were used TO defeat ,boao -
for denomination. Cannon was sar, 80
Kansas and Sherman to Wisconsin 10
cry down insurgency. They met such
small success that this time the pres
ident viii himself assume the mission
and invade the enemy's country to
sound the battle cry against all insur
gency.