The Saint Paul globe., 1901-08-14
TICKET FALLS FLAT
NOMINATION OF CUMMINS EVOKES
NO ENTHUSIASM AMONG IOWA
REPUBLICANS
LEADING JOURNALS REVOLT
Ignoring of Vital Questions in the
Platform Likely to Lead to
Election of Democratic
Governor.

CHICAGO, Aug. ia special to the
Chronicle from Des Moines, Iowa, says:
.Returns from the Republican and in
dependent press of Iowa give promise of
an open revolt against A. b. Cummins,
the Republican candidate for governor
because of his palpable effort to evade
the responsibility of making a canvass
on the issue of railway assessments. The
= Cedar Rapids convention, neld last
Wednesday, which was controlled by the
Cummns forces, absolutely ignored the
railway question, upon which Cummins
made his ante nomination fight. This
platform does not refer to state issues
even by indirection, and Mr.. Cummins
himself not only did not refer to the rail-
way tax scandals in his speech accepting
the gubernatOrial nomination, but ne
went so far as to say that "our admins
trations have commanded the admiration
and confidence of the people"
The Independent press of Iowa and sew
eral influential Republican journals now
seem to be waking up to the fact that
Mr. Cummins used the anti-railroad
crusade for the sole purpose of securing
his nomination and that there is little
assurance that ne will even refer to the
assessment scandals growing out of the
action of the executive council.
The Cedar Rapids Republican (Republi-
cam under an editorial caption of Re
form Shattered" says: THE insincer.ty
Of the Cummins supporters has been
made manifest, for there is no reform
declaration in the Republican platform
adopted at Cedar Rapids Wednesday,
The whole question was oscheWed. In
politics everything is used as long as it
is servceable and then 1t goes to the
junk SHOP" The Republican says that
Mr. Cummins was supported by two ele-
ments. On the one hand, number of
railroads, including the Rock Island, the
ern, the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
and branch of the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids & Northern, and on the other,
'reformers'' and radicals, some of whom
are honest and some not.
The Republican predicts that the course
adopted by Mr.. Cummins will be par
ticularly hard on the Des Moines Leader,
the Sioux City Tribune and twenty Iowa
counties which have been jealous enough
to go on record in the matter of radical
railroad legislation, a subject which MIR.
Cummins has absolutely ignored
The Cedar Rapids Gazette edited by
Fred Faulkes, prints a cartoon in which
several sincere friends are represented
in an endeavor to pull Gov. Shaw out of
his executive chair. The superscription
is a plank in the Republican platform
in which it is stated that Gov Shaw will
leave the executive chair having reflect
ed honor upon the state and bearing the
confidence and regard of it's people.
The Sioux City Journal calls upon the
Sioux City Tribune, an independent
newspaper, and one of the strongest sup
porters of Cummins prior to the Cedar
Rapids convention, to reconcile with the
Republican platform it's the Tribune 81
declaration that "the victory can be rem
dered barren if the platform does not
command the legislature to enact re-
fern legislation" This statement was
made editorially July l, and on July II
the Tribune cried 1.-The people are arous d
for reform and a failure to make a dis
tinct declaration will be construed as cyl
dence of the insincerity of the Cummins
supporters"
SHOW OF PERSONAL HATRED.
The Waterloo Courier CRepublican)
says the opposition on the part of the
anti-Cummins delegates when a motion
was offered to make Cummins' nomina-
tion unanimous presented "a scene never
before witnessed in a Republican con-
Vention in Iowa, and those who witnessed
the unusual and exciting spectacle were
almost dumfOunded by the force and
suddenness of the outburst and by the
intensity of seemingly personal hatred
displayed" THE opposition was so in
tense" continued the Courier, 'tnat the
speaker was obliged to declare the motion
lost"
The Des Moines Leader independently
which was one of the strongest ante
convention supporters of Mr. Cummins,
says: The platform at Cedar Rapids,
while acceptable to the party in it's eX-
pressions concerning national affairs, is
hardly to be deemed a strong or coura-
geous document in other respects. Its
reading has given great pleasure to those
who want the continuance of an inequi-
table and corrupting railroad assessment
'sy stem and to those who do not want
anything to be done toward checking the
ever growing railway-pass evil Certainly
it is not scanned with delight by those
who seriously believe the way to deal
with public evils is not to pretend that
they do not exist, while plainly running
away from them. 1t may readily be per-
ceived how the weakness and cowardice
of the Cedar Rapids platform on state