Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-07
Burlington Hawkeye Man Sees
This as the Issue Cummins
Must Fight
SHAW SPEAKS FOR IOWA ABROAD
Correspondents Thinks That Shaw Is to
Head the Demoralized Anti cummins
Faction-Hawkeye Man Gives Party
Harmony Hard JoIt-Dolliver, Rob-
erts and cummins.
Special to Times-Kepuplican.

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Burlington, Oct. 1.-THE Hawkeye,
which has been rather conspicuous in
| its opposition to Governor Cummins,
4 appeared this morning with an article
from it's Washington correspondent de-
signed to boost Secretary Shaw at the
Iexpense of Governor Cummins. The
correspondent reports that Shaw
speaks for Iowa in Washington and
1 that there are comparatively few Cum
| Minis men around the national capitol,
but, writing from Washington, he very
naturally overlooks the hold Cummins
has on the people of Iowa. Many re-
| publicans have hoped that there was
! room enough for both these noted lead
i ers at the head of the republican party,
but such papers as the Hawkeye have
seen only fight to the finish.
The correspondent says: The present
tariff discussion. the recent Henderson
episode and attendant circumstances,
are bringing the name OF Governor
| Cummins of Iowa to the front IN ma
tional politics. This same trend of
events, however, has shown that Gov
1 ernor Cummins' prominence and his po-
litical influence are as yet confined
largely to Iowa. OF course, Mr.. Cum
Minis seems to have personality
known fairly we'll over the central west,
| but it is a we'll known fact that before
man has national political promi
nence and influence he must get a
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Cummins has not There Is not room
for two on Iowas political throne and
as far as Washington and the east at
large is concerned, Secretary Shaw of
the treasury occupies that throne just
now. In Washington Secretary Shaw
is regarded as Iowa's leading represent
tative, and what he says about Iowa
goes. Nobody in Iowa need be told
that in great many things Mr.. Shaw
and Mr.. Cunmins are on the opposite
sides of a very wide path.
All Iowans are we'll acquainted with
the details of the several struggles that
Mr. Cummins has had to go thru to
attain his place as leader of Iowa re-
publicans. 1t has been running fight,
continuous struggle for Mr.. Cummins
from the start, and those who claim to
know the situation say, that while he is
quite likely to attain to more political
honors, he will have to fight for them
just as hard as he has fought for his
present prominence. This family di-
vision of the Iowa republicans is known
to outsiders as the Cummins people and
the -Cummins people. The division
is properly called a family one. since
the factions have never yet been known
to. carry their differences into an cleo
ton, and it is pretty sure thing that
they never Will
Iowa's prominence In national poll
tics is, and always has been, due to.
the fact that her republicans settled
their differences in their own conven-
tons and not during an election. Out
siders know the factions by these
names simply because the anti-Cum-
minis people have never settled on one
man to lead them against the force
with Cummins as their head. In Wash
ington the politicians put Mr.. Shaw at
the head of the anti-Cummins forces,
tho there is no particular reason to do
so except that these men are probably
the two most prominent Iowans and are
known not to be bosom friends, atleast.
Since the Henderson episode the fea-s
lures OF the Cumn,ins and anti-Cum
minis condition have become more plain
TO people out of the state. As has been
heretofore stated, many in Washington
don't hesitate to put the blame of
Speaker Henderson's action on Gov
ernor Cummins Here is the crisis
where it is shown that Mr.. Cummins
has still to gain for himself national in
tiuence If he is going to. Because of the
differences on the tariff question and
the comparative newness of Mr.. Cum
minis in the field. politicians here do
not hesitate to side with Mr.. Hender-
son, except as to his method, and to
score Mr.. Cummfns.
The absolute stupefaction caused at
the very first by Mr.. Cummins' action
was cleared up gradually as the details
of the matter came out and the general
idea began to form and he