The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-07-09
THE REPUBl IcAN STATE cONvFNTION
Gov. Cummns Re-N0minated but his Iowa Idea Plank is
Turned Down. the Old Gang Having Control of the
Committee Resolutions
THE TICK EFT.

FOR Governor Is. CummlnS, OIL dos
Moines.
For Lieutenant Governor John Her.
riott, of Stuart.
For State superintendent John f..
Riggs, of Sigourney.
For Judge of supreme court Charles
A. Bishop, of Dcs Moines.
For Railroad Commissioners David
j. Palmer, of Washington.
The republican state convention held
prises to the delegates and the public
in general, and while it resulted in the
denomination by reclamation of Gov.
Cummins, it also witnessed his appon-
ents in control of the platform commit
tee, and the governor was compelled to
accept the nomination on platform
which is known all over the United
States as the Iowa Idea. To add to his
humiliation the platform was read by j.
w. Blythe, the leader of the STAND
patters" who has always opposed Cum
minis, both in his candidacy for U. S.
senator and for the nomination two
years ago as governor, and the republi-
can party will continue to cater to the
protection of the trusts in return for
big campaign contributions.
Up to midnight of the day preceding
~ 4
ly would be able to control the COM
mittee on resolutions and thus dictate
his platform, but at the last minute a
deal was pushed through by the stand
patters" which resulted in their naming
six of the eleven members of the COM
mittce, and of selecting j. w. Blythe,
the railway lobbyist as chairman. 1t
was a bitter pill for Governor Cummins
and his followers, but there was nothing
to do but swallow it, or have the biggest
split in the party ever known.
1t had been expected that Congress-
man Hepburn would be named as per-
manent chairman, but while the Iowa idea
resolutions they secured the committee
on permanent organization, and N. d.
Kendall. of Abba, was chosen as perma-
nent chairman.
The task of naming the ticket was an
easy one, all the nominations being
made by reclamation except that of
hon cpt Of ia ON,
for which there We're three candidates,
The present encumberent, r. c. Barrett,
John T. Riggs, of Sigourney, and FL. G.
Adams, Of West Union, Riggs capturing
the nomination on the third ballot.
The temporary chairman was George
d. Perkins, of Sioux City, who delivered
a carefully prepared speech, designed
more as campaign document than a
speech to enthuse the delegates.
In accepting the nomination Gov
Cummins spoke as follows:
"Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Convention: 1t is beyond my power
to express the appreciation | so keenly
feel in the high honor the republicans o.
this state have again conferred upoI
me. Two years ago, upon a like occas
ion, said to you that if elected
would try to do my duty faithfully ant
fearlessly. l come now to render t.
you my account, conscious as | am o
the inadequate way in which | have
performed the work of the high Office
with which the republicans of this stat,
invested me. ! can look you all in tn
faces and say that ] have tried to d'
what was right and tried to say what i
true.
l have given you, and, if elected again
shall give you all my time and all m.
strength and account myself well re
warded if | can preserve the contidenc,
Of the people of this great common
wealth; and it is my hope that may d.
nothing to take down this state iron
ed. 1t is my hope to stain in nowist
her fair name and to transmit to m,
successor the history of republican ad
ministrations without dishonor. | ac
count it a very great privilege to be
commissioned by you to stand as one o
the humble agencies in the worl
of the republican party, it is the onl,
political organization that in fifty years
has done anything for humanity or TO
good government. Every other politi
cal organization has either shriveled III
under the deadly paralysis of conserva
tism, or blown up under the deadly in
f1ation Of impracticable and indefensibl
theories.
AS said last night, this party of our
in the last half century has done more
for good laws, has enforced more wis,
politics than any other political organi
Zation that ever influenced human af
fairs. 1t has made mistakes as was Sc
beautifully stated by your distinguished