The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-26
.CUMMINS MEN
ARE AROUSED.
Secretary Shaw and Other Leaders
Had q Scheme to Put the Elk
ecutive in Hole.
Democrats Were to Garry Out Part
Of It by Endorsing the
Iowa Idea.
Harmony Among the Factions at
Next Weeks Convention May
Not Be Realized.
Special to The journal.

Special to The Journal.
Des Moines, Iowa. June a6-The pro-
gram for the republican state convention
next week Is harmony, but unless the tenn
per Of the Cummins men and the opposing
faction changes materially, harmony will
only be preserved by a sort Of armed truce.
The friends OF Cummins are not a little
aroused over what they are assured was
a scheme fathered by Secretary Shaw and
other anti Cummins leaders to put the
governor In a deep hole along with the
Iowa idea.
There was double headed sort of pro-
gram mapped out, 1t is asserted. The
first part of 1t was to be Unanswered
from Washington. It consisted in the
giving out Of the reports that Roosevelt.
Allison, Hanna, Aldrich, Shaw, Hepburn
and other leading republicans, had agreed
on the Iowa platform and that George E.
Roberts was bringing it to Iowa. It was
said this had been written by Allison and
approved by the president and other ma
tional leaders. The understanding given
out was that the Iowa idea was not mani
fest in the platform and that Cunmins
had nothing to do with the pla tforn. That
is, it was plainly left to be inferred that
Cummins had been virtually repudiated
by the great national leaders of the repub-
Hcan party.
The other end of this program was put
in operation at the democratic state con-
Young and other "stand patters." It con-
sisted simply in getting the democratic
convention to indorse the Iowa idea. It
was figured that with Cummins placed In
the light of having been repudiated by the
national leaders of his own party and Of
having been virtually Endorsed by the
democratic party, the governor would be
left stranded high and dry politically. And
there Is no question what the effect Of it
would have been and that had the demo-
Gratis Endorsed the Iowa idea, it would
have been made the basis for attacks on
papers
Now Director Of the Mint Roberts has
denied the story as to- the agreement of
Roosevelt and others on the platform and
the democrats would not take up with the
Iowa idea. However there was a strong
effort made In the convention to get it in
dorsed and in the original draft Of the
platform something suspiciously like the
Iowa idea was sneaked in. It was elm
mated later when s. "A. Brewster arose
An the convention and moved an amend
ment calling for tariff schedules to be adj
justed for raising revenue only. It was
pleaded that a mistake had been made
in the TRANSFERRING of the platform, but
this explanation Is regarded with ssus-
picion In well informed quarters and it Is
believed a, covert attempt was made to
indorse the Iowa idea in effect but not
/ in SO many words. 5.sts as ss.5
The situation has been such that some
| of Cummins' close advisers have told the
| facts about the agreement on the platform.
They say Shaw never had anything to dc
with the conferences that settled the plat
form. The three men, that first took the
matter up were Allison Cummins and
George d. Perkins. There was a, draft OF
a platform made, into which. at Cum
Minis suggestion, was inserted the tariff
| language Of the st. Louis platform OF
| 1896. Cummins said in the first place he
would not enter into any arrangement fol
a conference unless it was understood
from the first that he was not going back
on the principles embodied in the Iowa
idea. He took the view that the. st. Louis
platform was in accord with this and that
Is was a strong statement.
The platform after 1t was drawn was
shown to several Of the Cummins lead.
ers, including Curtis, Funk and others. tt
Blythe and several leading Iowa poll.
| ticians. It was shown to the president
and approved by him. Secretary Shaw
according to the statements given ou
from high authority, was never consulted
at any stage Of the proceedings.