The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-12-23
Washington Letter.
O. H. OLSON.
Held over from last issue

neid Its annual meeting in the First Con
church here this week. DR.. L.
N. McCash, formerly pastor of the Drake
University church at Des Moines, now
Iowa State Superintendent of the Anti
saloon League, was prominently identified
with the meeting. DR.. P. A Baker, Ohio
State Superintendent of the League, was
elected General Superintendent Of the
National League.
The regular session OF Congress is now
well under way Committee assignments
have been made, and no serious outbreaks
have resulted Congressman Conner re-
tains his former committee assignments
and in addition is given a place en- Il e
committee of Labor This places him in
commanding position, and puts him in
line for future advancement as we'll as
present usefulness. Hepburn is chairman
of the committee on Interstate Commerce.
Lacey is chairman of the committee on
Public Lands; Hull is chairman of the
committee on Military Affairs; Smith is
placed on9the Appropria. ions Committee.
These are the principal committee changes
that have been made with reference to the
Iowa delegation.
The National Republican committee is
this week holding its ANIMAL meeting at
the Arlington Hotel The recent editorial
of the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune in
opposition to the nomination of Theodore
Roosevelt as the next republican candidate
for the presidency has called forth ex-
pressions from the committeeman from
the various states. These statements are
almost unanimously in favor of Roosevelt.
Among the:few dissenting states in Alaba-
ma, which is hostile to Roosevelt, because
of the Booker T. Washington incident and
consequent federal appointments in that
state The sentiment favoring the nomin-
alton of Roosevelt appears to predominant,
and the notes of discord that may be
heard are minor ones, and lack the force
National committeeman from Iowa, En-
est E. Hart, of Council Bluffs arrived on
| Wednesday, ard early expressed the opin.
ion that Iowa would unreservedly support
Roosevelt. Allison has also expressed
this view. There are no denying the al
most irresistible popularity Of Mark Han
ma, however, and were itnot for the fact
that the convention is SO near at hand. a
landslide for his nomination would not be
improbable The place for holding the
next national convention is to be decided
today. St. Louis and Chicago are the
only places mentioned in this connection.
Chicago seems to be in the lead and will
4 probably be selected for the next conven-
| ton.
Governor Cummins has been in the east
the past week, and he was scheduled to de-
/ liver a speech in Boston on Thursday
evening on the subject of tariff revision
and the Iowa Idea" from which it APP
pears that this idea alternately reviled
and exhalted according to the political al
liances of the individual is still successful
ly struggling for existence. The governor
was called home by the illness of his aged
mother, and consequently his speech was
read by another. The papers comment
| quite extensively upon his speech. Both
of the leading papers there, The Post and
The Star, are friendly to the Idea" The
/ governor does not seem to have retreated
] from his original position on this question.
\ Judge Conner will start west within a
4 day or two to assist a few days in conduct
ing the extensive and growing law practice
f OF Conner & Lally, Yne of the noted law
firms of western Iowa, and Of which he is
the senior member
/ Judge Smith returned from his home in
Council Bluffs on Monday evening, after
spending fortnight at that place. before
the beginning of the regular session.
The federal judgeship contest for the
E northern district of Iowa still remains in
Status quo, and the newspaper reports thai
find their way into Iowa are about as reli-
able as a promise from the Sublime Porte
People who are guessing at the outcome
should libel their remarks SO that the pup
lie is not deceived into taking them ser.
iously. When a solution of this knotty
problem has been reached it might be di.
verted to defeated candidates to try to ex.
tract consistency ont of the various re
ports asserted with complacency and con
4 fidence as to the outcome of the contes