Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-09
A NEW cuMMlNs BOOM.
A New Story Sent to MINNEAPOLIS Pape
From Council Bluffs.

From Council 6luHs. .
Special to Republican. s.
Des Moines, Jan 9.-Under Co
Bluffs date a Cummins boom in .Se
form appepars in the Minneapo l.
bune of the eighth. OF course is
thought of it here but it furn' good
reading for what it might be.
The articles as follows:
Roosevelt and Cunlmins" is to be the
republican presidential licket IL plans
which have been devised and partially
carried to completion have definite re-
suits.
| Friends of Governor A. B. Cummfns
in western Iowa are confident that IN
| him they have found the only man IN
the country who is suited in disposition,
!polftical beliefs and personal qualities
to be the running rate of Theodore
Roosevelt.
| One of the men who are one the
Inside" and who is oe national proml-
inence politically, but who is d1scrset
enough to ask that his name be Win
Iheld, presents this view of the situa-
ltion:
governor Cummins is comparatively
Young. vet skilled in political hnesss,
! as has been made plain in his pollticai
lhatt,es. the most sensational the state
has ever undergone.
.His contest with the venerable Sen
lator Gear, in which that patriarch OF
the senate barely escaped defeat.
slammed Cummins Immediately as a
Header. :.
| "His remarkable achievements IN
forcing Shaw. Allison Dolliver and all
the other Iowa notables to accept ms
views, openly at least, has no parailei
lin western political history.
| "McKinley rose to prominence as the
author of the tariff for protection idea.
lCumnins is the originator OF the iowa
Idea and this idea has swept the
western state until the high tariff ad-
iyocates who do not recognize that
trnsts exist were forced during the past
campaign to promise tariff revision In
orda, To save the party from defeat.
"C,ummins stands with Roosevelt or
the tariff question He is strong, Wig
orous. an accomplished orator. stu.
dent skilled in all the phases Of inter-
national law and us:ages, an opponent
OF the trusts and. above all, IS as popu-
lar with the republicans of the west
as is Roosevelt.
He will go to the national conven-
ton with the solid Iowa delegation,
Notwithstanding all the efforts Which
Shaw, Allison, Dolliyer, Cousins, Lace.
and the other high tariff supporters
may make to displace him before the
convention.
Henderson will attempt to defeat him
for re election to the govern0rship, but
he will not succeed.
"Cumnins is the popular idol, so Tar
| as Iowa republicans are concerned, ana
I predict that he will become the idol
of republicans nationally as is Roose-
velt,'' z.
Whatever may be this individuals &
views. 1t is certain that in western Iowa
'c,u-rnlins is supreme in control OF the
party.
His almost continual utterance in
favor of reciprocity and of such tariff
changes as viii initiate to curb the
trusts are attracting national atten-
ton.
The fact that he is receiving and ac-
cepting invitations to speak at publ.
gatherings in many of the western
states is making him personally known,
and he is, in effect. tho it is claimed
! his friends, without intent, making an
effective campaign at this early day
for the vice presidential nomination.
If elevated to the secondary position,
it is more than likely that his friends
will make of him the logical" choice
for the presidential nomination in
1905
His friends assert that his nomina-
ton will have moral influence thru.
out the west, as it will be a recogni-
ton of the right of the west because
of its growing political Importance to
ticket.