Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17
Hull Coming to Iowa to Look
Into Talked Of Opposition.
CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS
Iowa Congressman Feels Sure That
Opposition of Governor Cannot Beat
Him in Race for consress-says
State is for Roosevelt.

Washington, D. c.. March 16.-With
a view to learning what there is in the
stories that have been circulated to-
the effect that Governor A. B. Cum
Minis is organizing campaign against
pose of preventing his reelection to-
congress, Representative j. A. T. Hull
will in a few days leave for his home
in Des Moines. Congressman : Hull
never makes any secret of his oppo-
sition to Mr. Cummins and the feel
ing, as is we'll known, is reciprocated
on the other side. In speaking about
the situation Congressman Hull says:
..The governor and do not get along
harmoniously. but, of course, such things
happen among men who get into politics.
They hayet'Aeen- ptOcIaifiing my defeat
because of an election the other day for
the district congressional committee.
don't care whether the other fellows have
the district or not. All that committee
has to do is to call the primaries for the
nomination of a republican candidate for
congress. ! did not spend penny on that.
For several years the committee has
been with me. and have been accused of
doing all sorts of things. Now / am per-
fectly willing to let the other side have
the committee. Cummins and live in the
same precinct, and I easily beat him out
there in the last fight. He and his friends
say they can defeat me at the primaries
for nomination next year. In my judg-
ment they can't do IT.
What about Gov. Cummins' vice presi-
Dental boom?" Mr.. Hull was asked.
you see am not in the governors con-
| fidence," replied Gen. Hull THE men
who are vice presidential candidates are
generally the men who are not nominated
| NV nm ba N
a moment later, when the talk had turned
| from Governor Cummins to general poll
/ tics.
II suppose as rule they ought not to
! be. The circumstances which develop at
| the national convention generally deter
mine best who shall be the running mate
of the presidential nominee. 1t is almost
| fatal to any man to become an active can
didate for the vice presidency months be-
fore the convention.
Iowa will be solidly for the nomination
of President Roosevelt continued the
i general. I'VE always hear such mutter-
Iings as are now current about other candi-
dates or would-be candidates. l believe
1 Roosevelt will he nominated by acclama-
! ton He has tremendous popularity among
/ the people. have been for him all along,
| but the members of congress who go back
4 to their constituents with some idea of
4 trying to favor some other man for the
nomination will find that they are no
i more than n fly on Il wheel.
you know a great deal is said about
i political leaders, but political leaders lead
/ because they keep along in line with popu-
lar sentiment on political questions. Roose-
/ welt is frank and square. He is honest and
the people know it. That is why he has
4 become so popular.
"'rhey talk about his running counter to
the wishes of Wall street, but 1t is that
kind of talk which makes him stronger
than ever in popular estimation