Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-03-17

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Should Be Hanged
Elepubiieaa politics in tie FIawlSeye
State is undoubtedly warming up to
the boiling perchance the boiling over
point The Redoak (Ia.) Express, a
stand patter OF the stand patters, re-
Gently delivered itself of the following
redhot remarks:
Mr.. Blythes statement to the effect that
in order to restore harmony to the Re
publican party in Iowa al the present
time he withdsaws from the contest for q:
place as one ef the delegates to the ma
tfonal convention and dominates Mr..
Cummins as a delegate at large shows a
good spirit, bur it is not good politics.
There should be no compromise at this
time. Mr.. Cumnins has been compromise
ed with before, and it is hoped most sin
cerely by the Express that he will be left
at home when the honorable delegation
starts for Chicago next June When a
man proves himself a traitor to those
political principles that have gained him
an office he should be hanged, politically
speaking, the same as any other traitor.
The Republican party cannot afford to
compromise with man who expounds
such doctrine; neither can 1t afford to al
low such a man a position of political
trust such as a delegate to the national
convention must assume.
1t seems, however, from the follow
ing Des Moines dispatch that Mr..
Blythe has reconsidered his deternli-
nation not to go as a delegate at large
to the Chicago convention and that the
Express will have to recant its opinion
that Governor Cummins ought to be
hanged, even metaphorically for it
would never do to thus maltreat an
Iowa delegate at large for it appears
that while Governor Cummins is badly
battered he is too strong to be turned
down or set aside entirely and will be
one of the Hawkeye "big four" The
Dispatch here alluded to is a fine illus
tration of the Kilkenny brand Of har-
mony now prevailing among Repub-
licans and runs in this wise:
Des Moines. Ia, March 5.-The star of
J. w. Blythe, who is mentioned In con-
nection with the management of the Re-
publican national campaign. is in the
ascendency and that of Governor Cum
minis on the decline. If the action of the
Polk county Republican convention this
afternoon is any criterion.
Congressman Hull made a feeble effort
to stay his more radical followers and
carry out his quasi pledge to interfere in
no way with Cummins ambition, but
there was no stemming the tide. LATE
Young. Roosevelt's personal friend and
Cummins worst enemy, was the directing
hand, and as consequence the conven-
ton laid the Iowa idea on the shelf
and Inundated the governor by depriving
him Of the expected and customary privi-
iege of naming the Polk county delegates
to the next convention.
The convention went further and adopt
ed resolutions denouncing tariff reform
and reciprocity and instructing this coun-
ty delegation to vote for ]. W. Blythe as
one of the delegates at large. Senator
Allison. Senator Dolliver and Governor
Cummins are named as the other three
delegates at large. but the action Of the
convention in instructing for Blythe in
stead Of for A. B. Fund was a bitter dis
appointment to Cummins.
The convention was led by Young,
chairman of the resolution committee, in
to doing all it could to discipline Cum
minis for having showed his preference
for Prouty In the congressional contest
between him and Hull
Cummins was Krievously disappointed
but when he found on the test vote that
he was hopelessly In the minority he Of
Tered no protest to the programme The
resolutions perfunctorily indorse his ac-
ton and his personal candidacy for one
of the delegates at large. but this much
has been conceded all along by J. w.
Blythe, who heads the opposition or
stand pat element in this state.
A feature of the convention was the
throwing out Of sixteen Prouty- Cummins
delegates upon remarkable revelations of
election frauds Numerous arrests have
been made on the latter score and pros
ecutions will be rigidly enforced.