The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-19
CUMMIuS MEN
HOLD CONFERENCE
Necessity of Tariff Revision Will
Be Brought Home to Iowa
Members.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Des Moines, Iowa, Dec. 19.-Confer-
ences of Governor Cummins political
friends here Saturday and Sunday re-
suited in Just one determination, and
that is that Iowa congressman are to
be impressed with the fact that tariff
revision sentiment exists in great vol
ume in Iowa and must be taken into &C.
count No decision was reached as to
the candidate to succeed Governor
Cummins. Men who attended the con-
ferences say that the governor himself
advised, against any hurried action as
to naming candidate. But the gov
ernor was equally positive that there
should be no backsliding on the tariff
revision issue.
Senator Funk says: "Those friends
Of the governor who are impressed with
his tariff views, believe that his posi-
ton has steadily gained ground for
months. We have mixed delegation
from Iowa in congress so far as tariff
views are concerned The governor g
friends, whom we believe to be in
the majority in Iowa, should be loyal
and do all in their power to impress
their representatives in congress that
they favor special tariff legislation. I
am safe in saying that those who talked
with the governor in what the news
) papers choose to call conference,
!, cSA SOu W o. Ale'A uPoA IhAo 1iAoULIou VI
. action.'
1t WAS suggested by Tom Way that
personal letters be addressed to con
gressmen from political and business
leaders thruout the state. These letters
will be designed to awaken the con
. gressmen and senators to the inter
est Iowa has In the tariff, and more
especially to the interest the farmer
have in the revision of certain burden
i some schedules.
9 Grant Club Shaken.
8 An embarrassing situation exists her
u because of an interview with Judg
% Smith Mcpherson, published locally, i
q which the jurist is quoted as asking
i. i, els the Grant club Of Des Moines bein
q manipulated as an A. B. Cummin
y club9'
Posing as a non-factional organizatio
4, the Grant club stands in the front ran
II Of republican organizations in the ives
u Upon it's roll Of members are written til
" names of Allison, Shaw, Cummins, Do
10 liver, Mcpherson, all the Iowa col
10 gressmen and many honorary member
u including leading republicans thruol
al the nation.
OF The indirect charge that the club
~ being manipulated in the interest
Cummins, coming as it does from Juds
Mcpherson, who is a standpatter,
- furnishes the basis for an ugly entangl
or ment. For a quarter of a century Il
club has existed without frictio
- The annual meeting was to have bee
al held last Thursday and Judge E.
Hubbard of Sioux City and ex-Govern
lis Cummins were to deliver addresses. tt
Is day after Judge McPherson's caust
question appeared the meeting was pos
ed poned, ostensibly because Congressm;
Is Hubbard was i'll and unable to speak.
Judge Mcpherson now denies tn
Id there was the slightest bitterness in
remark. He insists that he didn't a
~, the question as it was quoted at all, al
le- that what he did say was not intend
90 as a reflection upon either the manae
ment Of the club or the governor
friends.