Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-21
MANY Predict He Will Be Promi-
nent In Next Presidential
Campaign
is EMBODIMENT OF IOWA IDEA
II, as Predicted, Tariff and Recipro-
city Are All Important Issues In the
Next Presidential Campaign, Cum
Minis Will Likely be Forced to Take
the Center Of the Stage.
pecial to Times-Repub


Des Moines, Aug 21.-There are a
great many people who are beginning
to believe that Governor Cummins will
be a figure of prominence in the next
presidential campaign. Events Of the
past few weeks and especially the reci-
procity conference at Chicago, have
.ad them to this belief. Governor
Cummins has Simply gone quietly
about his work. With definite convic-
tions on subjects of vital interest to
the welfare OF the people and with a
courage to express his conviction on
these matters he has not hesitated to
take the platform this summer as he
has done at other times to spread the
campaign of education. 1t is safe to
say that Governor Cummins has no
conviction as to what his political fu-
ture will be and is far from having
made up his mind to seek any office,
but his friends believe that the tariff
and reciprocity will be the prominent
and all important issues in the next
presidential campaign. The Iowa idea
originated by the governor and taken
up by the reciprocity conference will
assert itself three years from now and
Governor Cummins as the embodiment
of that idea will be forced to take the
center Of the stage. All Of this depends
of course upon congress not taking up
the tariff question at the coming ses-
sion of congress or at any other ses-
sion congress between now and
1908. but there are great many
prominent men in this state who be-
lieve there is no hopes of congress en-
acting any tariff legislation such as
will meet the needs Of the people, and
the only relief they look for on such
AN important measure will be after the
subject has been fought out in a pres
idential campaign.
It is not impossible that Iowa may
be the center of the next presidential
campaign, with Shaw a candidate of
the ltra-standpatters and in favor of
a tariff for exclusion only, and Govern
or Cummins the candidate of the pro-
gressive element in the party and in
favor of a tariff for protection that
will give an opportunity to enlarge the
market for agricultural products, as
well as manufactured articles. 1t has
developed from the interview with Sen
ator Funk and from other sources that
there will be vigorous opposition to
Secretary Shaw in this state by those
who differ with him on the tariff ques-
ton if he enters the field as a
presidential candidate, and that he will
not get the delegation from this state
simply because of his being the first
candidate to come out in the state for
that high office. 1t is to be taken for
granted at the same time that the ele-
ment Of the party that is kept in exis-
tence by the railroad dominated press
of the state, will make heroic efforts
to stem the tide of progress in behalf
of the interests they serve and hence
the national campaign If not little
more.
It is quite likely that the work on
the Iowa state house will be the last
done by Artist Elmer E. Garnsey, for
some time at least Mr.. Garnsey has
been offered great deal of work in the
east that he has been forced, on ac-
count Of his health, to reject, and it is
his intention, as soon as the work on
the Iowa building is completed, to re-
tire for time and take a needed rest.
Mr.. Garnsey has growth of some
kind on his neck. Recently he fell and
injured himself there, which has caus-
ed him some worry and on the advice
of his physicians he will take quite an
extended rest on the completion of the
Iowa building. Mr.. Garnsey has been
offered the work on the Carnegie In
stitute at Pittsburg. He did some work
on the institute and now that it is to
be enlarged to more than its first size
he has been offered the work of doing
the additional decorations, but has re.
fused. He has also been offered the
decorations on the Rockefeller church
and other large buildings. 1t is a source
Of great rejoicing on the part of the
capitol commission and Others who
have seen the work on the Iowa state
house here that this state was FORUM
ate in securing the services of so able
an artist as Mr.. Garnsey and especially
now is the capitol commission feeling
good over the matter because of the
probability that Mr.. Garnsey will be
unable to take any more contracts for
some time at least. 1t was the conten-
ton Of the members of the capitol COM
mission at the first that the only
method to pursue was to secure a good
man and allow him full rein to do the
work, and now the commission is con-
yinced that the work done will prove
the wisdom of that action.
The last work Of the plasterers IN
prepar ring the inches in the rotunda OF
the state house was done Saturday
evening Those who were accustomed
to seeing the old cuboy holes in the
rotunda which we're used by the jani-
tors and were little more than places
to catch dirt, will be surprised at the
Transformation in the appearance OF
the interior of the building by the
changes Of these inches. Instead OF