Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-10-29
FAIRBANKS
SENATOR BEvERIDGE PLACES
THE VICE PRESIDENT TN
"coLD STORAGE"
IF WE'RE TO HAVE TARIFF REvt
SION, WHAT'S THE MATTER
WITH cUMMlNS =?

cial Correspondence ALBERT j. Bev-
eridge, senator from Indiana and self
appointed cuckoo of the administra-
ton, landed in. Washington this week.
He scaraely had settled himself be-
fore he was reported to have kicked
the Fairbanks boom on the shins by
saying that unless President Roose-
welt was nominated by the republicans
next year William Jennings Bryan
would be the next president. Senator
Beverage was careful to say, accord
ing to reports, that he had given his
pledge ito support Vice President Fair
banks in his candidacy for the nominal
ton, but personally his conviction was
that the republican party would go
down to defeat unless Mr.. Roosevelt
headed the ticket. This view of the
situation Is not held by MI. Beverage
alone, and 1t Is neither new nor espe-
cially interesting, except for the fact
that it shows the extreme lukewarm-
ness of the vice presidents hackers.
AS viewed from Washington, the Fair:
banks boom might Just as well be put
in cold. storage. While tine situation
is extremely muddled, and it is impos-
sible to say which one Df the presi-
Dental possibilities is showing the
most strength, there is little doubt
that Mr. Fairbanks cause is lost, In
any, event, Senator Beveridgefs state
,ment will not advance the angbi tiOns
of the vice president, =...,
President Roosevelt is back In WASH
ington from his river trip and bear
hunt. The chief executive. is in rug
ged health and has stored up the en-
ergy necessary for the. winters hard
work He returned at a time when
the financial situation was orhinous.
Howver, he declined to interfere ID the
matter, feeling satisfied chat Score
tary CorteIyou was doing all that was
necessary to relieve the situation The
president is more enthusta than ev-
er over the adoption by the govern
ment of liberal and scientific policy
of waterway development. In his
speech at Vicksburg he announced his
intention of advocating in, his next
message to congress that the national
lawmakers take the first step towards
bringing about the development Of the
Mississippi river There is little doubt
but that he viii discuss the matter
thoroughly along broad lines, for in all
of his speeches he touched upon the
necessity of the country utilizing its
vast natural resources if it is to re-
MAIN prosperous. The message to con
gress viii be read only a, day or SO be-
fore the meeting here of the fourth
annual convention of the National
Rivers and Harbors Congress, This
coincidence undoubtedly win make a
strong impression upon the minds Of
the national lawmakers. The National
Rivers and Hafbors Congress for sew
era1 years has striven to impress up.
on the country the necessity of expend.
ing not less than $4,000, 900 a year for
the Improvement de rivers and harb
ors. The president always has been
lin accord with the organization aims
and there is little doubt but that the
4 mesabe and the convention will com
bine in exerting a powerful influence
upon this especial legislation.
'tIf tariff revision is to be one of The
| planks of the republican national plat
form next year, why Is not Governol
Cummins OF Iowa the logical man Il
stand upon it?' is the question tina
some OF the western admirers of TIL,
man who has identified himself witt
the Iowa Idea" are asking. Mr.. Cum
Minis boom has not made as mucl
noise as some others in the east, bu
there lis no doubt that its hackers ar
watching developments Of the situa
ton with a view to taking adyantag
OF any favorable opening. The COY
ernor himself outlines a platform 70
bntes to the November Appleton
:.sl1908 DIN an article which he contr
! Magazine. He names as the tire
& leading issues tariff revision, railroa
regulation and government control 9
corporate industry; but the first am
81 greatest of these, of course, is the RI
form Of the tariff Governor Gun
minis used to be called a radical, bi
the only proposals in his article ths
would put him into this category al
!. suggestions for the amen ment OF th
!. constitution to bring about the fede
: al ineorpo Of all interstate raj
/. roads and for the election of senator
{ by popular vote. Eumsnin's suppoi
d ers hold the opinion that the disa
q pearance Of the LaFoIlette boom wi
Z help the Iowa man. leaving him Il
Z most available candidate II sprogre