The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-11-08

| in a convention that looked as much
like a mob as it did like a deliberative
body. He was elected, too; then renom-
mated and reelected.
At the end OF two terms his followers
| insisted that he run for a third term.
II was unprecedented, but it was their
only chance to win; SO he ran, and won.
Before his term was ended he an
bounced himself again a candidate for
Senator and in a popular primary, IN
which he ran against a man who had
been Senator for a period as long as
the lifetime Of an average man, he was
just barely defea ed.
The next month-the very next month
the Republican national convention
met. There was demand for a man
suspected of honesty" to 90 on the
ticket for second place, end the lawyer
governor was brought forward by the
friends of the man who was TO be
named for Vice President The same
old element that had always op-
posed him a home rc-opened the same
fight In tie convention, and in the end
his name was not even placed before
the convention. But it lad gone forth
TO the world that this young man who
had busted the first trust, was the one
whom the higher powers of his party
wanted for Vice President
Then there was a new turn Death
laid its hand on the aged Senator who
mad been nominated against the gov
ernor; there was a vacancy. a scram-
bic; a special session Of the Legisla-
ture. which failed to elect anybody. The
enemies Of the governor were still too
strong.
SO II was agreed that the Senatorial
succession should be squurely submitted
TO the Republican voters, In a primary
test on election day. Each side pre-
scented its candidate; and when the
votes were counted the trust-bustilg
lawyer governor had been overwhelm-
lngIy nominated, and the Legislature
was instructed to elect him Senator.
He will be chosen. by a special session
Of the Legislature, in a few days. He
will come To Washington when Congress
meets. to be sworn IN for the once for
which he has been fighting for eighteen
years 1t is believed 10 be the longest
fight any man ever made for a Sena-
tOTship. There has hardly been a ces-
sation. He has had 70 revOlutiOnlze
politics IN his State. He has done It
with little money. while his opponents
had almost no limit on their financial
sinews.
But he had gathered around hi.a a
backing Of determined friends who
year after year came up for new
round In the battle. Sometimes they
won. sometimes they lost; but they
always had another fight in them, and
they were proud of the leader who
seemed always TO have two or three
more fights in himself, and to night
better on top OF defeat than after
victory.
Now they have Won the last greaL
round. Their State has been turned
over % the new regime. headed by the
man whose chief asset twenty years
ago was that he was suspected OF
being an honest lawyer. He viii come
10 the Senate for a short term ana a
long term; and his friends say he viii
stay as long as he likes.
He will be a fighter when he gets 10
washington Not that ne is another
Ia Toilette, for he isn't He is dill
ferent; but he is fighter. He Will be
recognized, after he gets used to things,
as one of the great lawyers OF the
Senate, and as one OF its great speak
ers. Then il will be discovered that
he has heterodOx political views; that
he votes TO please himself, rather than
COteTie of party managers, He Will
be busy, and more or less troublesome.
He will be written up by the society
reporters as the handsomest man IN
Congress, for he has always suffered
In politics because he labored under
the charge of being handsome Some
day he will break loose and make a
real speech. and then he will be written
up as the great new orator OF Congress
lie will sit around during the tariff
hearings. listening TO the facts brought
forth, and one day he will tell what he
knows about tariff on iron and steel
and lumber and glass, and about the re-
latiOns of the tariff to the first trust
that got bUsted-the Barbed Wire trust.
Then they will refer to him as a prac
ticaI student of tariff. A little later
there will be a knotty point in consti-
tutional law, and he will explain 1t.
and get recognition as the new consti-
tUtiOnal authority.
And about that time It will burst on
Washington and the country that Iowa
long fractional fight has ended with the
sending of Albert B. Cummins to the
Senate.