Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-06-18

Chicago, June IT, Especially
The close Of the first days session Of
the national Republican convention
| found sentiment crystallized to the
extent that three things were evident
Charles Warren Fairbanks of Indi-
ana will be the vice presidential nom
inee unless the convention turns a
complete somersault Jonathan r.
Dolliver of Iowa is the most talked
of man in the United States
4 and the friends of Governor
Albert B. Cummins made 9
great tactless blunder or they could
have nominated him for the vice pres
idency These three things do moi
seem to bear very close relationship
j to each other, but the events of the
day proved that ir discussing one OF
i the questions, the other two were in
4 variably brought up
The Iowa View.
II Fairbanks will be the nominee be-
cause the other delegations have come
to accept the Iowa view of the situa-
ton and have given up the hope OF
nominating the Iowa senator.
Dolliver is the most talked of man
for it is unanimously conceded that
he could have been nominated as vice
president hands down had it not been
for the opposition of the Iowa delega
tion, and in some quarters there ID
even talk of Dolliver for the presiden-
cy. Three of the California delegates
told leaders in the Iowa delegation
that Dolliver would have their vote
for the presidency IL his name went
before the convention.
The Cummins leaders made a tact
less blunder In trying to force the NOM
ination of the junior Iowa senator
! against the personal wishes of Sena-
> tor Dolliver and against the wishes of
a majority of the Iowa delegates, Had
they exerted the same efforts in ad-
: vancing the candidacy of Governor
!. Cummins for the vice presidency, it
Z is felt that Cummins would have swept
the convention.
Failure of cummins Candidacy.
That Cummins as vice presidential
! candidate would have given heavy
' strength had such a move been made
9 without incumbrance, was evident
y from the reception it received in spite
/. of the fact that it was held over the
convention as a club instead of as a
" free will offering. But as it is, the
y Cumming boom has failed The other
= delegations are asking, What are
these Iowa fellows trying to do to
us. First we offer to support man
from their state for the vice presiden
cy and they come back at us fighting
Then they come forward with another
candidate and they say If we do not
nominate the first of their candidates
J they will force the second one on us
What kind of a game are they play
Le ing?''
IN The ins and Outs.
u You see the ins and outs of the fac
y tional affairs of Iowa are not known
h by the delegates from New York ant
from California and from other statei
y that have troubles of their own. The.
~ know Dolliver and they know Cum
= Minis. They think both of them are o
10 vice presidential calbre. What the.
u cannot understand is why a state 1ik
"a Iowa should attempt to nominate tw
Is vice presidential candidates. TIL
leaders of the party of course knoy
le the situation and know just what
:. behind it. But the delegates do no
he know it and no one has the time I
er go through the convention and recit
We the recent political history of low
Is to body of men who are pretty bus
II, with their own affairs and who in tn
SO main believe that Fairbanks has don
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