Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-26

vacancy in the United States Senate.
Gov. CuDlmiEs Will be a candidate. lie
will be backed by the progressive repub-
licans. and if they are not in majori;y
Oh Joint ballot 1t would not surprise some
folk out here if he could summon enough
democratic strength to carry MN
through. In the meantime the merry
game of hamstring!ng and weazen-slttinS
will go blithely on between the factions
LATE Young for Harmony.
Col LATE Young. proprietor of the Des
Moines Capital. and a delegate at large
10 the recent Chicago convention. Is
working hard for harmony on the nation
al and legislative tickets. and declared to
me yesterday his positive belief that the
two tickets will win. He SAID he is Will
ing 10 make every sacrifice in an enoft
TO bring the republican party or Iowa
together Continuing. he said:
The Iowa delegation at Chicago got TO-
gether ard agreed to support Gov. Cum
minis for Vice President, as We thought
such a course would bring party har-
mony- The result would have been salts
factory ard would have been accepted.
except that a considerable percentage OF
former democrats are acting with re-
publicaHs in Iowa They either own or
edit severa! important daily newspapers.
They ara friendly to Gov. Cummins, but
are unfrisndly to practically every other
republican They do all they can to keep
up the split in the party. AT the repCp-
Ncan state convention, held at Waterloo
yesterday there was much apparent dis
cCrd. but when Gov. Cummins spoke he
was received with great applause
II mingled with the delegates freely
and talked with them personally, and l
can say that 1t is going to be extremely
difficult to keep up the dispute among
Iowa republicans. Senator Allison heads
the ticket for his old seat B. r Carroli.
a man who has been allied with neither
g fbs
the stardpa:ters. is the nominee for gov
ernor. Mr.. Clarke. the nominee for leu
tenant governor. Is progressive. Both
Weaver and Ladd. nominated yesterday
FOX supreme judges. are progressives The
progressives have a majority of the state
central committee. They have gained
two nominees for Congress. MesSrs. Ken
dali in the sixth and Woods In the tenth.
Fully half the legislative nominees on the
republican side are progressives. Impair
TALLY considered it would seem that hon
ors are somewhat easy between me two
wings of the party.
will grow Selfish reasons would make 1t
grow because if part of the ticket should
be defeated it might all be defeated.
The Original Iowa Dispute.
THE original dispute In Iowa was In
regard to d revision of the tariff, which
led to general debate of the tariff
question. During the seven years of the
dispute Gov. Cummins made some very
radical attacks upon the tariff. He said:
Competition we will have. if not at
home then from abroad He further
said that the consumer is better entitled
to competition than the producer to pro-
lection. In one of his annual messages
he said no harm could come to the Amer
lean farmer from the free admission of
Canadian farm products. On that issue
h was defeated four years ago. or his
faction was and the standpatters con-
troiled the state convention. This trou
bla in The republican party would make
long story. II al revolves around Albert
B. Cumrnins desire to go to the United
States Senate. Mr.. Cummins has a large
personal following. He is the only man
in the state who has ever had such
frenzied personal and loyal support.
My opposition to Gov. Cummins has
been on the ground that he did not stand
sGuareiy on the republican doctrine of
protection. ! have not opposed the re-
vision of the tariff. l have simply op-
posed its destruction. have opposed reel
procity in competitive products. But the
tariff Will be revised and I hope the re-
publican party will get together on that
proposition. n. o. NJ.