The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-08
Senator Cummins Declares War
on Cannon and Aldrich.
Says Battle Will Be Fought to
Finish.
CALLING THEM NAMES
Branding Insurgents as Demo-
Gratis Will Not Avail.
Discusses Railway Rates and
Currency Problem.
CALLING THEM NAMES

spirited reply to Speaker Joseph G.
Cannon, who recently criticised the at
titude of the senator and insurgents"
as to the tariff, and declared that Ser
ator Cummins practically proposed to
join hands with Bryan.
Mr.. Cummins branded the latter as
false declaring it to be simply an ap
peal to blind passion and a senseless
prejudice"
Furthermore, he said. there was no
intention to accept as final the re-
vision of the tariff against which the
Insurgents voted.
II marvel at not only the audacity.
but the madness which inspires the at
tack which has been made upon the
Insurgents, for If Mr.. Cannon and his
allies shall be successful in putting
every man out of the Republican party
who would not have voted for the tariff
bill had he been member of congress.
he will have eliminated a majority OF
the Republicans in every northern state
from Ohio to the Rocky mountains"
declared Senator Cummins.
Further along. the speaker said: 'To
say that the tariff bill just adopted Is
not a fulfllment of the Republican
platform is only the truth. and it con-
tains no invitation or suggestion to any
Republican to forsake his party can
didate.''
Mr.. Cummins said that the Repub-
licans in sympathy with the insurgents
intended to reduce the influence of
leaders in the party mentioning Sena-
tor Aldrich, Speaker Cannon and Rep
resentative Payne in this connection,
to that point at which they will feel il
necessary to consult rather than COM
mand. ...-
Our struggle" he declared with en-
phasis, will not be to exclude anybody
f1,0I Do, hi T1lr ~ hut
the principle involved. we ask no quar-
ter and shall give none"
Mr.. Cummins said he intended to
strengthen crusade for a tariff COM
mission.
Railway rate regulation and the cur
rency question were also discussed by
the speaker.
Mr.. Cummins. in beginning his re-
n arks, referred to the controversy with
ing the party ranks. said he was anxious
to preserve the party strength. and
took the opportunity to speak of the dis
pute in the hope that a better under
stardinS may follow fair and candid
discussion of the differences of opin-
ion.
"a month ago. said he. "distin-
suished son Of Illinois came to Iowa
obciously angry and therefore in one
of his hystericaI moods. He made
speech ostensibly in defense of the
rules of the house of representatives,
those who had opposed the Republican
majority in congress upon the tariff
measure. Not content with burning us
at the stake, he scattered our ashes
to the four winds in order to make
sure that We would be lost to the Re-
publican party forever and ever. He
exalted me to a -eminence among
the insurgents which 1 do not deserve,
but which 1 would be proud to occupy.
and declared with a vehemence which
Nrf,tr who 1xnOW him will annrP0iSfQ that
1 had be come an ally of a certain elo
quent gentleman whose quadrennial
business has been to carry the Demo-
cratic banner to overwhelming defeat.
Warming to his work, he made anoth
err speech a few days ago at Elgin, in
v hich lie repeated in all the colors of
his rainbow phraseology. the denuncia-
ton of those who committed the horrid
crime of voting against the tariff BILL
and again consigned them to the lowest
depths of Democratic perdition; and
then to completely satisfy his lust for
blood, he assigned to Senator LaFol
lette and myself a superheated cham
Der in this region of the damned. With
all these imprecations, explosions and
determinations still ringing in my ears,
i feel like a member of the fated brig
ade of which the poet sang:
Cannon to the right of them,
Cannon to the left of them,
VolleyeG and numbered
OhdAACAtsC 10 ACCCpttu.
ut may be- however. that 1 can sum-
mon enough composure and calm my
shattered nerves sufficiently to lay be-
fore you some suggestions which ap-
pear to me to be pertinent upon the
issue which has thus been raised Let
f. be understood. once for all, that we
accept the challenge and are ready for
the fight
'.It ought not to be forgotten as we
proceed. and as we are looking into the
right of Republicans to bear that hon
cred name that together with another
unfortunate insurgent whose voice CALI
ing the faithful to Republican prayers.
has been heard from ocean to ocean in
every campaign for quarter of a cen
fury, / represent in the senate of the
United States a state which has cast
ats electoral vote for the Republican can
Ssi,1ates for president for So years; and
that l hold my place, not by chance. but
through toilsome campaigns IN which
the opinions that were carried into my
vote upon the tariff bill were proclaimed
over and over again in every hamlet
IL the commonwealth. When / recall
these long continued struggles against
the very forces embodied in the speaker
of the house of representatives and in
the men who in fact made the tariff bill
what it is. and when 1 recall the out
come of these fierce controversies, you
will not think it strange If l resent
these charges of infdelity. and call for
judgment.
1.-The day has come for an inquiry into
the qualifications of Republican /
am willing to accept an arbiter. but /:
will not be Aldrich, it will not be Payne,
it will not be Cannon. They are all Re
EublicanS, and J hope they will con :
tinue to be Republicans. 1 assume they
voted according to their consciences
and while differ from them materially
end emphatically. have no disposition
to enter the business of eXpelllng men
rfr 1aao 6
thew yield even nominal allegiance to
Republican platforms and support Re-
rubIican candidates. I say of them
fand 1 say it with the utmost good feel
fig for them personality that the Re-
rublcans who are in sympathy with the
course pursued by the insurgents intend
to take away from these men soTne OF
the power which they now exercise and
intend to reduce their influence to thai