Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-10
IOWA SENATOR IN CHICAGO M
TERviEW OUTLINES PLANS or
PROGRESSIVE" REPuBLicANaa
IOWA BATTLE GROUND.
DES MONIES PLAN
TO GREET SENATOR
HIS RETURN HOME TONIGHT AFT.
ER FIRST sEssloN IN SENATE
WILL BE sIaNAL FoR ela pzp-
oNsTRATioN.

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Albert 3. cummIns, Iowa'c Junior
United States senator, will return
to hla homo In Dee Moines this
evening after his initial services
In the national Legislative body.
Des Molnes will welcome lta dis
tlngulshed citizen with crest
demonstration.
Thousahds Of people Of pes
Molnes and from the surrounding
Vicinity are expected 70 receive the
senator when he steps from Hook
Island train at GAO O'clock. Fiaua
and bands will be everyyyi1sre.
With fair weather his reception
will be second only to that Given
on tho occasion Of the arrival Of
President Taft.
Hundreds Of automobiles Will
BIO driven In the parads from the
passenger station to the play.
grounds at Lincoln school, West
Ninth and Mulberry streots,wl.ere
Senator Cumming viii speak Tor
the fret time IN Iowa since hIa
electlon to the senate.
Chicago, Aug. 9s--War to the limit,
with no quarter asked or given, and
with the control OF tho republican ma
t!onal organization the one great prizs
at stake, is officially declared By the
progressive" Republicans.
The Republican national convention
Of 1912 is the promised field OF the
most spectacular battle OF the ca1u.
paign already Initiated. The tariff
and how to revise IT furnishes tho linz
Of demarcation between the oppesina
forces.
Senator Cummfns announced tthx
the fight would begin In Iowa this fall
and that 1t would gradually be eytends
ed over most Of tho states OF Tho
Union.
He stated It as his opinion that tha
Democratic party had disintegrated on
the tariff question, and that tho only
hope of proper solution Of the probs
lem was factfonal fight In the ranks
Of the Republican party IN the cots
gressional elections Of 1910 and IN tha
committee.
The Cummins platform, on which nd
will begin to battle this fall in Iowa.
calls for the appointment Of d tariff
commission. This commission hid
would have composed OF experts, and
sitting In continual session for the cor
lection of data on schedules. Thia
information he would have ut the dts
posal of congress at each session.
Warts Permanent comn1lssgcs,.
On this he would readjust tho tariff
from year to year, according to intar4
national business requirements.
Senator Cummins arrived In Chicago
early yesterday morning. He csifna
on the same train with Speaker Joseph
G. Cannon OF Danville. Senator Will
lam r. Borah of Idaho, Representatives
James T. Tawney OF Minnesota, w. l.
Smith Of Iowa and Frank w. Mondail
of Wyoming were also In the came
car.
Senator Cummins went to the con-
gress hotel and took the same suite OF
rooms that Charles p. TAFT occupied
during the Republican convention OF
last year. While seated in one OF
these rooms he gave out the new
interview.
"Do You think the tariff will become
a political issue In the next cams
paign" he was asked.
Not as between partfes.r was the
reply. The Democratic party as far as
the tariff issue is concerned has disin-
tegrated It's leaders cannot stick to-
gether and present a solid front.
THE people who expect to see a,
proper solution of the tariff problem
must not look to the Democrats for 4.
The party falls to stand together on
the subject. I do not think 1t would be-
the logical thing for any Republican
or any other voter who is dissatisfied
with the present tariff bill to vote the
Democrtic ticket at any congressional
or in the next national cams
paign.
Fight it Out in Party.
THE real solution lies with the Rex
publican party. One faction will have I'd
make the fight between now and tho
next national election.
THE progressives already have ins
dicted by their fight in Congress how
the battle is to be fought. 1t rneana
that it is time for a new alignment Of
the Republican party's forces"
The senator said he thought such a
fight would be started in Iowa al
once.
"seven Of the ten Representatives
from Iowa" he said, may be called
progressiyes. They believe that a new