The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-07
Answered Speaker Cannon In an Ad.
dress Before the Marquette
Club Last Evening In
Windy City.
WANTS AN ARBITER
Iowa Senator Is Willing For Some
one 10 Decide Who are the
Republicans and Who
Are Not.
Especial to The Gate City.l

Especial to The Gate City.]
CHICAGO, Nov. e.-Senator A. B..
Cummins of Iowa, tonight. before the
Marquette club. made reply to
Speaker Cannon in an address which
was listened to with great interest.
Among other things he said;
A month ago distinguished son of
Illinois came to Iowa obviously angry
and therefore in one of his historical
moods. He made speech ostensibly
in defense of the rules of the house
of representatives, but which was, in
fact, an assault upon 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 Republican party
forever and ever. He exalted me to a
pre-eminence among these insurgents
which do not deserve, but which
would be proud to occupy, and de-
clared with a vehemence which you
who know him will appreciate, that
had become 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 an
other speech few days ago at Elgin,
in which he repeated In all the colors
Of his rainbow phraseology the denun-
citation 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 sat
isfy his lust for blood, he assigned to
| Senator LaFollette and myself a
superheated chamber in this region Of
the damned.
! Il ought not to be forgotten as we
4 proceed, and as we are looking into
the right Of Republicans to bear thai
/ honored name, that together with an
other unfortunate insurgent who's,
voice, calling the faithful to Republi
can prayers, has been heard from
ocean to ocean in every campaign fol
| quarter of century represent il
the senate of the United States {
state which has cast it's electoral vote
for the Republican candidates fol
President for fifty-three years; ani
that hold my place, not by chance
but through toilsome campaign ii
which the opinions that were carried
! into my vote upon the tariff bill were
/ proclaimed over and over again II
every hamlet in the commonwealth
When l recall these long continued
struggles against the very forces EN-
bodied in the speaker for the house O.
representatives and in the men who II
fact made the tariff bill what it is
i and when recall the outcome O
these fierce controversies, you viii
not think it strange if / resent thes,
charges of infidelity; and call TO
& judgment. The day has lone for al
inquiry into the qualifications of
Republican. / am willing to accep
; an arbiter, but it will not be Aldrich
1t will not be Payne 1t will not b,
Cannon. They are all Republican
and ] hope they will continue to b.
Republicans. assume they vote,
according to their consciences; an,
while / differ from them materially
and emphatically, have no dispos!
ton to enter the business of expellin;