The San Francisco call., 1909-08-09
.ULTIMATUM
DELIVERED
|. BYCUMM|NS
Iowa Senator Opens HOstiIities
Against the Followers
of Aldrich
Spectacular Battle for Control
OF Party to Be Waged In
Every State
Only Compromise Will Be in
Contest Against Possible
Democratic Congress
Especial Dispatch 10 The calll

Especial Dispatch 10 The CaH1
ICHICAGO, Aug. 8-War to the
limit, with no quarter asked or
given, and with the control OF
the republican national organization
the one great prize at stake, is Official
ly declared by the progressive" re-
publicans. The republican national
convention of 1912 is the promised
field of the most spectacular battle OF
the compaign already initiated The
tariff and how to revise it furnishes
the line of demarcation between the
opposing forces
Ultimatum From Cummins
Senator Albert B. Cummins of
Iowa, homeward bound from Wash
ington, this afternoon flung down the
gauntlet, and for all practical pur-
poses officially and formally delivered
the political ultinaturn which opens
hostilities between the progressive
and the old order which has aligned
itself behind the banner carried in
Washington by Senator Nelson w.
Aldrich.
The only point of compromise
which Senator Cummins suggested
was that there would be a mutual
fight against possible democratic con-
troll of congress or the house of rep
resentatives.
He Speaks With Authority
"In my Judgment" said Senator
Cummins, 'the tariff never again will
be an issue between the republican
and democratic parties. 1t is the de-
cisive issue between the two well de-
fined elements within the republican
party. 1t is an issue which must, and
| believe will be, settled definitely az
the next national convention"
The Iowa senator talked candidly
and freely of the campaign plans of
the progressive wing of republicanism.
He held nothing in reserve and evi-
IDENTIFY spoke as of authority within
sentatives who believe that the Payne
tariff bill does not keep the pledges
made in the Chicago platform OF 1905
Watson Wants States Divided
ATLANTA, Ca. Aug. Sin denouncing
the Aldrich-Payne tariff bill. and in an
swer to the Memorial day speech OF
Secretary of War Dickinson. Tom Wat
son, former candidate for president on
the populist ticket, suggests the recon-
struction of the union into four grand
divisions declaring the hemisphere will
be all the happier for it. His reply was
called forth by Dickinson's statement at
Gettysburg that there are in the south
but few, if any. who would not turn
swiftly with sentiments of abhOrrence
from any suggestion that 1t would be
better for the south if it had succeeded
in establishing an independent govern
ment"
After denouncing this assertion and
charging that Dickinson did not believe
what he said and that northern people
knew he did not speak the truth. Wat
son said:
1 am quite sincere IN saying II would
have been better for the south had the
confederacy succeeded. We could have
had no constant irritant such as we now
have in the social equality of blacks.
with just such laws as Senator AID
rich and other New England senator's
are forcing through congress the union
will be split into four grand divisions.
and this hemisphere will be all tbs
happier for it,
"Good Law" Says Cannon
CHICAGO. Aus. s.--~The proof Of the
pudding is in the eating" Wait until
the new tariff law has been tested BY tho
people; then we Will know how it suits.
Personally. I believe that republican
congress has kept the pledges made BY
the republican national convention in
the platform adopted at Chica go-and.
mark you. emphasize republican plat
FORM
This is the view of Speaker Can
non on the Payne tarif bill Uncle
Joe was at the Union league for an
hour on his way home to Danvina.