Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-11
IOWA S0LONS RIP
HIDE OFF c. D. P,
UNCOVER TRUSTS
Present Republican Leaders in
League with Corporations
AvoWs CumminS
DOLLIVER POKES AT TAFT
InSurgent Senators Throw Down
Gauntlet to Regulars in
State and Nation
D0LLIVER PoKES AT TAFT
Associated Pressl

Associated PreSSl
DIES MONIES, Iowa, May 10.-Ring-
ing denunciations of the tariff bill and
the. men who passed it characterized
the speeches of Senators Jonathan P.
Dolliver and Albert B. Cummins, VINO
opened the progressive compaign In
Iowa tonight at the Coliseum.
The meeting tonight followed district
conferences throughout the day, at
which steps were taken to reconstruct
the old Cummins organization and to
organize the state by counties and pre-
cincts.
Senator Dolliver referred to President
Taft as the "titular leader Of the Re
publican party, which meant, he said
"a good man surrounded by people who
knew exactly what they wanted.
"I am not here to criticise the presl-
dent nor to say unl1ind words against
him, but 1 count it no reflection on him
to state [ find it necessary sometimes
to disagree with him and those sur
rounding him. Men have crowded to
the front in his administration who
have not had the welfare OF the party
or country at heart"
Senator Cummins was given tre-
mendous ovation when he arose 20
speak He urged the progressive Re
pubicans to return progressive cor
gressmen to Washington. He said, in
part:
CJJNINIINS UNMASKS REGULARS
"While the principal object of my
visit to Iowa is to say word toi
others, l do not pretend to be alto
gether unselish.
| although not a candidate for ofhce
in the coming primary make no
| concealment of my hope the next Re-
publican state convention will approve
my course in congress.
"a few weeks ago there was held IN
the city of Des Moines conference OIL
! certain Republicans, and these men
| organized a campaign with the aVoWeu
object of securing a state convention
that would indorse the Republican ma
tional administration. The men VINO
composed the conference are well
known in Iowa.
"The only thing to which I object
is the mask which those men are
wearing, and all l intend to do tonlght
is to politely ask them to remove the
mask and to make their fight in the
| open 81
IT have the highest regard for fair,
brave fighter, but 1 do not like the
midnight prowler with his dark lantern
| and his Jimmy, who hopes to get OIL
with his plunder unheard and unseen
If these men decline my mild INVITA-
ton to remove the false face that oo-
| scures their real purpose, l am mere
to take it off for them and to say to
| the Republicans of Iowa that the
| fight they are making is to get such
! q convention as will enable Mr.. Aldrich
and his crowd to say that Senator
DollivAr and myself, with the progress
siye members of the house delegation
have been repudiated In our own
| state"
CHIEFS LEAGUED WITH TRUSTS
Senator Cummins declared the pres
ent Republican leaders are in league
with corporations. He SAID:
| Most of them have been brought
I'D with these influences all around
| them and therefore whenever law
| is proposed restricting or reducing cor
norate power, their first inquiry is
not will this measure bring help to
the people, but is it recommended py
the captains of industry, the masters
| of high finance, the directors or
mighty business affairs, the managers
| of our unparalleled railroad systems?
GAS I have just suggested, tnese
leaders of ours always find themselves
so busy hearing what these princes OF
| the earth have to say about proposed
legislation, they have scant time TO
consider the millions whose voices Us
ually are faint and distant, but VINO
now and then are heard in tones thaS
| shake the whole structure of organ
| lied society.
NAMES ALDRICH AND CANNON
"I have no-hesitancy in naming the
present leaders of the Republican party
| in the congress of the United States.
In the senate, one man stands solitary
and alone, and hitherto his word has
been law to that august tribunal.
Senator Aldrich is one of the men OF
whom l have been speaking. In the
house, Mr. Cannon, the speaker, has
exercised a dominating control and
after him come Payne, Dalzeu and
| few others of the same type.
'They look at these vital problems
| from the corporate standpoint, and are
! always fearful that any step in the
further and better regulation of those
overmastering forces in our CONNER
cial life will destroy business-will
take away some of the profits of the
! multi-millionaires Every session of
congress will develop just such differ
| ences; and can you wonder that we,
who are marked for disfavor by the
powerful influences at Washington,
| should want a governor in sympathy
with what we are trying to do-should
want the whole state government IN
| harmony with the progressive move
ment for better laws?
'oThe sooner we realize this division
| in the ranks of the Republican party
| is not ephemeral, the sooner we APP
preciate it is a movement Of the people
and not merely to crafty personal
ambitions, the sooner we will become
conscious of a great and everlasting
| truth"
ATTACKS TAFT FIGURES
Senator Dolliver said in part;
so far as the public is concerned,
the tariff revision carries rates as high
or higher than the Dingley tariff law
! on most articles of general use in thelr
finished condition. Most of the reduc-
| tions were so trivial as to be ridicu-
lous and were either upon articles we
| do not import to any extent, but on
the contrary export in enormous guam
| titles, or were to further protect the
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