The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-04
Iowa Republican Convention
Is Controlled Entirely
By ProgTessives
HARMONY CREEPS IN AFTER
DAY FULL OF TURMOIL
Taft Receives Very Lukewarm Indorse-
ment While the New Tariff Law Is
Branded ms Failure in Light
of Party Pledges

Des Moines, Iowa, August 3.-Republi-
can Iowa wrote herself vigorously prog
ressive today at a convention which was
most of the time in an uproar.
Senators Cummins and Dolliver and the
insurgent delegation at Washington were
enthusiastically indorsed.
The new tariff law was branded as a
failure in the light of the party pledge of
1905.
President Taft received the most tepid
Of lukewarm Endorsements.
A SOD to harmony was flung out in the
Endorsement of the administration of Gov
ernor Carroll
An attempt to use the steam roller to
make the state central committee over
whelmingly progressive was called off,
presumably at the hint of Senator Cum
MINIS
J Senator Cummins was temporary chair
man; Senator Dolliver permanent chair
| man.
/ The progressive majority ranged close
to 300 on every question.
The resolutions committee was progress
! give to g.
! To 1t may be added cheers and jeers,
applause and Kisses, music and howls of
discord
The appearance and disappearance of
ithe steam roller was one Of the divert
ling incidents of the day. 1t came about
through the insistence of the standpat
members of the platform committee in de-
manding an unqualified Endorsement of
the Taft administration, the legislative
acts of the regulars" and hostility to
Cummins and Dolliver. 1t was determined
to exert a little pressure just to show the
minority who is running republican pol-
tics In Iowa. The primary law which pro-
vides that members of the state central
committee shall be chosen by the consen-
tion was fastened upon as the means to
this end.
Caucus Selections
It was proposed to disregard the caucus
selections Of the First and Ninth dis
tricts, which are stand-pat. and to have
the convention substitute progressives In
their places. Attorney General Byers.
as chauffeur of the "steam-roller,' .
brought that engine into view with a
motion that the convention proceed to the
selection OF the state central committee
men. He was oppo5ed by F. 7. Price or
Eikader. who demanded that the con,
yention proceed in the good, od-fashioned
way. A motion to postpone action un-
III after the report of the resolutions
committee had been received. however.
carried on roll call. 1t was growing
dark when this item had been disposed
D H. Then.
Chairman Dolliver ordered Chau1eur
Byers back to the garage. and the eau
Gus nominees were confirmed. This. like
the Endorsement of Governor Carroll, was
a concession to harmony. 1t was con-
cession to the candidates who expect TO
go before the people next fall and VINO
viewed with alarm the chasm dividing
the two factions. Their work In trying
10 ret delegates together was almost un-
ceasing for 4S hours.
what may have been attempt to
stampede the delegates in favor of the
stalwart resolutions was made when a
Second district delegate-former Congress-
man Worth Rominger-hoisted a portrait
Of the President amid Htand-pat cheers.
But the other side answered with ST.
lence or with jeers Later another dele
gate among the progressives exposed
picture of Colonel Roosevelt. which was
the occasion for demonstration. Inc
taft portrait was again hoisted and the
two likenesses were held so as to con-
front each other. The demonstration In
terrupted roll call for some minutes.
The stand-pat delegates went down in
defeat with their colors riveted to the
mast They fought in every commit
tee where a fight was possible. insisting
on roll call, and battled every inch
for their principles.
standpatters Defeated
Former Congressman Hepburn. his
gray hair bristling aggressively In ev-
Arv direction. read the minority report.
AZ the purport of the concluding para
graph became apparent his voice was
drowned in chorus of 1eers' Kisses ana
ratcalls Again and again he attempt
a 10 make himself heard but 1t was
onlv after much pounding Of the gavef
Nv senator Dolliver that the veteran
LEGISLATOR was able to conclude. He
moved the substitution of these planks
for those of the same application In
the majority report ana the motion was
lost sos to 851.
The report of the resolutions COM
nittees. as adopted, declared that the
party should oppose by every means
IN its power and political encroach-
ments Of legislation by those who seek
10 raise extortionate profits through the
scn,,isition Of unjust privileges. 1t re-
affirmed loyalty to the republican ma
tionaI nlatform of 1908 but does not
recornize that the tariff revision of
1903 is a satisfactory fulillment OF the
party promises.
''In order to bring the tarin law
into a complete compliance with the
niatform." the resolutions declared, ut
is necessary that the difference be-
tween the cost of producing dutiahle
commodities at home and abroad should
be known
'sTherefore we favor the, creation OF
an ln0epenQenL non -partisaH tdi IL So''4-
mission which shall be the instru-
mentality of Congress to ascertain the
difference between the cost Of produc-
tion. here and in other countries and
publish the facts and until such COM
mission Is authorized we approve the
EFFORT of the President to secure rhe
desired information through board
OF experts
Taftss Achievements
MI IN. an re.
~ President Taft and his advisers have
made to fulfill the promises of the ma
tional platform and which have been
In harmony with the declarations of
this convention"
I'VE commend to the nation the type Of
stptesmanship exhibited by Senators Dol
liver and Cummins. and heartily indorse
their work upon the tarifI bill. the rail-
yood bill and the postal savinGs hank bill.
Xho republicane Of Iowa aRe TIE best