Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-28
FAVOR BURKETT,
SAYS GU MMINS
Iowa Senator, in Speech at Lincoln,
Urges Voters TO Return Him
to Congress.
SERVED WITH GRFh- NELITY
ANh ,y,N
Sets p sCN NN'' Regard to
NIdN' lumber,
ON STOCK WATERING
In House Voted Down Proposition
introduced by DOlliver.
DEMOCRATS OF SENATE OPPOSE
Iowan says Republican Railroad BIZ
One of Greatest Pieces of LeEis-
IntIon in Ncnrs-WOrd
for Hayward,
r.rom a SD correspondentl

LINCOLN. Neb.. oct. Especial Teie-
administrator \. b. Cummins Of Iowa
to a Lincoln audience this afternoon en-
dorsed the record of Senator Burkett in
congress- and appealed to the voters to sec
To it that he is reelected. He also put IN
good word for VIII Hayward and eN-
pressed the hope that he be sent to con-
gress from this district, and hoped that
Jack Minor, candidate for the house from
Lancaster county. with whom he once
worked at the carpenter trade would be
elected.
The meeting was held in the oliver the
ater and every seat on the lower floor
and many In the balcony were occupied
Candidates for state and county offices oc-
cuped seats on the stage, which was deco
rated with flags and pictures OF prominent
republicans
The Union Veteran Republican club acted
as escort for Senator Cummins from the
Iindell hotel to the theater and Senator
Burkett presided at the meeting.
The endorsement the Iowa senator gave
TO Senator Burkett was unqualified and
uneuuivocal After addressing himself TO
the old soldiers Senator Cummins said he
had come to Lincoln for the purpose Of
helping elect my associate and my friend,
Elmer J. Burkett."
II have known him long and well,' con-
tnuod the senator. 1t is idle, in view Of
the happenings of the last congress, for
he and | have been in absolute agreement
and have voted the same on all questions
4 Faithful servant.
81 believe after witnessing his work in
two Of the most severe struggles of the
| United States that l1lmert J. Burkett voted
! as Ills cons cencc dictated, lie has served
you not only with great fidelity. but with
/ conspicuous ability and we who have some
/ definite idea Of what is TO be done in
| the future want Elmer j. BurSett In the
senate rather than Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock.
! Il have been astnlmdcd ~ learn upon
/ arrival here that some people are of the
opinion that Senator Burkett voted against
/ free lumber l ought to know how he
voted on that question. | watched that
| struggle 1t is due TO him and to the
people of this state that I set you right
! Burkett was one OF the leaders in advo-
eating what believe a righteous cause,
free lumber
Senator Cummns had only one hour in
which to speak and through the dinner
hour arrived before he concluded, he held
the great audience almost to man lie
gave only a short time to the tariff bill,
saving he had voted against It and would
do the same thing again because he be-
Ueyed It did not carry out the promises
Of the party platform
No Rcvenue Tariff for Him.
! The applause that greeted this statement
was drowned by that which was given the
speaker when he said though this tariff bill
did not suit Him, 'Iwould vote for II q
thousand times before 1 would vote once
| for a tariff bill which provides tariff fol
revenue only" tariff bill by a demo.
cratic congress-. he said, was an impoS
sib,lity. The democratic party does not
take into consideration the cost Of tht
manufacture O. les at home and
abroad, while So. r-publican party stood
for a tariff vhlc made the import duty
the dIffersALc n -Ost at home and abroad
including tue ca4t Of labor.
Most of 1he senators speech was devoted
to a discussion OF the regulation Of cor
! porations and transportation companies
He urged an amendment 70 the presen
laws which would provide that no stoci
could be issued by a transportation com
panv which did not represent actual ralu'
or II II was to be discounted the matter
of the discount should be passed on BY tn,
Interstate Commerce commission.
HitchcOck's Record.
This amendment was introduced by Sena
| tor Dolllver he said Gilbert Hitchcocl
voted against 1t in the house and Senate
| Burkett voted for il. All but six democrat
! in the senate voted against H.
| Inaddition 10 this subject Senator Cum
Minis discussed the regulation and adjust
meut OF import duties, the tariff and tn
conservation Of the Hatural resources. An,