The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-04
Insurgents in Full Control of
the Iowa Republican Con-
vention, Although the Reg
ulars Fought With a Vim.
PRESIDENT ENDORSED
IN HALF-HEARTED WAY
CumminS and DOIIiver ExtoIIed
for Their Work in Washing
ton and Loud Cheers Given
for Col. Theodore Roosevelt.
FEATURES OF PLATFORM

TIES MONIES, Ia, Aug. 3.-Repub-
ican Iowa wrote herself Wig
OrOusIy progressive today at a
convention which was In uprOar most
OF the time.
Senators Cummins and DOlIiver and
the insurgent delegation at Washing
ton were Enthusiastically endorsed.
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 IukeWarm endorsements.
sop to harmony was flung out In
the endorsement of the administration
of Governor Carroll.
An attempt to use the "steam roller
to make the state central committee
Overwhelmingly progressive was called
off presumably at the hint of Senator
Cummins.
ehatrmanj Senator DOIliVer permanent
chairman.
The progressive majority ranged
close 10 three hundred ON every ques-
tiOn.
The resolutions committee was pro-
gressiVe, six 10 five.
The foregoing is a synopsis of the
days events. To it may be added
cheers and jeers, applause and Kisses
music and bowls of discOPd. q
The appearance and disappearance of
the steam roller" was one of the df-
L
about through the insistenee of the
stand-pat members of the platform
committee in demanding an unqualified
endorsement of the Taft administratio
the legislative acts of the regulars"
ana hostility to Cummins and DOlliVer
1t was determined 70 exert little pres
sure just 10 show the minority who is
running Republican politics in Iowa
The primary law, which provides that
members OF the state central commit
shall = nhnEar1 hxr he H.,
was fastened upon as the means TO this
end. 1t was proposed to disregard the
caucus selections of the First and Ninth
districts, which are stand-pat and to
have the convention substitute progress
sives in their places.
Roller Dispensed With.
Attorney General Byers as chauffeur
or the "seeam roller" brought that en-
CINE into view with a motion that the
convention proceed TO the selection OF
the state central committeeman. He
was opposed by +. T. Price of Elkader
who demanded that the convention pro
coed IN the old-fashiOned way. mo-
ton to postpone action until after the
report or the resolutions committee had
been received, however, carried on roll
call.
1t was growing dark when this item
had been disposed of. Then, TO the sur
prise of everybody, Chairman Deliver
ordered Chauffeur Byers back TO the
garage, and the caucus nominees were
confirmed. This, like the endorsement
Of Governor Carroll was a concession
TO harmony. It was a concession to the
candidates who expect to go before the
people next fall, and who viewed with
alarm the chasm dividing the two fac
tions. Their work in trying to get the
delegates together was almost unceas-
ing for fOrty-eight hours.
What may have been an attempt To
stampede the delegates in favor of the
stalWart Republicans was made when
a Second district delegate-fOrmer Con-
gresham Ellsworth Rominger-hoisted
portrait or the President amid stand
pat cheers. But the other side answered
with silence or with jeers. Later an
other delegate among the progressives
a picture Of Colonel Roosevelt.
oecasioning a demonstrate ton The
Taft portrait was again hoisted. and
the two likenesses were held 80 as to
CONFRONT each other. The demonstra-
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