The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05
IOWA POLITICAL
STORM CENTER.
Fight for Control of Republican
Party in the State Now of
National Interest.
PRESTIGE OF CUMMINS
INVOLVED IN STRUGGLE
Whether ProgreSsives OF Regu-
lars Will Be VictOrS, Is
Yet Doubtful.
By Associated Press


DES MONIES, Ia, juno AIMS
, etafe the immediate center of the ma
tion,s interest in Republican Poiltics
refused to close the primary camPalen
with tonight's meeting and VIII con
time it Monday. -
State officers and representatives. :, pa
congress will be nominated: broeoiS
speaking, the issue III tho hepupilcnh
ranks is the present Republican aohih
lstratlon.
Outside the broad line Of demarka'
tion between the factions, there are
however, factional differences so com
plicated that even veteran observers
like Layette Young admit their lnaoll'
ity to solve the situation.
All agree the prestige of Senator
Cummins is involved in the fight be-
tween Gov, B. L. Carroll and Warren
Garst for the gubernatorial nomination,
turnmins is said TO have been 1orceu
to support Garst by the "stand pat
maneuver of placing the present COVER
nor under the banner of tho national a1'
ninistration. The formation Of Tart
club in support of Carroll was the RIin,
cipal play IN this development. Ihus
the denomination of the governor VIII
bo hailed, if it takes place, py the So
called reaCtionaries as a slap at Cum
MINIS. As 10 his own thoughts on the
matter, the governor has said llttie,
save that he does not purpose to be
dictated to by Cummins and Dolllver.
Congressional Situation.
On congressional nominations, the
contests exciting greatest interest are
In the First. Seventh and Ninth DIS
tricts, in the last named greatest of all.
In the First district, Congressman
Charles A, Kennedy, at Montrose, is
hoi al 20 bo M those
who do not approve of his so.called
"stand pat" record. The HpTogres
sive" candidate is Smith w. Brokhart
Judge S. r. Prouty, for the fourth time,
is seeking to wrest the nomination from
Representative John A. Hull in the
Seventh district. At the primaries two
years ago Hull won over Prouty by
only forty votes, although Des Moinesr
the largest city of the state, Is in the
district
In the Ninth, Congressman Walter 1.
Smith is being tried on mis- record as
q staunch wheei horse Of the regular
organization at Washington. Smith
was member of the old Cannon rules
committee. His opponent is II. w
Byers, the present attorney general OF
the state. In the Second, Third, Fourth
Fifth, Eighth and Eleventh districts
there are no contests among the Repub
l1cans.
Charles Grilk, candidate in the Sec
ond district, is said to be q progressive
but the "regulars'' declined to oppose
him when Congressman Dawson, the
present Incumbent, refused to seek re-
nomination, and Congressman Pickett oi
the Third Is regarded as a sort of con
Bervative progressive Representa-
tive Haughen of the Fourth is another
unopposed progressive. Representative
Good, unopposed in the Fifth, is labeled
by the progressives as generally in,
surgent.' Congressman Kendell who
stands without opposition in the Sixth
is also claimed by the progressives.
The present representative from the
eighth district is William D. Jameson
a Democrat. Mr.. Jameson refused u
be candidate again, and the honor
is being sought by Z. M. Towner, 6
stand.patter, and John N Darrah
a progressive, The candidates hav,
eschewed oratory in the campaign IL
favor Of "gum shoe'' canvass. II
the tenth, Lewis H. Mayne has beer
selected to make the run against Con
gresham Woods, who stands on hi
record as an E'insurgent."
There are Democratic contests il
the first, second, third, seventh, eight
and ninth districts No Democratic
nominations will be made in the tentl
and eleventh districts.