The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-04
lowa's Progressive Republi.
cans, Under Cummins and
DOIliyer, Control.
ENDORSEMENT OF TAFT
LUKEWARM AND TEPlD
New Tariff Law Branded as
Failure to Live Up to
Party Pledges.

DES MONIES. Ia, Aug. 3.--Republ-
can Iowa wrote herself vigorously pro-
gressive today at a convention which
was in an uproar most of the time.
Senators Cummins and DolIiver and
the insurgent delegation at Washington
were enthusiastically indorsed.
The new tariff law was branded as
failure in the light Of the party
pledge of 1908.
President Taft received the most
tepid of lukewarm endorsements.
A sop to harmony was flung out in
the Endorsement Of the administration
Of Governor Carroll.
An attempt to use the esteamrollerD
to make the state central committee
overwhelmingly progressive was called
OIL, presumably at the hint of Senator
Cummins
Senator Cummins was temporary
chairman; Senator Dolliver permanent
chairman.
Majority Sufficient.
The progressive majority ranged close
to 300 on every question
inc resolutions committee was pro-
gressive. 9 TO }.
The foregoing IS a synopsis of the
oa Day s events. To it may be added
cneers and leers, applause and Kisses,
mnslc and howls of discord.
Dhe appearance and disappearance of
the steamroller' was one of the di-
VertIug incidents of the day. 1t CANA
about through the insistence of the
stand-pat members Of the platform com
mlttee IN demanding an unqualified in
dorsement of the Taft administration,
the legislative acts of "the regulars ,,
and hostility TO Cummins and DolIiyer.
IL was determined to exert 4 little pres
sure Just to show the minority who ia
running Republican politics in Iowa.
Inc primary law, which provides that
members OF the state central COMMITTEES
snail be chosen by the convention, was
iastehed = upon as the means TO this end.
IL was proposed to disregard the caucns
selections. of the First and Ninth dis
trlcts, which are stand-pat, and to have
tne convention substitute progressiyes in
their places. 81
steamroller'' Sidetracked.
Attorney General Byers, as chauffeur
of the "steamroller,'' brought Thai
engine into view with a motion that
the convention proceed to the selection
oil che state central committeeman. He
was opposed by +. T. Price of Elkader
who demanded the convention proceed
IN the old-fashioned way A motion 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
surprise of every one, Chairman Dol
liver ordered Chauffeur Byers back 10
the garage and the caucus nominees
were confirmed, This, like the indorse.
ment of Governor Carroll, was n cor
cosslon to harmony. 1t was II conces-
sion to the candidates who expect to 90
before the people next fall, and who
viewed with alarm the chasm dividing
the two factions. Their work in trying
to get the delegates together was al.
most unceasing for forty eight hours.
Wild Scene Of Tumu1t.
What may have been an attempt to
stampede the delegates in favor of the
Second district delegate-former Con-
gresham Ellsworth Roniinger-hoisted
a portrait of tho president amid stand
pat cheers. But the other side an-
swered with silence or with ieers Later,
another delgate among the progressives
exposed q picture OF Colonel Roosevelt,
occasioning a demonstration. The Taft
portrait was again hoisted and the two
hkenesses held so rs TO confront each
other. The demonstration interrupted
q 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 whore a fight was possible, insisted
on roll calls and battled evcry inch
for their principles,
Taft Is Ignored.
Senator Cummins threw the Republi-
can state convention into disorder TO-
day when he named the party Of
9 Lincoln, OF Grant, of Roosevelt - etc.,
ignoring President Taft.
Former Congressman Lacey, stand
patter. walked into the center aisle
CRYING: "Taft, Taft, Taft in
which he was joined by his fellow stall
warts.
Roosevelt 8 name was cheered stand
ing, Cummins, who spoke as temporary
chairman, ignored Lacey's cry, but it
was some time before he could resume.
A number of so called regulars did not
stay to hear the address out.
1t was | O'Clock before the resolu-
tions committee was named and sent to
it's deliberations. 1t stands six progress
siveS to five stand patters, AS the Kat
ter threaten to demand ceaseless roll
calls it was believed by many that
night session would be necessary.
The majority report of tho rosolu-
tions committee indorses Governor Car
roll and there is merely Il courtesy rof'
>rence TO the national administration.
The committee OF permanent orpapizD-
ion chose Senator Cummins for tenn
oorary chairman by q vote of 6 to ..
Chairman Cummins was frequently
,heerod by tho progressives. the stall
warts generally remaining silent unless
20 interrupt him.
Strong Arraignment.
He referred to ''hopcless and re.
draining reaetionary'' and declared
hnt the Renuhlican partY must Speed