The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-09-14
WHY THESE TEARS?

| Strange to say the Register and
Leader is dissatisfied with the Roose-
Welt trip. The Colonel declared him.
self in favor of the new nationallsm,
he out-ultraed the most strenuous
progressives in very many of the prin-
ciples which they maintain. He hob
nobbed with Pinchot and Garfield, he
upheld their ideas of conservation,
he snuDbed Lorimer most nightly. He
smiled upon DolliEer, gave his ..
K. to Hubbard and urged the election
of LaFollette. 1t would seem that the
cup of the Register and Leader, val
liant knight of reform that it is, would
be filled to overlooking. But accord
ing to the plaintive cry he failed to
say, Come on, boys" Moreover, he
committed the fatal blunder, from the
Register and Leader standpoint, OF
being fair to Taft, of giving him credit
where credit was due. This is some
thing to which the Register and Lead
er is greatly opposed-something it
has never done-something it cannot
abide, even in Roosevelt.
But the milk in the cocOanut is,
not that the ex-president failed to say
Come on, boys" but that he failed to
say, "Cummins, boys"
The Cummins presidential boom
was we'll on the stays. A grandstand
play was made as to southern repre-
sentation," the wrongs of the African
race for the first time struck the
| bosom of Uncle Harvey with poignant
pangs. The boom was to be officially
| launched with the Roosevelt tour.
Cummins was to show himself as the
great heir apparent to the Roosevelt
policies; he was to parade the west
as the chosen one, upon whom the
mantle of fate had fallen. Cummins
did his part, the Register and Leader
did it's part, but Roosevelt failed to
respond. Cummins stood on the rear
platform with his most engaging
smile, waiting for the words of en-
dorsement that did not come, his head
was bowed in modesty for the acco-
lade Of knighthood, but the sword of
the king did not lightly fall upon his
shoulder. There were no honied
words, no grandiloqllent phrases and,
from the Cummins-Ingham standpoint
the Roosevelt trip was failure. There
was a double handshake for Guggen-
helm, all kinds of kind words for all
kinds of people, but A. B. Cummins
did not receive even crumb that fell
from the Roosevelt table. And, add
ing insult to injury, the mantle, the
gorgeous mantle, fell, if it fell at all,
upon the shoulders of Dolliver. Ne
braska is said to be afiame with Roose-
velt-Dolliver enthusiasm. Why does
not the Register and Leader accept
that as the Roosevelt message of
Come on, boys?" Why does it not
join with the insurgents across the
Big Muddy in raising the standard of
Roosevelt and Dolliver on high? Why
does it not plunge headlong into the
formation of Roosevelt-Dolliver clubs
throughout Iowa? Why this lack of
enthusiasm? Surely the senior SEN
ator has the right of priority in pub
lie affairs, surely he is sound in in
surgency, surely this recognition from
neighboring state is worthy re-
sponsive echo in Iowa.
Can it be that the green-eyed mon
ster is already seated at the feast of
reform? Can it be that the junior
senator and his poodle dog are
| peeved? Can it be that the cause of
reform is in reality minor issue and
that the elevation of Cummins is the
real object sought? Is it to be
doubted that, if the Nebraska cry had
been for Roosevelt and Cummins in
stead of for Roosevelt and Dolliver,
the Register and Leader would have
| fairly shrieked in it's enthusiasm, that
it's columns would have reeked with
appeals for the formation of clubs,
the appointment of committees and