The Cairo bulletin., 1910-10-25
IOWA SENATOR SPEAKS IN GILL
cAGo IN INTEREST or
HIS PARTY
MADE No CONCESSIONS
Neither did he Score the Stand-Pat-
tcrs--Said Club Should Not be
Responsible For His
Remarks.

| AIlhdBOt oCl -1.~T-I Hc SpeGGl-iidh'
ing Phase Of the Republican cong ea-
sional campaign began here tonight
when Senator Cummins, of Iowa,
speaking under the auspices of the
Hamilton Club, addressed meeting
at ut Orchestra hall. The announced
I intention Of the senator was to se-
| cure Republican votes, and this was
the keynote of his speech He said
For man who in his heart wants
to preserve a fair and reasonable pro-
lection for tine American wage earnei,
therefore wants the duties SO adjust
ed that they will measure the differ
ence between the cost of production
at home and abroad, and who n his
heart abnors the Democratic fallacy
| OF duties for revenue alone, 1t would
be extreme madness to vote for a
Democratic candidate in congress
who will rob the country of its safe
guard. A protest against excessive
duties has been ef1ectually made;
but We must not in the passion of dis
appointment, strike a. a Just jrin-
ciple because we may not be salts
fed with the present application"
Cummlns said ii would be matter
of regret to him if the criticism al
legged here should become a matter of
embarrassment to the club.
He said: u believe | am in perfect
sympathy with the purposes of the
club, but it ought to be understood
in the very outset, that neither the
club nor any individual member is to
he held gespanshlea for amy yNeAssv
may take, nor for tae form in which
| shall express mby judgment on the
political situation. Right or wrong,
! speak for myself, ana there shall
he no vlcarious sacrifices for my
sayings
He declared he had no intention
of presenting bouquets to those of
MS party, however upright who had
disregardei party principles and nj s.
applied party doctrines. He said;
IF there is no desire for party uni |
ty in the elections other than the |
transparent pretext that there has
been no material differences amongst
us, the effect to get together will be |
a dismal failure. We all know, and it |
is an ineXcusable blunder even to at |
tempt to conceal it, that if every Re |
publican who feels that we did not |
revise the tariff inaccor,ance with |
our party platform, votes the Demo |
cratic ticket in November there will |
be a Denocratic house of representa-
tives. II every Republican who feels |
that some Of the reprisals made by |
the Republican leaders in the last |
congress for regulation of the com
mon carriers were reactionary and |
unfair, shall record his vote for the |
Democratic candidates, a Republican |
victory will be impossible"
Taking up the subject Of railway !
regulation, Cummins declared
Il take up the accepted judgment
of all disinterested men that there |
can be no adequate regulation of our
railways, their rates and their prac.
tees, unless we can for the future see
to it that there shall be nocapitaliza-
ton, either by way of bonds or of |
stocks, that does got truthfully rep
resent money actually used by the |
common carriers in the betterment of |
of their properties"
Cumn.ins also touched on the con.
servation of natural resources and
regulation.