The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-08-12
DRESS AS TEMPORARY CHAIR.
MAN OF THE REPUBLICAN
STATE CONVENTION,
At THE STATE CONVENTION
Defends His Faction, Criticises Tar.
if, Talks on Postal Banks and
Other Live Issues.

Des Moines, August 3.-The re-
publican state platform convention
met at 10 O'Clock this morning. Sena-
tor A. B.. CummiHs is temporary
chairman.
In the caucuses preceding the re-
publican platform of the state on-
vention the progressives won many
victories and the control of the state
committee, and also the committee
on permanent organization, %insurius
the selection of Senator ]. P. Dollivec
as permanent chairman, and six Of
the eleven members of the committee
on resolutions.
The progressive platform, which
will be adopted after the fight Oh
on the floor, will endorse Taft's ad-
ministration only for good intentions
and laud Senators Cummins and DOLL
yer for their fight for the people.
A minority report OF the committee
written by Col. w. P. Hepburn, ex-
congressman from the eighth distric:,
endorses the Taft administration and
the Payne and Aldrich tariff bill. 1t
will be voted down by 200 at least.
Senator A. B. Cummins was greet
ed with vociferous cheers as ne
mounted the rostrum to take the
chair and igve his address.
Senator Cummings as temporary
chairman said in part:
Gentlemen of the convention: Har
mony is like the poet it is born,
not made. If it is amongst us we will
if. it IS not here. the effort to create
it with deceitful protestations and
false phrases will end in miserable
failure. There is more discord in the
suppression of honest conviction
than in the open, candid expression
of opposing views.
This is not an age of plain living,
but it is an age of plain speaking and
therefore, "With malice toward noEa
and charity for ALL" I speak to 70 l
according to the truth as I see it an |
and according to my duty as l under
stand it..
-. ~ q n whn ha1ilvDC in fraC
government must believe in the rule
of the majority, but that implies no
more, than. a. peaceful submission .o
the will of the majority, and does
not imply the surrender of the high
privilege of recording a sincere be
lief.
It is not my purpose to define al
this point just what he issue be-
tween republicans has been, and is,
not only in Iowa, but throughout .hl
length and breadth of the country
1t is sufficient for the present to SAY
that it relates wholly 20 those ques-
lions which concern the control, reg.
ulation and restriction of the pow
ers and practices of combined or con-
Centrated wealth. Or, to phrase il
again-to the undue and dispropnr-
tionate share which corporate capi
tai is able to wiring from the profi5S
of industry, and the injustice it is
-l1a" ~ :-f1;.% ,,r@r ho1r1occ in1iui1
uals and defenseless communities.
In dealing with these problems thu
members of our party have range
themselves along the whole stretch o
economic thought and government
al action - from the hopeless ant
%retreeting reactiolary to the extren.'
and visionary radical. The rear div
sion of this long line, with all it,
varying shades of political doctrine
has come to be known as the stand
patters; while the other, with som
diversity of opinion upon specif
questions, marches forward unde
the name of the progressives.
The republican party cannot en-
dure permanently half progressiv
and half standpat. I do not eS
pect TO see it defeated or dissolved
bat 1t must speedily become all Pre-
gressive or all standpat.
will Be Progressive.
I do not pretend to be able t
look far through the mists and III
eertainties of the future and maj
with precision the path in which th
party will walk; but rememberin
that it came into existence as a pro
test against the inaction of tn
wings and the medieval tender
cies of the democrats, and remen
bering, too, that for more than ha
a century it has been the progre
ave party of the union, cannot pc
nit myself to doubt that the par;