The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-05-11

DES MONIES. Ia. May Senator
Cummins spoke as follows:
while the principal object Of my
visit to Iowa Is TO say a word for
Others. I do not pretend to he alto
gether unselfish
Although not candidate for Of
fee in the coming preliminary pri-
mary, I make no conceelment OF my
hope the next Republican state con
vention will approve my course in
congress
"a few weeks ago there was held In
the city of De5 Moines conference
of certain Republicans and these men
organized n campaign with the avowed
object OF securing state convention
that would endorse the Republican ma
tionaI administration. The men who
composed the conference are well
known in Iowa.
81 have had special reasons to know
them. because in every fight we have
had I'm ten years they have been my
most persistent and determined enc
mics Il is not only the right. but
the duty of the Republicans Of Iowa
to declare In clear and unequivocal
terms what they think OF their senn'
tors. The only thing to which I OBJ
ject Is the mask which those men are
wearing. and all I intend to do to-
night with regard to the campaign
so begun, Is to politely ask them to
remove the mask and TO make their
fight In the open
Il have the highest regard for a
fair. brave fighter. but do not Ike the
midnight prowlcr with his dark ian
tern and his jimmy. who hopes To get
off with his plumber unheard and un
seen.
III these mon decline my mild in
vItation TO remove the false face that
obscures their real purpose, am here
TO take 1t OF for them. and TO say
TO the Republicans Of Iowa that the
fight they are making. is to get such
q convention as will enable Mr. AID
rich and his crowd to say Senator
Dolliver and myself, with the progress
sive members OF the house delegation,
have been repudiated In our own
state"
Senator CummiDs declared the pres
ent Republican leaders are in league
with corporations He said:
Most Of them have been brought
up with these influences all around
them and therefore whenever a law
is proposed restricting or reducing
corporate power. their frst inquiry is
not will this measure bring help TO
the people. but is II recommended by
the captains Of industry the masters
Of high finance. the directors of
mighty business affairs, the managers
OF our unparalleled railway systems
As | have Just suggested. these lead
crs Of ours always find themselves so
busy bearing what these princes OF
the earth have 90 say about proposed
legislation they have scant time to
consider needs OF the great mass Of
humanity made up of millions whose
voices are usually faint and distant,
but who now and then the heard
In tones that shake the whole struc-
ture OF organized society.
81 have no hesitancy in naming the
present leaders Of the Republican
party to congress of tho United States.
In the senate one man stands solitary
and alone. and hitherto his word has
been law TO that august tribunal. Sen.
ator Aldrich is one Of the men OF
whom / have been speaking. In the
house. MT Cannon, the speaker, has
exercised dominating control. and
after him como Payne. Dnlzell and a
few others of the same type.
They look al this vital problem
from tho corporate standpoint. and are
always fearful that any step in the
further and better regulation Of those
overmaster forces In our commercial
lie will destroy business. will take
away some Of the proilts OF tho multi.
milllonalres. Every session of con.
erss will develop just such differences
and can you wonder that we, who arc
marked for disfayor by the power
full influences at Washington, should
want q governor In sympathy with
what we are trying TO do-shonld want
the whole state government In har
mony with the progressive movement
for better laws?
The sooner wo realize this divis
ION in the ranks of the Republican
party is not ephomereal. the sooner
/ we appreciate II Is a movement oi
the people and not merely TO Crafty
personal ambition, tho sooner We will
| become conscious Of great and ever
. lasting truth