Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-20
AWAITING ROOSEVELT
STATE is ALIVE WITH INTEREST
IN Ex-PREsIDENT'S COMING
VISIT.
cUMMINs URGED TO GO
TO BIG CHICAGO BANQUET
Senator May Be Able to Make the Trip
Sept. 6-Roosevelt to Speak at Sioux
City, Council Bluffs and Boone -
What He May Say Can Only Be
Guessed.
Special to Times-Republican.

Des Moines, Aug. Ex-senator A. B.
'CunInins has received a very urgent
invitation from the committee in
charge of the proposed big banquet in
Chicago for Colonel Theodore Roose-
welt to attend the banquet and partici-
pate in honoring the mighty hunter.
This viii be on Thursday, Sept. s,
which will be after Colonel Roosevelt's
two trips into Iowa.
The senator probably Will accept the
invitation if he can arrange matters Sc
NE can be present; but he has promised
to make a speech or two In Wisconsin
and may go over into Indiana about
that time.
Senator Cummins was urged TO see
Colonel Roosevelt when the latter re-
turned and word was conveyed to the
senator at Washington that he would
be very welcome at Sycamore Hill; but
he could not go at that time.
Interest in Visit.
Much interest attaches to the forth
coming visit of Colonel Roosevelt TO
iowa, incidental tho 1t is. He is slated
for speeches at Sioux City, Council
Bluffs and Boone. He viii be warmly
welcomed at each one of these places,
There is no doubt that the colonel
has read the Iowa republican platform,
and very likely he read at least a part
OF the addresses of the temporary II
chatrmen. The platform
was printed in full in the New York
papers, also Senato Cumnins' speech.
There is no doubt. either, that he has
read all the returns from Kansas. Cal
ifornia, Nebraska and other states, u
that he is as keenly alive to what IS
coins on here as ne is 70 the recent
political events in New York state
where the men who ono kicked him out
OF the governors office and into the
vice presidency have been doing some
more similar kicking.
To Speak in Smiths Home.
In Iowa he viii speak in the home
OF Judge Smith. who. While Colonel
, Roosevelt was president, was one Of
his strongest opponents and who was
personally made the subject of a spe-
: cial message 20 congress in regard TO
the motives ~actuating congressman in
curbing the activities of the secret ser
vice. He VIII also speak in Congress-
mar Nubhard's home. and Hubbard
has gained national repute as one of
the staunchest and most effective of
the supporters of progressive prin-
& ciples.
The speech in Boone will be in the
congressional district represented by
Frank P. Woods. whose hold on the
people was so strong that the opposi-
'tion could hardly be counted. Mr..
Woods has been credited at Washing
ton with being the real organizing force
back Of movement which gave Speaker
Cannon his start down the toboggan,
and among the staunch Cannon-Al-
drich people Of the east Mr.. Woods is
hated quite as much as Norris of Ne
braska. Colonel Roosevelt may also
know that Mr.. Woods was manager
Of the one critical campaign in Iowa
when, if Iowa had gone democratic as
Lacey-Jackson-Perkins and others
wanted il TO do. the progressive move
ment would have been set a e TWEEN
ty-fve years.
Undoubtedly Colonel Roosevelt viii
have opportunity % say something
pertinent to the occasion in Iowa; but
whether he will come out for the Can
non-Aldrich- Ballinger regime or APP
prove Of the Iowa progressive move
nent can not now be known.