The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-03
IOWA FACTIONS
ARE GROWING
/. FURTHER APART
Platform Will Condemn Tar
if Law and Eulogize In
surgents in Congress
SENATOR CuMM|M'S SPEECH
As TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN

h1 ItupukhkI GnhlklMRl
He Preached the Doctrine Of Party
Disorganixstion ~ Means Of As.
cOmplishing Individual Freedom
Denies He Has Democratic Leanings
Des Moines, Aug. 3.-With the
standpatters and progressives appar-
emily hopelessly at variance on the
essential matter of tariff plank, the
Republican state convention was call
ed to order in the Coliseum today for
the purpose of writing platform, Sc
lecting state central committee and
making nominations for state super
intendent and for two supreme court
judegships.
The standpatters adopted their
planks knowing they could not be
forced through the convention. The
platform which is to be adopted will
be Enthusiastically insurgent-a con-
'demnation Of the tariff law and en-
comiums for the states insurgent
congressional delegation.
The two factions have been steadily
growing further apart.
Planks were prepared endorsing the
president and Governor Carroll, call
ing them respectively the leaders of
the party in nation and state.
Former Congressman Lacey sound
ed the key note In speech In which
he declared that 1t was important that
erh1 1,,1@ Mt hn
next election.
Senator Annius was selected as
temporary chairman. In assuming
the chair he said in part:
Cummins' Speech.
Gentlemen Of the convention: Har-
mony Is like the poet, it Is born, not
made. II 1t is amongst US we will
speedily hear Its sweet sounds; but IL
It Is not here, the effort to create it
with deceitfM protestations and false
phrases will end in miserable failure.
There Ia moro discord IN the suppress
sion Of honest conviction than ia the
open. CANDID expression OF opposing
views. sst'1-' 4
This is not an age Of plain living,
but 1t is an age Of plain speaking and
therefore, with malice toward none,
and chantty for all speak to you
according to the truth as !. see it, and
according to my duty as ! under
stand 1t. -
"This convention, although COM
posed wholly of Republicans, is the
outcome Of political struggle car
rted on with exceeding earnestnass
In every county of the state. There
may be few delegates. who are here
by accident, but substantially all of
you are here by design. A concious
purpose is behind you and a clear
obligation is before you.
Every man who believes in free
government must believe in the rule
Of the majority, but that implies no
more than q peaceful submission to
the will of the majority, and does
not imply the surrender of the high
privilege of recording a sincere be-
Lief.
ut was a vain and idle thing to pass
through the fight Of the primary and
the county conventions unless grave
and important issue was involved;
and it would be the climax of folly
for this body of men, after the Repub-
Mean voters had determined the is
cue, to fail in recording the verdict
and in publishing to the world, in
fitting terms, the decision which the
Republican electorate has rendered.
It is not my purpose to define at this
point just what the issue between Re-
pub!icans has been, and Is, not only
in Iowa, but throughout the length
and breadth Of the country. 1t is suf-
iodent for the present to say that It
relates wholly to those questions
which concern the control, regulation
and restriction of the powers and
practices Of combined or concentrated
wealth. Or, to phrase it again-to
the undue and dispropoHionate share
which corporate capital Is able to
wiring from the profits Of industry,
and the injustice it is able to inflict
upon helpless individuals and de-
ferse!ess communities.
"In dealing with these problems the
members Of our party have ranged
themselves along the whole stretch
of economic thought and government
tel action-from the hopeless and re-
treating reactionary to the extreme
and visionary radical. The rear ddvis-
ion of this long line, with all its vary
ing shades Of political doctrine, has
come to be known as the standpat-
ters; while the other, with some d.
vergity of opinion under specific ques-
tions, marches forward under the
name Of the progressives.
1T is probably true that some of
the progressives want to go too fast
and do too much. It is certainly true
Hhat there are many of the standpat-
sers who want either to go back or
to Go nothing at all. Assuming that
ise divisions Of the party are equal
~ honest, 1t is obvious that the con-
test between them is not trivial al
though Il u to be hoped that 1t Is but
temporary.
81 recur in this unparalleled situa-
ton to the calm and optimistic phtlos-
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