The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-03
Ex-Governor as Chairman Of the Re-
publican state Convention
in Session at Des
Mones.
HE URGES SUPPORT
After Nominations are Made Every
Member Of the Party Should
Work Hard for the
Candidate.
Especial to The Gate City.1

DIES MONIES, Aug. 3.-As temper
airy chairman of the state republican
convention here today, Senator A. B.
Cummins, said In part in a lengthy
address.
Gentlemen of the convention: Har-
mony is like the poet, it is born, not
made. If 1t is amongst us we will
speedily hear Its sweet sounds; but If
1t is not here, the effort to create 1t
with deceitful protestations and false
phrases will end in miserable failure
There is more discord in the suppress
sion of honest conviction than in the
open. candid expression of opposing
views
This is not an age of plain living
but 1t Is an age of plain speaking and
therefore, With malice toward none,
and charity tor all" l speak to you ac-
cording to the truth as l see 1t and
according to my duty as understand
It.
This convention, although compos-
ed wholly of republicans, is the out
come of political struggle carried on
with exceeding earnestness in every
county of the state. There may be
few delegates who are here by acct
dent, but substantially all Of you are
here by design. A conscious purpose
is behind you and clear obligation is
before you
Every man who believes in free gov
eminent must believe in the rule of
the majority, but that implies no more
than a peaceful submission to the will
of the majority !, and does not imply
the high privilege of recording a sin
cere belief
1t was vain and idle thing to pass
through the fight of the primary and
the county conventions unless a grave
and important issue was involved );
and it would be the climax of folly for
this body of men, after the republican
voters had determined the issue. to
fail In recording the verdict and in
publishing to the world, In fitting
terms. the decision which the republi
can electorate has rendered It is not
my purpose to define at this point just
what the issue beween republicans
has been, and is, not only In Iowa,
but throughout the length and breadh
of the country. 1t is sufficient for the
present to say that 1t 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
1t again,-to the undue and dispropor-
tionate share which corporate capital
is able to wiring from the profits Of in
dustry, and the injustice it is able to
inflict upon helpless individuals and
defenceless communities.
In dealing with these problems the
members of our party have ranged
themselves along the whole stretch of
economic thought and governmental
action-from the hopeless and retreat
Ing reactionary to the extreme and
visionary radical. The rear division
Ct this long line, with all It's varying
shades of political doctrine, has come
to be known as the standpatters,
while the other, with some diversity
of opinion upon specific questions
marches forward under the name of
the progressives
It is probably true that some of the
progressive want to go too fast and do
too much. 1t is certainly true that