The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-05
WAS A cuMMINs CONVENTION

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Des Moines Capital: The progress
q siye or insurgent Republican conven-
ton held yesterday was emphatieally
Cummins convention. The more
than 500 insurgent delegates out of
/ the total of over 800 were the Wild
4 est Cummins men, Every time the
Junior senator appeared his eight
hundred men were ready to get upon
/ their feet. 1t is true majority of the
! delegates in FIVE congressional dis
tricts were not Cummins men When
/ the Cummins applause prevailed the
4 delegates in these five districts sat
/ still and mute. They did not move
hand or foot. Upon a majority of the
i faces there was look of disgust.
But the other eight hundred had the
time of their lives. They enjoyed
! everything the senator said They
! enjoyed his every look. When he was
delivering his speech these eight hum
dred sat spellbound Their faces were
! illumined as with heavenly light 1t
was really good to see men enjoy
/ themselves so. No matter what the
I senator said, was right-they immed-
lately agreed 20 it.
Never in any other period of Iowa
/ has any man attained to the leader
ship OF faction so undisputed Not
1 in the history of the state has a man
had so many worshipers. He has
many thousands of the most inte1li-
7 gent men in the state and also the
wealthiest men 10 obey his smallest
command or suggestion. His career
| indicates what determined man can
do in leading his fellow men The
senator is already the leader of the
insurgents at washington, and he will
have no bitter rivalry until his am
| billions conflict with the ambitions of
other insurgent leaders Until that
time his SWAY will be supreme He
! took Iowa as a rank protection state
/ publican party to the doctrine of low
tariff and that the tariff is the main
/ support of the unrighteous trusts and
1 combinations For some years the
Republicans Of this state refused to
believe that the tariff had anything to
do with the trusts. Now the sen
| atop's followers are thoroughly con
| WINGED that If we had low tariff
there would be no trusts. prices would
be low, competition would be red-hot
and business would be booming. The
| standpatter does not believe that
hrrinorr non ox-or taoY1, npdar a Tou-
tariff and under the rankest sort of
competition. The standpatter points
7 to the fact that competition is the
mother of the sweat shop and that
when competition is rank and rife
and everybody has sonnet ing to sell
at a low price. no one has the money
with which to buy. Therefore we
have hard times But one-half the
Iowa Republicans believe that we can
have good times on low scale OF
prices. The farmer is foolish enough
TO think that when the people talk
about lower tariffs and lower prices
they have no reference to him and his
prices. But these are only problems
They are not demonstrations. They
are the nebulae of the issue. The
standpatter believes that in the full
ness of time his doctrine will be vim.
dicated. But meantime the senator is
on top, He is the leader of an ap
parent majority. OF course there is
something yet quite underlined in the
progressive ranks because Senator
: Cummins' personality is stronger tn IN
any principles he advocates. Just how
long his sway viii be in the RepubIi
r can party no one can predict. But
! such men in other states have mac
= long careers. It has been a new
4 phase of this modern leadership tc
e involve part of the Democratic par
/ ty. II Senator Cummins has spill
! his own party in this state he has ais,
e split the Democratic party. He ha!
/. had large following in the Demo
It cratic party IN fact the Democrat
e saved him in his last contest for tn.
V goyernorship. It is privately known
e and whispered that several Demo
d cratic Iowa leaders are really Cum
n Minis men at heart and on the ouie
E SAp ehC oVhatO1 III b.4duV ways. mi
in is a new spectacle in politics and is
er Part Of the senator's strength.
OF course when the doctrine whic
r. the senator advocates in regard I
o. the tariff and the trusts is put to tn
OF test by actual legislation, then tn
tie senator will have to summon all hi
MT power to hold his followers togethe
On Men who are now working harmon
ne iously for lower tariffs NAV be di
he posed to follow the standpatter whe
re disaster comes. AS Secretary Sha
en- said some years ago, 1.-THE wolf an
ad the deer will run peacefully togethe
in away from prairie fire" The NOR.
he is self evident Men will run eve
CO. with their enemies toward principle
&c. which may restore business prospe
We ity
ov- The senator places his leadersh