Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-04
(Ass- -.iated Press)

DIES MONIES, Iowa, Aug. 3.-Repub-
lican Iowa wrote herself vigorously
progressive today at a convention
which was in an uproar most of the
time.
Senators Cummins and Dolliver and
the insurgent delegation at Washington
were enthusiastically indorsed.
The new tariff law was branded as a
failure in the light of the party pledge
of 1908.
President Taft received the most
tepid of lukeWarm Endorsements.
A sop to harmony was flung out in
the Endorsement of the administration
of Governor Carroll.
An attempt to use the 'steam roller"
to make the state central committee
overwhelmingly progressive was called
off, presumably at the hint Of Senator
Cummins.
Senator Cummins was temporary
chairman and Senator DolliVer per-
manent chairman.
The progressive majority was close
to 300 on every question.
The resolutions committee was pro-
| gressive, 6 to 5.
The foregoing is a synopsis of the
| days events. To it may be added
cheers and jeers, applause and Kisses.
| music and hoWlS of discord.
STEM ROLLER APPEARS
| The appearance and disappearance of
| the steam roller was one of the di-
verting incidents of the day. 1t came
about through the insistence of the
standpat members of the platform
committee in demanding an unqualified
Endorsement of the Taft administration,
the legislative acts of the regular Re-
publicans and hostility to Cummins
and Dolliver. 1t was determined to
exert a little pressure just to show the
ma who iS r11nDinpr r. RpnlhIic9n N
politics in Iowa.
The primary law, which provides that
members of the state central commit
tee shall be chosen by the convention
was fastened upon as the means to
this end.
It was proposed to disregard the
caucus selections of the First and
Ninth districts, which are standpat,
and to have the convention substitute
progressives in their places.
Attorney General Byers, as chauffeur
of the "steam roller" brought that en-
gine into view with a motion that the
convention proceed to the selection of
a state committee. He was opposed by
S. f. Price, who demanded that the
convention proceed in the old-fashioned
way. A motion to postpone action until
after the report of the resolutions COM
mittee had been received, however, car
ried on roll call.
1t was growing udIk Wueu ILLS IleIIl
had been disposed of. Then, to the
surprise of every one, Chairman Dolli-
yer ordered Chauffeur ByerS back to
the garage and the caucus nominees
were confirmed. This, like the indorse-
ment of Governor Carroll, was con-
cession to harmony. 1t was a conces-
sion to the candidates who expect to
go before the people next fall, and who
viewed with alarm the chasm dividing
the two factions.
Their work in trying to get the dele
gtaes together was almost unceasing
for forty-eight hours.
TATT's PICTURE JEERED
What may have been an attempt to
stampede the delegates in favor of the
stalwart Republicans was made when
a Second district egate-former Con-
gressman Ellsworth Rominger- hoist
ed a portrait of the president amid
standpat cheers. But the other side an
swered with silence or with jeers.
Later another delegate among the
progressives exposed a picture of Col
Roosevelt, occasioning a demonstration.
The Taft portrait was again hoisted
and the two likenesses held so as to
confront each other The demonstra-
ton interrupted a roll call for some
minutes.
The standpat delegates went down in
defeat with their colors riveted to the
mast. They fought in every committee
where a fight was possible, insisted on
roll calls and battled every inch for
their principles.
Their resolutions, Incorporated in the
minority report of the platform COM
mittee, and voted down by the con-
vention, approved the action of the
Iowa Republicans taken in convention
in March, 1908.
The 1908 resolution thus revived de-
clared for the nomination of William
II. Taft by the Republican national
convention, adding 1--WE have confidence
in his ability, his Independent man
hood, his comprehension Of large and
vital public questions, his uncompro-
missing integrity and unfaltering cour-
age"
LUKEWARM ON TAFT
The resolution of today proceeded:
"And we now take pride in the fact
that he was nominated and elected to
that high office with the aid of Iowa
Republicans, and that during the year
and a half Of his service as president of
the United States he has fully justified
the confidence placed in him by the
Republican party. The record OF
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