Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04
GU N MINIS IN
BANQUET I TALK
URGES Fight
SENATOR DECLARES PROGRESS
sivEs SHOULD TAKE CONTROL
IN STATE; SAYS HULL SHOULD
BE DEFEATED.

| Des Moines, Jan. 3.-Senator Albert
B. Cummins, in speech before ACC
diners and others at the progressive
Republican dollar dinner at the Saw.
cry Saturday night, served notice that
the fight for progressive and Roosevelt
principles is not ended. Instead, that
defeat in tariff revision should not dis
hearten, but should encourage pro
gressives, and urged progressives in
Iowa to send to congress from this
state men who will support the sena-
tors instead of neutralizing their ef-
forts.
He intimated that the state admins
tration of Iowa, also, should not be al
lowed to rest in the hands of the
standpatters when the sentiment of
the state is clearly progressive.
The senator spoke against Con-
gressman Hull, saying he should not
be renominated.
State Senator G. G. Dowell presided
at the dinner. Scores of Republicans
from out of the city were present
During the day conferences were held
along the line of the senator's speech
and it is not unlikely that progress
sive candidate for governor will be
brought out against Gov. B. F. Carroll.
Standpatters Do Not Move.
Senator Cummins said in part:
II do not intend at this time to en-
ter upon the inquiry as to the COM
parative debt which this age owes to
the progressive and the 'standpatter'
further than to suggest that the
'standpatter' has the melancholy but
possibly agreeable privilege of insist
ing that had it not been for him he
would not have moved at all
Upon an occasion like this the only
materiality of the suggestion l have
been making is that it affords strength
and standing to remember that we
who are following the progressive ban
ner are not a horde of wild-eyed, tu-
multuous anarchists who have precipi-
tated ourselves into the calm and
quiet of a standpat community, but
are simply fighting battle which has
gan, and that all the victories which
our civilization recalls with gratitude
and pride in the whole course of 1000
years are the victories of the progress
siyes over the standpatters.
1t helps us also to be serene and
confident in, the faith that the stand
patters will go down before our as
sault just as they have gone down in
the conflicts of twenty centuries Of
warfare
Producer Alone Considered
with respect to the tariff, the
feel that it makes little |
t any difference how high the duties
are, if they be high enough to ex-
elude importations When they ap-
oroach the subject their first, and l |
nave sometimes thought their only, |
is for the producer. They are /
SO much afraid Of hurting him that
hey close their ears to every voice
save his and assume that, knowing
What he wants, he will not ask for
more than he deserves.
"The echoes of the platform of 1908
which contains the pledges of the Re-
publican party to the people of the
country, have become so faint in their
,ouncils that they are drowned in the
,ries of impoverished manufacturers. k
IN the other hand, the progressives
emember that we promised the Amer
can people that the duties on import
d competitive commodities should be
measured by the difference between
he cost of production in this and
ival lands, and that we made the
romise in order to give at once pro-