The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-10
cuMmINs For PRESIDENT.

/ Cedar Rapids Republican that the
platform adopted by the Republican
state convention in Des Moines last
week was written in the interest of
1.-THE candidacy of Senator Cummins
! for President has attracted wide at
tention and ELECTED considerable COM
rent. In some quarters there IS
disposition to disbelieve the report on
the ground that no one would under
take to play such despicable trick
on the Republicans of the country,
but many others concede that all the
indications are that the platform was
drafted in the interest of Mr.. Cum
Minis and that the discrediting OF
President Taft was part of CAREFUL
ly prearranged plan, According to
dispatch under Des Moines date line
friends there of the junior senator
practically admit the impeachment.
TIE dispatch in question says, among
other things:
The secret leaked out first through
newspaper correspondence, and then
having been given publicity 1t has
practically been corroborated by the
friends of Senator Cummins. 1t ap-
pears that the big ga ering of the
insurgent leaders here. and the long
conferences in private with the sena-
tor were not alone for the purpose
of outlining q platform of Iowa Re
publicans, but to formulate a plan OF
Senator Cumnins for President. L.
also now appears that the plans Of
the insurgents have bSen long in con.
temptation. that the election of Cum
n1ins to tie senatorship was but a
step and his subsequent action in
congress and in public speeches have
been but means of preparing the
way"
On the same authority the live wire
in the movement is Jud Welliver, the
astute, clever and INSCRIPTIONS polit-
lea, writer of Washington, D. c. Wei
liver is former Iowa newspaper man
and is a Democrat in politics. As
there was nothing to be gained for
his party by direct methods he early
constituted himself the press agent of
Governor Cummins and the Iowa
idea" as means of infiicting damage
on the Republican party in tie state.
Later he went to Washington City,
where he now has the principal news
agencies of the country under his con-
troll. The dispatches from the ma
tional capital have been under lis
dictation, and in them and in maya
zine articles he has played up" Cum
Z ~. Ii low
tunities. 1t is said that when Welli-
yer was in Des Moines last week in
attendance at the Republican state
convention plans were formed there
to establish a Cunflnins news bureau
in Washington. AS to this the dis
patch quoted from above says:
1T will be the duty OF this bureau
to put Cummins' name into every
newspaper of the country as often as
possible, and in as favorable light
as can be done even through the av-
enues of the great Associated Press.
It is stated that Mr.. Welliver con-
trolls several correspondents of that
association in Washington, so the
readers of the newspapers through
out the country may expect to have
a good deal of Cummins news dished
up to them the coming two years.
THE next important duty of this bu-
reau will be to discredit President
Taft. This will be done in the most
ingenious manner, just as Unele Joe
Cannon has been discredited by the
printing OF frivolcu and questiolabl :
items about him with an air of saving
good-humored t ings of him. In other
ways the President will be shown up
as unworthy OF further consideration
of the people The hope is that the
country will turn to the brilliant Iowa
senator Jud Welliver will rest not
night or cay IN the eadeavor to bring
this { ing about through the medium
of publicity.
But old line Republicans smile.
They feel with Abraham Lincoln. that
while YOU can fool all of the people
all of the time, yet you cannot fool
81 OF them all of the time. The
Cummins selfishneTs will percoIate
through the brains of these most
dense before the time comes for rom
mating the next President. There
isn't any danger that the handsome
and brilliant Iowa junior senator will
come wip2in striking distance of the
Presidential nomination,
The Cedar Rapids Republican,
which first preached the subject. re-
ports that a great many Republicans
in Iowa who have been blindly fol
lowing the leadership of A. B. Cum.
Minis are astounded at the real mean
ing of the platform adopted at Dea
Moines last week. AT the time It
was not realized that it was
written with no reference what.
ever TO tie best interests of the party
and that it was drafted entirely and
"wholly with a view of boosting the
political ambitions of single man
The Republican thus further com
, ments on the matter:
q II has helped many men to under.
= stand the platform which was adooe.
\ ed last week 1t is the kew to TIE
s stform which is national document
v and which laws the basis Of a Presi
X dental boom with differentiation
r enough, it is believed. to create a fol.
lowing within the party. Mr.. Cum
If minis himself die al ed the rIatfo-m