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Rep ublican Harmony!

Republican harmony!
AS keynote for an Iowa republican
campaign the speech of Senator Cum
minis will strike many workers in the
ranks as bum blast of bombastic
politician. No doubt it was delivered
with enhancing eloquence and spen-
did spiel of sincerity, but after all it is
simply reiteration of the infinitive-
ness of the insurgents and one more
indictment of the wisdom and honesty
of the great ma ority of the republic
can representation in both houses OF
congress. AS glorifcation OF Cum
Minis it may be gem, and perhaps 1t
was built on plans and specifications of
that sort. Waterloo Reporter
The nature of this conflict of ideas,
it's virility, its earnestness, its IRE
pressibility, is declared in the opening
sentence. Harmony is like the poet,
it is born. not made" 1t exists among
kindred minds. 1t cannot be forced.
If forced it is only the harmony OF
death. 1t is as true now as in l776:
Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, put
there is peace" 1t was so in 1861 when
Privilege went to war to defend and
retain it's power to appropriate all the
earning of labor, as Privilege is now
fighting to retain power to appropriate
share of labor's earnings. The SEN
ator comprehending fully the nature OF
the conflict expresses it aptly In his
paraphrase of Lincoln's famous SEN
tence. The republican party is where
the nation was in 1853 half slave, half
free. For when law gives to Privilege
power to take, without compensation,
any part of mans earnings it is slave
nv, and our government has bestowed
upon Privilege in laws both positive
and negative, this .power. Against 1T
striving to take it away and transmute
it into freedom for men, the progress
sives of the land, drawn from allpolitl-
cal parties, are combining. 1t is no
longer republican against democrat or
socialist, laborite or prohibtionlst, but
progressives against standpatter, the
square deal against privilege.
Full of platitudes and deadly elo-
quence but containing nothing on which
to base claim of craftsmanship Sen
ator Cummins' speech as temporary
chairman of the Iowa republican con-
vention amply represents the faction
which has been persistently battering
at the foundation of the republican
party.
With the aid Of a thoroughly organ
lied publicity service through the SEN
sational magazines and the independent
newspapers great influence has been
exerted on public thought, and it has
been easy for the opponents Of the re-
publican party to gain Roadway.
This has encouraged Senator Cum
minis to go to extraordinayr length in
criticism Of regular party leaders, of
the national administration and of the
enactments of the republican congress.
His address yesterday was in most part
an indictment Of the party for which
he pretends to stand. 1t is not speech
to give aid and comfort to the leaders
who are expected to fight the battles
of republican national, congressional
and state candidates in the coming
campaign, but rather one which will
serve as vehicle for democratic as.
sault upon every angle of the republi
can organization. Burlington Hawk
Eye, stand pat.
For the first time in the history %.
Iowa, republican convention has re
pudiated, insulted and defied the heat
of the party in the nation-the presi
dent of the United States.
The convention in Des MOines yester
day, in full control Of the insurgen
element, jeered at portraits of Presi
dent Taft, Missed at references to hi:
name, and gave him an open slap ii
the face in the resolutions adopted.
The outcome of the convention pre-
sages defeat in republican Iowa this
fall. 1t places in jeopardy the COVER
norship and the seats of six of the
eleven candidates for congress. II
would be both useless and foolish tt
disguise the fact. There was no sem.
blance of harmony in the proceedings
of the convention and no effort was
made to secure any. The party enters
the campaign divided into warning fac
tons, each suspicious of the other ant
prepared to place the blame for defea
upon other shoulders than its own. :
Manchester Press, standpat.
The republican insurgents in conven.
tion assembled, in effect gave Presi,
den, Taft and his administration !;
SHARP slap in the face in the resolu