Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-09
SHOCK 70 SIANDPA7S
EFFORT TO TURN TlPPEcANoE
BANQUET INTO FRACTIONAL
MEETING FAILS.
cUMMlNs STILL A POWER
N HIS HOME DISTRICT
Attempt, Deliberately Made, to Aumili-
ate Senator Met With RshuH-Men-
ton of Lafs Young az Vice Prssidsn-
tiaI Candidate Taken a. 4 Joke
othsr Iowa News.
Special to Times-Republican.

Especial to Times Republican,
Des Moines. Sept. 9.-The temper Of
the Tippecanoe Club and its guests anG
friends as made manifest at the Thurs
day evening political banquet, was g
distinct shock to the Des Moines iunta
that has fancied it possible to build up
here new anti progressive movement
by persistent and we'll devised abuse
and misrepresentation of the senior
Iowa senator. The revelation which
| was made OF the firm hold which SEN
ator CumminS has on the affections OF
the active and aggressive republicans OF
his home city came also as an agree
able surprise to his friends. Some had
been led. in one way or another. large
/! ~ by reason of a long continued news
paper attack upon him, to think that
Cumimns was down and out" politi-
! cally because Of his refusal TO bow to
the dictates Of local political bosses.
What happened Thursday night show
| ed situation quite different.
Attempt to Humifiate.
There is no doubt whatever of the
deliberate intent Of a small number of
those afflicted with Cumminsphobia
to draw him into meeting where he
| would be inundated by a storm of
| standpatism. The cue was given by the
presiding officer, J. NJ. Orvis, a hard
headed old man who has been a bitter
antagonist Of Cummins during all the
1F S.s-
ment. Mr. Orvis read carefully pre-
pared statement purporting to be a
statement Of the principles Of the Tip
pecanoe Club. He praised Aldrich and
lauded Sherman and Mckinley and
lodged about in every way to avoid
saying anything that would give credit
to the strong men OF Iowa of today.
Then he filed his message full Of the
meaneSt, most sarcastic, -insidious in
situations directed covertly at Senator
Cummins and intended to draw a dis
tinction between what he called the
real principles" OF the party and
those advocated by the senator It was
10 plain that he was intending to in
suit the. chief guest of the evening
that before he had finished it became
laughable; Senator Cummins laughed,
the crowd laughed and everybody took
It as a Joke.
cummins Comes Back.
OF course the chairman's ill-timed
recital Of the familiar line Of dishonest
attack upon Cummins only gave the
| latter good opportunity to start in
| and talk plain. With ali the suavity
and cleverness for which he has al
ways been distinguished, and with such
added polish as might be added by
few lessons at Washington, with per-
feet command of himself and conf
dence in the justice of his cause, Sen
ator Cummins led up to the refreshing
thought that the republican party was
born to fight and that when its ad-
herents lapse into serenity its useful
| ness Will be done; and thus, within five
minutes, he captivated the big audience
and stirred again the patriotic enthu-
siasm of 800 Des Aioines republicans
The fact was that il was in the minds
OF few. not SO much to have the Tip
pecanoe Club go on record for the Taft
| denomination, as to have it show open
hostility to Senator Cummins and the
progressive cause. And in this encour-
agement had been given by some pro-
Senator is Approved.
1t is not exaggeration to say that
Senator Cunmins has not before at
any time been received with more
marked manifestation of approval and
| support than when he rose to speak
at this little banquet. Still more is it
true that as he proceeded he virtually
| had the entire banquet hall with him.
When vicious reactionary who had
ta--ied at TOO many saloons on the way
! to the church lost his head and butted
| in with an impertinent question in
| tended to embarrass the senator the
| senator, the crowd was quite ready to
i applaud to the echo the courageous
words of the senator in retort. He did
not hesitate to say plainly what he
thinks Of the fighting republican SEN
| ator from neighboring state. The re-
| Spouse Of the Tippecanoe Club showed
that La Toilette is admired by them
Young Taken as Joke.
| II was again when an old man, one
of the class described by the late Sen
ator Doliyer as with mental processes
that ceased to operate years ago. un-
| dertook to start a vice presidential
boom for Lafe Young, that the Tippe-
| canoe Club literally broke out into a
loud guffaw. That suggestion was too
much for all save few of the most
pronounced Cummins haters.
| The climax was reached near the
end. The chair had announced while
Judge Prouty was speaking that Meth
er LATE Young nor Sid Foster had
shown up, but that he had letter
from the latter he wanted them all to
stay and hear. But as soon as Judge
Prouty had finished the crowd with one
accord got up and started out. The
chair was unable to read the Foster
letter The Tippecanoe Club had read
q great many of them in the papers.
| Tho Tippecanoe Club banquet, adj
vertised to be starting point for Z
fractional row, turned out to be . har-
mony meeting. Instead Of demonstrate
ing that Cummins has lost out In his
home city by reason of the torrent Of
Misrepresentation which has followed
him, It demonstrated that whenever he
raises the banner OF progress his
neighbors who know him best are
| ready to follow.
TIE Aan.ssleed,s 9wrpeiee.
The coming ont OF James n. R1efce
and the ..Homestea6'. for the nosnina-
tion u Senator IaFollstts for president
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