Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-05
TEDDY WH|RIS
 THROUGH IOWA Bull Moose Nominee Gets Glad Hand of Progressives When He Game Into
 Sight at Des Moines.
HE MET MIR. CUMMTNs
Gets His Support But Not His o,a tory-Siams tie Bosses ,u., Senator Kenyon.

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 whirl through Iowa today colona
 Roosevelt, found the state in thq
 enfoes Of political turmoil The ae- cessl9n ot Senator Cummins 10 thf Progressives came ill the national llght as proclaimed in Cummins' an nouncemeLt of yesterday, gives hope
 to the Colonel tha1 he, with Cum mins support will carry the state in November. But tie standpatt CTS are fighting savagely.
 The curious feature of Senator Cummins' sudden flop to the Roose- welt forces and a thing that bothered the Colonel, was his insis;ence thar there is no occasion for shird party Gummins pointed out nat he beIi aves ill some, not all, of the principles If the Progressive party. but that tGe time has not come to split up ei.a Republican party.
 While saving this, Cummins. n- dica ed that he would work fer Roosevelt af d his is Wat gave the Co!Gne! lis gleam of hope. Tonight Roosevelt and Cummins conferred at a hotel here oyer ,he senatorial align ment in the campaign Roosevelt urged him to abandon the organ:za- tlon ticket put up by the sate head ed by the PrCoressives with Taft leanings and wanted the Senator to stump the country fer the Progress sives.
 Throughout he days furious swing through thih insargent ate Roose- welt ma le capital out of the Senator Cummins jump into Progressive camp. Before the Progressive con- venrion here which nominated eX- Judge Stevens, of Boone, for gover- nor, the eX-President lauded Cum mins whose name up to today he had not mentioned since tie Republican convention as the kind of a Progress sive wor,h whi:a.
 The eX-President' run in a hot, whitening day, was through stand- pat territory which the Taft forces have counted on to carry ii NoVem- Der. He swung out from Kaokuk early in the day, through the sou h. eatern portion cf the state, Whack.nS everywhere at the bosses and landing blows upon United States Senator Kenyon, who recently obtained an endorsement at the Iowa primaries as a Progressive candidate for re-eec- tion, but who is supporting Taft.
 q have the keenes contempt fer the men who suppor, the nomlnatloh obtained as MT. Taft's was, by thel', cried the Bull Moose candidate. "No man who stands for MT. Taft's stolen nomination can expect to have the regard of people who respect decency in politics.
 The Colonels advent here climaXed a day of rousing ovation. On the way from inc deDot he was cheered by 2O,O00 people who lined the streets The Bull Moose convention was full swing just after having nominated Judge Stevens when the Colenel en- tered the hail.
 The thirty-five hundred Bull Moose abandoned themselves to a frenzy Or cheers as Roosevelt hove lhto sight. For five minutes they yelled al him.
 The Colonel slammed at the bosses of both parties, telling the b'll Mooses that, while nominally there are three parties in the field Tn real ty there are but two, one backed py the people and the other comblna- ion backed by the "whole crew oI posses"
 Roosevelt left here tonight fer St. Paul. where tomorrow he will spend ! day of .campaigr ing. ?
 After the conference with Seaa yor yummins tonight, Colonel Roosevelt adopted a secretive attitude.
 uAll | can say is that Senator is with me on the nationall