New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-01-06
From The Tribune Bureau.
Washington. lam,

Washington. January >.
AND NOW COMES CUMMTNS. Senator
c,tmmirs has returned to Washington after
the holiday recess with tho startling in
formation that nothing short Of his own
entry into the race for the Presidential
nomination will prevent lowas sending 10
the Republican National Convention a dele
cation instructed for Mr.. Taft. In the re-
cess Mr.. Cummins gathered about him one
hundred or more leaders of the organlza-
ton I'm Iowa and sounded them regarding
the nonuIarity Of his friend la Toilette. To
his bitter Chagrin. they told him la Fol-
lotte would not go" IN Iowa. Then ne
proposed an uninstructed delegation. only
70 be told that Iowa Republicans swoud
have none of It, Finally, he asked II a
delegation, pcrfunctorily instructed for
himself but composed of men who would
do his bidding at the convention, could
not he chosnn and he received p negative
reply. Iowa will send an instructed dele
cation TO the Chicago convention. 1t will
ne instructed for you. II you are genuine
candidate for the nomination. Otherwise,
II will he instructed for Taft, and it will
not he deliverable" was the utimatum the
Cummins followers gave to their leader.
contemplating the necessity OF entering the
lists himself, regardless of the fact that
HIS doing so would split the insurgents still
further asunder, rs the only alternative 10
permitting Iowa TO stand squarely for the
President. OF course, some skeptCs, who
may recall the conversation between Mr..
Cummins and few of his confidential
friends, in which he outlined those devel-
opmCnts which he believed would make him
the rCmince of the convention, and which
/ related in my dispatch from Des Moines
to The Tribune Of September 60 may be
disposed to regard the bitter tears which
the Iowa statesman Is now shedding as
somewhat crocodlean; but those who pos
sess the faith will apprC late the bitter
anguish with which the low an Contemplates
the probable necessity of driving another
wedge into the already badly split ranks Of
Insurgency.
THE NEBRASKA TERROR.-If ever a
political party played the part of Frank
enstein and created soulless monster, that
part was played by the Democrats when
hypnotized by those burning references to
the cross of gold and crown of thorns,"
they converted William Jennings Bryan
Cubus of the Democracy. Thrice has the
Nebraskan led his party down to defeat
and now, on the eve OF another national
campaign, his mere shadow proves suf
ficient 10 strike terror TO the hearts OF all
brave Jeffersonians. Monday evening Mr.
Bryan will reach Washington, armed with
the proxy of the national committeeman
from Nebraska, and that he will play an
important part in the proceedings Of the
| Democratic National Committee is the
ayowed fear Of many OF the most influential
men in the party. Whether or not the ma
uonal committeeman from Pennsylvania
and Tennessee shall retain their seats in
the committee will, it is conceded depend
largely on how stiff a fight the Peerless
Leader is prepared 10 make. Then the
question Of the two-thirds rule is likely
to come up in the committee meeting, and
no one seems TO be quite certain where Mr..
Bryan will stand on that And, finally.
there are grave apprehenslons regarding
the speech which Mr.. Bryan is to make at
the Jackson Day dinner. Altogether the
| Democratic leaders are in a most uncom-
| Portable frame Of mind. One of the ablest
! and most sagacious Democrats in Congress
summed up the situation of the party TO.
night in these eloquent words we hope
| that God in His providence will look after
| the Democratic party, as we always have
! hoped: but, alas. He has so many other
| things to look after in this world"
! ABUSING PALMER.-The Democrats
! have things 10 worry about this session
other than William Jennings Bryan. and the