The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-20
CumminS States Why He Is Out
 For Presidency
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Wash1n gton, Jan 2O-In a state
 ment issued here, today, Senator AL publican from Iowa, announced his entrance in the race for the RepubIi- can Presidential nomination.
 'So much has been published in the newspapers and so much written and said to me concerning the prest- der-ta1. matter the statement de- to make to the Republicans of Iowa a plain statement upon the subject.
 @Imme ediately upon my return from the last session of Congress I gave out, through the press.. my opinion with respect to the presidency. That opinion remains unaltered- The situa- , , ton, however, has changed and now 1t. seems probable that more than two candidates for nomination will be seriously considered by the national convention.
 Under these conditions. if the Re publicans of Iowa believe I am a fit man to be presented to the conven- ton ssass a.. cap5idate -.for the presi- dentiai fnorninaffon and desire to 50 present me, l will appreciate and ac- cept their confidence as a most grati- flying evidence of faith in my pur4 pose to serve as best I can the gen .eral welfare of the people,
 S4andpat forces here, today. hailed the Cummins announcement with glee- he Iowa Senator has 8 strong known here for some time that friends ing hls. home state had been urging him to enter the race
 ''The announcement that senator Cummins proposes to be a favorite son candidate. for the presidency makes no difference to the. .LaFollette campaign" said Walter L. Houser. in charge of thssL.a Toilette headquarters
 Our campaign will go right along as usual Sen. LaFollette Is in the need not worry about the entrance in to the race of any number of candi- dates. Senator LaFoIlette Is stand- ing for important and definite politi- cal principles which are becoming every day better known to the pc Jple. His friends feel that it is important that he should continue to make these principles better and lead the move ment against other candidate.
 The view taken by Senator Craw- ford, (Rep., S. D9, today. as to the LaFollete campaign, was concurred in generally by prOgressives. Crawford was one of the first Senators to de- clare for LaFollette.
 My idea is, while I am a decided LaF'olletts man., that it win not in- jure LaF'ollette's candidacy for the progressives to take such a step in great state like Iowa as it will best insure unity of effort in the selection of pronounced progressive delegates to the next Republican convention Crawford asserted.
 .sIn my Judgment it will not weak en the progressive cause nor injure the candidacy of LaFollette, if every possible effort is used, even though 1t be in the. interest of other progres- sive candidates to secure a sufficient number of delegates to control the convention.
 'The first thing is to elect ma jority of the delegates. When that is done we will be able first, to make progfessive platform and then we can settle the issues among the diff ferent progressive candidates"
 Senator Borah, (Rep., Ida.), said:
 "Cummins is one of the ablest and most conscientious men in public life. Clean and progressive politics owes as much to Senators CumInins and LaFollette as to any other two men in public life. I do not under stand that this means any conflict in the progressive camp"
 +'In my judgment" said Senator Dixon,- CRep.. Mont.), ''the Iowa Re publicans take pride in Cummins record and naturally want to place him in the list of Republican presi- dential candidates"
 New Haven, Jan. 2o.-President Taft, today, refused to comment on the candidacy of Senator Cummins for the Republican presidential nomi- nalAOns