The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-05

Aside from his services to Keokuk,
he is a good Indian IS we'll as a live
i one. And as for heroes, a living hero
lis better than a dead one any day.
So come-all together
/. Hurrah for Lake Logan!
APPRECIATION.
MIR. cummins.
To the Editor of The Gate City:
see Mr.. Cummins is now for
Roosevelt and against his party. The
! strange part of it is, the reasons he
assigns for SO doing. He is going to
leave the Republican party for its
own good and says that the old party
can only be saved by such men as he
leaving it for the time being and vot-
4 ing for Roosevelt. He further says
there is no excuse, warrant or justi-
I ficatlon for the organization of new
party. This is indeed a strange prop
osition, especially SO when Roosevelt
is saying all the way along that both
the old parties have outlived their
usefulness and no hope can be based
on. or through the future usefulness
! of either of the old parties and the
/ new one is to be permanent and las
\ tive. Mr.. Cummins will desert his
own party for while to help build
up and establish a new permanent
party then return to the dead and
useless one to there abide and for
what, who shall give the answer? In
other words Cummins tells Senator
Kenyon and all the already nominal
ted candidates in the Republican par
ty to stand pat and be good little
republicans and baby mooses, while
| put on a pair of Bull Moose horns
and go out with the colonel and fight
the battle of Armegaddon and kill all
the democrats and republicans in the
country and then shall come back
to live with you dear departed souls.
Mr.. Cummins has been doing this
thing for the last twenty years and
as remember he voted for Horace
Boise for governor on the democratic
ticket. Roosevelt says the republican
party stole the convention at Chicago
and nominated Taft. Well then log
lcaliy this old party stole it's own con
vent1on, that is all. 1t was the same
party that has practically controlled
the country for the last fifty-two
years, during which time no other
country in the history of the world
has grown SO great, now admitted to
be the greatest and most powerful
people on the globe. 1t was great
enough to take Mr.. Cummins. a young
lawyer practicing in Des Moines and
passing him through all the grades OF
honor to governor and United States
senator, and Mr.. Roosevelt always a
wealthy aristocrat in New York, and
passed him up through the governor
ship of New York to the presidency
of the United States, and held him
there for several years and made the
man he named William H. Taft, his
successor, and the party was still
good enough for him to try for third
term nomination. A nomination Meth
er this nor any other party had ever
given to any man and he made the
most desperate fight for this nomina-
ton ever made by any man, and for
the sole reason that he did lot get
this nomination in the party of his
life, he turns upon it with all the
abuse and venom that his great power
commands to destroy it, and says it
is done and should die and he is out
with his army geddon' clothes to
kill it.
AS lawyer it is beyond my power
to understand how party can steal
itself or its convention. The conven-
ton at Chicago took up the various
contests, in the way 1t has always
done and decided then in the way it
always did. 1t was the national CEN
tral committee established years be-
fore, made up of the greatest and
most important members of the party
and was in existence when Roosevelt
became candidate for his third
term. He knew that these men would
pass on all such cases and the only
men who could pass on them, and If
he knew, or had reason to believe
they were scoundrels and thieves"
and would not do him Justice, he
should. as the lawyers say, have an
piled for a change of venue. Not
having done this he must be held to
have waived all such rights and con-
sidered that the committee would do
him and all the republicans justice
as they understood 1t, and when they
made their decision it bound him to
accept Very few cases are tried in