Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-14
Our WASHINGTON Letter.

WI "USNsuSVVu AOeeSAs d.
1.-The present campaign in New Jersey
is of nationwide significance from the
fact that the outcome of the election
on Tuesday will indicate to the country
whether the people Of this, President
Wilson'S state, accept or reject a pro
gram which he has put into effect.
This quotation from q speech made
by Senator Cummins of Iowa before
the New Jersey election appeared in
the Congressional Record Monday of
last week. The next day the people
answered and showed that they accept
ed President Wilson's policy by giving
the Democratic candidate for governor
plurality Of over e. 900. At the same
time the people elected a Democratic
governor, in Massachusetts by more
than $1,000 plurality after Senator
Cummins had stumped the state for
the Republican nominee, who by the
way ran third, the Bull Moose candi-
date polling the second highest VOTE
Senator Cummins' speeches in Mas
sachusetts and New Jersey were criti-:
cised on the floor of the Senate, and .
notable criticism appears in the Sioux
City Tribune, formerly one OF the SEN
ator's chief supporters. In the senate,
Senator Martin read what he said was
stenographic copy Of speech made
by Senator Cummins at Plainfield, N.
j., in which the lewan was quoted IS
saying he regarded President Wilson
~ IAN enemy to the constitution"
and saying further:
There is no moral difference between
the act Of. Huerata, president of the
Mexican republic, who caused the it'll
prisonment of members of Congress
who failed to repeal resolution which
he wanted repealed, and the acts of
President Wilson respecting the pas.
sage of the present tariff law"
Senators Martin, Owen and Williams
held this language indefensible. Ser
ator Martin challenged the 1owan to
show IAN instance where there has
been undue, ungenerous and unpatriot-
ic pressure brought by the President
on any Senator. Senator John Sharp
Williams said that if the Iowan used
the language quoted above it was un-
called for and unjvstified. He added
that ''the man we have now in the
White House 10 the best informed. the
best equipped, the most highly educat-
"a, and the most cultured President |
We have had in the White House since |
Thomas Jefferson went out Of it, and
He resembles him somewhat. He has |
exercised no influence upon any man
save by IN appeal to bis reason or to
his party loyalty, to that sentiment
which makes q man true to the school
II political thought to which he be-
longs.
I In one of bis. Aassac husetts speeches
Senator Cnmnins WAS quoted as say.
ing that President Wilson played the
part of : traitor" by influencing tar.
iff legislation. This drew heated re-
ply from Speaker Champ Clark, who
holly resented the use Of such Ian
guage, Senator LCummins in reply
said: Il did refer to the President Of
Mexico. did not say it in comparison,
Of course, with any man, but l said
that would just as soon have my will
as member of congress overcome by
. soldier as by any other influence
from the executive department.
The Sioux City Tribune took issue
with Senator Cummins for taking the
stump in Massachusetts to make pro-
tective tariff speeches. The Tribune
the conviction that there
is nothing in the theory Of general
prosperity depending upon protective
tariff taxes. 1.-THE Senator did not
say to the people of Massachusetts,
the Tribune editorial continues, that
he voted against the tariff bill because