The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14
CUMM|NS' CHANGES 1
ARE IMPROVING
Long Drawn Out Fight over Iowa
Federal Patronage improves Po-
Iitical Prospects of
Senator.
HE WILL BE REELECTED
Dan Hamllton's Candidacy for the
Judseship, the Chief Cause Of
Trouble In Democratic
Camp.
HE WILL BE REELECTED
Especial to The Gate Gty.l


WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 13.-The
long drawn out and stubborn fight |
over the fed eral patronage, which Is
dividing the democrats Of Iowa, Is
precisely what republicans all along
predicted would take place, and,
whereas, a few months ago, the pros.
poets OF baing able next year to elect
democrat to the senate to succeed
Senator Cummins, seemed bright to
democratic leaders, those prospects
now seem mostly to have gone glim.
mering.
among the republicans of the Iowa
delegation In congress dA,lare that
things are working beautifully and
that if the row in the democratic
camp only can be kept up, the sena-
tor will be renominated without oppo-
sition and reelected by an old time
majority 1t was united democracy
with bull moose candidate in the
field that the Cummins crowd feared.
The chlsf bone of contention in the
! patronage meal which was placed be-
4 fore the democrats of Iowa has been
the United States attorneyship for
the southern district.
i However, Ill feeling began to show
before there was any patronage to
; distribute before Woodrow Wilson
had been elected. In the pre-conven-
ton campaign tn state had been car
ried for Speaker Clark. but follow
ing the defeat OF Clark and the nomi
nation of Wilson at Baltimore "orig.
NAL Wilson men," begsn to bob UP
in every county, and when Wilson
won in November, the woods was full
of Original Wilson mem" there wers
numerous original Wilson men FOL
: every postoffice in the state.
The party in the state had an or
: ganization and this organization lai.
q down certain rules which were to b.
q followed in recommending applicant
for appointment to Office In the frs
Q place, in order to give the rank ant
! file as much of hand in the game
? as possible 1t was set forth that a.
Il applicant for appointment to anv of
y fee, first must secure the inGorsemen
9 of his home democrats as represeatat
! by the county chairman of the cont
>, in which he lived. II the county chair
man himself was candidate, then hi
; must have the indorsem snt of ma
: iority of the township committeeme,
of the county, elected by the demo
Gratis of the several townships TIL
. same rule was to apply to distric
> chairman in case he was candidat
and to the state chairman, if he wa
Il candidate.
The home Endorsement was the frs
step toward an appointment The mex
T was to secure the Endorsement OF tn
q district chairman. then the stat
e chairman, then the national commits
$ teemen and, finally, the three low
IS democrats in congress.
IS Original Wilson Men Balk.
But the Original Wilson men, BALI
II ed at these rules and would not pla
u the game that way. They insurge
81 and early in the new administrator
lSuOi co thS NChI dloupu I'll
- organization and We're succe Sui I
- securing the recognition of Presiden
III Wilson for the first important app in
IS ments given to the state-member c
:. the board of general appraisers
= New York, to Jerry Sullivan; eo'le'
tor of internal revenue for the nortt
ern district, to Louis Murphy: an
q attorney for the northern district t
A. Van Wagenen of whom ais
had been Bryan men for many year