The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-11
SENATOR sTRADDLED
Senator Kenyon and Representative
Prouty Expected to Take Part in
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the bad way into which things out
in Iowa have drifted and the peril in
which he finds himself, has called a
conference of progressive republic
cam senators and Representatives and
other leaders to meet in Chicago to-
day, tomorrow and Monday. The SEN
ator when asked who had been hon
ored with invitations to his confer
ence, said he was not ready to an.
nounce the names Of those who would
attend, but the conference would be
made up Of liberal leaders of the
party who did not join the bull moose
bolt after the Chicago convention in
June"
Just what the senator means by a
bolt is not clear, for he himself did
not support Taft, although he did sup
port the regular republican state
ticket. He tried with as much grace
as he could command, to ride the ma
tional bull moose going in one direc-
ton and the republican state elephant
going in another
Senators who have expressed a will
ingness to cooperate with Senator
Cummins in his plan to call this CON
ference and do something to start the
ball rolling for next year, to fix on
an issue include Crawford of South
Dakota, and Bristow OF Kansas. Both
OF these are in the same. boat with
Cummins so far as relates to the
trouble which they see ahead of them
for next year Each is a candidate
for his second term. Crawford, like
Cummins, supported the republican
ticket in South Dakota, and advocated
the election of Roosevelt. He also
assisted In preventing the names Of
Taft electors from being printed on
the ballot and aided the bull moosers
In carrying off the republican party
name. Yet Senator CumRlins may not
regard the senator from South Dakota
as bolter.
Senator Bristow Is such notorious
bolter that it would be idle to des's-
nate any one particular act of instr-
gency.
1t is understood in Washington that
Senator Kenyon, when he and Repre-
sentative Prouty were in st. Louis
last week as members of the con-
gressional party which participated In
the ceremonies incident to the dedl-
cation of the Thomas Jefferson monu-
ment, arranged for former Governor
H. S., Hadley of Missouri, to attend
the Cummins conference in Chicago,
His attendance has been greatly de-
sired and the fear has been that, be-
cause of his own presidential aspira-
tions. he would find some excuse not
to accept the invitation
or course, Senator LaFollette would
be the star attraction Of the confer
ence If he would attend. but Flight ng
Bob has not forgiven Cummins for
his desertion last year and his com.
ing out as a candidate for the presi-
dency at time when friends Of the
Wisconsin senator were at work In
Iowa organizing LaFollette clubs and
working to influence sentiment in a
way that might have resulted in the
selection of LaFollette delegates to
the state convention. Senator LaFoL
lette would as soon trust Colonel
Roosevelt again.
Other progressive republicans
who may be in Chicago today are
senator Clapp Of Minnesota, Senator
Norris of Nebraska, and Senator
Works of California. Sentor Cummins
has made a strong effort to persuade
Senator William Borah of Idaho, te
attend, and he may do so. Senator
Borah is in a different political class
from these other "progressives." He
lives in a state that is wildly fol
Roosevelt. The colonel. wearing his
rough rider hat. leather riding
breeches. his spurs and shooting irons
inst fits Idaho's pistol. He's thell
\ hind of a man and Senator Boral
1 knows 1t and he has been Roose
yelt man. too, from the beginning
,Ie wss for Roosevelt before the CHI
caeo convention and in the conven
ton until the nomination was made
and then he was for the nominee. He
refused to go over to Orchesra hal
with the maddened colonel and his
bowling mob. He supported the re
publican ticket and maintained his
party regularity. This also is true OF
Senator Knute Nelson. of Minnesota
whom Senator Cummins is said to
have invited to his conference and
who would add great strength to any
political movement of national char
acter.
While this effort to gain control OF
the national machinery of the 6. O