The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-11-05
SENATOR CUMMlNS.

Senator Cummins is showing his &C
customed interest in the republican
party now that he is a candidate fol
office. He is of late vieing with
other leaders of the party in
his loyalty to the organization
1t is worth days journey to
hear him denounce the democrat
ic tariff law. recently passed by
congress. There is very little in it
which he approves and he does not
hesitate to denounce not only the law
but the methods which brought it
about. This sounds most refreshing
from the willy senator who, when in
Office but not candidate. in season
and out of season, has taken great
pleasure in denouncing the republican
tariff law preceded by the Wilson
law now in force.
The senator should have thought of
the need of support before the Wilson
law was passed, and should have
avoided voting with the democrats as
he did to encourage them to pass the
law which was adopted. and which
he now finds fault with. Everyone
must admit that the country never
made such strides in prosperity as
since the Dingley law went into effect
in 1897. This was distinctly repub
lican measure and was passed only
by republican votes and signed by
republican president and no sooner
had the law been in force than the
clouds of financial disaster We're dis
persed and ever since that time we
have been going forth with leaps and
bounds until We have reached q eli
max in growth and development For
many years it was the pastime OF
Senator Cummins, when not a candi-
date for office, to villify and malign
this same Dingley law and the Payne
Aldrich law which succeeded it.
During the time the Equitable Life
Insurance company was under investi-
cation in New York and the numer-
GUS scandals in connection with it;
were being aired Senator Cummins in
his criticism of the Dngley law said
that "all of the graft Of all of the in
surance companies for all time did
not equal the graft OF the Dingley law
for a single. year." In the light Of
history and the results of the Dingley
law this was pretty strong language
for a republican to use.
We have ceased to believe in Sen
ator Cummins republicanism which
asserts itself only when he is can
didate for Office. If democratic tariff
measures are Objectionable to the SEN
ator when a candidate for Office then
why does he favor them when he is
safely ensconced in office? We can
not believe that he is seriously OF
posed to democratic measures when
he criticizes them only when he is 2
candidate for Office in the republican
party.
A republican should be a republican
twelve months in the year, and every
day in the year. and every hour in the
day and when there is lapse in his
so far that he can see
nothing good in it he is falling short,
not only of his opportunity but of his
obligation as member OF fine party.
There may be men in Crawford coun.
ty who are charmed with the senator's
kind of republicanism, but we are
convinced that there are fewer OF them
than there were several years ago.
We are willing to concde that Sen
ator Cummins is an adroit politician
and has a faculty of drawing to him a.
large following, but when it comes to
consistent republicanism and COM
pared with men who keep the repub-
ican banner afloat, he is found want
ing
The republican party of Iowa is en-
titled to have in the United States
senate man who represents it's ev-
cry day in the year, and if Senator
Cummins cannot make a better show
ng than that he is a dependable re-
publican only when he is a candidate
sor office we may as well have for SEN
ator some other man who could &C.
,omplish equally as much for his state.
We are not disposed to advocate
he election of a democrat to the Unit
I'd States senate from Iowa, but for
he benefit Senator Cummins has been
% the party. the severe criticism
which the party has sustained at his
lands and the i'll treatment which he
,as accorded it, the party could not
suffer more if he was defeated. If he
S to receive the support of the repub-
lean party for United States senator
lext year he should be made to stand
Up and take solemn oath and furnish |
satisfactory guarantee besides that
.e will not if elected, betray the party
II the future as he has in the past. We
ave no personal quarrel with the SEN
tor, but we do complain of his want ,
If party loyalty and because he will
consent to use the republican party to
,eep himself in office and then betray
after he is elected.
Crazy Snake does not show up to
ct the money the government owes
i'm, but perhaps he does not realize
hat with money you can buy firewa-