Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-10-28
VOTE CONNOLLY
The Choice Of Wilson Admins.
tration to Serve in Senate
why cuMMINs CANNOT WIN
Plain Array. Of Facts and Figures
Show That States Senior Senator
10 Doomed to Meet His Wa
terloo In November.

Fifty thousand republicans voted
against Senator Cummins in the pri'
mary to 10000 for him. These $4,000
are the men Cummins has prosecuted
Tor their opinions, and whom he has
put before their neighbors IS corpora.
ticn tools, without patriotism or com.
mon honesty and as the political
agents Of the sappers and underwriters
of government. These are tho men
who, when they dared to differ from
Cummins on government or party pol
Icy were pilloried by him as evil in
intent. vicious in public morals and a
menace to u institutions. Because
they did not accept him as their lead.
or, he seized the tools Of envy and
calumny, and heating them In the
fires OF his selfish ambition, branded
the $4,000 as not merely unworthy OF
public confidence but OF private re
spect. s. % ~
These $4,000 remember. They re.
nlembered when Claude Porter ran for
governor, and they voted against
Cummins: They remembered last
June when, practically without or
ganization, they went to the polls and
voted for Savage. They will remem-
Der in November-they never forget
and they won't forgive the personal
insults heaped upon them through the
years. Senator Cummins enters upon
his campaign for reelection without
their support and with their active
opposition. He enters the campaign,
in other words, without $4,000 Of his
party strength. And the highest re.
publican majority, up to 1912, was
only 10000. a.
The loss Of the $4,000 is not, how
ever, all the Cummins'' loss. "A new
party-the Progressive-has come in.
to existence, and IS per cent former
republican-former Cummins republic.
ans---in its makeup. II.
With Cummins exerting himself to
the utmost for the republican state
ticket, with the Iowa republican or
ganization abandoning all else to a
the state ticket, the progressive party,
nevertheless cast $4,000 votes for the
Office Of governor in 1912. These H.
900 have cut loose from the republican
party. They cut loose from Cummins
in 1912, ignoring his counsel to stay
with the party. Their objective is the
destruction of the republican party
and they will not support n whose
effort is to keep it alive, the more
especially when his sole purpose is
to use 1t in furtherance Of his per
sonal ambition.
They have in Casper Schenk their
own candidates Roosevelt progress.
.sive, and they will support him. The
$4,000 are Progressives concerned
with principle and their sincerity has
been proved in fire. To the $4,000,
then, must be added the $4,000, or If we
make q 5 per cent deduction to cover
former democrats now progressives,
the IS, 900 former republicans who left
or the party Of Cummins,
and are against him in this campaign.
And the highest republican majority
to 1912 was only 10000.
With the $4,000 voting for Clark
.(Rep.) for governor, e. G. Dunn
Dem.) for governor, was defeated by
only 1899 votes in 1912. Clark poll
ed the maximum republican strength.
With the $4,000 voting against Cum
minis, what chance has he of election?
What can he have?
With the $4,000 republicans voting
for Porter (Dem.) $4,000 p~rogressives
for Cummins, for governor, Porter
failed Of election in 1906 by only TO-
900. With tho 5000 voting now
against Cummins. what chance to 70 I