The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-09-17
VOTE FOR 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
Is Doomed to Meet His Wa
terIoo In November.

| rllLy thousand republicans voted
against Senator Cummins in the pri
mary to 10000 for him. These O,CoO
arc the men Cummins has prosecuted
/ for their opinions, and whom he has
put before their neighbors as CORPORA.
tlcn tools, without patriotism or com
mon honesty and as the political
agents OF the sappers and undermin ars
/ OF government. These are the men
! who, when they dared to differ from
/ Cummins on government or party mol
! icy were pilloried by him as evil in
intent, vicious in public morals and a
menace to our institutions. Because
they did not accept him as their lead
er, 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
These $4,000 remember. They re-
'!embered 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
The loss of the $4,000 is not, how
ever, all the Cummins' loss. A new
party-the Progressive-ha come in
to existence, and 95 per cent former
republican-former Cummins republic
ans-in its makeup.
With Cummins exerting himself to
the utmost for the republican state
ticket, with the Iowa republican or
ganization abandoning all else to save
the state ticket, the progressive party,
nevertheless cast $4,000 votes for the
Office Of governor in 1912. These r.
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 one whose
effort is to keep it alive, the more
especially when his sole purpose is
to use it in furtherance of his per-
sonal ambition
They have in Casper Scnenk their
own candidate-a 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 per cent deduction to cover
former democrats now progressives,
The $4,000 former republicans who left
Cummins or the party of Cummins,
and are against him in this campaign.
And the highest republican majority
up to 1912 was only 10000.
With the $4,000 voting for Clark
(Rep) for governor, E. G. Dunn
IDem.) for governor, was defeated by
only 1859 votes in 1912. Clark poll
ID the maximum republican strength.
With the $4,000 voting against Cum
nins, what chance has he Of election?
What can he have?
With the; $4,000 republicans voting
or Porter (Dsm.) $4,000 progressives
or Cummins, for governor. Porter
allied Of election in 1906 BY only. co.
40. With Tie sS.00o voting now
leaiast CumnllA Whist chance to ~