Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-10-02
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
10 Doomed to Meet His Wa
terioo In November.

Fifty thousand republicans voted
against Senator Cummins in the pri.
mary to $4,000 fQI him These $1,000
are 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 underminars
of government. These are the 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
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 10000 remember. They re-
membered 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 win 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-has 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 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 one whose
effort 10 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 candidate 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 per cent deduction to cover
former democrats now progressives,
the $1,000 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
(Dem.) for governor, was defeated by
only 1859 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 $1,000 republicans voting
for Porter (Dem.) $4,000 progressives
for Cummins, for governor, Porter
failed Of election in 1906 by only 90
600. With the $1,000 voting now
against Cummins, what chance to re-