Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-05-21
SENATOR A. B. CUMMINS.
Certainty Of Senior Senator's Nomination
and Election for Second Term
Republicans Active Everywhere


Republicans Active Everywhere
Senator Cummins will be renominat-
ed June l., as a candidate for the United
States Senate. A committee informally
organized by Iowa Republicans has in
formation from practically every county
that the senator has added to his popu-
larity and greatly strengthened his
position with the people, that all his
most active old friends are giving him
their support and many who in times
past have opposed are now for his cleo.
ton, and that there can be no possible
doubt that he will have place on the
ticket. In many places the vote in the
Republican primary will be unanimous
for him. The keynote of the campaign
is call for harmonious forward
movement in emphatic Endorsement Of
his earnest effort to unite all who be-
lieve in the fundamental principles of
Republicanism into fighting force
that will sweep the nation. Import
ant legislation affecting the welfare of
the people, relating to trusts and great
corporations, the status of the financial
system and institutions, and touching
vital international questions, is under
LILO lCdQOlohlP Va
Senator Cummins in the U. g. Senate
is an important factor. 1t is now &C
copied that with his name on the ticket
the Republicans of Iowa will move on
to certain and more sweeping victory
for the county and Legislative ticket, for
the entire state ticket and for the party
nominee in every congressional district
For these ard other reasons and be-
cause the senator has fairly earned,
through brilliant career at Washing
ton, the right to Endorsement and APP
proyal, Iowa Republicans are passing
the word along TO make his denomination
50 emphatic as to foresbadow an over
whelming victory in November over
the combined opponents of the Repub-
lican party.
Whatever is done in the primary cam
paign for the denomination of Senator
Cummins must be done by the Repuh-
licans of Iowa, those who believe that
Ii is important for Iowa to be represent
ed at the national capitalby astatesman
of experiei=Se and rare ability, those
who believe that the party good is more
important than the desires of any ann
bilious individual or group of politicians.
Republicans with their faces TO the
front and determination to win all along
the line. Senator Cummins could not,
without bringing down upon his head
just criticism, abandon his work on
Senate committees in the midst of the
most important Legislation for decade,
in order to make personal campaign
for denomination at home. la a brief
and dignified announcement he has put
it up to the Iowa people to decide. The
long time friends of the senator and all
his many newer friends owe him the
duty of getting out in each and every
precinct vote that will be an encoura-
cement to him and an inspiration to his
party. While his nomination Is certain
he should have the vote of everyone
who believes his labors for the good Of
the common people should DO continued
in the public service.
Some of the candidates for places on
the Republican ticket, by themselves or
through their spokesman, take the posi-
ton that they and they alone can win
a victory in November. The candidate
who insists that unless he is nominated
by his party none of his party candi-
dates shall be elected, is not in good po-
sition to claim superior party loyalty.
The friends of Senator Cummins assert
merely that with him at the head of the
ticket the Republican victory in Noyem-
Der for the entire ticket will be easy
and certain not only in Iowa but in
other states, and the effect upon the
national situation will be wholesome
and helpful.
The candidacy of A. B. Cummins
for second term should by accepted as
the basis for reunion of the party"
says J. B. Hungerford in the Carroll
Herald.
Il must depend wholly on the Repub-
lican rank and file, says Senator Cum
minis, Ito make my campaign for me. 7"
The rank and file will stand by him
against the onslaughts of the enemy.
There is a reason why the most bitter
of the attacks on Senator Cummins
come from democrats That reason
ought not TO appeal to any republican.
The Vinton Eagle says, lit need not
be an acrimonious campaign, referring
to the senatorial contest within the re-
publican party. And it will not be, if
Cummins and his friends can help it.
The Knoxville Journal says that
everywhere there is recognition of the
fact that Senator Cummins has made
an exceptionally good record and that
the hope of the party in this state is
bound up With his candidacy. Hun
dreds of the stalwart republican leaders
of the state are emphatic in their decla-
ration that they are for Mr.. Cummins
this year and that he ought to be re.
nominated and elected.
I'm our opinion, says w. o. Payne
in the Nevada Representative, 1t is a
very important matter that Iowa Re-
publicans get together on the senator
ship, and any getting together this year
has, equally in our opinion, got to be
on Senator Cummins.
I'VE cannot have united party I'M
less there are concessions" says the
Keokuk Gate City. "Cummins has
made his. Why not let the socalled
stalwart faction be equally liberal"