Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-12-02
AS TO CUMMINS.

The Sioux Falls ArgusLeader, while not seeming to be espe
far as the personality " ability of the man is concerned, thinks
that the fact (assuming it to be a fact, a matter with regard to
voted for Roosevelt in 1912 would work as a serious handicap to his
candidacy in 1916. "Who can believe that Senator Cqmmins would
be a republican today had Roosevelt been elected in 1922" it asks
If it be true that Cummins voted for the rough rider in 1912,
it is probable that he would not have been a republican today had
the latter been chosen president again.
1t is equally probable that about four million other men, who
cept the verdict Of the Chicago convention in 1912, would not now
be considering the advisablity Of returning to the republican fold
There are a great many people, 0 bviousy Cummins among
them, if it be true that he did not vote for Taft three years ago, who
sober sense of the republican electorate throughout the country.
In other words, there are those who think that there was more
tile affairs, would be liable to deprive the workers thereof of their
regulations as clean-handed men,
But perhaps that is neither here nor there now, We are not
herein passing upon the. merits of the controvarsy-we are simply
into the campaign that follows. The Roosevelt revolt " inst
|tuted, so far as the average man participating therein IS concerned,
against men like Barnes and Penrose. There is not the slightest
shane, IL in the 5en Mssla tor tbs t aony vspssadss on PP sis as t9 tSag =, don nina e tf tssf
Iof 1912. The country would cling to Wilson instead.
standpoint and having been properly classified as a republican Jour
nal in the past, feels like s.speakin' right out in meetin', = regardless
We believe the ArgusLeader to be endowed with patriotic
motives. It wants the republicans TO nominate the. Their St strongest ongsa,1 most os
tional administrations policies may be continued and that the unde-
t rdaa therefor abs. It e opposes ) $ cnmmins, not not because of the man, nor
Of his lack Of ability, but upon what it conceives TO be his lack OF
And we admit that there is a measure Of logic in its position.
But it should , be borne IN mind g that att the repubLeaas who who stood W.T. with
for socaned regularity
If there is to be a getting together, with the slightest semblance
of a chance for success, the men who went out with Roosevelt IN
1912, cannot be made to come back wearing sackcloth besprinkied
with ashes.
The Saturday News is not particularly concerned over the presi
ldential situation. It thinks it may be able to keep its head above
water regardless of presidential nominees or the outcome Of pres-
dental elections. II believes that 3Jusice Hughes is by all odds the
strongest man the republicans could place in the field. 1T would
even go so far as to draft Mr.. Hughes, believing it to be q mans
duty to respond to his country call, or even his party call
But if it comes to a choice between Cummins and, say, Pen
rose, we re for Cummins.
Il I d frst-elass8 Farmers, Institute is Wor+h# more to the country
than the average political convention.
South Dakota has no marketable corn this year--none, at all
levents, worth mentioning. But it has vast quantities of it that vii
answer for feed for porkers,
The queen Of Greece is a German and the queen Of Rnmania 4
English. No wonder Greece is inclined to side with the kaiser O
That Rnmania il likely to take the part Of the allies. The hant
that rocks the cradle is said 10 rule the world.