The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-10-22
By Fred c. Kelley in Golfers Weekly

cut the price rather than have the
country overrun with Independent
factories.
When Cummins fights he invari-
ably does it calmly. Whether in a
court room, in a heated political
campaign, or in the United States
senate, he is calm, courteous, self
contained. He does not grow boist-
erous, rant, upset furniture, swing
his arms like semaphores, or behave
like frightened horse. / have sell
dom heard him raise his voice in the
senate chamber above the ordinary
conversational pitch. Lawyers who
were just entering the profession at
time when Cummins was already
prominent at the bar in Iowa declare
that he showed them the same consid-
Grafton and difference that he gave
the older and more experienced at
torneys. The result of this trait of
courtesy is that Cummins has always
maintained pleasant relations with
most of the senate leaders, even with
those who are violently opposed to all
that he stands for. Cummins has
been able to accomplish much by
courtesy that would have been i'm
possible if he had resorted to the old
fashioned scheme of attacking men
instead of methods
Dignified-But Democratic
While courteous, however, Cum
Minis has a knack at spelling the
other fellows argument by means of
a few calm, pointed remarks. When
he rises in the senate he is character
lied by an atmosphere of prepared
ness. He Is the sort of person who
listens patiently to what you have to
say and then embarrasses you by in
quiring: Then if that is true, how
do you reconcile the statement you
made year before last?"
Or else he produces some entirely
unexpected facts of more or less
incontrovertible nature calculated to
harass and disturb one.
Besides being calm and collected,
lCummins is dignified There is a
grand manner and a certain air about
him. But his grand manner is not
pompous like that of head waiter.
Rather 1t is the inoffensive, we'll
poised manner of one who really be-
longs. He is dignified without being
strutty. Cummins looks the part of
a United States senator. The fact is,
no matter what position of honor or
trust he might be called upon to fill,
Cummins would come reasonably
close to looking the part. Some years
ago when he was a candidate at the
Republican state convention, seeking
1.-THE nomination for governor of Iowa,
the opposition sought to discredit
him by referring to him as Hand
some Albert" or 'the Des Moines
Apollo" There was a certain farmer
delegate whom the opposition had
counted on. But he voted for Cum
minis. His crowd went to him and
demanded to know why he had de-
cided to support Cummins.
WELL" the delegate declared, "the
fellow looks like a governor"
The Cummins dignity is a demo
cratic kind of dignity. tt has been an
asset rather than an obstacle to him
lin his professional career. Years ago
Cummins was one of the comparative
ly few persons in Des Moines who
rode in closed carriages. In those
days closed carriage was symbol
of aristocracy. Cummins was aristo-
cratic by nature-even though he had
been reared in a plain, old-fashioned
lpoor-but-honest atmosphere-and so
he had his closed carriage He always
rode in it-from his home to his Of
ice, to the courthouse, back home
again-everywhere. And people liked
him for his grandeur. Though he
rode in fine carriage, he knew
Everybody, spoke to everybody. He
accorded to the humblest laborer the
same attention that he did to a fell
low member Of the bar. 1t is related
that on one occasion a gang of men
were digging a big ditch along the
road that Cummins took in going
from his home to his office He be-
came acquainted with these ditch
diggers, and when he spoke to them
as he drove by all lifted their hats
to him.
There were number of other oc-
casions in his early days when Cum
Minis showed his fighting qualities.
It was considered great sport in the
community where Cummins was
brought up for the farmer boys to
hitch up on Saturday and drive to
town-the town of Carmichaels, Pa.