Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-15
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IN aPEEcH AT ST. PAUL. IoWAN
GAYS RULE OF PRESIDENT
10 FAILURE.
WEAKNEs, vAclLLArloN
AND sLUNDERs FEATURES
Denouncss WatehfuI Waiting Policy
and Believes Intervention in Mexico
10 Inevitable -Mismanasemsn in
Foreign Relations Charged Cum
Minis Introduced a. Next President.


minneapolis. Feb. 15.-Senator A. B.
Cummins, of Iowa, ridiculed President
Woodrow Wilson for what he called his
''vacillating views" on preparedness and
for his policies toward the Mexican and
European situations in speech before
the Lincoln Republican Club in the
Saint Paul Hotel. ST. Paul. Altho he
expressed himself as opposed to the
adoption Of any new policy of pre-
paredness" until the present war is
over and its lessons understood, the
liveliest demonstration Of the evening
came when he said:
The country should SO prepare that
Z 1t will be humanity impossible for a
hostile foot to plant itself on the soil of
America"
There were marked evidences Of ap-
prevail when he declared:
mo real red FLOODED American ever
will turn to the page which records the
conduct Of this administration toward
Mexico without blushing. I do not
charge the president with wrong doing,
times worse than wrong doing"
He prophesied that, as q result OF
the presidents weakness" the United
States must intervene to furnish .
nucleus around which the remnant Of
decency and liberty can gather. One
sentence on vacillation was:
''On his preparedness trip. the pres
ident began at Pittsburgh with a mod
efate appeal to the people to speed up
n1itue $50 that in five years we might
havcya navy like Germany's or Japan's.
by the time he got to st. Louis he
abandoned every American conception
and boldly declared the United Statec
should have navy incomparably bet
ter than any nation on earth
Five hundred were present, some OF
them men from over the state who
have filed as Cummins delegates. Be-
fore and after the meeting there was
some electioneering, but nothing like q
get-together OF the Cum1nins forces
It was the 6Fst and only western ad-
dress Of the republican pre- convention
campaign. Senator Cummins left last
night for Des Moines. He will be back
in Washington Tuesday to sit on the
senatorial committee which has the
Brandeis supreme court appointment
to deal with.
1.-THE Next President"
Walter T. Lemon, president of the
Lincoln Republican Club introduced as
toastmaster Carl w. Cummins who in
turn presented Senator Cummins as
the next president"
Governor J. A. A. Burnquist extended
a state greeting and recalled how.
when he was boy. he Kept picture
Of Senator Cummins on the wall OF his
room
Messages Of regret from F. c. Stew
ems and Frank B. kellogg were read
A vote Of thanks to Senator Cummins
was moved by Oar F. Reese and voted
and an informal reception followed.
A lengthy telegram from Mr. Kellogg,
sent from Santa Barbara, Cal, was tho
subject Of much comment by the din
ers. It was looked on by the diners as
Mr.. Kalloggs keynote" declaration,
preliminary to announcing his candi-
dacy for the senate after the March
primaries. He declared for prepared
mess. for building up a merchant ma
rine, for tariff revision on protective
lines and for social justice.
Urges Party Union.
Abraham Lincoln furnished the text
for the address in his famous utterance,
"A house divided against itself can not
stand. The house Of republicanism,
said Senator Cummins, must not fall:
but to stand, It must not be divided
against Itself. It has become our high
est and most imperative duty to see
that 1t to not divided, and that it shall
endure for the glory Of free institutions
and the welfare Of our people,"
Administration mistaken Scored.
One by che Mr.. Cummins reviewed
the mistakes of the administration
{ The tariff law" he said, neither gives
4 protection to our home markets nor
yields revenue for the maintenance Of
the government Had it not been for
the hideous war which has paralyzed
the Industries Of Europe, it would have
put this country into bankruptcy. It
gives the manufacturers OF the east
como protection, inadequate it is true,
but It remorselessly exposes the agri-
cultural producers Of the great west
to the unrestratned invasion Of tho
whole world"
Calls Law Hopeless.
~ The democrats themselves, he said.
are beginning to see the hopelessness
Of the law and are seeking to change it.
One proposal is a full duty on dye
: sss::::.s.sss, .uithnut which capital will not
invest In the business. Another is al.
anfidumping provision and the presi-
Dent Is now urging tariff commits
sion
The banking law, Mr. Cummins said.
has some good In It, but it has made
powerful combinations among banks
lawful. and the authority laven to the
federal reserve board is arbitrary and
full OF merface. The administration
now urging tariff commission.
The banking law, Mr.. Cummins said
has some good in it, but 1t has made
powerful combinations among banks
lawful, and the authority given to the
federal reserve board is arbitrary and
fuH Of menace" The administration
now, he said, Is in state Of Chaotic
& confusion.' =
Cropping For More Taxes.
1t needs money and does not know
where to get It." he declared 1T is
blindly cropping around amidst further
j stamp taxes, gasolene taxes. automo-
bile taxes, income taxes and the like,
z hut lacks the cOt1r5izt q. IN Law fts hands