New Britain herald., 1916-08-11
CUMMINGS EXPECTS
 WILSON VICTORY
As Certain Of It As He Is That He
 BreatheS
( Special to The Herald.)


 the two most modest men on earth are Senator Mclean and Homer Cum mings, of Connecticut, who are gen. era1ly regarded as the prospective nominees of their respective parties for the United States senatorship in Connecticut.
 Senator McLean's attitude of saying nothing is too we'll known to excite comment here. It was not known however, until today that Cummings is his rival for the modesty champ ionship as well as the senatorship.
 How is your senatorial candidacy getting on?" MT. Cummings was asked.
 1T have never said to anybody that I was a candidate for senator,' was his noncommittal reply. That was all that could be extracted from him.
 MT. Cummings, who is democra- tic national committeeman for Con- necticut, has been here several times in the capacity of vice chairman of the democratic national committee to talk about political campaign plans with the big democrats. With Vance Mccormick, chairman of the demo- cratic national committee, he spent four hours with the president, with whom they lunched and talked pOli- tics, including the Hughes campaign, congressional affairs, and other mat ters Next day Mr. Cummings con- ferred with Vice President Marshall at the capitol
 Mr. Cummings is chairman of the speakers bureau of the democratic national committee,i which capacity he told the president of the progress made in assigning speakers to the various states. Some of the best ora- torical talent the party affords will be l sent to Connecticut, it is understood, l MT. Cummings says that William J. Bryan would not participate in the | Maine campaign, but that he will l make many speeches later. Mr. 1 Bryans itinerary has not yet been arranged, he stated.
 Discussing the political situation with newspaper men, MT. Cummings said:
 "The president will be reelected be- yond doubt. Neither the Mexican policy nor the tariff will be the big issues of the campaign, but the issue will be the record of Woodrow Wilson. Had the president recognized Huerta, he would not deserve the respect he | now commands. If the acceptance | speech of the republican presidential | candidate gauges the intelligence of 1 the American public, then that intelll- gence is below what is accepted. American diplomacy is a new diplom- acy not based upon the diplomacy of Europe.
 T am as confident that the presi- dent will be reelected as l am that | am living. He will be reelected on his record of performance. The republi- cans trying to make Mexico the issue, but they cannot. Neither can they make the tariff the big issue. Nobody is thinking about the tariff "The acceptance speech of MT. Hughes was not that which the Amer ican people had a right to expect from candidate for the presidency. It does not meet the intelligence of l the people. If it does, I haven't much l respect for that intelligence There 1 is not one bit of constructive criticism l about it. Had the manager of a big 1 business submitted sucn a report to his | employers, he would have been dis | charged. Would MT. Hughes have | recognized Huerta? Had President Wilson recognized him, I would have | little respect for him. The fact that Great Britain, France and other na- tlons recognized Huerta signifies nothing.
 There are three very doubtful 1 states in New England-Maine. Con- necticut and Massachusetts. I am l sure we shall carry Massa chusetts and Maine. The latter used to be a re- publican state. It is doubtful now. But if we should lose Maine in Sen- tember by 10000 or 15, 900 I would not be discouraged in the least In the past when Maine went republican by 20,000 the democrats carried the conn try. The Septem Der election in Maine
 will have to be gone over again Mo- vember, so far as presidential electors 1 are concerned"