The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-20
CUMMINS SHOWED
UNDER BY HUGHES
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over these things declared to be &C,
com plished:
Federal reserve system, new cur
rency act, federal trade commission
tariff reductions, rural credits, relief
to labor unions from the antitrust
| laws, the Alaska government railroad
| increases in the army and navy.
What will be said of child labor
| Legislation, merchant marine. con
servation and certain other questions
| depends on what congress accom-
plishes in the next three weeks.
Hughes Not Excited.
WASHINGTON, May 20.-Justice
Hughes today received without appar-
ent excitement, news of his over
whelming triumph in the presidential
primaries in Oregon.
His secretary announced, when the
United Press returns were read to
him, that there would assuredly be
no expression from the justice and
that it could not even be said he was
interested.
Republican leaders who believe
they have control Of the coming re-
publican convention, however, took an
entirely different view of the situa-
ton.
Hughes against the field" was the
expression of one prominent senator.
and he declared the only figure in
the field" who could be regarded as
more than a favorite son, since the
beating given Cummins and Burton in
Oregon, is Colonel Roosevelt.
Because of the failure of the forces
friendly to Roosevelt in Pennsylvania
to do better than an even break, IL
that well, with Penrose, the justice
was declared a leader over the col
onel In the face of incomplete re-
turns in Oregon, Cummins and Bur-
ton followers made no formal state
ments It is known, however, both
had determined to stake almost all on
chance Of becoming national,
rather than a local candidate by a
defeat Of Justice Hughes in a contest
where popular sentiment had full play.
What appealed to the party leaders
here was that the voters OF Oregon
had plainly preferred Hughes to eth.
er the progressive Cummins or the
conservative Burton. They regarded
this symptom as bearing out their
own convictions that Hughes is the
most available middle ground candi.
date
Hughes strength in the Verm ont
primaries, where his name was writ
ten on ballots more than twice as
often as any other candidate indi-
Gated to these leaders, too, that his
strength is not confined to the pro-
gressive states of the west.
One conservative leader, while
claiming to regard the first ballot in
the coming convention as among the
least consequential events, gave out
this estimate Of strength.
Cummins So; Burton 14O; Fairbanks
14O; Root 100; Weeks 100: Borah 8;
Dupont 6; Sherman 80; Hughes go;
Roosevelt, 65; La Toilette %; Ford 80;
Brumbaugh so; and the other thirty
six miscellaneous. In this compute
lions, however, are included many IN
instructed delegates of whom the
men who claim them are uncertain
Senator Weeks. for instance, believes
he will have TIA on the first ballot
but one of his friends qualities this
of We can hold them" He com.
planned of the southern delegates that
as quick as a Weeks worker left the
front door, somebody else came in
from behind"
Only one more primary remains,
South Dakota, May g, West Virginia
has formal primary, but the state
convention has agreed upon a slate of
candidates TO rwho mgeneral support
is said to have developed Senator
Cummins is expected among politi-
clans to show his normal prairie state
strength in the South Dakota fight