Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1906 — THE IOWA CASE. [ARTICLE]

THE IOWA CASE.

A. B. Cummings, now the governor of lowa, was renominated at Des Moines last week, this fact of itself would be of little consequence were it not for the fact that Cnmmings had at first the direct and later the indirect opposition of the Roosevelt crowd to contend with and has won hands down. His candidate for Lieutenant Governor was also nominated, which is a complete root of the Roosevelt outfit, headed by Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury, and Geo. D. Perkins, candidate of the railroads and other corporations for governor. Cummings has also stood for a revision of the Dingley tariff robbery, in direot opposition to the recently outlined plan of Roosevelt, Cannon & Co., at the Oyster Bay conference. The fact that the nomination was given to Mr. Cummings under these circumstances is conclusive proof that the lowa farmers and

tradesmen are getting tbeir eyes open, and that in all probability they will do as they did in 1872, when the Grange movement originating among them, removed a lot of political warts from tne body politic of lowa and for a time at least materially clarified the political atmosphere of that state. While the administration was indorsed, and tariff robbery was mildly recommended, there is no doubt of the fact that the Roosevelt crowd has been fieroely rebuked, and it was not in hissing his cabinet officer but in nominating a man in direct opposition to his most recently promulgated ukase to stand pat on the Dingley robbery, that the spirit of opposition was best illustrated. Of course Roosevelt, true to the seemingly most firmly fixed trait of his lightning change propensities, can repudiate Shaw and Cannon and the Oyster Bay conference, can even deny that he has any personal acquaintance with any of these persons, without doing violence to his past, and there is little doubt that this oourse will be pursued, if it will conduce temporarily to his personal convenience.

The W. E. Chandler episode is too fresh in the public mind to need repetition here. The Paul Morton incident, where a confessed criminal was given a clean bill of health and assisted to the presidency of tne worst skin-game in the United States, and many others could be named to prove the ease with which Roosevelt can get oat from under, when his personal convenience demands it. Cnmmings may “brag” on “Roosy” a little during the campaign, bat this will not lessen the sting that has been administered, and Roosevelt’s close alliance with the managers of the worst offenders among the Senatorial cabal, who mutilated the Rate Bill, the Meat Inspection Bill, and the Pure Food bill, will only hasten the openly voiced suspicions that a large and convenient hole under the fence has been provided in the judgment end of the lane down which be is at present chasing a number of the corporation hogs. We all remember how, when he appointed two good dogs to get after the Santa Fe railroad, and when these dogs struck a hot trail that led directly to his “good” friend and cabinet officer, Paul Morton, he whaled the dogs unmercifully and sent them home, then tore the whole end of the lane out and very tenderly led Morton into the oornfield,.to devour his stolen goods; how Jack Grammar, traffic manager of the Lake Shore, was summoned to court in the Standard Oil case at Cleveland, how the summons was withdrawn, and then, when Grammar appeared to be hopelessly lost, the summons was re-issued and he was brought into court and testified, which makes him immune from further prosecution. Developments in the lowa case will be watched with interest by the whole country. If you want a suit or Overcoat made to order, I’ll show you none but all wool samples to select from. Louis Wildberg.