Show INSURGENTS WIN Iowa's Progressive Under Cummins and Dolliver Control Convention Tariff Law Branded Failure Failure- Des Moines 1 la Republican Iowa wrote herself vigorously progressive at a convention which was in an uproar uproar up up- uproar roar most of the time Senators Cummins and Dolliver and the Insurgent delegation at Washington Washing Washing- ton tOil were enthusiastically endorsed The TIle new tariff law was branded as a failure in the light of the party pledge of 1908 President Taft received the most tepid of lukewarm indorsements A sop to harmony was flung out Inthe in inthe Inthe the Indorsement of or the administration of or Governor Carroll An attempt to use the steamroller to make th the state central committee overwhelm overwhelm- overwhelmingly overwhelmIngly progressive was called off oft presumably presumably presumably pre pre- at the hint of Senator Cum Cum- mins Senator Cummins ns was temporary temper temper- ary chairman Senator Dolliver permanent permanent per per- manent chairman The progressive majority r ranged close clos to on every question The resolutions committee was was progressive sive G 6 to 5 What may have been an attempt to stampede the delegates In favor ol of the stalwart Republicans was made when a Second district delegate delegate for for former mer Congressman Ellsworth Romin Romin- ger ger ger-bolsted hoisted a portrait or of the tile president dent amid stand pat cheers But theother theother the theother other side answered with silence or with jeers Later another delegate among the progressives exposed a pic- pic I lure of Colonel Roosevelt occasioning a demonstration The Taft TaCt portrait was again bolsted and the two likenesses like nesses held so as to confront each other The demonstration Interrupted a roll roil call for some minutes The st stand pat delegates went vent down downIn In defeat with wilh their colors color riveted to the mast They fought In every committee com corn where a fight was possible insisted Insisted in In- on roll calls and battled every inch for their principles Roosevelt's name was cheered standing Cummins who spoke as tE temporary chairman Ignored Laceys Lacey's cry but it was some time lime before he could resume A number ot of so-called so regulars did not stay to hear the address address ad ad- dress out Former Congressman Lace Lacey sounded sound ed the keynote In a speech In which he declared that it was Important that Iowa should go Republican next election but asserted amid applause that was more Important the Ule Republican Republican Re Re- Republican publican party part should go Republican |