Show TWISTED MENTALITY If Senator Alfred B Cummins of Iowa has ha not achieved fame ame he has at least attracted attention by reason of an n aa dress lre s which he recently made in which Mo Ito ao declared Theodore Roosevelt a greater man and greater president than George Washington Senator Cum Cummins Cummins mins mine ateo averred that Aldrich Is P stronger and more effective sena senator senator senator tor than Daniel Webster ter Another belief be bello 1 llo lief o of the Hawkeye statesman is that the tile national government t is almost overwhelmed with the mightiest preb problems lems which have ever eer beset the human race x White While it is true that Washington passed parsed sed from the sphere of too noon seon to gain immortal glory on Kettle Hill mn In Cuba and that he and tell teU a lie there are many man thou thousands thousands sands of people who will take issue with trite the Iowa lewa roan man Roosevelt greater than Washington Great Cherry Trees Is Nelson W Aldrich a stronger and more effective senator than Daniel Webster 1 Not in intellect not in pa patriotism patriotism net In oratory not in knowl knowledge knowledge knowledge edge of if the law not In personal meg mag magnetism neU not in Ill moral courage not m in inability ability t to ta combat error Webster was wab a recognised leader of or men and a rawer power e in the Whig party and the greatest ora ore orator orator tor the country has lias so far tar produced The only reasonable ground of Ju don tIon tor for the statement of r air Mr Ir Cummins is III found In the fact that at the present pr lent time Senator Aldrich I Is h the tIe leader of his h party in the upper up branch brandl of con oon congress I gross gress and at the seine same time the recognised representative of the he great eat finan financial d cial el interests which are supposed to take Uk more than a t passing Interest in io inthe Inthe i ithe the tariff and aad the currency both of which b measures res are bring being constructed con under the tile fostering care aare of the Rhode Islander Isla He ne Is leader of o his hie party part be beCU because cause CU these seine same financial interests would have ve it so and because l auae granger grange states state like Uke Io I ro ta c where ft here the t Republicans t cans have bave Woes kites once every genera generation ge generation enl tion or so 8 e nl l weak wak sisters s like Cum Cummins mina mins to represent resent them in the national natt 1 legislature men who are easily early e blinded j once th t they y get set in a senatorial seat scat If Aldrich i is to lO oe ue regarded as the superior c c of t Webster tin tilt school sc bool books basks r f the land wi irate hl to 10 dr i re revised eu and j the Ute wares ems and of o the Rhode I I Island nf therein h ti n stead ir r ihl Pi E j Jr ML t u i iki E Dan r |