Show GOVERNOR CUMMINS VICTORY The sweepingly complete victory won by Governor A B Cummins In the Iowa convention is most significant Cummins won every point for which he contended His opponents were routed horse foot and dragoons They did not have a real lookIn at any part of the program The victory of Cummins Is the more there was no smell of snap jUdgment about it The ThIo question of tariff revision of which he heIs heis Is the most prominent exponent In tle Republican party today was thorough ly threshed out outA outA A trong m man n George D Perkins ed edItor editor of po a prominent newspaper newspaper at Sioux City was selected elected months ago by the patters to oppose Governor Cummins Cummin Perkins was was backed by See Sec Shaw a and d all the Influences Shaw Gould command The he battle was carried into every county of the state and fought out bitterly The party ma machinery machinery chinery was In the hands of Cummins opponents They the state committee The of the county was a the sel selection cUon of a large majority of d legates delegates to Cummins Out of a total of were pledged to him absolutely and a number of others were known to be friendly frIe to him rt t the state corn com committee Inaugurated contestS by which It was hoped to throw out enough Cummins delegates to make a majority for Perkins That this plan failed at atthe the last moment was due to the recognition by the machine of the fact that if they carried it out they would ever everlastingly everlastingly lastingly disrupt the Republican party liv In Iowa Cummins been robbed of the vIctory he had fairly won two Republican tickets would have been put In the field one headed by Cum Cummins mins and one by Perkins and the there re result suit sult would assuredly have been disaster for the As a Democratic newspaper The Herald would have shed no tears over this outcome But It must be confessed that Cummins I is a man to be admired When he began his fight for fat tariff re revision revision vision he began It practically single handed and alone Both United States senators were understood to be against him and In Its first stages Cummins struggle straggle was entirely uphill Nevertheless less he continued the fight because he believed In the justness of his cause The proceedings in Iowa have been ot of more than state interest They have attracted attention And If Secretary Shaw ever really had any grounds for believing that the presidential lightning might strike him they are cut from under his feet now as a result of the crushing defeat that Cummins has adI administered I to him |