Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-06-05 | Page 2 | Iowa Political Storm Center

IOWA POLITICAL SIOiCENTER Fight for Control of Republican Party in the State Now of National Interest. H' PRESTIGE OF CUMMINS INVOLVED IN STRUGGLE . , Whether Progressives or Rcgu-L Rcgu-L lars Will Be Victors, Is-- H, ,. Yet Doubtful. H h - " By Associated Press DES MOrNESt la., Juno 4 h state, the immediate center of t"J ' Uon's interest in Bopubhcan politics, ( rofusod to closo the primary cnmpaign 1 with tonight's nicotine and will ton- Hh I tin no it Monday. . h State officors and representatives n ' confess will bo nominated. Brondlj Bnoaking, the issue in tho Kopublican H't ranks is tho present Republican admin- H'' istration. ., . l Outsido the broad lmc 01 domnrkn- i tion between the factions, there arc, MV' howover, factional differences so com- 1 , plicntod that even veteran observers t like Layetto Young admit their mabil- H -' jty to solve tlio situation, j All acrco the prestige of Senator ri Cummins is involved in tho fieht bo- r twecu Gov. B. F. Carroll and Warren l, ' Garst for the pubcrnatorial nomination. L Cummins is said to have been lorcod r to support Garst by the "stand pat' H? 1 i maneuver of placing tho present covor- Hf i I nor under tho banner of tho national ad- t ministration. The formation of a Tatt I, ' club in support of Carroll was the pnn- v , cipal plav in this development, 11ms 1 tho renominaiion of the governor yvill j 1 bo nailed, if it takes place, Dy the so- H I called reactionaries as a slap at Cum- ! rains. As to his own thoughts on tho 4 matter, tho governor has said littlo, j save that ho docs not purpose to bo dictated to by Cummins and Dollivcr. H'j Congressional Situation. Hi On congressional nominations, the contests exciiinc Rreatcst interest are ' m the First,. Seventh and Ninth dis- . tricts, in the last named greatest of all. In the First district, Congressman i Charles A. Kennedy, at. Montrose, is Hh being subjected to the assaults of those Hj who do not approvo of his so-called r "stand pat'' record. Tho "progres- 6ivc" candidate is Smith W. Brokhart. Judge S. F. Prouty, for tho fourth time, H f is seeking to wrest tho nomination from i Kcpreaentativo John A. Hull in the I Seventh district. At tho primaries two I years ago Hull won over Prouty by j ' only forty votes, although Bcs Moines, the largest city of tho state', is in the district, ' In. the Ninth, Congressman "Walter I. Smith is being tried on is record as ' a staunch whe'oi fiorso of tho Tegular organization at Washington. Smith was a member of the old Cannon rulos Ht committee. His opponent is II. W. Byers, the present attorney general of ' the state. In the Second, Third, Fourth, , Fifth, Eighth and Eleventh districts, . there are no contests among tho Bcpub- j Charles Grille, candidate in the Sec- ond district, is said to be a progressive, H; )( but the "regulars" declined to oppose i him when Congressman Dawson-, the present incumbent, refused to seek re-Hj re-Hj nomination, and Congressman Pickett of tho Third is regarded :is a sort of con-M con-M Bervative "progressive." Bepresenta- ' , tivo Haughen of the Fourth is another unopposed progressive. Representative . . Good, unopposed in the Fifth, Is labeled by the progressives as "gonernllj' in-surgent.'j in-surgent.'j Congressman Kendell, who , stands without opposition in the Sixth, is also claimed by tho progressives. Hj Tho present representative from tho j 1 , eighth district is William D. Jamieson, 'i a Democrat. Mr. Jamieson refused to ' be a candidate again, and the honor v . is being sought by 12. M. Towner, a ' "stand-patter," and John N. Darrah, j ! a progressive. The candidates have ' I eschewed oratory in tho campaign in ' j favor of a "gum shoo" canvass. In ' J ttie tenth, Lewis. H. Mayne has beon H, , selected to make the run against Con- gressraan Woods, who stands on his - record as an " insurgent," j ' There are Democratic contests in , the first, second, third, seventh, eighth K . and .ninth districts. No Democratic f nominations will bo made in tho tenth , ' ' and eleventh districts.