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Show CUMMINS, PRESIDENT PRO TEM The election by the Republican Senate majority of Senator Albert Baird Cum-hiins Cum-hiins to be president pro tern of the Senate Sen-ate comes as a fine tribute to a most conscientious con-scientious and hard wbrking legislator. 4t is the testimonial of his colleagues to his splendid ability. It is an honor richly' rich-ly' deserved. It is a vigorous answer to the Democratic press which has been trying try-ing ever .since the November elections 'to sow dissension between what they were wont to call the progressive and the stand pat camps. It is an excellent indication that whatever divergencies of oninion might have existed prior to the family row which culminated in the loss of Republican Re-publican control in 1912, the Republican party today is no longer a house divided against itself, but united in opposition to the party which once boasted Jefferson as its great exemplar but accepted Wilson and near-socialism as its dictator and creed. Cummins became identified with the so-called progressive wing of the Republican Re-publican party, in company with Senator 'Dolliver, deceased, and others, he interposed inter-posed several objections to', the Aldrich amendments to the Republican tariff law of 1909, Whatever may be the consensus of opinion regarding' that law, it becamev a dervl issue when the tariff law now on the statute books superseded it 'in October, Octo-ber, 1913. Every Republican today is resolved re-solved that the. present law must be repealed re-pealed at .the earliest practicable opportunity, oppor-tunity, and as for the Payne Aldrich law. "Let the dead past bury its dead. Act, 'act in the living present." To Senator Cummins is about to be presented pre-sented monumental opportunity. As chairman of the Senate committee on Interstate In-terstate Commerce his will be the guiding hand in drafting the legislation which is necessary to restore the railroads to private pri-vate control. This is perhaps the greatest great-est problem which confronts the Republican Republi-can party today complicated as it has purposely pur-posely been by the wicked wilfulness of the Wilson administration, which has attempted at-tempted hopelessly to scramble the properties. pro-perties. Cummins' knowledge of railroad matters is second to that of no man in Congress, and huge as the tack to be accomplished ac-complished the party is confident that the Cummins solution will be one most accept- . able to the great majority of the American Ameri-can people. Certainly Iowa has reasonto feel proud of the confidence and trust reposed re-posed in her senior Senator. n si Mi |