Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-02

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convention. The university gradu-s
Sates stationed in all parts of the hall
and on all delegations Joined in g Hawk
eye, Hawkeye, S. y. L. until it sound
ed like the hubbub of a foot ball field.
Chancellor McLain had made a very
pretty canvass. Lists of university
graduates in every county had been Sc
cured and requests sent to them early
f to get on to their delegations, which
they did Then each county was all
lowed to exercises its free choice of local.
candidates on the first ballot McLain's
friends pushing him for second choice
soEthat when the break came he was an.
easy winner. He is the best posted man
on the code of any in the state and.
While Inexperienced as a trial lawyer,
he Will undoubtedly make a very strong
Judge. Judge Blanchard was strong in
ability but he was the machine candi-
date and Went down With his ship. The
Vote demonstrated very clearly that
had Col. Clark, of Cedar Rapids. been
have secured the nomination.. Every
where he was recognized as presents
snenty the best man for the place. Law
yers all over the state wanted a strong
able judge on the bench but the fac
tional strife in the Fifth district was
too much for him as ii Will continue to
be for every Fifth district candidate
until Linn county will concede the right
of some other county TO have "a candi-
date for an occasional office at least,
besides itself.
The convention was a notable one in
lsmany Ways. 1t was the grandest VIC
tory for clean politics that has been
Won i'll Years. II was the toughest re-
buke the railway political bosses ever
received. 1t was more. 1t was most de-
lcidedly Cummins convention and a
yindieation of Herriott. In every dis
llrict where the reform forces We're ac-
hive or where important moves We're
made the men who led We're the men
who generated Cummins' campaign
last winter. On all sides the delegates
We're heard to express their admiration
for lsumlnins. Several times did he at
tempt to cross the hotel lobby, but his
friends We're too much for him and he
was surrounded The abortive attempt
of Hull 10 down Cummns In the Polk
l5county caucus was one Of the incidents
isof the convention. The counties that
stood by the anti-railroadissn candi-
dates We're Cummins counties and
C,Immins himself had taken a hand in
nanaging Gilbsrtson,s campaign.
The inisns. antipathy 10 railroadism
manifested BY the delegates and which
50 eifectuaily swept the we'll organized
forces Of the railroad bosses before 1t
was the direct result of Herriott's pro-
test. John Herrott was known TO be
an honest man. He had said that the
l. : 7 z i ! K 70 1
4 railway assessment was unfair, ard
4 While the people Of Iowa did not ap-
/ prove of the irritable way in which he
said it, they believed him. and the cry
/ that brought the delegates TO Dies
Moines was down With the control Of
railway attorneys We want a fair as
sessment.s The result, white crafty
/ ing 10 every honest man IL the state,
should have been aoubly 50 10 Mr. Ieg-
riett. III was vindication Of The cour-
ageous stand taken BY him in MS s-tt'llg
/ gle for fairness and honesty in the
executive council
If Herriott and Cninnains and the
people are satisflsd, the II r. ana a few
4 newspapers that were active in The
! fight are donbly so. No one but an sdi-
4 tor can realize at VIVA, a eostaor saeri-
flee a news pa per engages in q fractional
/ strife within its own party The T. n
4 and its contemporaries saw but one
thing ahead Of hem the right and ,ae
success of the republican party, whicf
lares one and - same thing Had the
sl5party NOT purged Itself of Tai'roadisn
l.it could not long have continued u nod
4 The reins of government. But as it al.
ways has been in the past, the repub,
iican party was strong enough to rise
s9to rs RESPONSIVENESS. II purged itsef
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