Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-23
Public Opinion on Iowa Subjects
as Reflected in the Iowa
Newspapers.
The News OF Iowa From Hun
dreds OF Differeu. Towns
and Communities.
THEY LIED To coMGER.


Maj. Conger has al last discovered
where he is att He has finally reached
u realizing sense of the purposes and
motives of the alleged friends who have
been making use of him as a stalking
horse for the accomplishment of their
own ends. He knows now, as he did not
know three or four months ago, that it
WAS not love for him. but other and less
honorable motives, that prompted a
gang of desperate and discredited politi
cal hacks to urge him to enter the field
as a gubernatorial candidate The first
experience of the minister to China on
his return to his native land was an in
terview on the political situation in
Iowa. The last thing before he took
ship for China again was another inter
view in regard to the some matter.
The report of this more recent inter
View reveals that the minister's visit at
home has not been altogether barren in
an educational way. He knows more
,.osy than r. did three months ago He
leaves America wiser, aitho a sadder
man.
Maj. Conger has spent SO many years
as diplomat that his speech is some
what less forceful than the facts would
warrant. He might very properly have
expressed himself with more vigor than
he did in making the above remarks, but
after all the meaning would have been
the same.
For instance, when he says things
are not exactly what l had imagined
than to be- and there is not the
unanimous desire that was represented
to me-" one less used to the language OF
diplomacy would have said: Il have
been the victim OF deliberate and dam
nable deception. The scoundre!s who
4 assume to carry the republican party OF
4 Iowa IN their vest pockets lied to ms
| like thieves. They duped, tricked and
| befooled me- lured me into false posi-
! ton simply To make a cat'spaw of me- 10
4 pull their own rotten chastnuts out Of
! the fire. am sick and ashamed of the
! whole contemplate business"
/ This is precisely what the majors re-
marks mean when translated from tbs
Language Of diplomacy into the more
direct language of every lay life, and
! the worst of it is that every word Of ii
| l. true. whether read in the diplomatic
original or in the ruder but more vieor-
GUS translation. Maj. Conger has beer
\
| knows: iisi..iier principle nor honor AM
he is not the only one VINO has been sim,
ilarly deluded and victimized. His de.
oeivers and betrayers have sought ans
s'ill seek To control the republican part,
of Iowa, in order that they may use il
/ for their own nefarious ends. For this
4 purpose they fiatter and caiole one can
aidate in this section and another can.
didate in that section, but the only Trims
they really care for is to name such of
| ticals as will obey their bidding. A.,
who oppose them are denounced as fac
/ tionists' and their plea is ever for par.
| tn harmony" which With them only
| means complete submission and acqui
| escence to their rule. Fortunately the re
Publican party of Iowa. has virtu,
| enough and manliness enough to rejec
such control. 1t is only necessary tina
| the issue should be clearly defined in or
der to make certain the turning down d
4 the would be bosses By the coming re
Publican state convention.