The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-06-20
REPUBLICAN, RECORD.

The Linn county republican con-
vention adopted resolution which
seems to have sent CONSERVATION into
the Cummins camp. Newspaper sup
porters of his candidacy such as the
Des Moines Leader (officialRorgan)
Des Moines News, Sioux City
Tribune, Marshalltown Times-Repub-
lican and others have been literally
tearing up the earth" about it, and
correspondents of the literary bureau
at Des Moines have been ranting
against it, and emissaries have been
sent out over Iowa to if possible
"shut off" any other counties pas
sing or attempting to pass anything
like it. 1t is straightforward repub-
lican resolution and why its adoption
should interfere with the candidacy
of any republican for the governor
ship is beyond comprehension. The
Burlington Hawkeye takes the
subject up and handles it without
gloves in the following:
"There is no apparent reason
why every republican county con-
vention held in Iowa this year
could not heartily and unanimously
subscribe to the following express
sion of sentiment. aud it goes with
out saying that, freed from the bias
of fmind that arises among the over
jealous supporters of Mr., Gum
Minis, every republican in Iowa
would readily endorse the following:
1--WE express our pride in the
record which the republican party
of Iowa has made in the state and
in the nation. We resent the i'm
putation that the republican party
of Iowa has failed to perform It's
whole duty to the people, and
that it needs to be reformed. That
sentiment for forty years has
found expression only in demo-
cratic platforms. We resent the
open and impudent interference
of democratic newspapers in re-
publican politics, and their aim
through the promotion ofrepubli-
can factionalism to win demo-
cratic victories by indirection.
And we warn the republicans of
Iowa against these democratic
efforts to destroy the magnificent
results of half century of repub-
ican supremacy in this state"
The above resolution was adopted
with great enthusiasm by the re-
publicans of Linn county in their
recent convention. The Hawk-Eye
challenges any one to show cause
. why, in and of itself, and the sent.
iment it expresses, it might not,
with all propriety and truthfulness,
be adopted by any and all republi-
can county conventions in Iowa
this year.
And yet, Mr.. Cummins and his
managers would not like to have it
adopted Why? Are they unwilling
to "express our pride in the record
which the republican party otIIowa
has made in the state and nation?"
If anybody has been guilty of the
''imputation that the republican
party of Iowa has failed to perform
it's whole duty to the people ought
not every honest and loyal repub-
lican to resent it?
If any one claims that the party
"needs to be reformed" ought
they not be required to file bill
of specifications and prove the
charge, or else stand rebuked for
slander against their party?
If it is true that THAT sentiment
for forty years has found express
sion only in democratic platforms"
would it not be little awkward for
a republican county convention to
echo it and endorse it now?
And is it not perfectly proper,
and the bounden duty, of republi-
cans to "resent the open and inn
pudent interference of democratic
newspapers in republican politics."
with the aim ITO win democratic
victories by indirection?"
And furthermore,I is it not a
timely warning to the republicans OF
Iowa "against these democratic
efforts to destroy the magnificent
results of half q century of republic
can supremacy In this state?"
What is the matter with that res
olution, anyhow"