Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-14
ARE FAILING INTO LINZ
Factionalism of Recent Contest
Disappearing..All Swear AL.
lesiance to Nominee.
No Effort will Be Made to Or.
sanize Central Committee
On Factional Lines.
Plymouth Church Will Harbor
No Cummins Enemies-.It Is
His Own Church.

AAAS VWu NuUECUe
Special to Times Republican.
Des .Moines, Aug. 14.-It may be
said truthfully that in the few days fol-
lowing the close of the preliminary
contest and the end of the struggle for
nomination but little attention has been
given to politics by the Des Moines
republicans. There has been dispo-
sition on the part of some persons to
insist that the state committee should
be organized on factional basis, and
that in the management of the cam
paign the factional interest should not
be forgotten. But there are cool heads
among the politicians of Des Moines
and of Iowa, and they are not rushing
to the front with plans for the cam
paign. The truth is that there is Ito
reason to doubt, nor has there been at
any time, that the state committee
will get together and organize for an
effective campaign for the maintenance
of the supremacy of the republican
party in Iowa, and that long before
election day is reached the little jeal-
ousies and heart-burnings of the pre-
convention campaign will be forgotten
by all save a few of the most foolish
mischief makers. Two candidates for
the Craftsmanship of the committeehave
been announced before-R. H. Spence
and r. w. Clayton. Mr. Spence is
somewhat discredited from the fact
that he failed to control his own county
but he is personal friend of Mr. Cum
minis, has had close relations with
Cummins as lawyer, and is on the
whole conservative man. Clayton
this week visited Cunlmins and talked
over the situation frankly. There will
be no disagreement between them.
There has been some gossip INDUCED in
about one of the strong Cummins men
on the committee being made chair
man. This has not emanated from the
committeeman nor from men close to
the candidates. The first suggestion
of this kind was made by the opponents
of Cummins at Cedar Rapids immedi-
ately after the convention. But no
matter who is chairman, vigorous
campaign will be waged and there will
be harmony between the committee
bers of the committee.
As to the attitude of the anti-Cum-
minis men in this campaign it ap-
pears that there is no reason for APP
prehension. Nearly all are politicians
who know what it is to win and to lose
in the great game of politics. 1t is
stated here that Mr.. Blythe, of Burling-
ton, is coming here to assure Mr.. Cum
minis his support. Many others who
opposed Cumins have sent him their
word that they are now for the ticket
and the party and are ready to work
for both. This is very important.
Disloyalty always bears bitter fruit.
If the anti-Cummins people should
lie down at this time and refuse to sup
port the republican state ticket, and if
there should be a considerable slump in
the counties and districts notoriously
controlled by men antagonistic to Cum
minis, the ascendency of the new men
in the party would be assured for a
generation. If. for instance, there
should be big slump in the vote in
the First, Sixth and Third districts
this year the men who We're beaten at
Cedar Rapids would be so completely
discredited in the councils of the party
that they could hope for nothing again
at any state convention. In short, they
will be loyal for their own interests if
for nothing else. This is the way, at
least that it is put by prominent poll
iticians who come here from other
parts of the state. Another important
matter is to retain control of the state
Loo Irt, n 4 ~,
lation is along the lines of the Cedar
Rapids platform and not otherwise.
The strong republican counties are GO
ing to send Cummins men to the legis-
lature. Unless an effort is made to
save the nominees in the weak counties
the legislature will have smaller re-
publican majority than usual and the
members of the majority will nearly all
be Cummins men. This is something
the anti -Cummins men are considering
seriously.
The republican representative con-
vention for the Winnebago-Wor dis
trict held today is likely to nominate
Eugene Secor, of Forest City, as the
successor of p. o. Koto. Mr.. Secor's
brother was in the legislature many
years ago and might have been COVER
nor of the state if he had remained in
the state, but he went over to Mime
sofa. Eugene Secor is well known to
the agriculturalists of the state. He
has a fine farm in the city limits of
Forest City. and pays especial atten-
ton to horticulture and bee keeping.
He is an authority on bees and is
at the meetings of apiarists
in various parts of the country.
The Clear Lake movement to cut in
to the republican party this year is
not causing any uneasines here. An
thing happened in connection
with the efforts to discredit Cummins
by small body of self constituted die
tators They issued their call for
state convention to be held in Ply
church. Des Moines. This is
the church of which Mr.. Cumminss and
his family are members and have been
for many years. AS soon as their at
tention was called to the deliberate
plot to insult and humiliate Cummins
In his own church and to give color
to the idea that his own associates in
church have no confidence In him, the
officials of the church emphatically
rat down on the movement and gave 1t