Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-13
AS TO BRAVERY IN DEFEAT.

4 We have heard somewhere mat one
of the first qualities of u good fighter
is bravery in defeat. Governor Cum
Minis career has demonstrated that fact
land his, present success was largely as
Isisted by the mans ability to come up
smiling even tho enduring defeat. The
republican party in Iowa has just been
engaged in a healthy difference of opin-
ion as to what its party platform
should say Leading editors chose sides
Vigorously defending their contentious
lin their newspapers and the issue was
brought to close at the convention in
pes Moines AS was inevitable in 4 con-
test of this kind one side lost as the
lother Won but among the rank and file
there was no bitterness The party had
years When the tariff and monopoly
| planks were read 1000 people cheered,
| somebody called out Read that again.
1t was read a second time and the con-
vention cheered again. No one could
| have witnessed that convention without
Ibeing convinced that the delegates and
galleries accepted the platform with an
almost unanimous enthusiasm. So ov-
lerwhelming was the popular sentiment
vote of the committee on resolutions
altiho "a few members preferred another
| form of expression and no one cared to
appeal to the convention with a min
GRITTY report.
| But, as decision one way or the
other necessarily carried With it de-
feat for the opposing editors the hope
was expressed that these men would
display the spirit of brave champions
and cheerfully accept the decision of
the convention; They certainly would
have asked their opponents to to this.
Most of them did but a few have not
yet merited the sportsmans admira-
ton. The following from the columns
| of paper whose editor has tasted lit
| tie but an overlooking cup of bitterness
of late. illustrates the character of
Journalism that will ruin the republican
party if persisted in by papers of infiu-
ence:
1--WE thought possibly that the fact of
having voted at every state and nation
~; ,,-itb ,Na,
going over the traces and supporting a
democrat for congress, state office or
president, would have some considera-
ton in determining what is republican,
ism. But after due consideration it be-
gan to Ola Nn upon us that it is n case of
Rip Van Wrinkle Maybe sleep had left
its subject by the wayside while the
new managers of the republican party |
who We're democrats when we We're
party and made it over into something
different"
Without debating the right of a
newspa per- democratic, independent or
republican, to discuss any subject 1t
chooses, whether said subject pertains
to the editors political party or some
other, the expression of soreness con-
tanned in the above quotation sounds
too much like the small boys threat
straight home If / can't be conductor
cause spoke first" Ii is true that the
men who have been voting the republic |
can ticket since Abraham Lincoln's |
time have spoken first for leadership
and the length of their party service
should give their opinions great weight |
but time changes all things and if the
rank and file of the republican party in
delegate convention assembled selects
amid the cheers of a great majority it |
becomes the duty of all republicans to
yield to the will of the majority or quit !
Boosting about their regularity. To |
continue at fault finding With the party |
platform only gives the democrats ma
terial from which to construct editorial
attacks upon the republican party and
to then quote such democratic editor
ials in return must be poor consolation !
for the loss of the respect of their
brother republicans. The man who
stands quarreling with the conductor
after the train goes by is apt to find his
audience far down the track and him
self alone on the bleak and lonesome