Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-03
FROM TWO VIEW POINTS.

FROM TWO VIEW POINTS
It is amusing to note how apparen,
editorial writer's Of Iowa. Recently tht
Des Moines Capital uttered q note D!
warning, not unn1ixed at lamentation
ct the drift of the republican party
The democratic Dubuque Telegraph
quickly perceived the real spirit that
moved the pencil and states the Capt.
tails position as follows: Putting ii
another way, the Capital wants to know
If it will be possible to reorganiZe the
republican party in Iowa and leave out
Cummins and the other friends and adj
vocates of the Iowa platform VINO have
stepped beyond It's pianks and upon
territory the possession of which is
claimed by democrats and by republic
cans OF the Cummlns stamp
Following closely Mr.. Young's ques-
ton whether the party will ever rally
around the "old time" leaders with
100000 majorities. such as Cummins
has carried with him, the Telegraph OBJ
serves: There's the rub-mastery. Too
and there's room for only one. viii II
be Cunanips or some one else?"
l., + n
the Telegraph proceeds to assume that
the attitude of such papers as the Capt.
tai. which are continually finding fault
with the republican platform OF Iowa,
means a disintegration OF the party and
the dawn of democratic hopes. II says:
Evidently all is not harmonious in
the republican party in Iowa. Appar-
emily there is to be n battle between
the nom partisan republicans and the
orthodox republicans in which the reins
of leadership will be involved and the
political head and the political future
of Governor Cummins will be involved.
That the battle will be fought there
is no reason to doubt. But as to who
will be victorious remains to be seen.
In any event the partisan democracy
is likely to recruit it's ranks from non
partisan republicanism. and If not from
that then from the orthodox republic
canism. The personal equation in re-
L. ;,, To, to-,
its destruction. The goose that laid
the golden egg approaches the slaugh-
ter block where Its friends and wor-
shippers in their madness will cut off
its head"
Thus is democratic endorsement Civ
en- to the Capitals plea that because
Cummins has made so able and brill
liant governor the party will become
weakened and majorities vanish: but
the conclusion is reached from a differ
ent standpoint. The Capital would be-
lieve that because Cummins is honest
and courageous enough to command a
strong following of nom partisans and
one-time democrats, his retirement
from leadership will not bequeath these
to the republicans as party.
The Telegraph believes that because
Cummins is strong enough to do th,
leading himself many Jealous repub-
lican is conspiring for his undoing, AMI
the inevitable struggle is doomed to
drive one faction or the other into the
democratic ranks. 1t must be admitted
that If the suggested result ever oc-
ours 1T will much more likely follow
from the causes outlined by the Tele-
graph than those suggested by the
Capital. The most of us, however, be-
lieye that no man is so great as to be
and if the republican
party remains progressive with an hon
est intention to select able leaders of
the Cumnins type, the majorities will
remain much as they have been. The
Capital has suggested a real danger, to
be sure, but the quickest way of realiz-
ing it would be the adoption of tn.
stand pat" and unprogressive policies
daily harped upon by the Des Moines
Capital.