Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-25
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.ributons to the present political cam
paign recently appeared in the Reg
lister and Leader This paper is pub
lished and edited by two men who
heretofore have belonged to the anti
Cummins' wing of the republican party
and who. since removing to Des Moines
have refused to allow their newspaper
to espouse the cause of Cummins' re-
publicans but have desperately striven
to defend the Iowa republican plat
forms, reciprocity and all. while dis
couraging a factional division in the
party at this time. A stand pat paper
asked the Register and Leader to To-
cate responsibility for this row and the
Des Moines papers reply carries with
!; all the force of unwilling testimony.
1t says:
MIR. Paul s. Junkin in the Corning
Union Republican asks who is respon
sib!e fer the threatened disruption of
the republicans of the state at the
coming state convention. and as an
incident TO that question asks several
Others. concluding with the statement
that III will be embarrassing TO the
Register and Leader. rs a firm and
consistent supporter of Governor Cum
Minis in the past, TO even consider
these questions
"Mr. Junkin Is mistaken in his belief
that it Will be embarrassing to the
Register and Leader TO consider or
to answer the questions that he asks.
On the contrary, this paper welcomes
the opportunity to call attention to
what Il believes to be the not only
needless but absolutely inexcusable
provocation OF the. contest that now
threatens. because in so doing 1t can
again enter Its protest against the
malicious spirit In which Governor
Cummins' inaugural address Is being
commented upon on the one hand. and
in which Mr.. Blythe's relations to the
president and to Iowa politics are
being misstated in the other. The
provocation OF the present contest is
the deliberate attempt that was made
at the close of the last state conven.
ton to humiliate Governor Cummns
by flooding the country with mislead
Ing reports OF his part In the COM
promise that was effected. If Governor
Cummlns Is today in a frame OF mind
that makes further compromise inn
possible. 1t Is due wholly to the en-
barrassmcnt he has labored under dur
ing the year, because of these reports.
at IL q matter of common knowledge
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promise year ago We're made by
Governor Cummins. II was at his sug-
gestion that the conferences were ar
ranged, at which a tariff plank was
adopted that was acceptable to both
the Iowa ideaists' and stand pat
ters.' It was the concessions that
he was willing TO make as we'll as
those that We're made by others that
resulted In harmonious platform. a
harmonious convention, and har-
monious campaign. There is no reas-
on to believe that In IL purely fac
tional fight the governor was not as
strong at that time as he VIII be in
the coming convention. II he had de-
sired to preserve fractional suprem-
acy, there was as much or more reason
for Insisting upon the unquestloned
control of that convention than Of the
one to come. Many of his closest
friends and advisers insisted upon a
factional contest and regarded his eff
forts at conciliation with undisguised
dlsapproval. This Is the record up to
the coming together Of both factions
upon common ground. which with n
little respect shown to each others
feelings and a like regard for each
others rights. the party of the state
could occupy today in entire harmony.
But how were these proceedings
and the governors p.Srt in them re-
ported to the party at large? de-
ltberate and concerted effort was made
to have the country believe that Gov
erncr Cummins had slid down the
pole to quote the apt but not ele-
CANT phrase of the time. A bureau
was organized>in Des Moines and the
telegraphic reports of the convention
to every leading newspaper In the
United States were made to convey
the impression that the governor had
succumbed 10 either influence or pres
sure, that he had been afraid to pursue
the contest. and that the harmony that
existed was the sort OF harmony that
existed when the lion had finished its
negotiations with the lamb. The
Iowa idea was denounced as dis