Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-11
MARSHALL counrrs REpuBLlcAnIsM,


counties in control first of one faction
among Iowa republicans and then the
other, Marshall county has set the pace
for a get together policy which ought
to find favor with the conservative
elements on both sides. Realizing that
the party in this state was at present
engaged in a most bitter and acrimon-
ious controversy over reciprocity and,
altho composed Of delegates. large
majority Of whom are the most ardent
admirers OF Governor Cummins. the
Marshall county convention turned to
the plank adopted last year by a unan-
imous state convention for its declar-
tion of republicanism. 1t was clear in
The minds Of county leaders that Blythe
OF one faction had met Cummins of
the other faction, and together they
had formulated a platform upon which
they could both stand; that Allison
had given it the stamp of his approval
and that all the congressman and state
headers, with q few exceptions, had ac-
cepted it as sound in its republicanism.
In adopting 1t Marshall county ven
lures into no new or unknown fields
OF original doctrine, and hence takes
no risk OF being left stranded when the
From purely political viewpoints the
action was also wise. It is Marshall
County's rightful turn this year to
name one OF the two delegates to the
national convention from the Fifth con-
gressfonal district. It has tong been a
precedent in this district, established
for the sake Of district harmony, that
this honor be passed around to the
various counties in consecutive rotation
ana In presenting her candidate Mar
shall county has sought to antagOnizs
no other county with radical platform
expression on either side. Mr.. Packard,
too, whom she has named as her cam
didate, is as broad as a republican can
be. A stalwart Gear man when Cum
minis ran for the senate he can be ac-
cused today Of neither blind nor parti-
san support OF Cummins but is simply
believer in the Allison plank and
conservative extension Of foreign mar
kets for foreign produce by means of
reciprocal trade arrangements with for
e1gn countries. In adopting the lam
Euage OF the Allison plank, Marshall
county has sought to promise fairness
and conservatism to all beliefs among
Fifth district republicans should she
be allowed to exercise her rightful
privilege OF naming national delegate
this year.
In later convention also, to be held
after the national platform has been
formulated, and after Roosevelt has
been made the party nominee, Marshall
county will renew the personal claims
OF Mr.. N. S. Ketchum for the noinina-
ton of railroad commissioner. Mr..
Ketchum is in nowise involved in the
present factional controversy. His per-
sonal views are conservative and would
not antagonize either side fer in fact.
there is very little funda II differ.
ence between the factions we're per-
sonalitiesN removed. Had Marshall
county been fractional or radical in her
platform her candidate would have
been unnecessarily dragged into the
controversies Of convention which has
nothing to do with his candidacy and
into a controversy in which he has
taken no part whatever.
What Marshall county did do
was to stand on a platform
which both sides had helped
to make, which was unanimously fav-
ored when before a state convention
and of which great statesman like
Senator Allison said Il indorse every
thing said in that platform, not be-
cause it is there wholly, but because
/ believe it to be sound and just" When
Blythe could report that platform to
q convention with his approval, no
Blythe man can criticise Marshall
countys republicanism unless he is
bent on killing Cummins. When Gov
ernor Cummins could stand up before
a convention and say of that platform:
II shall do all can in my humble way,
to secure its adoption in our national.
convention" no Cummins man can find
fault with Marshall county republican
ism, unless he wants to prolong row.
When Senator Allison can say Of it
1T embodies the principles and poll
cies Of the party from it's birth to the
present moment. Therefore I shall ex-
pect to do everything / can properly to
promote the policies which we have
promulgated here today" no republican
can consistently object to Marshall
county's republicanism and remain in
the party of the great harmonizer.
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