Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-21
AcAse OF nypERAEsTHEsIA.

ACASE OF HYPERAESThESIA.
Whenever 1t thinks Of Governor Cum
minis the Keokuk Gate City grows
nervous and unduly timorous'. His
meme is an incarnation to set the cate
CITY "seeing things" AS an instance
In point the T.-R. having said among
other things that IA man who will not
make his position on important issues
plain Is unlikely to become governor
the Gate City reioins:
OF course, there is no yelled tareat IN
this-perish the thought! 1t is simply
an intimation that Governor C,lmmlns
candidacy for the Allison succession, IN
case Of the latters death. is an i'm
pcrtant issue" and that the man who
is unwilling to pledge himself to the
governor years in advance will be
mashed. That's all.
For one reason or another the Sioux
City Journal quotes the result Oh the
Gate City's political hyperaestl1esia.
AZ the T.-R. sees it there is wide
and widening popular demand by the
people upon those who aspire To point
tcal pre- eminence and party leader
ship for frankness and an open nina.
It believes that no man who apes the
silence of the sphinx or speaks riddles
In an oracular fashion when plainness
of speech is demanded by the voters
and Indicated by good faith, will in the
present state of popular feeling be ac-
ceptable as candidate for high Of
fee. There are few greater issues
upon which the people of the state or
Iowa are divided. OF these discussion
is irrepressible. We have no one In
Iowa sufficiently colossal to safely
bestride this gap Of division. Call 1t
,Cummins against the railroads, pro-
erosion against standpatisnb the
square deal against the special Inter-
ests or whatever you will, the fact is
indubitable that candidates for the
next governorship of Iowa must stand
ia win or lose with one side or the 9TH
4 er. They must play fair game
Cogged dice are barred. There can be
no double dealing. They can not run
with the hare and hunt with the
hounds. When there are real issues
to be settled only those who stand up
to be counted are entitled to considera-
ton. And there are issues to settle in
Iowa.
That the voters have certain re-
forms in mind is evident. BY vote and
BY resolution they have made their
meaning clear. 1t is not asking too
much to require the men who are beg
cling or assuming leadership to define
their attitudes toward these reforms.
Frankness is always pleasing. It should
DC, definite. i
In this there Is no threat to 'mash''
any man. True enough those who
stand between the battle lines stand in
grave danger, but 1t is a situation that
may be ameliorated by move in one
direction or another. Those who choose
4 to sit astride the breastworks While the
battle RACES must not complain when
pricked from both sides.
who shall succeed to the Iowa SEN
atorship when death or senility creates
a vacancy is not an issue among pro-
gressive republicans. 1t has not been
raised by that element in the party.
The prevention of the possibility Of Mr..
Culilmins' candidacy appears to be the
nucleus about which all standpat eff
fort clusters. Any vacancy will be fill
ed when the time comes. 1t partakes
of present issues only in that it is just
and proper that the next senatorship
and all succeeding senatorships may
be filed by popular selection and not
by a junta Of railway bosses. No sin
gle name is an issue except with those
who conspire to pound into the ground
9 leaders that stand for wider popular
participation in politics. No one asks
or expects candidates for the govern
ship to pledge personal fealty to any
human being. It is in the refusal to
make an open stand for or against the
overshadowing issues that candidates
breed suspicion of their motives. There
Is d demand for frankness that no
lettering or wabbling can allay, The
state is asking for a man.