Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-30
pleted and the greater portion IL now
ready for the state printer.

The warmest political place on the
map of Iowa is in Cass county, The
campaign for representative has been
on ever since a few days after the
death of the late Hon. l.. l.. DeLano
and is growing, fiercer every day 1t
seems evident now that the fight is not
to be purely and simply one of pri-
mary election anti-pass- rate legisla-
,tion candidate against standpat ma
chine politician-railroad candidate
A desperate effort is being
made at least by the standpa,
element to inject ordinary politics into
the fight and with patronage to be dis
posed OF are Inducing politicians to
come to the aid of DR.. Campbell, the
standpat candidate. DR.. Campbell is
the chairman of the county central
committee and an effort was made
without availtto get him to resign that
position so that an impartial chair
man might be selected. Now patron
age is being used to assist him. The
primaries are yet eight days away and
the papers from that county boil over
with the details of the fight.
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The Washington, d. c., Post, whose
editorial urging Governor Cummins to
run for congress against Hull, has
been mentioned in the dispatches from
Washington, may be of interest to
Iowa people. It was published in the
Post of November a., and is as fol-
lows:
A Champion From Iowa.
That is excellent advice an Iowa edi-
tor, cr;xy
the race for congress in the bloc ly old
Seventh district. II he shall beat the
Hon. John A. T. Hull for the nomina-
ton, he may be sure that the idea Of
tariff adjustme ment-that is the new
name for it-has vitality. Governor
Cummins is an orator; Mr.. Hull is a
politician. There is no love wasted
between these two, and a fight to the
finish between them would have inter :
est for all Iowa 1t would be one Of
those thrilling fights that are followed
by ecstacy for the victor and despair
for the vanquished.
Mr.. Hull is standpatter The pres
ent tariff is trimmed exactly to his lik-
ing. He would not touch it the next
quarter Of a century. Governor Cum
minis is an adjuster. He wants to kick
the tariff to pieces and make 1t over
again. He is the identical gentleman
who asserted that the Dingley law is
a shelter for the trusts. He wants
reciprocity with Canada, and there is
the standpatters more concern than all
the avowed free traders in the land.
The governor claims to be the
"friend of protection" He is the gem
tleman we read Of in republican plat
forms, but whose chips we have not
yet discovered around the legislative
work bench. President Roosevelt was
at one time supposed to wear the Cum
Minis tartan but he has gravely got over
that and gives the standpatters not the
slightest concern in the world, though
some of them could wish that he had
not writ that piece to Mr.. Whitney.
And thus the tariff adjusters are
made up of the shoemakers of Massa-
chusetts, the Chicago Tribune, and the
governor of Iowa. None Of these is in
congress; but Governor Cummins
would be a lonely congressman. As
Horace Greeley said of John A Logan
he has lungs and they are very
good set of lungs and pretty well train
ed. When the president and tie senate
shall have composed the ra 'lroad ques-
tion-if they ever do-that will be
Governor Cummins opportunity. II he
shall beat the Hon. Hull for congress,
not only Iowa's eyes will be fixed on
him, but everybody else's eyes.
And that is a matter Mr.. Secretary
Shaw might find 1t to his interests to
copftate upon