Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-01

vading the territory of the enemy a
return could be secured to the days of
old fashioned harmony" the Register
and Leader had taken his editorial as
a sufficient statement. Now it has
grown suspicious of Mr.. Perkins, and
gives it's reasons as follows:
Following the publication of this
(the Sioux City Journals) editorial by
The Register AMI Leader, a supporter
of Mr.. Perkins from the Eleventh dis
trict called upon this newspaper and
after talking strongly in favor of Mr..
Perkins for governor was invited to
allow his sentiments to take the form
of an interview, for which space was
gladly offered. Giving some excuse for
postponing the interview until later
hour this friend went out. At a later
hour he returned with the statement
that he had consulted Mr.. Perkins
friends, among them one or two Of the
and that they had advised him that it
would be better not to have the dis
cussion of Mr.. Perkins get into the
newspapers at this time.
The Des Moines paper is entirely
justified in its suspicion and in it's de-
mand for frankness on the part of Mr..
Perkins or any other who aspires to be
governor of Iowa. Putting this and that
together the dullest political compre-
hension will find much that it is de-
sirable Mr.. Perkins should explain.
Time and again he has had the oppor-
tunity to lead the forces of necessary
reform. His splendid ability and the
influence of his journal have essentially
fitted him to lead. But neither Mr..
Perkins nor his journal have been
often found on the firing line while
the wager of battle was uncertain.
has sat like Ajax in his tent, or peered
in Fabian fashion from the hills, until
one line or the other wavered and the
tide Of battle turned. Then Mr.. Per-
kins has charged home, the latest in
assault, the leader in pursuit. Mr.
Perkins ringing editorial supporting
the presidents railroad policy came
after resolutions by half hundred
powerful Iowa associations Of farmers
and manufacturers and shippers. 1t
followed the reciprocity conference to
which Mr.. Perkins referred humor-
ously as an assemblage of chautauqua
attractions, and the interstate COM
merce law convention and the rump
convention of defeated tools of the rail-
roads. 1t came at about the time the
railroad bosses had lost heart and dis
continued the railway press bureaus.
When 1t Is necessary for one of Mr..
Perkins prominent friends and sup
porters from the Eleventh district to
consult leading railway attorneys" at
Des Moines and follow their bidding
to keep his mouth closed regarding Mr..
Perkins, only those peculiarly pure In
known to politics will remain among
the unsus pecting. Perhaps all this is
constitutional with Mr.. Perkins or a
concatenation of circumstances. but 1t.
is all suspicious.
Thousands of voters in Iowa have
long desired an opportunity to vote for
Mr.. Perkins for governor providing
they may be certain that he represents
them on the issues that are overmost
in Iowa. No man linked with Blythe
and the interests he represents can be
governor of this state by the viii o.
the majority. Neither can any man to
whom a strong suspicion of such a un-
ion is attached come to republican
convention with the united support Of
the Eleventh district. The gubernatorial
issue in Iowa has outgrown the lines OF
district boundaries. There is no more
chance for a masked standpatter and
Roosevelt opponent in the Eleventh
than for an anti-railroad candidate in
the First.