Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-15
SENATORIAL SUCCESSION.

SENATORIAL SUCCESSION.
with his characteristic animosity to-
ward the governor of Iowa, LATE Young
has entered upon protracted cam
patgn Of Misrepresentation in the col
umns Of his newspaper, to make it APP
near that Governor Cu1nmins is chas-
ing Senator Iolliver around the tree
stump brandishing tomahawk for the
senatorial scalp. Nothing has occurred
In the political world to suggest such
Q thing, hut this matters little to the
men who are really afraid of what fhe
governor is going to do next, and Late
remembers we'll in his free-trade-
with Canada campaign how far
a false proposition can be
pushed If 1t is sufficiently
advertised, hence we find many news
paper discussing the candidates. of
Dolliver VS.. Cytmmins as tho they were
q serious matter.
Governor <.umnins, himself, has
discussed with them the possibility of
his seeking Delivers job, so far as
the correspondents are able to learn
around the les Moines' Hobbies. He
has been quoted as saying in an inter-
view in Washington that the repeated
utterances of his enemies as to what he
a. 6rH o{crhf
OF what he ought to do, but he has
since declared in Des Moines that he
did not even say that much. The only
interview which he gave out was the
one published in the Washington Post,
which was devoted entirely to the ques-
ton Of tariff revision, and did not even
mention Mr.. Dolliver or the senator
ship, or the gossip of his enemies
The charge made by such men as
LATE Young that the governor Is dam
gerous to Dolliver, ds born of two mo-
tives-the fear that developments of
tho next two years might SO crystalline
public demand for a champion of the
peoples rights as to force the candi-
dacy OF q man like Cun1mins and the
desire to create breach between the
friends of Cumnins and the friends of
Deliver, who heretofore have worked
together in state politics.
Neither LATE Young nor Blythe, nor
Shaw nor Ed Hunter care anything
about Dolliver. They have cussed and
threatened him in so many state
crises that if the thing We're at all pos
sible Mr.. Blythe himself would con-
(. test for Delivers seat. Many states
in the union make custom Of sending
their railroad lawyers to the United
States senate, and it has never seemed
clear to Blythe why Iowa shouldn't do
the same. Howevery this man Cum
minis is a constant bugaboo and If he
could be smoked out now, while friend
" to Dolliver, into a declaration that
there would be something gained. AT
any rate nothing is gained without try
ing, hence The agitation in the hope
that the Dolliver men of northwest
Iowa, may be estranged from Cummins
and the Cunnins camp divided against
itself.
In the meantime the governors
friends say that there is not the
slightest intimation that Cummins will
seek Delivers place. They say that
the people of Iowa seem to have look
ed upon Cumnins as the men for the
Allison succession when that venerable
statesman shall put aside the cares
of public service, and they merely
laugh at the efforts LATE Young is max
ing to stir up trouble. It is very evil
2 dent that Cumnins himself is determ-
ined to say nothing about a political
contingency which will not arise until
two years hence. Remember the free
trade with Canada campaign and we
may understand the motives behind
present publicity.
A QUARREL OF NATIONAL INTEREST.