Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-18

moose and others I = the street?
Would there be $ looking about
for a state superj Z 'dent if keokuk
Mahaska. Iowa. ,son and others
were not represe 8 4 at all?
Might not y Porterfield find il
hard shedding q contention with
Cass and Po; 9 attamie missing?
Col Macke.~ . might wonder where
he was al If the men who gave him his
vote in Des Mones were not to be
seen.
Someone might bob up in this emer-
gency and seek to become clerk of the
supreme court Who knows that the
judges who are candidates would be
safe without anybody 10 speak for
them OF course Raymond and Rich
ards and Kretschmer might not care
very much about 1t.
bolter's ticket could be nominated
and lot of men be coinplimented by
places thereon, but the ticket could get
on The Official ballot only by petition. If
Shaw's name headed the ticket 1t
would be easy enough to secure the
signatures to a petition.
But it might well have occurred to
the spokesman for the railroad ma
chine that in engineering his threat
ened bolt from the state convention he
will have to reckon with about doz-
Ell candidates who hope to be on the
state ticket and who are not running
for governor They will hardly coun-
sci q split convention. They will hard
ly sanction methods which will force
a split in the convention. They would
be for 4 fair deal and common homes
ty.
There are some other elements to be
considered also. For instance, a split
convention and two republican tickets
in the field, no matter which is regular
and which sails as something else, no
matter who is responsible nor how 1t
is accomplished, means the defeat of a
goodly number of the present con-
gressional delegation. 1t needs no dia-
gram to show this fact. Every intel
ligent politician can figure it out with
a piece of chalk. How many of the
present members of congress are will
ing to sacrifice themselves that a
money backed junta may get revenge? :?
Then as to the legislature--everyon
viii! agree that a splir state ticket
would bring about such a mix-up in
the legislature that nobody knows what
would happen. A good many aspiring
republican candidates would get
chance to stay at home. The present
United States senator's would hardly
relish the plan of making trouble for
them for many years to come.
That the plan of the pass distribu-
tors and those whom Perkins calls
1.-The sycophantic beneiciaries of free
is to bolt and put up a
separate state ticket i.' certain and II
has been an assured fact for some
time. Manager Hunter is deliberately
paving the way for it now, and Lafe
Young, literary agent, is preparing the
people to accept it.
The problem which will confront the
republicans when they get together on
the first of August is therefore not who
will be the standard bearer in a state
campaign. but whether 1t is time to
turn the republican Part over to Ed
Hunter, Joe Blythe. Lafe Young and
their crowd that they may do with it
as they please now and forever. If
this is to be done there are thousands
of republicans who say that they want
to know it now
The way for the corporation politic-
ians to find out whether or not they
are to be given right and title to the
republican party is for them to con-
tinue their program Of preparing for
conditions that will compel the voters
to choose between two republican
When the voters of the state
get a chance at the game there will
be things doing.