Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-04
THE LOSING CANDIDATE.

The Sioux City Journal is for har-
n1ony with a lower case "h." Coming
home Surprisingly bright from the
field where he fought and lost its edi-
tor was soon diligently at work at his
typewriter making copy. Perhaps it
was natural and by consequence ex-
cusable that some gall and bitterness
mingled itself with the ink and that
the smiling prospect of harmony was
dappled with the shadows of personal
disappointment. 1t is as hard to smile
tremendously in the hour of defeat as
s to repress all vindctiveness in the first
flush of victory. So it was not at all
unnatural that the typewriter strug-
gled thru column of recrimination.
accusation and complaint before it
came to the concluding sentence: 1T
is unnecessary to add that the Journal
is in favor of harmony"
It is reasonable as we'll as charitable
to attribute the acidity of the editorial
article which the above quotation is
part to the condition of a typewriter
too long unused and the declaration for
harmony properly to Mr.. Perkins. He
has too often by wise counsel and
kindly ACCOMPLISHMENTS led the thoughts
of unsuccessful candidates away from
bitterness and dreams of reprisal to
& fail now to work out his own salvation
from his own thoughts. Tomorrow or
next day, the day after or some later
day in the quietude of the little front
office and thru the virtue of intro
self and the strings tangled out of tune
in the struggle of a roughhouse cam
paign settle again into harmonious
unison.
Mr. Perkins has occupied a peculiar
position in this campaign. He came
into it without the support of his own
opposed by nearly f1ve-sixths of his
own district. He followed false gods
to the finish Possibly he may have
been deceived but he held to the plan
to disfranchise county after county
where honest and active supporters OIL
his candidacy condemned the scheme
and repudiated the men who were
managing it. It is reported on stand
pat authority that he quarreled with
Blythe over the failure of the scheme.
His candidacy and the foundation on
which his final hope of nomination
were builded are too well understood
to require or justify elaboration. Mr..
Perkins lost much That he should
feel sense of desolation is no cause
for wonder. He played the game to
the showdown for the last chip. If he
was double CROSSED by any one it was
by the Burlington solicitor who was
the general in chief of his campaign.
He had nothing to expect from the pro-
gressives but fight. He got it and
lost. II he has complaint to make it
should not be against the men who
protected themselves. No one carried
the bluff farther than Mr.. Perkins HIM
self. A four flush is as good as any
hand before the call, but for the man
who fails to win with it, silence or
smiling acquiescense is always indi-
Gated.
There is nothing so bad that it might
- ha worse. Mr.. Blythe might have
succeeded in the plan to nominate Mr..
Perkins with a minority. That would
have been worse. Upon reflection 1t IS
reasonable and logical to believe that
Uncle George will see the situation as
r. exists and harmony regain once more
its legitimate title to capital n IN
the "copy" of Iowa's great Journailss
and in the columns of his journal.
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