Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-05
CHOOSING A GOVERNOR.
Sensible Article Published Early This
Year by the Davenport Times.
MUST BE PRoTECTIoNIST.

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date for governor of Iowa the first
question is: Is he republican? A
fundamental, general and enduring
principle Of the republican party IL q
belief in protective tariff. The
nominee must believe in protective
tariff. 1t Is of far less Importance
whether he is standpatter or q re-
visionist, for those points of view are
not general, nor essential, nor neces-
sarily enduring; but any one OF those
points Of view presupposes belief in
protection. After all, what has a gov
ernor OF Iowa to do with legislation
that will affect the nations action on
the tariff? OF course, his influence is
considerable, and he has great power
in selecting senator in q crisis; but
ultimately the decision rests with the
legislature, which may be presumed
accurately to represent the majority
opinion in the state at the particular
time it is called upon to act. AT
any rate there is more probability
that a greater number OF republicans
would support man presented as u
republican and believer in the gen.
orally accepted theories of republican
ism than would support man nomi-
mated because he placed great empha.
sis on one or the other temporary and
nonessential points of view in regard
to the tariff
MUST BE LOYAL REPUBLICAN,.
The nominee of the republican
party this year must be the kind of q
republican who, although he may
have often entered into preconvention
contests with indomitable energy and
a determination to secure honor for
his man, nevertheless has always taken
off his coat and worked for the cleo
ton of the nominee of his party re-
CARELESS of whether his man had Sc
cured the nomination. Sulking men
never build up a party and they are
entitled to nothing from the party.
But at the same time blind par
tisan will not make the best chief ex-
ecutive. The nominee ought to be a
man who has not hesitated to call the
attention Of his party to its short
comings and to suggest ways out Of
the maze of error into which it may
1 have fallen.
But above all the nominee OF thu
party must be honest, sincere, true tC
his convictions, amenable to con-
science, and man offsound Judgment
These personal qualities are the most
important of all, for they are funda
mental, enduring and essential. Such
a man, for instance, may be trustee
to see to it that the railways in Iowa
will not be allowed to make the laws
or shirk their proportionate burden Of
taxation; while at the same time he
will insist that the other interests In
the state shall not enforce the enact
lnent of laws onerous for the rail
ways, or heap upon them more thar
their share of the burden of main
tanning the state government Wha
Is needed in Iowa just now is candi
uate for governor who will neither
set out to light the railways nor tt
plead their cause as against other in
terests, but man who will weigh
with judicially impartial mind the
claims of each side and strive to thu
best of his ability honestly to do just
ice to each. Less than this no ONT
would approve; more no one can ex
pect.
II MUST FAVOR SQUARE DEAL.
| That man is needed and ought u
be nominated for governor whose re
publicanism is unquestioned, who's
sense of justice is so keenly develop
, ed whose judgment Is so sound ant
whose backbone Is SO mature that b.
can sit in the governors chair ant
administer the affairs of this grea
state without showing partially Il
any class of citizens. Such u maj
| will stand, as does President Roose
I Welt, for the square deal. Infallibilit.
; is not to be expected. Such ma
; will make mistakes, but the mistake
. will be honestly made and as honestl
acknowledge when pointed out. Il
short, man is wanted who has tina
peculiar sense of relative values tina
!, leads him to move above the nones
sentials and to guide his actions b.
! the enduring, general and fundamenta