Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-13
TALK OF A BOLT ALL BOSH.

The terrors of a possible bolt on the
part of ant-Cumnins newspapers
and their prospective refusal to support
the republican state ticket, are being
exaggerated in the minds of severa!
well-meaning republicans. Newspa-
pers which were a party to such
campaign of vilification as was waged
against Cummins prior to the conVen-.
ton can't swallow all they have said
in a minute They must give the pub
lie time In which to forget or else they
stultify themselves Many of the news
papers which fought Cummins before
the convention may fully expect TO
support the party and the ticket in the
election, yet are in no hurry to make
formal announcement of the fact, be-
cause of the bitterness and extremes
of the pre- convention fight. They
should be given a little time and not
crowded too fast.
or course, the newspapers, particu-
road politicians or Office holding bene-
ficiaries of the Blythe dynasty, will
never give Cummins ticket cordial
support This is not to be expected.
II they should accord the present state
ticket even nominal support, they could
not refrain from plungnng knife into
,l,- ll,,t
cans men who stand for principles
rather than spoils, should borrow no
trouble over the fact. Cummins can
lose a good share of the republican
counties in the 20" reservation dis
trict and still be elected by COM
Portable majority. He has twice poled
the largest majorities ever accorded the
( republican ticket in a state election in
iowa, and If this majority should be
cut now because of corporation oppo-
sition, no real republican need feel
badly about it. Real republicans can
better afford to do without the support
Of voters who can be led by corporation
agencies. Their party will be the better
for the loss.
However, there is not going to be
any very serious bolt on the part of
the voter, even should corporation
owned and controlled newspapers con-
tinue as bushwhackers. This was
shown when the delegates arrived at
Des- Moines The railroad political
managers then learned that the dele
gates opposed to Cummins would not
all follow the program laid down. The
campaign this. fall will permit Cum
minis and other speakers in support of
the state ticket to get to the people
with fair statement of what the pro-
gressive movement in Iowa stands for.
convention surprises in Union,
Lucas, Jefferson and Wapello counties
have shown that public sentiment in
southern Iowa does not always ride on
pass. There are real republicans
there even if all the newspapers should
bolt the railroad ticket.
On the part of the voter there is no
fault to be found with the platform.
If he be honestly a standpatter, he has
not been unnecessarily antagonized by
the tariff plank. If he be an honest
voter and a citizen of intelligence, he
will subscribe Loyalty to the planks de-
claring for no free passes no corpora
ton influence in his politics and for
primary law Even if he did honestly
prefer some other candidate to Cum
minis and Garst, he will have to admit
that both are exceptionally fine char
acters personally, and eminently able
as statesmen. There is no excuse or
justification left for him to bolt. Even
the railroad leaders admitted the reg
ularity Of the nominations in the con-
vention Among the republican voters
there will be no serious bolt in Iowa.
We don't give continental what few
disgruntled newspapers do. 1t is mis-
take to get exercised over terrors which
are so largely imaginary.