Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-13
"HARMoNY, IN IOWA.

dubuque Telegraph Herald, dem.l
George ID. Perkins says there is
harmony" in the republican party in
Iowa. The quotations are Mr.. Per-
kins' own The democratic papers
say with Mr.. Perkins that there is
harmony" In the republican party in
Iowa. Thus Mr.. Perkins and the demo-
cratic press are agreed.
MIR. Perkins confesses to a belated
recognition of the value in the demo-
cratic view of things. Standing at the
foot of the enthroned god of republic
anism, the figure of Handsome AL
bert''-a composite figure embodying
the beauty of Adonis, the wisdom of
Scion, the eloquence of Demosthenes,
the strength of Samson, the pugnacity
of Spartacus Mr.. Perkins sees that
the stepping stones to the enthroned
height are democratic policies. And
looking upon them for the first time
he sees the error in the path he trod
and is burned with the secret wish
that he had employed them to gain
his end.
Thus remorseful, but wise withal,
Mr.. Perkins aligns himself with the
democratic press. His application for
membership bears the words There
is harmony in the republican party
in Iowa." and there are ear marks on
the harmony Mr.. Perkins is unoffi-
cially advised that his application in
such form will put him on the waiting
list and that more good, works OF like
kind will speedily make the democ-
rncy his ally. We bid him be of good
cheer and hopeful, for ere another two
wears have flown his new found allies
may decide to cast into the junk heap
of discarded relics the bronze of
Handsome Albert" and erect in its
place the doughty figure of the new
found convert.
Interest shifts to another extinguish-
ed citizen and editor-the Honorable
Yafe Lung of Des Moines. ut is time"
says Lung, chat there should be peace
in Iowa." Amen to that. But not the
peace of the sluggard, not peace eter-
nal. Not for Yafe Lung and his ink
wet queue. 'It is time that there
should be peace in Iowa until there is
something worth while fighting about
Velly Suggestive, velly foxy. Velly life
Yafe Lung. When will arise some
thing worth while fighting about?"
When the ballots are being cast, and
then secret warfare? When the
Handsome One seeks to go to the SEN
ate? When he forgets his turbulence
to Oyster Bay and says that inasmuch
as tariff shelter has robbed the Ameri-
can consumer of uncounted millions
more than the sum taken by the in
surance pirates, that that robbery of
the consumer should be stopped NOW,
and not from time to time?'
When? Echo answers when? And the
answer is suggested that when the
guild which. Yafe Lung heads decides
that there is a show of high binding
the Handsome One that then there
will be something worth while fight
ing about"
Let us pass now to The Burlington
Hawk-Eye and secure the views of j.
W. Blythe, boss of the reservation. di-
recting head and banker of the anti
Cummins forces. Says the Hawk-Eye:
Governor A. B. Cummins has been
nominated for reelection. The Hawk
Eyes estimate of the man and the in
calculable harm he has done the re-
publican party are we'll known. The
result at Des Moines in no wise
changes that estimate, and this paper
has nothing to retract that it has said
of him or the un-republican principles
for which he has stood. His case is
now remanled to the people who must
pass upon his future relations to the
state.'
There is "harmony' in the republic
can party in Iowa.