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


mns). The contest has ragged for
made to believe that something some
how was endangered. But whatever
disputes there We're, are over 1t is
time that there should be peace in
Iowa until there is something worth
while quarreing about
The Ottumwa Courier (anti- Cum
mins) says: There is no need to re-
mark that the recent campaign has
been a severe and in some respects an
exceedingly bitter one. There are some
sore spots which only time can heal
and yet, the wise and sensible thing
for Iowa republicans now is to look
to the future, keeping well in mind the
great reunited forces of democracy
that will be upon us in 1908. Then will
come the test in which every republic
can will be called upon to stand by
the guns of republican principles
The Davenport Democrat thinks
"rhere will be show of harmony and
pers, but it will be only a pretense as
tle sores maze VIII IIOl easily HCtl.
''The victory achieved, while being
q victory primarily for the progress
sive cause, is in a large sense per-
sonal victory for Governor Cummins,'
insists the Waterloo Courier. He
stands vindicated before his party OF
the charges brought against him by
his enemies so inadvertently. His re-
publicanism cannot be questioned nor
the measures and policies for which
he stands, nor his worth as man and
a citizen. He liz made by the victory
the commanding political figure in the
state. He is now the party's ac-
leader in the state and
the convention delegates truly express
cd the party wish i'm indicating the
hope that he may be called to wider
fields of usefulness in the political
world"
"While it has been victory for pro-
gression it has also been victory for
those who have held that the entire
party should be entitled to considera-
ton in the formulation of any authors
tive statement of the principles upon
which the party shall stand" declares
the Mason City Times-Herald.
personally" the Oskaloosa Herald
would have preferred Mr. Perkins, or
Major Rathbun as the nominee but the
republican party in convention assem-
bled has settled these matters of party
difference and we shall. as we have
always done, use our best efforts for
the election Of the whole ticket
The Mason City Globe Gazette says
Uncle George. has been treated badly
by his friends who have been afraid
to stand up for him in his own terri
tory and by men who asked him to
themselves by looking for the band
wagon"
The Dubuque Telegraph (dem.) says
1T is not to be supposed from the out
come of the republican state conven-
ton In Des Moines that the factional
fight in the party is at an end. A first
reason is that the forces of corruption
in state never cease fighting for con-
troll and are undismayed by defeat;
a second reason is that the older poll
iticians in the party hate Cummins
with a hatred implacable and never
will cease their opposition to him and
the policies he advocates: third
reason is that renewed effort must be
made to block Cummins' path to the
United States senate"
"The cause of Cummins has pre-
vailed and the political creed called
progressiveress has triumphed. The
progressives has triumphed," walls the
Waterloo Reporter. 1.-The candidates
with hardly an exception are followers
of the faith founded by the ambitious
man who makes issues out of nothing.
the Dowie of the Iowa political field"
",rhe announcement of the harmon
ious ending of the fight at Des Moines
is pleasing to republicans, but gall
and wormwood to the democrats" re-
marks the Creston Advertiser (pro-
Perkins).
Governor Cumming victory means
that the principles for which he stands
are to be carried forward in the fall
campaign" declares the Webster City
Freeman-Trbune. TT means that the
republicans of Iowa have won a great
victory for clean government vic
tory which will add lustre to the
achievements of Iowa republicanism.'
while it cannot be said that there
was the utmost harmony of feeling
displayed by the convention" the
Boone Republican believes that "the
majority of delegates and of republic
cans will bow to the will of the ma
ported by the usual strength of the
party"
The Iowa City Republican is hostile
and off the reservation looking for men
willing to stand as boiling nominees.
''There is no occasion for bitterness"
observes the Sioux City Tribune.
Rather should there be rejoicing
among the opposition that the railways
did not control the convention, for as
suredly it would have meant defeat for
them at the polls Down at the bot
tom the electors are in favor of re-
form. The number of standpat dele
gates represents rather the continuity
of machine power than the present at
titude of the rank and file of repub-
leans Among the rank and file the
only sentiment is for political Justice,
but the machine throttled that senti-
ment by controlling the agency thru
which it would have been expressed"