Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-24
Blythe Organs Trying to Make
An impossible Breach in the
Party in Iowa
WOULD DIscREDlr THE STATE
Corporation Politicians Want to Gro
ate Impression That the State Has
Gone Back on the Policies Advocated
by Roosevcit-Democrsts Watching
Their Chance.
IBy Ora Williams.l

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, May 24.-Will there be
one republican state ticket before the
voters of Iowa in November, or two?
The question is one which is causing
much worry among good republicans
who deplore the tendency of the COR
poration politicians to make an impass-
able breach In the republican party
There are rumors afloat, and these
are being more or less freely discuss
ed by conservative republicans. to the
effect that II Is the deliberate pur-
pose Of those who are leading in the
assault upon republican administra-
tion OF state affairs to force division
in the part to the end that bolt from
the conven on will be inevitable when
the majority of the representatives OF
the party indorse repu5licanism in
Iowa and resolve that republican man.
agement OF the Hawkeye state by state
officials and legislators has been hon.
est, economical and free from scan
dial.
In short, the belief Is growing that
those who have recently sought to diff
ferentiate themselves from the regular
republicans by calling themselves
national republicans are preparing
to set up for themselves and lay claim
to beiug the only genuine republican
party In Iowa. In some Of the coun-
ties where Blytheism prevails without
question, where conventions instruct
not for somebody or something, but
instruct against republican administra-
ton and republican politics, the fad
of taking on the name national" to
distinguish them from republicans who
agree with the state and national OF
ficials, has beeu rapidly growing. An
ILLUSTRATION OF the extent to which this
is being carried was shown in Fre-
mont county where the news reports
indicated that the men who vote with
Blythe always instructed their dele
gates to be against Cummins. The
intimation was that yellow dog would
be supported in preference to repub-
lican state official. At any rate they
threw principles to the winds and re-
solved they would be merely against
somebody.
The fight being carried on to belit-
tie and discredt Iowa republicanism
in It's management Of state affairs. has
become extremely bitter. From the
first Perkins has insisted that 1t is
personal and must be directed against
Governor Cummins personally. His
speeches are nothing but bitter attacks
on Cummins. The committee work be-
ing directed here under the guidance
of Ed Hunter, Will Parrott, Carroll
Wright, Fred Davis, Charley Johnston
and others who do the bidding Of
Blythe and Call, is planned to lead re-
publican voters to believe this
1. That republican control of Iowa
is failure.
2. That republican legislatures have
been ,shamerully wasteful and extrava-
CANT.
8. That there should be abandon
ment Of the policy of liberal appropri-
ations for education and permanent
Improvement.
4. That Governor Cummins was a
democrat because he once was elected
to the legislature as an independent re-
publican.
s. That Governor Cummins is a
free trader because he stands with
mckinley and Roosevelt on the tariff
and believes the republicans Of Iowa
should not abandon their platforms.
If what these political managers say
is true, or half true, and the Blythe re-
publicans believe what is being printed
about Cummins and the present repub-
lican legislators and other state Off
cials--printed by Perkins himself and
reiterated by the Blythe organs all over
Iowa--thep Perkins cannot support the
republican state ticket that will be
nominated in Des Moines, August 1
next.
There is now no doubt about the
denomination of Governor Cunlmins.
and with him will be nominated state
ticket that will be in accord with his
views and will work in harmony with
him. A great majority of the republi
can nominees for the legislature will be
fossilization The platform adopted at
the Des Moines convention will be one
that will give great good cheer to Pres
ident Roosevelt and all who have been
sincerely for railroad rate regulation
and for the square deal in politics. 1t
will reiterate the position of Iowa re-
publicans on the tariff and other ques-
tions as in the platforms of 1901-2-3.
1t will make 1t plain to all the world
that iowa is in dead earnest in back
ing up the great reform and progress
sive movement at the head of which is
President Roosevelt. And it will re-
buke, in terms that cannot be misun-
derstood, all those who have been be-
littling and deprecatins republican
Management Of Iowa in recent years.
When this is done, what will be the
attitude of those who have been maxi
ing such bitter fight to convince the
people that even a democratic admin
istratien of Iowa affairs would be bet
ter than one by the progressive re-
publicans who have so much offended