Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27
CUNk|NS FO[f|LS
AL EXPECTATIONS
Opening Address at chnrdan
Made Most Excellent I'm
preston in Party
ATTITUDE ON TARIFF PLAIN
General Disposition Among Republic
cans is to Effect That Governor Has
Made Final Disposal of All Party
Differences on Tariff ouestion-Po-
Iitical Gossip at Capital.
pecial to Times-Republican.

Des Moines Sept. 2T.-Among repub-
licans there is a general disposition
here to regard the opening address Of
Governor Cummins as making final dis
posal of all differences in the party in
relation to the tariff question. A hasty
canvass of the business men hero
showed that the speech was read by
nearly everyone that it made a most
excellent impression, and that 1t fully
met the expectations of the friends of
| the governor and of those who have
! been ciassed as against him within
| lArty lines.
| One criticism was heard, and that
partially placed himself in an apollo
getic attitude toward those who had
been misrepresenting him. This crit
icism was not general, however, and
most of those who were met with
| agreed that the speech had fairly stat
| ed the attitude of the party and of the
governor, and that he had made 1t
plain. Every one in Des Moines knows,
and has known all along, that he has
heen lifelong supporter of the pros
! tective principle and has never, for
| day or moment, wavered in the faith.
/, Some who We're hoping he would say
something that would prove embar>
assng to him in the present campaign
are showing disappointment
But in political circles it is regarded
now that the tariff controversy within
the republican party is pretty we'll
ended, and that it is now square fight
between the protective principle and
| the revenue tariff principle, and that
on the one@side will oesarrayed vast
lthrong giving hearty support to Gov>
ernor Cummins and his associates, and
on the other more or less disconnected
bands who are giving support to Por-
ter and his associates.
1t is regarded as noteworthy that the
republican newspapers, with one ac-
cord, accept the address of the COVER
nor in the spirit in which it was given
that of sincere desire to cement the
republican party and to brush away
much of the unnecessary i'll feeling
which has been stirred up in the past.
Governor Cunmins starts out with a
strenuous week. He jumped from
Greene county over to Clinton for yes
terday, then goes to Lorimer, in Union
county, then back again into north
eastern Iowa.
The success of William R. Hearst, In
New York, and the alarming growth of
his Independence League" is causing
| several democrats in Iowa to wonde.
if Charles A. Walsh is not wiser pol
1tician than most of the rest of them.
1t is surmised that Walsh will be back
again in Iowa and the middle states
pretty soon having got matters ad-
| justed in New York state; and when
he comes there will be things-a doing
in the political camp. With Hearst
fairly started in the race for governor
of New York, and thus taking another
step in the direction of the nomination
| for the presidency, it is certain that
the independence League will be or
| ganized in Iowa. and probably before
the close of the present campaign.
\ 1t is known that a good many demo-
| Gratis in the state are waking up to
\ the present condition of their party
and are beginning to accept the view
| which has been forced upon them that
the party has been given over to the
control Of elements not working for
democratic principles. The democratic
meetings in this county have beer
failures. c. O.. Holly, former demo-
cratic candidate for mayor and re-
ed crowd of less than fifty at Valley
/ fo11o 1or
| of his party standard bearer, in avoid
| ing direct defense of, the democratic
| party and PLATFORM and this so disap-
pointed a large number of the demo-
Gratis that they declared they wanted to
| cut loose from their party entirely The
situation is the same in many places
| hereabouts.
| The announcement is made that Bry-
an is to be brought into the state very
| late in the campaign. This is because
| those in charge of the campaign know
| that when Bryan speaks he will talk
real democracy and not confine himself
| to sneering at the governor of the state
| and retailing petty attacks upon the
| state administration. So those in
| charge of the campaign are planning
| to keep Bryan out until the close of
the campaign, when they hope it will
| do no harm to have real democracy
talked straight to the people
1t is an open secret that there is a
disagreement between the managers of
| the Porter campaign and those demo-
Gratis who have been all along for Bry-
| an on principle and are trying to get
the campaign pitched on a high level
of discussion OF ufe issues between
| the parties. There is complaint by the
| old Bryan democrats here that John
Dennison is being crowded into the
background because he is too much of
/ democrat and is disposed to speak of
] national issues. Coincident With ths