Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-20
ynrs- e4nahlira, alarsralItu1 nn, February 70 1906

this system and you will have placed
in the Golfers of the company millions
of dollars. Is it not strange that
under such circumstances the
companies should object. There must
be an Interior reason. 1t must be that
the companies fear if the pass evil
is eliminated they will lose their
hold upon politicians and powerful
| friends and the fear of adverse legis-
lation is greater than the loss of
revenue from the pass. There can
be no other explanation.
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FACTION AND FACTIONISTS.
/ Mayor Rathbun in His Marion Reg
ister.]
| Eleven congressman are to be elect
ed in Iowa this year, as well as a gov
ernor. No one will claim, not even
the Herald, that national politics
should not and viii not figure in the
congressional campaign. With that
campaign the gubernatorial campaign
will be associated. 1t cannot be avoid
ed. Both campaigns will be conducted
on principles upon which the platform
will speak in ringing terms How
will candidate avoid them? He can
not Ii is the impossible. If the
Cummins men control in the conyen-
ton the Herald knows what the plat
form will be. If they do not the Her
aid knows what the platform will be.
Turn back to the platform of May is,
/ 1904, and see.
If the Cummins men control they
will place in nomination a man who
will defend the platform. The stall
wart men of the party should do the
same.
The talk about "factionalism' is idle
talk. To say that the men who be-
lieve in the Dingley tariff, who oppose
reciprocity In competing products,
who believe in the republicanism of
! VIM Mckinley and Theodore Roose-
welt are "factionists" is idle talk. 1t
is not true. To thus accuse is to ac-
cuse an overwhelming majority of the
republican voters of the state and
they will resent the accusation, and
should To thus accuse the Cummins
men is to accuse them of insincerity,
also, in defending and advocating
measures which they say to all the
world they indorse.
1t is time to cut out the talk about
| "factionalism.' 1t is not true. Ac-
cording to the men who thus talk
there is only one man in the state who
is conspicuous as a non-factionist. 1t
IS ridiculous. Spec king for ourseh
we deny the charge. Speaking for
| themselves nine tenths of the republic
cans of the state will deny the charge.
Furthermore nine-t,snths of the men
| who make the charge know that 1t IS
true they have been and are the guilt
lest factionists in the state. The
charge will apply to themselves with
greater force than to the men they ac-
cuse. If what they now ask the re-
publicansof Iowa to do had been done at
St Louis in 1896, if man had been
nominated whose views were unknown
| and who would not say what he be-
lieved and whose latest authoritative
utterances had beer in opposition to
the gold standard and protective tar
| if instead of VIM. Mckinley, whose
radical, uncompromsing advocacy of
both measures were known to every
voter in the land, Colonel Bryan would
have had an easy victory at the polls
in November of thai year. The history
of the country Is made up with the
record Of similar campaigns. 1t was
so again in 1904. II was what Roose-
welt and Mckinley stood for that en-
aibled them to win their great victories
Insinuation and accusation about fac
tionalism has gone far enough 1t is
| time to ring off.
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GEO. d. ROBERTS POSITION.
| Esprit Lake Beacon]
| Our editorial friend and brother Geo.
E. Roberts, writes from Washington
to his Fort Dodge Messenger to express
/ regret, and surprise and displeasure
because the Beacon and other wicked
papers are opposing Mr.. Perkins, mere
ly on account of the "incidentap sup
port given that gentleman by one j. w.
Blythe The Beacon is sorry to dis
appoint this genial friend, but since he
has so sadly disappointed US in his
dealing with the Iowa political situa-
ton, possibly the personal equation
may be restored.
After reading the long, long criticism
referred to the editorial wits went WOOL
gathering back through the years of
recent political history. back to the
birth of the Iowa Idea in the fertile
brain of the director of the mint. Our
files for the year 1901 contain a per-
sonal letter to which is pinned the
original draft of the famous shelter
to monopoly" plank. The letter elo-
quently recites the important bearing
of such expression on the part of Iowa
republicans. 1t refers to strong
element in the party which will oppose
all action" It's writer is "sure Iowa
republicans favor it." and that "such
utterance would have great influence
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