Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-02
.C|JMM|N& REPLY
1O PERKINS READY
He Will Not Admit That There
Is Anything to Be Arbi-
tratcd Now
BELIEVES VICTORY is WON
He Will Not Admit That Any consid-
cradle Number Of Republicans Are
Going to Bolt the convcntion-Per-
kins Proposition Generally Regarded
as illogical.
tBy Ora Wllliams]
10 Tlmes-Renllhlican.

| Special to Times Republican,.
| Des Moines. July 2.-frhere will be
no arbitration to see who got licked.
There will be no foreign board or
| commission to decide who's who In the
| next republican state convention OF
| Iowa. There will be no compromise as
between those who won and those who
| lost in the game.
| Governor Cummins has prepared his
reply to MIR. Perkins in the matter OF
the suggested reference to a commits
sion of outsiders of the issues OF the
campaign, especially to decide who
shall be nominated for governor. The
letter has gone to the home address of
Mr.. Perkins. 1t was not sent to the
office of Manager Ed. Hunter, whence
emanated the letter which was sent by
slow messenger boy service up the
state house steps to the office of the
governor.
There will be no arbitration. 1T is
not going to be admitted that there is
anything TO arbitrate. 1t is not going
to be admitted that the republicans OF
Iowa are unable to hold a harmonious
and orderly state convention In the
usual way. 1t is not going TO be ad-
mitted that the campaign has come to
close without anybody being victor
1t is not going to be admitted that
there Is any considerable number of
republicans who stand ready to bolt
the convention or to refuse to support
state ticket nominated by I640 re-
publicans. or who stand ready to be-
, come democrats IL the nominees OF tho
convention happen to be men they do
not personally like.
There has been nc talk of split In
the convention coming from the pro-
gressives. There has been no threat
of disrupting the party emanating
from the friends of Governor Cum
MINIS. He will advise regularity and
acceptance of the results of the con-
vention He will give adherence to
state ticket nominated fairly and hon-
estly In state convention. If there are
others who are not ready to agree to
support q republican state ticket so
nominated, let them speak up. They
are the ones to talk Of arbitration and
compromise. They are the ones to
plan some irregular and unauthorized
way of making up a state convention,
so that q ticket will be nominated diff
ferent from that which would be nom
mated by the republicans in the ordi-
nary way.
There has never been any PROPOSE
,tion made in Iowa politics which has
been so generally treated with laugh
ter and derision as the one to refer
so-called contests in various counties
of Iowa to a tribunal composed Of nom
resident republicans, and that trlbu-
nal picked by the men who have lost IN
the fight. The past few days flood OF
kilograms and letters has come to the
governor from republicans all over
Iowa. from men whose loyalty to the
party can never be questioned, de-
manding that he not consent to any
compromise nor agree to any proposal
by which the issues shall again be tried
over before a hostile board. Not
republican has advised compromise.
"a square deal in the state conven-
tion will nominate Governor Cummins
by handsome majority" says ex-
Governor Larrabee. That expresses
the sentiments of thousands of repub-
licans today. On this they are also
standpatters.
Governor Cummins did not need any
advice as to what course to pursue III
regard to compromise, but his course
will be in line with the almost unant-
nous sentiment of all republicans.