Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-29
Progressiyes of Iowa Will Not
Oppose His Reelection to
the Senate
NOTHING NEW IN STORY
While Standpat Leaders Desire to Pre-
cipitate Fight on Dolliver in the
Hope of Profit, cummins Will Not
Be Party to scheme-staie News
From Washington.
peclal to rirnes-Repub1lcan.


Des Moines. Nov. 29.-It appears that
gradually some information as to
what is going on in Iowa has soaked
into Washington and 1t is now getting
back again as startling information.
The latest evidence that Washington is
a little slow in its political news is
in an article which purports to give
something new in regard to the eff
forts which are being made, and have
been In the making for many weeks,
to induce republicans in Iowa to get
into big row and to have the repre-
sentatives Of the republican majority
fall out over the senatorship SO that
the minority could have some excuse
for inviting democratic help to elect
strictly railroad and corporation man
for senator.
1t will be recalled that the whole
subject was exploited fully and cor
rectly in this correspondence nearly
two weeks ago The substance of the
dispatch dated November II was that
Senator Dolliver is sure of reelection,
that previous to the late republican state
convention leaders of the railroad fight
sought to induce Governor Cummins
to become candidate against Dolli-
YER. that since the election at least two
separate attempts have been made to
induce the progressives to start
fight on Dollive.r under promise that
the railroads would help defeat the
Fort Dodge man, and that the primary
purpose Of all this was not to elect any
one person to the senate so much as to
conjure up fight between Cummins
and Dolliver in the legislative caucus
next January to the end that a third
ta'nd unnamed person could be elected.
AT that time q reporter representing
newspaper that is in the service of
the corporations impertnently asked
Governor Cummins If he would be
candidate for senator against Dolliver.
The governor was quoted as saying:
You may say most emphatically
that I am not candidate for the sem
ate. Whether I will be at some other
time is none of your business"
That is an attitude which Governor
Cummins took when he first heard of
the efforts being made to get up a
fight on the senatorship, and his state
ment stands good today.
There will be no fight in the legisla-
ture on Dolliver unless it comes from
Blythe and his people What they
would like to have is fight among the
friends of Dolliver and Cummins and
to have 1T get so bitter that argument
could be made that neither one should
be elected senator; then to have the
corporation element refuse to enter the
republican caucus and join with the
standpat democrats in election as sena-
tor man Of the kind that would be
Wholly subservient to the corporations
Sooner or later this last fact will pen
citrate even to Washington. It is we'll
understood in Iowa.
The legislative experience of the
members of the rext Iowa house will
make total much less than that of
any house for many years, while the
senators represent a long period of
activity. There are just
thirty of the members of the next house
who are now members, but these are
not ~of long service, chiefly having
served two terms. Nate Kendall has
been prominent in four sessions, and
George Koontz is the only one having
had five sessions to his credit Six OF |
the new members have had previous
legislative experience. w. C. Earle was
in senate of the 21st general assembly |
and in the house way back in the 10Th
George Van Houten was in the 26th |
and 9th; W. D. Dodds was in the 28th |
and 2eth; James Mercer was in the
23rd; and j. c. Cottrell was in the 2Sth.
Mr.. Reitz, of Lee county, also had leg
islative experience.
The member of the senate having
longest continuous service is also a
democrat. This is j. L. Wilson, Of
Clinton, who commenced back in the |
25th. Senator Smith, of Mitchell, has
had a service as long but not contin-
uous OF the new members Of the SEN
ate Messrs Frudden, Mates, Nichols
and Whiting all served three successive
sessions in ,the house. John Foley,
new democrat in the senate, was in
the 22nd house.
The soldier record of members has
been materially decreased. In the SEN
ate two veterans Of the civil war
dropped out-Harper and Crawford =.
and one Spanish American veteran
came in-Joe Allen.
There are fifteen members of the
senate who attended school at the state
al Iowa City, and five only
of the house members attended that in
T,, xah |
proportion of the house members have
had collegiate training.
The preliminary pedigree book" OF
the members of the house and senate
will be issued in few days. Several
members Of the house have thus far
failed to furnish information about
themselves The book will be print
ed without their recards