Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-14
FRANKLIN FOR CUlMMINS.

"a Franklin county voters are beginning
TO take as much interest In the gov
crnorship fight as they are in tn,
contest for county matters. Governor
Cummins seems to have the pole In
this county and the indications are
that he will carry the county by large
majority at the primaries on June l
The farmers are almost solid for him
and all the hot air and misrepresenta-
tons, and hiding of the real issues
will not change the sentiment a par
ticle The people have been watching
the attitude Of Governor Cummins on
matters that are of interest to the
farmers and the common people and
they have a pretty well defined idea as
who will continue to fight for their
rights. Governor Cummins has been
endorsed by practically every county
meat producers association and every
farmers institute in the state.
Once in a while standpat paper
makes a great talk about some railway
attorney being for Cummins. Yes,
once in a while there happens to be a
local attorney for railway who does
not receive a regular salary, and he
has sand enough to be for Cummins if
he wants to. Lots of railway men are
for Cummins, too, but they are the
men who do the work in the shops, and
believe in square DEAL and they
know they are more liable to get it UNI
der an administration headed by men
like Cummins than if the owners of
the road controlled the whole state,
and there was no one to raise up to do
a thing for the oppressed. The peo-
pie are not going to be fooled.
Sol.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CAMPAIGN
Esprit Lake Beacon.l
The nomination of Governor Cum
MINIS is now as certain as a subsequent
political event can ever be. 1t is hard
ly to be expected that the three or -four
to one lead will be maintained all thru
There are yet many counties of the
ninety-nine to be lined up for Perkins
because Of organization hostile to the
governor But is requires no amazing
gift of prophecy to discover that Cum
MINIS will be nominated with hundreds
of delegates to spare.
This remarkable victory will carry
with it progressive control of the state
orga nization hitherto in the hands OF
standpatters. At least six out of the
eleven members of the state central
committee will be progressive. All the
committees of the state convention
August 1 will have a progressive ma
iority. No risk is taken in the assump-
ton that candidates acceptable to
popular judgment will be nominated
and that no principles repugnant to re-
publicanisrn will be promulgated in the
party platform
The result of this campaign clearly
foreshadows a progressive republican
Iowa is 1908 1t means that Iowa will
not be represented in the national coun-
ellis of that presidential year by men
who shout for Roosevelt whom they
despise. while they accept the depraved
leadership Of Aldrich and Elkins. 1t
means that delegates from Iowa to the
national convention will stand erect
in the presence of insolent corporations
as they assert the sovereignty of the
people over aggregations of capital"
@And yet it is only reasonable to as
sumo that nothing offensive to the re-
publicanism of Lincoln or Garfield or
Mckinley or Roosevelt will be pro-
claimed by the republicans of Iowa in
national councils or elsewhere. They
will be uncompromtsingly for the
principle OF protection and its practical