Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-20
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| the great need of primary law.
We think that the situation in this
county is similar to that in counties
over the state, where a contest has
ragged in the past elections. We predict
primary legislation of the next general
assembly that law Of this nature will
be enacted. We must have it. The
present law is faulty in that there is
| no one to execute it, in that it varies
i'm different counties and in different
elections. We must have law
whereby the will of the voter cannot
be controversial"
Remarking that the Sigourney News
in a recent issue deplores the bitter
ness being engendered in the republi-
can party by the gubernatorial cam
paign, the Keota Eagle approves the
News anxiety as commendable, but
points out that "the fact is, the repub-
lican party in Iowa has come to the
cross roads and the standpatters seem
determined to stop and stand there
while the progressives seem equally
determined to clear up the rubbish that
has accumulated in the past few years,
and go ahead as we have been doing
since the formation of the republican
party. Now this state of affairs is
not confined to Iowa alone, and as a
result we see Bryan peeping over the
fence with broad grin on his face.
He is not alone; many Of his former
enemies are behind him, all grinning
more or less, some more and some less;
1,,,% ~, fo,
Grover Cleveland seems to be in the
crowd. In the background looms up
the figures 1908.
The kalona News refers to the pres
ent struggle between the candidates for
governor in the republican party as
furnishing good arguments for le-
galized primary law. If there was a
strict legal enactment on this line, the
charges that the standpatters and pro-
gressives are bestowing on each other
so freely could be tested in the courts
and somebody would pay the penalty
for their zeal in favor of their candi
date" suggests the News.
The Boone Republican observes that
the Burlington Hawkeye states that
one of the valued correspondents of
that paper who has been sending in
reports of the various primaries and
conventions of the state has received
notice that he had better not appear
on the streets after night for fear he
might get his face mashed. The Re-
publican advises the Hawkeye '.to call
their man in and do the job them
selves, for an editor would be entitled
to do a good job of this kind on any
man who would dupe them into pub
fishing the wild fabrications or imag-
nations that have been appearing in
the Hawkeye for some time"
The Register and Leader does not
presume that the state central COM
mittee will be otherwise than fair, but
notes "the assumption is being made
in some quarters that it will endeavor
to organize the convention with only
the claims of one faction in view. 1t
is to be hoped" continues the Register
and Leader, that this assumption does
injustice, not merely for the sake of
the committee itself but for the sake
of the party in Iowa. Nor is it here
presumed that the Iowa delegation in
congress will countenance anything
that is unfair Attention is merely di-
rected to the fact that Iowa repub-
licans were never before 50 aroused as
they are now. They are intensely in
earnest in their fight for principle. and
they will insist on fair play. Anything
short Of that will hurt. not merely this
year. but in other years to come"
'"rhe president has never been train
ed as a LAWYER and yet when It comes