Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-24
Evidence That the Marsh-Miller
Wing gofDemocracy WillAgain
Aid Fight on Cummins
ALLISON DEFINITE FOR ONCE.
Pointed Out That Announcement Of
Candidacy is First Open Declaration
in Forty Years-opinion Prevails
That His Name Will Not Go Before
Primary After All.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines, Aug 24.-There are
some untaken bets laying around the
state house and some political centers
in Des Moines that Allison's name will
never be presented at the republican
primaries next June for the office of
United States senator. Following the
announcement from Dubuque that AL
lison is candidate, those who offered
to make these bets have not Withdrawn
them and on the other hand have re-
newed them.
The situation as to these bets
somewhat characterizes the reception
of the announcement of the Allison
candidacy in the progressive camp. In
a jocular way it is declared by some
that his announcement is the first
definite thing that he has said in forty
years and that it is not real definite.
Soberly, the Cummins people receive
with some pleasure the announcement
of Allison's candidacy. Now that the
aged senator is in the field as an ac-
tive candidate he is subject to the
shots on the firing line. At the same
time the general public is not con-
vinced that all is calm and serene un-
der the surface of the standpat wing
of the party, for the surface indications
are not without their meaning and
everybody is constituting the meaning
as indicating trouble and readiness
to break away from Allison till some
other more satisfactory explanation is
made.
There will be no occasion for SUR
prise il the senatorial campaign opens
rather early than otherwise, now that
Allison's announcements has been
forced out. AS soon as the state fair
is over and people have had time to
get their bearings again, political de-
velopments may be counted on in many
lines.
Things are shaping themselves for
a fight royal in the democratic party.
The Bryan wing of the democratic
party does not propose to sit idly by
and allow the Marsh Miller wing to
again turn the party machinery over
to the standpat republicans, to be
used as club with which to fight
Cummins.i 1t will be remembered that
soon after the close of the campaign
last year Hon. Walt Butler informed
those who asked him that if the man.
agement of the democratic campaign
had looked after it's own campaign
and looked after the votes in it's own
kins and Ed Hunter in their mad de-
sire to skin Cummins the demo-
Gratis would have elected their ticket
For that reason they do not propos g
to allow the Marsh Miller outfit" as
the Bryan democrats customarily call
them, to continue their control of the
party machinery. They claim that the
democratic party has mission to fill
quite apart from the standpat. republic
cans and that their one aim and am
bition is not the defeat of Cummins but
the victory of democracy. They are not
particular about the troubles of the re-
publicans.
With the results of the campaign of
last year and the disgraceful manner
in which Marsh and Miller trailed the
banner of democracy in the dust by
making the party a cats paw for j. w.
Blythe and Ed Hunter and the corpor4-
tions in their life long fight against
Cummins fresh in their minds the
Bryan wing of the party may be count
ed upon to do something more than to
simply sit by while Marsh and Miller
capture things.
The editorial in the Times-Tribune
of Waterloo (Marsh's paper) in which
he practically comes out in support of
the candidacy of Senator Allison and
holds up as a public horror the thought
of anybody contesting Allison's seat is
looked upon as an indication that those
at present in control of the democratic
party propose to conduct the same
campaign this year. There are indica-
tions, however, that things are shaping
themselves now for something OF con-
test for the control Of the party and
the Bryan democrats are not seemingly
worried but they will succeed in get
ting control.
The cost of the recent guard naneu-
V6ES Is lOuIlu W De pul VCly Slightly
in excess of expenses when the guard
has been ordered into camp for an
eight days stay. For many years the
guard was ordered into camp regularly
every year, with no criticism of the
cost This year the guard went ou:
for actual maneuvers, in which for the
first time 1t was instructed In the fun
daslnentals OF warfare. which 1t would
have to know If it was called Into act
nal service The criticism OF the cost
Is i'll timed, for the expense Is about
he same.
The compensation to the men for
their time is exactly the same for the
reason that they We're under arms for
the same length of time and there were
the same number of men. The cost of
provisions was the same for the men
for the same reason that their numbers