Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-25
Several DemocratsandStandpa
tiers in Legislature Deyoting
Energies to Play at Politics
TRYING TO DlscREDlT cuMMINs
State Chairman Miller, Republicans Al
lied With Him and a coterie of
Newspaper Followers Make contin.
ued Efforts to Put Governor in a
HoIs-Attempts That Have Failed.
special to Times-Republican.

Des Moines, Feb. 25.-Every attempt
to play politics at this session OF the
legislature has been bungled and come
to naught, The legislature will have
nothing to do with 1t and is deter
minedly and persistently sticking te
the business of making laws. Every
attempt at playing politics discloses
that Representative g. w. Miller OF
Bremen county, chairman of the demo
cratic state committee, and the small
coterie Of stahdpatters remaining IN
the senate, who with Lieutenant Gov
ernor Herriott did the bidding OF the
corporations last session, are the busy
bodies at this session, and that they
confer together and have the use OF
the columns OF the same alleged re-
publican newspapers.
The first attempt this session al
playing politics was made during the
opening days when Senator Jamison. Q!
Clarke, led the advancing forces prom
.
The last attempt was that OF Repre-
sentative Miller, who secured the pub
LEGATION in the Capital OF an attack on
Governor Cummins and the Old SOL
diers who served on the commissions
to erect monuments to the memory OF
the Iowa men who lost their lives on
southern l,attlefelds, claiming 1t was
the report of the appropriations COM
mittee on q. bill.
In between these two attempts at
playing politics came the effort OF
Representative Miller, chairman of the
democratic state central committee. to
get in the primary elections bill pro-
vision for q wide open primary with no
declaration Of party affiliation SO that
there might be some excuse for the
democrats and the senate coterie OF
standpatters to unite to defeat the bill
This little scheme, however, was nipped
In the bud by Hon. w. j. Bryan, who
on his recent visit to this city, told the
democrats to stand for a bill with q
declaration OF party utilization.
Still another attempt in the same
direction is the movement to abolish
the offices Of state printer and state
binder and have the state printing as
far as possible. done by convict labor
at the penitentiaries. Representative
Miller introduced the bill in the house
The standpat remnant in the senate is
backing the same proposition, intro
duced' by Lambert, OF Jackson.
Meeting and conniving with this
bunch Of legislative politics makers is
a delegation of newspaper men headed
by Julian Richards, who was a candi-
date for the republican nomination as
secretary Of state. and falling to get
the nomination contributed his efforts
as a newspaper correspondent in trying
to elect Claude Porter governor. With
him are George Gallarno, who worked
for the Perkins committee till the re-
publican state convention and imme-
diately after the democratic state con-
vention began working for the demo-
cratic state central committee for the
election of Porter, and now represents
the Waterloo Tribune and Cedar Rap
ids Republican; and Chauncey Weaver,
the editorial writer on the Des Moines
Daily Capital and correspondent of the
Sioux City Journal; and George Car
ter, the state house reporter for the
Des Moines Daily Capital. Richards
writes for the Chicago Tribune and the
Burlington Hawkeye. All these report
ers. it will be noted. are employed by
newspapers which claim to be repub-
lican. But every time Representative
Miller has a political scheme to work
the newspapers served by these men
have the first publication just as they
were the first to publish the attack on
the governor and the monument COM
missions, Disgusting 1t as a report OF
the appropriations committee.
But in spite Of all attempts to drag
In politics; in spite of all attempts of