Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-15

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| Topping, we shall give him
One thunderous hurrah!
REMARKABLE SCENES At DIES MONIES
No man could have been present il
the joint convention of the Iowa legis.
lature during the reading of the gov.
errors message without enthusine
from feeling of pride at the though
Of having a governor with the ability
to write such message and with the
courage to deliver it at the very mo-
ment at which his opposition was
dangling before his eyes the goal of his
life's ambition. All men who heard il
We're moved by it's force, its fairness
its conclusiveness and its evidence oil
the writer's entire familiarity with
every subject discussed. Anti-Cum-
Minis legislators We're heard to say
that they were for the whole program
Cummins men who have fought to-
gether at great personal sacrifice OF
time. money and friends grasped one
another's hands and exclaimed, Well
it lis worth all it has cost"
The note of encouragement in it all
was that both houses of the legisla-
ture had organized with every evidence
Of being disposed to enact into law
the reforms presented by the progress
sive republicanism of Iowa thru its
eloquent spokesman, the governor. Here
was a legislature which the people
had actually elected. So fierce was the
convention campaign and election con-
test that the leaders Of the progress
sive faction had neither the time nor
the resources to even inquire as to
legislative politics. The leaders real
lied that they must take pot luck with
the legislature, their whole time and
energy being consumed in the fight
for the state ticket, yet legislature
turned up with more promise Of reform
than any that has convened in years.
The people had sent their most effec-
tive answer to the charge that any
nomination in the state convention had
not been fairly won.
But the courage of the man who
stood for something in Iowa public
lie was what stirred the emotions.
ErrIt FL, hoJ 10
ears of sacrifices. Thru it all he had
atertained an ambition to go to the
fnited States senate. Tired of fighting
sim and admitting at last the futility
Il doing so while impelled by con-
inning revenge for another, the Bosses
he special interests and the faction
hitch had all to lose in the success
II the reforms presented in his mes
age, were offering the governor the
cry prize which his ambition had
aved. Strong men might have wav-
ed and sought to let somebody down
isy. but this man pressed home with
asparing arguments and most telling
orce everything for which his move
tent in Iowa politics had stood. To
he end and in the face Of great temp
alton he stood resolutely for some
hing.
The temptation which was offered
to Governor Cummins creates one of
the most anomalous situations that
has ever grown up in Iowa politics. A
legislature is about to re-elect United
States senator who lacks an aggressive
following of his own. The faction for
which he has done the most, tho in
minority, is determined to defeat him,
while the majority, tho personally pre-
ferring the governor, is in large
pledged to support the sena-
tor. Congressman, railroad managers
and sincere standpatters who have
fought Cummins persistently and in
cessantly are offering him support now
for the sole purpose of defeating the
governor are standing by the senator
and doing so in the face of the fact
that he has just consented to slate
at Washington which will distribute
Iowa's entire quota of federal patrons
age to the men who are sworn to serve
obediently the bosses whom he had
offended and to fight at all times the
men who constitute the only political
friends he can have in this legislature.
AS the situation stands today, Mr..
Dolliver will be reelected. The gov
ernor has said that he will not be
candidate against Dolliver, and he will
not be. The men who have been con-
spicuous in his campaigns refuse even
to discuss any other possibility. The
statement already published that prop
ositicns have been made by them con-
ditiopaiJy mr. nthorw5Sc ara faIco opd