Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-26

regard to a candidate for governor, and
it is more than probable that severai
names will be presented as candidates
in opposition to the progressive slate.
The name of Col. ID. j. Palmer has
been mentioned frequently and been
given considerable consideration, but
the fear is that because of the fact
that he comes from the reservation
and has been more or less closely
identified with the Blythe faction, his
selection would Immediately give new
voice TO the old cry of railroad DOM
nation.
1T also is feared that this charge
would give the progressives right to
ring the changes on the railroad is
sue which issue cor - ted largely to
the defeat Of G' d. Perkins IN
1906. And so to i giving the Cum
Minis people - sue it is probable
that Col ~ r will not again be
heard fro candidate
Here, % is admission that man
who y te a friend of the railroads
than .he people no longer stands
show of winning in an Iowa election
especially when the nomination must
be had ut primary vote of the peo-
pie and not in a caucus capable or
manipulation by the politicians. 1t is
understood that for this reason the
standpatters are in the hope of per-
suading some such progressive as
Secretary Wilson who has not taken a
part in Iowa politics actively for some
years to become their candidate in the
hope of winning victory under the
standpat name.
Two members of the legislature who
came to Des Moines from the res
ervation' territory as standpatters of
avowed type and who asserted on their
arrival that Governor Cummins is a
demaSogue," or words to that effect,
but who. thru touching elbows with
the progressive cause at close range
in the halls of the legislature. have
become recognized progressives, are
being talked of as possible candidates
before the primary for the republican
nomination of lieutenant governor
They are Senator Dan w. Turner, OF
Adams county. and Representative F..
F.. Jones, of Montgomery county. The
change of these two men to the pro-
gressive camp was on conviction, and
is as interesting as it is novel. Both
men served first in the Thirtieth gem
eral assembly. They live in adjoining
counties in the reservation, Jones in
the Nintn congressional district, and
Turner in the Eighth. When they
reached ,Des Moines in January, 1904,
for the opening of the Thirtieth gen
eral assembly both men were stand
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litical factions in Iowa.
They wouldn't enter Governor Cum
minis office for fear of the political
effect such an act would have on their
constitute nts. They considered Gov
ernor Cummins demagogue and had
no use for him and didn't hesitate
to say so. The transition was grad
ual but thorough. They discovered
thru contact with their fellow legis-
lators and thru occasional contact
with the governor himself that the
governor was honest and their eyes
were th<1 opened to the fact that
Governor Cummins was contending for
principles in the interests of the peo-
pie and principles for which they
themselves stood for in their honest
convictions. They had been trained
by their standpat affiliations to op-
pose anything that Governor Cummins
stood for just because the governor
stood for it. The folly of this sort
of thing soon began to become ap-
parent to them.
There. are no two more loyal friends
of Governor Cummins in the state of
Iowa today than Senator Dan w.
Turner of Adams county and Repre-
sentative F. F. Jones of Montgomery
county. They give the governor credit
for what he does They are both
possible candidates for lieutenant gov
ernor.