Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-12

say to these men who are expecte to
elect him, and to his neighbors :: 4
friends, that he will recognize tn, : p
ular sentiment among republic : in
his district. or he will have urn
them down hard. If the lat : what
then?
Yesterday a committee of.ss .ndpat-
ters, representing. so it \ lid, not
less than thirty Of these % went to
persons recognized as infln.>s lal among
the progressives and 8 4 that the
matter had been fully cal.vassed, and
that they were ready to deliver any
where from 20 to 80 votes against Dol
liver whenever it could be shown that
they would thus defeat the junior sem
ator The intimation was given out
that there was very close combine
formed and that there could be no pos
sible break in the program once decid-
ed upon.
The statement was made that prac-
tically all this vote could be delivered
to Governor Cummins. But it is
known that Governor Cummins is not
a candidate, nor has he ever given any
encouragement to a move to elect him
as the successor of Dolliver. The gov
ernor can, if he WILL make it impossi-
BILE to bring out any candidate against
Dolliver. The fact is that there is not
now and never has been any conceal-
ment of the fact that personally Gov
ernor Cummns does not feel under
any obligation to Doliver, and whatev-
er of kindly feeling he had for him in
other years was dissipated when he
wrote his letter in which he sought to
turn over the Tenth district to the
railroad crowd last summer. But it is
not true that Governor Cummins is
candidate against Dolliver. He recog-
nizes the fact that there was an under
standing all thru the last campaign
that he (Cummins) would not be a
candidate against Dolliver and the
progressives everywhere left the inn
preston that they were not opposed to
Dollver. Personally Governor Cum
Minis is under no obligation to Dolli-
Yer, and personally he could accept the
senatorship if it came to him unso-
licited, even if it involved defeat of
Dolliver; but 1t must be matter for
the consideration of the representa-
tives of the party and not for Governor
Cummins.
Among the members of the legisla-
ture there ois a feeling that Dolliver
ought to show exactly where he stands
and now is the time to do it. He is in
duty bound to say whether he is for or
indicating where he stands toward the
federal slate fixed up, not by the peo-
pie, but by the interests.
Some persons have intimated that
the dragging of the federal slate ques-
ton in here rs for the purpose of
dragooning Dolliver at time when he
is peculiarly sensitive. But this is only
a superficial view. 1--WE have been
here in Iowa bearing the burdens and
winning the victories" said a northern
Iowa senator, land we have gone out
into the highways and tramped down
the tall weeds of boiling cliques. We
have made it possible for Iowa repub-
licanjsm to hold UP it's head. We
know what the people want. We are
not willing to have all the fat offices
turned over to bunch of fellows, who,
if they and their hackers had their
way, would have come down here at
this time to assist in Inauguration of
suelHCCFdlIC SONeIllOl. IL l1iC clSi4-y 10
to profit by our labors it is time we
knew it."
This fairly expresses the feeling
among members
Thesituation is critical. Dolliver is in
The situation is critical. Dolliver is in
he would say the word. "Tama Jim"
Wilson's name is heard in that con-
nection Perhaps when Dolliver ar
rives lie will be able to smooth the wa
ters.