Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-15
Republican Party Of the State
Will Stand For Roosevelt
Taft P gram in 1908
CANDIDATES IOWA WON'T FAVOR
While Uncertainty Prevails as to
Whom State Will Support, it Will
Not Be for Foraker, or Fairbanks, or
Cannon, or Others Of Their Political
schooI-Foraker Movement Failure
to T,mes-Republlcan.

Special to Times-R Republican.
Des Moines. May 15.-Iowa will
stand unitedly and enthusiastically foi'
the Roosevelt Taft program for 1913.
Iowa will not be for the program OF
ForakeS. Elkins. Blythe. Shaw. Harri-
man and all those who are complain
ing that we are making progress too
fast.
The other day a prominent repubil-
can of the state was asked by rep
resenlative of an eastern state for a
statement as to>what Iowa would DO
in the next national convention. he
stated that in. his opinion Iowa would
be consistent with her record. He said
he did not believe there would tbe any
fight In Iowa at all. The fighting has
all been done. The republican party
of Iowa has taken its stand and it
will remain firm. No fight is possible
to put the party back to where It was
in other years The rank and file OF
the party demand merely that the par
ty shall stand for those things in the
nation which 1t now stands for in the
state. s
Iowa may not be for Roosevelts re-
nomination 1t may not be for the NOM
nation OF Taft, or Hughes, or Root, or
Deneen, or Beveridge- it will be
for the nomination of the man who
seems at the time best fitted to carry
on the work at Washington. 1t will
not be Tor Fairbanks or Foraker or
Cannon or Shaw or Lodge.
'I do not know what candidate Iowa
will favor" said. Lieutenant Governor
sGarst yesterday, but Iowa does want
"a man who does things and it Will In
sist upon a president who will continue
the policies OF the present administra-
ton. Iowa will not be satisfied with
any neutral man. This is not the time
for candidate or "a president who has
no convictions on the live questions
or who fears to give expression to
them. Public sentiment has already
crystaFlized sin Iowa in demand for
continuation Of the present policies at
Washington"
The Xffort to start Foraker move
tment down in southeastern Iowa has
proved failure. There was no re-
sponse. and nobody cares. Fairbanks
came and was given respectful atten-
tion, but he said nothing; he was
neither for. or against anything. Last
winter when the legislature was polled
as to preferences for president only a
paltry half dozen suggested Shaw.
The demand for Roosevelt, or at least
the demand for Roosevelt kind Of a
man, was almost unanimous. A good
many Of those who suggested Roose-
welt also mentioned Cummins and Taft
in the same connection. With Roose-
welt and Taft not considered, three
fourths OF them would be for Cum
Minis. But above all else nearly all
indicated that the Roosevelt fight must
go on.
Thar Governor Cummins Is in hearty
accord with this program for con-
tinuatEon Of Rooseveltian policies at
Washington goes without saying in
Iowa. 1t is recalled that when \ the
governor was triumphantly renomin-
ated in a harmony convention last Au-
gust and was called out for a, few
words he said to Iowa republicans on
national issues:
We have in Washington a magnifi-
cent leader, man who has lifted him
self above the common level Of hui
manity, and is acknowledged thruout
the civilized ,9.s,.,4 as the commander
In the march Of progress, heodore
Roosevelt"
This progressive view Of Roosevelt
has rot been changed by anything
which has since transpired. Governor
Cummins has kept himself in very
close touch with President Roosevelt,
and he knows perhaps better than any
other in the state what the views Of
the president are In regard to the
presidential succession. Even as the
governor has recognized in the presi-
dent the actual leader in the progress
sive movement in the nation, so also
the president has, in his communica-
tions with the governor, recognized in
the latter the actual leader of the pro-
gressive movement in Iowa. 1t will
not now be possible for any elements
to enter into the situation that will
put Iowa into the column of states
claimed for the reactionaries.
Last winter there. was a good deal
said about reaction in Iowa to follow
the c.ose of the legislative session,
and it was also said that Iowa repub-
licans were about ready to demand a
halt in the movement at Washington.
No such action is evident now. The
work Of the legislature has been ap-
proved generally by the people. There
has been no popular outcry against
what Roosevelt has been doing in ma
tional affairs. Those who have started
talk for "safe and sane" candidate
have not been heard.
Among some Of the party leaders
there is disposition to instruct for
Roosevelt's denomination and leave the
rest to the delegation; others want
the delegation to be instructed for
Roosevelt or Taft: others say the right
thing is to declare simply for contfn-
uation Of the Roosevelt policies But