Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-06

senator Is Allison s position IN lne
| senate nothing to Iowa? The places
| he occupies now, and in which he is
| rendering most important service.
| would be filled, but they would not he
by an Iowa man. They would be
| filled by men who have been there q
| long time and by men, very likely.
the Marshalltown paper thinks ought
not to be there at all.
| When Iowa goes back to the record
| and seeks for what the men who are
serving and of late have served the long
terms in the congress from the state
| of Iowa she will not find great deal
| to convince that life terms are desir-
able. In a senate led by Aldrich is not
a committee appointment Is not abso-
lutte proof of aggressive anxiety Tor the
welfare of all the people, Possibly
new man would not be placed next TO
| Aldrich on the committee. Certainly
| il it were Mr. Cummins he would not
he magpified on any railroad commit
lee over Wnlch MI I'hiae
absolute control. but there Is COM,
! fort in that assurance to those who
insist on A square deal between the
| people and the corporations. 1t is not
at all likely that a new man, snouia
he be Mr. Cumnlins. would be made
chairman Of a committee to investigate
trusts. etc, II Senator Aldrich dictated
the appointments. Still II Is hard to
see anything in this that should ire
vocably bar the new man from the
senate.
We have but recently passed thru
an exciting session of congress where
a new man led the fight in the senate
for the rate law. Senator Dolliver
was in his first term when the lash OF
iowa opinion and the fear of retirement
forced him out to lead the reform
movement. With Iowa behind the de-
imand for the law. as Iowa was and IS
almost to man, leadership was
forced upon the junior senator from
Iowa and he made the fight of his HE
and one that Is a historical event IN
the annals of the senate. II is true
that Senator Allison was utterly unht
nv req son Of wears and the weakness OF
age and disease, to carry on the hshe.
It Is equally true that he would never
have begun It. 1t Is also true that ne
came upon the field after the fight was
won. somewhat after the fashion
studied by the Journal In political
crises. But the burden OF the pattie
the danger OF defeat were assumed ny
a senator In his first term, and the
palm of victory belongs to the new
man, In the light of accomplishment
the goad that stirred him to the Fray
may well be put aside and forgotten.
The point in which the Journal is most
interested is regarding the possibilities
OF new men. Dolliver was new man
ana as a new man made the only great
popular fight that has been led and
won in the senate Of late years by an
Iowa man.
If the Journal would cease to see
political success only in distribution
of political patronage confined TO
limited coterie 1t might look differently
upon the new men. In the course OF
nature the destines of the world must
perforce fall to the guidance OF new
men. There is somewhat more to DO
than the procuration of a government
position, a postoffice or foreign APP
pointment for some one of this coterie
or his family connections. The new
man OF the near political future must
do something more than balance skill
fully on the slack wire of preferment.
He should have vigor, force and desire
to serve the whole public. The mere
fact that one man has managed thru
a long term of years to hold an office
is not an argument that he should
hold 1t forever or against the new man.
Incidentally, the argument is not
without force that the locality whence
incumbents of committeeships are
drawn is of subordinate Importance to
the attitude of committees on import
ant public questions This is a point
that should appeal peculiarly to ma
tional republicans.