Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-28
jupGE SMITHS NEEDLESS FEAR.

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JUDGE SMITHS NEEDLESS FEAR.
Congressman Walter I. Smith Is IN
the dumps. Looking forward he sees
nothing for Iowa at washington but
medicrity or worse. The new law is at
the bottom of the whole trouble.
& III is not likely there will be anoth-
er promotion from the national house
IL Representatives. to the senate IN
twenty-five years in Iowa" says Judge
Smith '"The new law requires that the
the candidates for the senate and the
house be voted for on. the same day
aud at the same time and in order for
- congressman to be a candidate for
The senate without Interfering with his
chances for recollection to congress, he
must abandon his ambitions to repre-
sent his district III congress. There is
no question as to the decline OF the
influence OF the state Of Iowa at Wash
ington in the last FIVE years and 1t VIII
continue to 60 down before beginning
10 rise again. Iii the Ave years we have
lost. the speakership of the house,
member of the cabinet and the chair
SIlC
public lands. No man in twenty five
Years will reach the usefulness and
strength of Senator Allison. Hepburn
is now along In the. seventies and his
place will be hard to fill. So while We
have lost heavily In late years, we.
stand chances OF losing more"
But is the Congressman correct when
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liz on the wane and her standing de-
teriorating at the national capitol? And
il he il wrong in this may he not be
needlessly alarmed over the prospect
that all ability shall have vanished
from the state when Mr.. Hepburn has
left the house and Senator Allison has
ultimately retired from active partici-s
patton in politics?
4 1t needs no stretch Of memory to re-
call that an Iowa man led the fight for
the rate bill, q bill that few thru the
house because it was confidently ex-
pected that The senate would clip Its
wings effee'tdaNy. Mr.. Hepburn
.'eopped,; the glory, in the house by
hitching the wagon Of his name to the.
star of rate legislation and of hope in:
the Eighth Iowa district. Mr. Dolliver.
whom Congressman Smith found no
need to mention. fought and won that
fight stirred by the innumerable prongs
OF Iowa opinion and demand and aided
by the threatening murmur that rose
from the corlfelds. That Iowa has had
two cabinet places has been eXtrao r.
binary. That one Of these has been zen
recalled is d return to normal condi-
lions, and no sign Of decadence; Il.
Iowa lost the Craftsmanship on public
lands when his district dumped Lacey
she Inherited that of foreign affairs
when Bob Hitt died and Robert G.
Cousins succeeded him by seniority.
81 The fact that congressman must let.
loose OF one public office in order 70
stand for another, will not frighten
the public as 1t seems to have scared
Judge Smith. In fact, one Of the best
things about the primary system ~
that it results at times in forcing
politicians and office holders to let
loose. The congressman who stands
close enough to the people of this
state to; convince at least 80 per cent
OF the voters of the republican party
that she is the best man to represent
them in tile senate will have little
trouble in attaining his ambition. {
q But Is 1t. actually necessary and adj
visable that United States senator's
shall be selected only from among con-
gressmen. Why limit opportunity thus?
Surely the state has wise and honest
and capable men outside of the eleven
who constitute the delegation in the
lower house.
Let Judge Smith be treasured. The
defeat OF an occasional standpatter
and the primary law are not likely to
interfere with any Of the natural laws.
It is incredible that Iowa must wait a
quarter century to supply the places Of
Allison and Hepburn. In the ordinary
coures of nature neither Of these great
men can continue for any largely e ss
tended period. What is Iowa to do
then?
j, Thespa half century has not failed
to produce great men in in Iowa, The
names of the great. and useful and
number more than two or
three. The next half and the next
quarter century viii be more prolific
Let Congressman Smith take heart
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