Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-17
raymond Says State is For
President For Third Term, But
Not For His Candidate
POLICIES GREATER THAN MEN
tlawkeye Sentiment Will Oppose Any
Attempt of Administration to
"choose" Candidate--Finds Consider.
able Fairbanks Support Within the
State-No Fear Of "Monarchy."
tRaymond in Chicago Trlbune.)

(Raymond In Chicago Tribune.)
Des Moines, May 17.--There ought
not to be any mistake as to where Iowa
stands. 1t is fairly and squarely in the
Roosevelt column. II the president af-
ter all should decide to run for q third
term, Iowa will be with him. 1t will
support him and his policies. 1t will
, not necessarily follow any leader he
may assume to force upon the party.
II there is tt, be a third term and If
Roosevelt himself will be a candidate,
there Is no question at all Iowa will be
In his wake. The president has no
more loyal (and in some cases, more
unreasonable) supporters anywhere
than in this great agricultural belt Of
the Mississippi country. This follow
ing, however, is associated with the
personality Of Roosevelt himself. 1t
does not at all follow that the state
would give Its vote TO Taft or TO any
one else who might happen to be the
beneficiary Of the Roosevelt admins
tration.
On the contrary, there is al feeling
out this way, which 1 have found gem
orally reflected among the people them
selves. that Secretary Taft would make
much better Roadway on his own mer-
it's than as the merely residuary Legal
tee OF the Roosevelt administration
This ii more Important and peculiar,
because In Iowa the third term idea is
rampant People who are most in-'
sistent that Roosevelt ought to run
again are at Che same time bitterly op-
posed to any. attempt on the part Of
the national administration to project
itself into the future by the selection OF
q candidate Oh the suggestive basis.
One must be struck at once by the
strength Of the Fairbanks sentiment
in 1owas This Ii q great agricultural
state. 1t has fine cities like Des Moines
Dubuque and Sioux City. But after ALI
les splendid and browning glory Is IN
Its farms. There 10 probably no other
state in the union so exclusively agrit
cultural as Iowa. There isia lead and
zinc interest around about Dubuque,
there ia fine manufacturing center
at Waterloo ana there are other com-
rnercial interests scattered thruout the,
state, but they are all dependent upon
the success of the farms.
Therefore one Is surprised to find a.
strong undercurrent for Fairbanks
which ~ reflected everywherectn Iowa,
Most OF this undoubtedly is due to- his
personal acquaintance Vice President
Fairbanks was In the state recently,
His speeches at Ames and at Des
Moines made him popular. His ca
pacity as "a mixer when he met the
people after his talks added to K his
personal popularity 1t is undeniable
that the vice president has hold In
Iowa which it would be difficult to
2dislodge:. III .i}
Secretary Taft does not seem to, be-
as we'll known here as he is In other
sections of the country. He is to speak,
in Iowa next month on some occasion,
I have forgotten what. The secretary
Of war, is more than likely to steal
away some OF the affeetion of the peofcs
pie. who are now distinctly for Roose--1s
Welt and, after him, for Fairba nks, be-
cause the vice president is supposed to-
represent the old time Mckinley idea
I, Locking Ahead.
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