Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-28
Delegation in Congress Must
Explain Attitude in Voting
With Democrats
CONFUSION FOR THE VOTERS
Campaign Before the Primary Likely
to Cause General Mix up = Mana
gers Devisins Plans to Avert Dsas-
ter to Party - Project for Extension
to National Capitol Grounds.

Especial Washington Correspondence.
Washington. May 2S.-Wisconsin is
beginning to be set down in the list
made by the political statisticians as
many western politicians place it
squarely alongside Indiana in this re-
even more dangerous, from the repub-
lican viewpoint, than Indiana.
A curious and unique situation pre-
walls in Wisconsin. In the first place,
the intra-state fractional fight of the
last ten years has weakened party
lines and loyalties as they have been
weakened nowhere else. This is con-
sidered certain to have some effect on
the national result. Wisconsin has be-
come a distinctly radical community.
1t is for the things La Toilette has
popularized with its people. If the re-
pubicans are placed distinctly in the
position of being the conservative par
ty, with the conservative candidates,
Wisconsin will be in much the posi-
ton which Kansas occupied in other
years, when the issue was between
conservative and radical programs.
But this is not the reason which APP
peals to politicians. During the ses-
sion now coming to its close most Of
No I,iin t,t, fro,
Wisconsin have been insurgents;
they have voted much of the time with
the democrats. They opposed ship
subsidy, and turned up a strong oppo-
sition to the currency legislation. They
have repeatedly stood with the dem
ocrats and the little insurgent repub-
lican minority.
Now, Wisconsin has a popular pri-
mary law for making nominations.
The statewide primary is held in Sep
TENDER. The campaign for nominal
tons is now afoot in the state. AS
soon as they are done with the con-
gressional session, these insurgent
Wisconsin republicans must go out
home and defend themselves before
their constituents. Most of them will
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doing so will have to defend themselves
for voting with the democrats To
defend themselves they will have to
declare that the democrats were right
and the republicans wrong; and by the
time they have spent two months edu-
eating the people to understand that
proposals in congress were
right, they will have to turn around
and run, for the election in Novem-
Der, on republican platform, and get
busy with assurances that, while a
patriot may have had in the siXtieth
congress to vote with the democrats in
order 70 serve his people, he will have
to stand with the democrats in the
congress.
1t has been suggested that this sys-
tenn is likely to cause some difficulty
in the public mind The public, which
gets educated to think the democrats
were right, is liable to be unwilling to
change it's mind and take the other
side of the case after the nominations
are made.
Contemplation of these things Is
giving worry about Wisconsin, and re-
publican campaign managers are quiz
city laying plans for devoting special
attention to that state. The feeling is
that republicans need magnificent
organizer at the head of their cam
paign this year; less oratory and fire.
works, and more organization, than
in 1896 or any other campaign since.
-
The project for magnificent extern
sion of the capitol grounds, to the
north and northeast from the present
limits, so as to take in some SO acres
Of additional territory, has received a
long lift at this session toward ulti-
mate realization. 1t is firmly believed
by the men who have long been work.
ing to secure this extension, that in
few years at most it will be made pos
sible to carry out the project.
One feature Of the development
as is we'll known, is to build a
to Lincoln which shall be
one Of the worlds greatest monu-
as great and striking in its way
as the Washington monument, or the
tomb of the Invalides in Paris.
But beyond this, and beyond the
project of greatly extending the Capt.
toll Hill park, it is in mind to erect
another wonderful building, for the SUI
preme court, which shall be the equal
in beauty and splendor Of the Library
Of Congress. The latter, universally
conceded to be the most beautiful
building in the new world, and by
many called the most magnificent Of
confection of strictly