Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-04
Endorsement ofSenatorBy State
Delegates Not in Keeping
With Situation
sENAToRsHIP NOT INVOLVED
Conventions Being Held Not Indica-
tive of Gains or Losses = standpat-
ters Working to Control First State
Convention = Senators Coming to
AIison's Aid.
specinl to Times-Repuplican

| Des Moines, March 1.-The hypo-
crisy of the standpat press OF Iowa IN
preaching against factional politics and
| lamcnting the division of the repub-
lcan party in Iowa was never more
| glaringly exposed than during the past
| few days in the columns of the leading
standpat newspapers and by the action
I of the standpatters in many counties
adopting resolutions endorsing Alli-
sons candidacy for the United States
senate at conventions called solely for
the purpose of selecting delegates to
the first state convention when dele
gates to the national convention Will be
selected and at which the senatorial
fight has no place.
In Sundays Burlington Hawkeye un-
der a two column heading. Allison
forces will control convention" in a
special dispatch from Dubuque, Alli-
sons home. is an article the first para
graph of which reads: Reports at
the Allison state headquarters taken
in connection with developments of this
week now closing, furnish abundant
basis for the belief that the Allison
forces will be in control of the state
convention to be held at Des Moines on
March Is"
1t will be remembered and should be
borne in mind that the state conven-
tton to be held in this city March III
is called for the sole purpose of Sc
lecting four delegates Large to the
national republican convention and II
would naturally seem that to inject the
senatorial fight into that convention
would at least not aid in securing har-
mony in the ranks of the republican
party in Iowa.
In the Des Moines Daily Capital of
this city, edited by LATE Young, who
recently caused laugh all over Iowa
by saying that he was defeated for
reelection to the state senate because
of his anti-corporation record, there
was published Monday a column and a
half article under the head: STEADY
Gains by Allison in Toga Fight" This
Erticle, tho unreliable, seeks to show
from the results of the county con-
ventions now being held over the state,
conventions which select delegates to
this first state convention where the
senatorial fight has no place, that Alli-
son is leading the race for United
States senator. 1t says: "The great in
roads made by the standpatters into
the ranks of the progressive faction of
the republican party of the state in
Saturdays conventions and caucuses
have caused no little CONSERVATION in
the progressive centers and is hailed by
the standpat Allison forces as wealth
er vane indicating the trend of political
sentiment in the state. The gain which
the Allison forces have made in pro-
gressive counties is notable"
Recently when the republicans Of
Webster county held their convention
The progressives were in complete con-
troll. This was the home of Senator
Dolliver and If there was anywhere
that the Cummins forces could have
adopted resolutions endorsing him with
telling effect it would have been in
Webster county. Progressive republic
cans who were delegates to that con-
vention were in communication that
day over the long distance telephone
with Governor Cummins and inquired
if they should adopt such resolutions.
He told them the senatorial fight had
no place in these first county conven-
tions which are concerned with the
question of a presidential candidate
only and advised that no resolutions
be offered. None We're offered and this
fact was hailed by standpatters as a
weakness in the Cummins ranks. 9th
er county conventions controlled abso-
lutely by the Cummins people have
been held and no Cummins resolutions
adopted with the exception of one pre-
cinct caucus in Des Moines.
On the other hand nearly every
county convention in standpat coun-
ty adopts ringing resolutions endorsing
the candidacy of VIM. b. Allison for
reelection to the United States senate
Such resolutions We're adopted at
Council Bluffs by Pottawattamie coun-
ty on February 25., This was in the
home of National Committeeman Ern-
est Hart, who wishes to be reelected
national committeeman. They were
adopted by the Fremont convention at
Sidney February %. The Madison
county convention held at Winterset,
February 90 pledged the republicans
of that county to work for the re-elec
ton of Senator Allison. The Union
county convention on February %
passed resolutions favoring the reelec-
tion Of Senator Allison. The Wayne
county convention adopted resolutions
favoring Allison on the same day. De-
hi, y,
same day.
The action of these county conven~
tions shows clearly the intention o.
the standpat Allison forces to carry the
fight into the first convention. mix 1t
up with the presidential fight and con-
fuse Iowa politics. The cunmins forces
have thus far steadily refused to en-
dorse Cummins in campaign that