Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-20
This Time 4 4 Cummins oppon-
4 emit Comes Out in His
Support
ACCEPTS RESULT GRACEFULLY
Urges Anti cummins Element Of Party
"a, Get in Line-Torbert Figured ia
Allison cummins Campaign in Some
what Sensational Manner-Pleads
for Continuance Of Harmony.
snscial to Tlmes- Republican,.

the governor Is claimed to have denied
he was a candidate for the United
States senate, is now one of the gov
errors staunchest friends, and sup
porters. From a position of utmost
activity on the stump in opposition
to Cummins previous to the June
primaries, Mr.. Torbert counsels har-
mony and united republican support
for the governors candidacy for the
short and long terms In the United
States senate In a statement given
out yesterday, he says:
Exit discord and strife; enter har-
mony and peace Of the olden days
for the republican party in Iowa. in
every camp of republicans everywhere.
Today the republican party OF Iowa
/; has membership without affixes or
. sunixes. There are no Cummins or
/, anti Cummins republicans; no Lacey
/. or anti-Lacey republicans; no stand
patters, nor progressives-all simply
standfast republicans. Hereafter the
energies of the republican party will
not be devoted to one faction Of the
party against another, but all united in
a common purpose to clean up and tear
out the heresies and. vagaries of the
opponents of the republican party
whether the leader be Bryan or Hearst
or Debs or some undiscovered doc
trinaire.
contributory Causes.
ut may not be amiss to emphasize
that causes that have led up to this
beatitude for the republican party in
Iowa. All republicans will recognize
that the harmony conference in Des
Moines was potent factor; also the
converting by Governor Cummins Of
the special session Of the legislature
to amend the primary law so that re-
publicans might signify their pref
erence for the senatorial candidate
strictly within the republican lines and
whoever should have the majority of
republican votes for senator should
be the candidate Of the entire party
for senator.
aWhen the governor was dead-locked,
for the special session as the nominee
ASSOS3AAAs]N
graceful way in which he accepted the
situation as they must recognize the
wisdom Of Major Lacey shibboleth.
Let no harm come to the republican
party
'The canvass for the senatorship
thus proceeding without any acrimony
or bitterness in discussion was settled
emphatically by an overwhelming ma
jority for Governor Cummins am
sure Governor Cummins in the Water
loo convention commended himself to
every supporter of Senator Allison
when he declared substantially that
his successful rival in the June prf-
mary should have two things: First, a
republican Legislature, and second. the
vote Of every republican in the legis-
lature.
Opposition Should Yield.
at IS up to those who have been OPP
ponents Of Governor Cummins to
manifest the same spirit towards him,
now that he was the successful can.
didate in the November primary. Out
of this purpose determined in the har-
mony conference at Des Moines that
republicans should get together in
Iowa. we have these splendid results:
The great majority for the Taft cleo
tors, the election Of the entire state
ticket with Governor Carroll, whotwill
honor the great office to which he has
been elected, and in the contest it is
q pleasant feature that the standpat
and the progressive candidates received
q majority in the state not essentially
different, disclosing that all republi-
cans. whether standpatters or progress
sives, were loyal to the agreement and
purpose OF the harmony conference.
eve Increased our membership In
the Thirty third general assembly, we
elected congressman in ten districts.
The only fly in the ointment is the loss
Of Colonel Hepburn in the Eighth dis
trict. The loss to him is not so great
as It Is to the party in this state and
this country. The only consolation aris-
ing from his defeat is that the mys-
ferious stranger Of the Eighth district
will be q one termer. The Eighth dis
trict will redeem itself two years
hence.
1--WE have Dolliver and Cummins In
the senate, and Iowa senators will be
the peers Of any in the greatest les1s-
lative body in the world. If mistake
not the temper and purpose OF Iowa
republicans they will be their own sue
cessors. Harvey Ingham. LATE Young,
and George D. Perkins did fine work
for harmony in their great papers and
should have anything they want. We
are all for Major Lacey for land COM
missioner, or anything he desires. The
greatest Of these is harmony.
Real Monument for Allison.
1xyh oo Cit
New York Society of Iowa's Sons and
elsewhere that monument should be
erected in memory of Senator Allison
at Des Molnes and at the national cap
ital. This is we'll and should be to
memorabilia the great senator who did
SO much for his country and did 1t so
well. But as a leader of the republican
party in Iowa his distinguishing fea-
ture and characteristic was to smooth
the troubled waters and harmonic all
conflicting interests and individuals
and factions in the party. 1t has oc-
Cured to me that no towering shaft or
gilded dome would testify so much to
his great foresight and his single pur-
pose as to make the republicans in
Iowa not only solid phalanx against
their opponents, but to secure those
larger and greater achievements for
the party in the state and in the ma
ton which can only come from unity in
which there il strength and from calm