Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-09-02
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Champ Clark Enthusiastic.
Champ Clark, who has been trav.
cling the Chautauqua circuit for sew
eral weeks, reports growing strength
for Bryan in all the western and par
ucularly the agricultural states. MIR.
Clark is particularly enthusiastic
about the outlook for democratic sue.
cess in Iowa. The feud between the
feformers and the standpatters there,
he said, has not been in the slight
est degree allayed by the death of
Senator Allison.
There is feeling among the old
time friends and adherents of the
dead statesman that Gov Cummins
showed undue haste in announcing
himself as candidate for the toga
laid aside by death. There is an
equally bitter resentment on the part
Of that element OF the republican par
ty of Iowa which calls itself the re-
formers against the fight that was
made by Allison and his friends up
on Cummins and his adherents.
believe that the chances of
carrying Iowa for the democratic ma
tional ticket are excellent, but that
when it comes to election of a leg
islature and a democratic United
States senator. our success is al
most certain.
Sees Republican Dissension.
All in all, this campaign on either
side has hardly opened. observe
that my friend, Mr.. Frank Hitchcock.
chairman of the republican national|
committee, has smoothed out his af.
fairs with that rotund and amiable
Elmer Dover.
1t is apparent that Mr.. vorys has
accepted the inevitable and succumb-
ed to subordinate assignment. AS forI
Harry New, he is apparently much
out of evidence, though as a ploiti-
clan able to do things when out of
office and possessing no patronage,
lie made record which at least to
my mind seems exceedingly credi.
table.
And yet, with all the apparent iron.
Ing out, as Browning would say, of
the crinkles until the fabric might
lie smooth, it does not appear to-
me as an observer that all is sol
in the republican organiza-
'odoq lq5!m sLaquIom slI So uoIl
One would imagine that Secretary
Taft. who has just been denounced
for cruelty to animals for riding a |
horse, might be able to smooth out
most anything.
But thus far there is little indica-
lion that the clash of clans in Ohio,
the feud of Forakers and of La Fol.
lettes, are at all nearer settlement
than they were when congress ad-
]ourned or when the republican ma
tional convention ended it's inde-
pendent and untrammeled labors.
No democrat boasts too much about
party harmony. We frankly fight
among ourselves but usually in the
end, unless some vital issue is in
volved, get together. But the repub-
llcan party. always boasting of it's
harmony, is wholly unable to harm
onize the position of Gov. Cummins
in lnwa with that of Senator Lodgel
in Massachusetts, the position of La
Toilette in Wisconsin with that of
Fairbanks in Indiana, the attitude OIL
Senator Crane of Massachusetts with
that of the retiring president, and
yet it declares itself united and har
organization, marching for.
ward to carry to victory man whom
nobody in the convention wanted.
but whom practically everybody in
the convention voted for.
Says Taft Amends Platform,
And, by the way, was Interested
to notice in picking up back num-
ber of weekly magazine to find
that Mr. Taft in describing his CON
ception of the presidency. used thel
phrase that the man who was can
didate for this high office stood on a
platform adopted by his party associ-
ates which he believed would COM
mend him most thoroughly to the
favor of the voters of the country.
1t has been nearly one month since
the republican platfrom was adopted,
and in every speech and every letter