Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-04
HON FACTIONS GREW ! |
History Recalled 70
4 Emphasize Present Condi-
tons in Iowa .-
SPLIT ON TEMPLE.AMENDMENT

4 4 u arlan Allison Senatorial Fight
Marked Inception Of Strife Within
4 Republican Party and Railroad Leg
iaIation Brought Real crisis-Trewin
Fought Board Of Control.
Il Especial Washington Correspondence
H Washington, May AT the re-
y Quest of various Iowans your cores
II nondent has undertaken to set down
! few recollections of Iowa political
matters in recent years. with a view
II to enlightening somewhat the changes
which have taken place in the methods
Il and manners of politics in that state
since the beginnings of the movement
MINIS as its head. It is proposed In
some wise to recall the older condi''
ti0ns Of politics and to suggest where
In these. have been improved as new,
Ideas and new men have pressed to
the front; to indicate generally the
relationship of the new movement IN
lowe to similar movements in other
states; to show wherein Iowa has ben
cited by the substitution Of new
ideals; to narrate some bits of polit-
zeal history and point out their rela-i
tions one to another, and to the con-
test which is going on in the state,
today.
Such a task, however sincerely It
may be attempted, is difficult and
thankless in a time when opponents
may be surely counted upon to apply
the shorter and uglier word" to any
statement whose publication chances
Eet to serve their interest. However,
mo attempt will be made here to tell
much which has not been, within : az
few years past. widely known and!
.publfshed. tsIti will be rather an effort TO;
recall. and suggest the signifi canoe sc
Things which are not vet out Of he;
( minds s;of people who have been taking
Interest in modern time public affairs.
Fin Iowa. There is enough of this to-
serve amply the purpose of illunina-.
ltion and enlightenment OF present eent-s
Editions.
Juggling the Count.
Exactly where to begin such mar
/ ;;rative is difficult to decide 1t might
i, be possible to so back to the days Near.
forty years ago. when the grand old
81 man. Of Iowa, Harlan was defeated
.f for reelection to the senate, by a
campaign in which SANDER and per-
/. sona1 attack and character assassins-
sion served 50 well their part that
Z 3lle man who had been the friend and
Acounsellor of Lincoln, member Of the
cabinet first of Lincoln and afterward
11Tof Johnson, was retired from the SEN
n ate to make way for the young and
s-ambitious Allison. Or again, Jumping
lover period of two decades, it might
4 be started with the famous conven-l
ton in Des Moines in 1895 when James
Harlan was again candidate - this
time for governor; when the railroads
had determined that Drake should be
the nominee; and when, on the crit
4 ical ballot, when the count ought to
shave shown substantial gains for Har-
Ian, the convention was thrown into
disorder, the tellers got mixed in the
5s.count," and finally succeeded in am
noYncing to the convention bogus
1 result which denied to Harlan a large
share OF the gain he had made, gave
Drake more than he was entitled to,
and started the bandwagon movement
! that led to brakes nomination. That
was pretty illustration of the old
time method OF running convention
and getting the results that the rail-
Z road politicians wanted, without re-
gard to the wishes or even the ballots
of the delegates
IS Or, such series Of "reminiscences
might be dated from the convention at
Cedar Rapids, two years later, when
Parrot and Funk were the leading
candidates for the nomination for gov
ernor; when Parrot was first taken
up by the railroads, used to defeat
Funk, and then dropped while Shaw
was rushed to the nomination in order
that Hubbard might be assured OF con-
s Mutation In control Of the executive
council, and the railroads Guaranteed
Immunity from increase Of taxation.
Temple Amendment Line Up.
Again, the story Of the Temple 4
amendment might well be made the
i initiation of story OF modern times !
In Iowa. The Temple amendment Is
peculiarly a timely issue this year. OF
! tho tive candidates for governor, oneJt
I Mr.. Garst, was hard and-fast sup
porter Of the Temple amendment The
other. Mr.. Carroll, was its equally de-
Z termined opponent. Mr.. Trewin, now
a candidate for congress in the Fifth
district, was likewise a senator at that
time; and like Mr.. Carroll, he voted
against the Temple amendment. Dis
cussion OF the. Temple amendment Is
timely for the further reason that it
marked the first real schism between
! the republican factions It was the first
great moral issue, in this latter day
fight for and against railroad control;
and on 1t Albert B. Cummins, then a
private citizen and a practicing law
yer in Des Moines-railroad lawyer.
too, be 1t added-lined up with the
insurgents. He was the counsellor.
adviser and friend of the organizations
of railroad employees which made such
a splendid fight in the legislature to
have the amendment adopted. He took
issue squarely and fairly with the |
: bosses Hubbard. Blythe. Brady and
the rest--and when the amendment
was defeated in the legislature. made a
fight for 1t as delegate in the next
.