Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-23
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Lacey has been turned down by Mr..
j. T. Adams, the Dubuque man, who is
managing the campaign for Senator
William B. Allison. Major Lacey is
not disposed to take the slight that has
been given him with very good grace.
In the same boat with Major Lacey
are number of other prominent and
conspicuous standpatters, including
Julian Richards, who was the standpat
candidate for secretary of state in 1906
and later worked for the democratic
state central committee; LATE Young.
of Des Moines; James G. Berryhlll,
Charles HELEN and Ed H. Hunter.
MIR. Adams, it is alleged, is not
standpatter. The standpatters are op-
posed to Governor Cummins on every
proposition. The proposition now before
the people is that of United States
senator and they are opposed to him
for that. They favor Allison because
Allison is running against Cummins,
tho they recognize that Allison has
said some strong things in favor of
tariff revision.
1t is claimed, and with every show
of reason, that Mr.. Adams has started
in to manage the campaign for Sena-
tor Allison on the basis that this Is not
a fight between the standpatters and
fair between Allison and Cummins. He
proposes that Allison shall not have
to depend on the standpat vote of the
state exclusively for his denomination
and for that reason he has refused to
put Julian Richards in charge of the
literary bureau at Dubuque, has re-
fused to let Ed. Hunter in to handle
the money and has refused to let Lafc
Young and James G. Berryhill dictate
the campaign. He doesn't propose, In
other words, that the Allison candidacy
shall be identified with the old stand
pat machine that has been discredited
in every fight for some campaigns
back
Recently there has been a call for
speakers to go out and spell bind for
Allison. Cummins, Garst, Prouty,
Clarke and others are out over the
state telling them the progressive side
of the argument. The standpatters see
the ground slipping under their feet.
They sent a hurry up call to Adams to
get some speakers into the field. Adams
has replied that there are no speakers
and that he could no nothing till con-
gress adjourned so that Dolliver could
come out. 1t was given out that the
speeches that Dolliver would make and
probably one speech in the Auditorium
in Des Moines by Senator Burroughs,
of Michigan, would be all the speech
making there would be.
When Adams sent word back to Des
Moines that there were no speakers to
be had he stuck the knife into Major
Lacey and Lafe Young and turned 1t
around Here stood these two patriotic
gentlemen ready at any time to go on
the stump and help to secure stand
pat victory for Senator Allison at the
rate of s10O to 5000 a speech. Possibly
they could have been secured for $50
speech but any how they stood ready
and Adams of Dubuque sent word back
that there We're no speakers to be had
till congress adjourned.
During the late state convention
days some of the Allison n-standpat
crowd got together and did some
things without consulting Lafe Young.
Furthermore. the things they did were
not pleasing to l4afe Young, and he has
remembered it ever since. The other
day Adams came to Des Moines and a
conference of Allison's supporters was
held Major Lacey did not know of it
till after it was all over. He and
Charles HELEN took dinner together in
Des Moines few days after the con-
ference was held HELEN had not been
invited either They compared notes.
HELEN made an investigation to as
certain why Lacey was not there. 1t
was claimed an invitation had been
sent him, but Lacey never got it. and
has his own opinion whether or act II