Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-15
Congressman From the Fourth
District to Be the Standpat-
ter's Candidate
BOOM HAS BEEN LAUNCHED
At Conference Of standpatters at
Charles City, Hausen Was Assured
Of the Solid Backing Of tho Faction
Canvass of Republican Legislative
Nominees Begun.
Special to Times-Republican

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Aug. 15.-Standpat
newspapers are urging that there be
no campaign started on the senator
ship till after election.
At Charles City Tuesday night
conference Of standpatters was held
with Congressman N. Haugen of the
Fourth district in which it was decid-
| ed that he should be candidate and
he was. assured that he would have the
solid standpat backing.
Since then W. s. Hart, Of Waukon,
who made partisan standpat speech
at the Waterloo convention and an
gered all the progressives, has begun
campaign for Haugen among the
members of the legislature to pledge
them for Haugen.
/ While Governor Cummins has been
busy by correspondence and otherwise
| in consulting all factions of the party
and was waiting for the conference OF
committees and republican editors to
4 advise Linn what course would be best
for the state and the party as to fill
| ing the office the standpatters have
started boom for Haugen of the
! Fourth congressional district. 1t is
known positively that conference was
held at Charles City Tuesday night
and that it was attended by James f.
Blythe of Mason City as the represen-
tative of his cousin, Joseph w. Blythe
of the Burlington railroad, by Anund-
son, the standpat presidential elector-
at-large, by W. s. Hart of Waukon,
L. H Henry of Charles City Press,
Harry ]. Greene of Decorah, Will Tur-
ner of New Hampton, the last stand
pat committeeman from the Fourth
congressional district, Congressman
Haugen and others.
Haugen refused to be used as
stool pigeon to get the vote of the
northeast part Of the state away from
Cummins so that Congressman Smith
of Lacey or some other standpatter
could win and was finally assured that
he would have the backing of the
standpatters of the state and If Lacey
or Smith are brought out they will be
the stool pigeons. On that understand
ing Haugen agreed to be a candidate.
Since then it is positively known that
a canvass of the republican nominees
to the legislature has been started in
behalf of Haugen. The intention is for
/ the standpat newspapers of the state to
| continually advocate that no action be
taken on senator till after the Noven1-
ber election The Des Moines Capital
yesterday evening has just such an
/ editorial and it has had others before
| 1t. 1t urged that none of the candi-
dates to the legislature be pledged till
after the November election. In the
meantime the campaign of Haugen is
launched secretly 1t is understood to
be the intention to quietly canvass the
nominees to the legislature without al
lowing the public to know of it. Con-
gressman Smiths friends will canvass
the members in the southwest section
of the state and Lacey's friends those
in the southeast section. Some other
candidate may be found in the north
west. If they cannot be pledged for
the Haugen candidate they will
be pledged for the local can
didate. BY the time the Mo-
vember election is held or before
that, the standpatters propose to have
| the election cinched for Haugen. If the
election is not cinched before election
they will know just which candidates
to slaughter at the polls in November,
to defeat Cummins.
| Meeting in Dubuque at the time Of
the Allison funeral Dan Glasser who
has always been a standpatter but a
reasonable one met ]. E. Blythe, Of
Mason City and suggested to him that
the best solution of the harmony prob
lem now was for everyone to support
Cummins. Blythe's answer was "Not
by damn sight I'd rather see Porter
elected" Adjutant General w. II.
Thrift was talking to CHASER at the
time Blythe approached them and
heard the remark.
| During the time when the republican
state committee was being organized
for the campaign the position of
chairman of the speakers bureau was
understood to be slated for Deavitt, of
Oskaloosa, of the Sixth district and it
was understood that he was to appoint
as the man in charge of the bureau
Merton b. Comstock who is private
secretary 10 congressman I1duSeH
The progressives controlled the COM
mittee and proposed to elect G. w. Ly-
ons. When the standpatters learned
that Lyons would get it eventually he
was offered the position provided he
would appoint Comstock. He refused
and when the committee met he was
elected chairman without any such
condition attached.
These are but indications of the gen.
eral purpose of the standpatters to de-
feat Cummins for senator at all costs
and elect Haugen if possible. The very
next day after the burial of Senator
Allison an unsigned communication
purporting to eminate from the
friends of Senator Allison" in which
! the old kind of attack on Governor