Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-04
cumm,Ns DtFeAr...lTs IMPORT.

II c,nmmins has been defeated for the
tinted States senate by anywhere from
In 900 to 10000, which, while. close
1 margin in total of nearly 100000 re-
3ssnubhcan votes cast, is defeat as eff
fective for the purposes Of reaction as
i rho it were larger. 1t is severe blow
/ to the cause of reform and progress
4 siveness in our American politics and
4 most ungrateful return for an adj
rninistration which has never had an
I equal in Iowa by that Of any other
/ governor for its high ideals Of states
manship, its irreproachaJble integrity
4 and its actual accomplishments. Sena-
4 tor Allison, II he lives until next jan
\ nary. will receive the unanimous vote
1 of the republican members OF the leg
4 yislature, and he will be elected to an
4 other term in the senate to begin with
4 the session OF the fall Of 1909. Under
III human probability he will not live
4 70 take his seat or If he does he VIII
4 nor serve much Of his term. The net
J result Of the primary has therefore
been merely a defeat for Cummlns
II without doing much for continuation
az Senator Allison's service. When the
fine comes it will be discovered mat
4 Mr. Carroll has entered into a written
agreement never to appoint Cummins.
This is the price Of the antl-Cummlns
\ support given to him, and makes sure
/ that some kind Of q reactionary will
succeed Allison.
Rut disappointed as all men are VINO
believe that progressive policies have
meant the overthrow of the special In
terests from control Of our legislation
and administration, there is yet great
question whether the result can BE-
read az a total reaction. 1t is now
known that Good has defeated IreWln
for congressional nomination ana
Good is no reactionist. It looks as tho
FRANK Wood had defeated Conner in
the Tenth district and Wood has been
: leader among progressives. If Prouty
ran keep Hull from counting him OUT
| the progressive cause will have put IN
\ Office a leader with the strength OF an
other Cummins, and IL Nate Kendall
\ ever gets to congress there will be one
less reactionist.
Today,s returns still favor the sue
cess of these men and If it is true that
four progressives are to join Hubbard
and Haugen on Iowa's congressional
delegation, there Is not so much occa-
sion for weeping over reaction. There
viii not be SO many U. S. marshals,
attorneys, collectors, judges. and post
master-editors fighting the progress
siye movement as there has been IN
Iowa.
It Is true that the defeat OF their
leader when he had done so much to
merit the approval OF his people VIII
disorganize the forces Of progressive
ness. but the thing that beat him was
not reaction. It was his enemies.
There were too many daily newspapers
Undermined to destroy him. Beginning
with Mr.. Blythes newspaper in Bur-
lfnEton, which leads the discussion OF
its congressional district and passing
TN the river to Davenport, where Is
found the Times Of the Lee Syndicate
OF newspapers, in which powerful poll
ticians are interested, depression to OF
tumwa and Muscatine where this syn
dictate owns newspapers, then to Du-
buque where the republican daily has
always been Mr.. Allison's personal or
gan and Dubuque's postmaster; then to
Cedar Rapids where the republican
daily once had U. S. attorney, the
Cedar Rapids postoffice- and loan
from Judge Hubbard's bank, all In the
Family; then across to Des Moines
where the Capital, with its boosted
/ 40. 900 circulation, once supported Cum
! minis but afterwards preferred to serve
the American Protective Tariff League
then to Sioux City. where the editor OF
a great paper once supported Cummins
but was won over by Mr.. Blythe in a
nron,ise to deliver the anti Cummins
vote in Iowa to him for nomination;
then down to Council Bluffs, where the
only daily newspaper which once sup
ported C.ummns was won over by Mr..
Blythe when he made Ernest Hart ma
tfonal committeeman from Iowa: and
the cause of Cummins' defeat is 10.
Gated.
Here are the leading or leading re-
publican dailies in seven out of eleven
congressional districts and in all of the
large cities of the state, enlisted in the
/ fight to destroy Cummins. For years
they have been engaged in a campaign
sof personal abuse and misrepresenta-
t!on of Governor Cumrains, which no
man on earth could have survived. The
wonder is that he has been able to
| withstand their attack so long. The
only two large, republican dailles
/ which have stood by him have been
/ the REGISTER and Leader and the
/ Times Republican, newspapers owned