Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-05

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senator they beat him as they beat
Garst with Carroll, and all the
other progressionists nominees save
one. They had finally triumphed
Cummins was down and out. !
"Cummins men" had been defeated
all along the line. The progressive
movement in the Iowa republican
party had been stopped. The rail
roads had come again into thei,
own, the federal pap suckers were
licking their lips in anticipation of
reappointment, and the special
grafters beheld early realization Of
their plans.
When the vice-presidency was
offered Dolliver, he declined it. AL
lison refused Roosevelt's request to
intercede with the standpatters to
support Dolliver, and the standpat-
ters fought the su digestion of Dol
liver because his election would
mean opening of the way to Cum.
minis to go to the United States SEN
ate. "Dolliver's nomination" Stand
patter Hart, nationalscommitteeman
declared, would produce anarchy
in Iowa." 1t is difficult to measure
the desperate hate of a man who
would make such a statement.
SO it has come to pass that the
railroads, the federal pap suckers
and the special grafters have all
lines set to control the state legisla-
ture and to get all the offices. ALI
son and Dolliver are their own; a
majority Of the states delegation in
congress are their own; the nomi-
nees for state Offices from governor
on down (save one) are their own.
If TAFT and Carroll shall be- elected,
they will get all the patronage, the
iprogressives nothing; and have
nothing to subsist upon the pro-
gressive organization will 20. to
pieces.
But there are factors yet to be
considered in the equation, and
these are the votes of Iowa's pro-
gressive republicans. Will these
be cast in November for what they
have been for seven years cast
against-railroad control of Iowa?
Will these be cast to put into
state offic .s the chosen representa-.
tives of the 10000 and more alleged
republicans who voted against Cum
Minis?
Will these be cast to give the
standpatters control not only of the
federal patronage, but the state
patronage as well?
Will these be cast for Taft, whose
manager openly sought to embarass
Gov. Cummins in his campaign for
the senate?
Will these be cast to make reac-
ton. not progress the creed of Iowa2
In Fred E. White, the democratic
party offers for governor sterling
farmer, with experience in the ma
tional congress, and beyond ques-
ton one of the ablest and sincerest
advocate Of governments of the peo-
pie, by the people, and for the peo-
pie.
In Claude R. Porter, the demo-
cratic party offers for senator q man
tried and found true, and whose
record on the issue of Popular Rule
". Corporate Rule is as the record
of Albert B. Cummins.
The democratic party in Iowa and
the nation is in no alliance with and
offers no comfort to the corrupting
forces in our national life.
1t is for the progressive republi-
cans of Iowa to consider we'll these
truths: Shat Whites election as
governor will mean that for two
years more the affairs of Iowa will
be administered in the interests of
the people of Iowa, and that the
election of Claude r. Porter will
mean that the state will be repre-
sented in the senate by an aggres-
sive fighter for the right, not an
habitual compromiser with the
wrong.
Moreover, the defeat of Carol
and the election Of White will mean
that the standpatters will be de-
prived of scores of state appointiye
Offices, and the defeat of Allison and
Taft will mean that they will be
thrown out of hundreds of federal
appointive Offices.
That democrats will get these
offices means at best they can hope
to have them only short time as
elections 60 in Iowa. Their occu-
pancy of them keeps standpat re.
publicans out of them, keeps the
standpatters out of the fruits Of
their latest victory, and insures a
more nearly equal battle when the
next two factions struggle for con-
troll of the party.
More than 10000 standpatters
voted against Cummins for govern
or.
And Cummins, let it be remem.
bered, would have been beaten but
for the votes Of democrats demo.