Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-18
Not improbable That Extra Ses.
sion Will Be Convened to
Amend Primary Law
ELECT SENATOR IN NOVEMBER
Plan Being Considered Whereby Ali
son Vacancy Can Be Filled Without
DeIay-RadicaI Standpat Element
Seems Determined to Continue the
Fight Against Governor cummins.
Special to Times-Republlcan.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Aug. 1S.-Congressman
Hull is reported to be telling the peo-
pie at Washington, d. c., that there
will be fight against Governor Cum
Minis down to the day of election and
after that to the legislature. Like
many other congressman Mr.. Hull lives
the greater part of the time in WASH
.ington. He has purchased a large
farm across the Potomac river in Vir-
ginia and it is more convenient to live
there than to live in this city, where he
claims his official residence.
Mr.. Hull is counted as an unqualified
standpatter and what he says in Wash
ington on the senatorial fight is there
fore of considerable interest He is
quoted quite extensively in the Wash
ington Herald of Aug. IA. as follows:
There is no longer any doubt in the
minds of politicians here that the Cum
minis and anti -Cummins factional
fight in the republican party of Iowa
Is SOluS lOlWdIu Nllll dll llS dllClCIlL
bitterness. The victory which Senator
Allison achieved in the primaries seems
to have quelled it for time. but his
death has re-opened it in all it's heat,
and the enemies of Governor Cummins
are determined, apparently, that he
shall not profit.
Representative Hull, who arrived
here yesterday, declared that the fight
would be carried to the polls in No
vember, and then to the legislature,
and he said further that he had warned
William II. Taft that he must keep his
hands out of the struggle between the
fractions, or the national ticket was
likely to suffer
81 have written Secretary Taft,
strongly advising him not to mix up
in the Iowa situation said Mr.. Hull,
I have assured him of my belief that
Intervention on his part could accom-
plish nothing unless it would be the
injury of the national ticket, for the
faction that he did not favor in the
struggle would turn on him.
"Mr. Hull intimated that the anti
Cummins republicans were determined
to rid the state of Cummins at any
cost The death of Senator Allison has
intensified the resentment of the
friends of the departed leader against
Cummins. The Allison men insist that
the fight forced, on Allison by Cum
Minis really fastened his DEATH"
The situation as to the United States
senatorship is now pretty clearly de-
fined. 1t is very evident from what
some of the more important standpat
newspapers and the leading standpat
men such as Congressman Hull are
saying that their campaigns are merely
for the purpose of driving Cummins
out of the party, and they propose to
keep it up till that is done. 1t is very
evident, too, from what other standpat
papers and other standpat leaders are
saying that they do not propose to be
parties to any such campaign and are
willing to concede that when man
has been three times elected governor
of Iowa as republican he is pretty
we'll entitled to membership in the
party These are willing to talk har-
mony on a basis that one republican
is as good as another. The friends of
Governor Cummins are willing to meet
this sort of harmony. They say they
are confident that now that Allison
has gone to his reward a majority of
the republicans favor Governor Cum
minis for senator and they are willing
to submit the matter to the people in
any just way.
Following out this idea there seems
to be continued growth of sentiment
in favor of an extra session of the leg
islature to amend the law so that the
the question can be submitted to the
people at the November election. If
that action is taken it will then be i'm
possible for any candidate to secretly
conduct a campaign among the nomi-
nees to the legislature and the legis-
lative nominees will be relieved of the
burden They can then be elected with.
out pledges being demanded of them.
Governor Cummins has thus far given
no Indication of what he will do in the
matter but it is believed that he will
act soon.
Information from some of the stand
pat newspapers discloses that they are
still included on the lists of those
| willing to publish democratic matter
sent out by the plate houses. The
Adel News, edited by Hitchkiss, stated
last week that it had received a let
ter from plate house Offering to
furnish free democratic plate matter
from the national democratic commit
| tee. The News refuses this year to
run the matter.
This is an aftermath of the fam
Gus campaign of 1906, when standpat
| newspapers in large numbers used the
democratic plate matter sent them
free from the plate houses. The plate
houses of course class the party af-
fliations of a newspaper. in accord
ance with the kind OF plate matter
that it last used. 1t is understood
! that there is quite a revision of the
lists going on this year. and large
number of newspapers are endeavortng
| to get straight with the republican ma