Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-06
Hoped For Standpat Defeat So
That Reservation Would
Bolt Nominees
pRoeREsslvEs FOR THE TICKET
Democrats Abandon Hope of Electns
Porter Senator and White Governor
Executive CounciI Will be Stand
pat After Next Jsnuary--Ssate Fair
Features.
to Times s-Republican.

Special to Times Republican
Des Moines, June 6.-Publicly the
democrats are preparing to say that
they expect large accessions from the
republican ranks next November AMI
that they expect that Fred White will
be elected governor and William j.
Bryan will be elected president Pri-
vately they confess that the nominal
4 ton of Allison Is a disappointment to
them. They know by experience that
the standpatters are easy boilers. They
received 10000 standpat votes for Por-
ter in 1906. Their disappointment Is
an admission that the progressives are
better republicans than the standpat-
ters. In this same connection poiti-
clans are taking considerable note OF
/ the fact that tho they won the stand
pat newspapers are demanding the re-
| peal of the primary election law and
tho the progressives lost the governor
ship they demand that the law shall
remain.
! the democrats in the campaign soon
/ to open. That is the literature fur
nished them by the standpatters dur
Ing the campaign that has just closed.
] They propose to make much of the
| condition of the state treasury based
1 on the claims of the standpatters who
are to be the chief candidates on the
republican state ticket. Had Cummins
! been the nominee of the republicans
| for senator and Garst for governor
they would have counted on at least
10000 republican votes. and it being
a presidential year they might have
received very much more.
! Had CumminS been the nominee they
counted on electing a number of dem
ocrats to the legislature in addition
to those already there and with the
aid of standpat votes in the legislature
would have elected Claude r. Porter
| for United States senator for the reas-
on that the corporate interests of the
country care little for the preservation
of parties. Progressive republicans who
are in the fight for principle will turn
in and vote for all the republican ca
didates for the legislature for fear of
/ placed upon the statue books. The
placed upon the statuate books. The
cry of the standpat press for the re-
peal of the primary election law is
| taken by the progressives as warm
irn of ,lot will hoO %o
worthy laws recently enacted if the
standpatters gain control.
On second thought progressives are
looking at the matter philosophically
and while they recognize that the
standpatters have captured the execu-
tive council, which makes the railroad
assessments, they are congratulating
themselves on making a break in the
solid standpat congressional delega-
ton.
If Carroll and Bleakley are elected in
November as they probably will be The
executive council will be standpat for
at least four years, provided of course,
that the republicans of the state do not
break down the precedent of addi-
tional terms for the state officials. Fol-
lowing the precedents of past years
there would be no change for at least
four years, when three of the members
of the council would be changed-the
governor, auditor and secretary of
state.
One of the features of the Iowa state
fair this year will be a large exhibit
from the Iowa State Agricultural col
lege. The old seeretary's building which
stands just west of the agricultural
hall has been turned over to the col
lege and it will put in one of the most
complete exhibits any educational in
stitution ever devised 1t is quite pos
sible also that the college will have on
exhibition in the stock barns the fine
blooded horses that are being used in
the development Of new breed of
draft horses.
The new administration building on
the fair grounds will stand west of the
old secretary's office and will be just
south Of the entrance to the amphi
theater. This building is now nearing
completion and 1t will contain all the
offices and all the business will be done
from it, In the course of time 1t Is in
tended to have a plaza extend south
from the administration building. All
the little old office buildings that stood
along the west side OF the street just
west of the stock pavilion and agri-
cultural hall have been removed. The
smaller ones have been taken up on top
of the hill and are to be rented to
persons who wish to stay on the
grounds during the fair week.
A Philippine student at the State
Agricultural college at Ames has cap
tured the prize offered by the Sons of
the American Revolution for the high
est efficiency in the study Of American
history The prizes was presented to
the Filipino at the commencement ex-
ercises by Col. James Rush Lincoln,
who is president of the Sons OF Amer
lean Revolution