Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-13
THE IOWA sEMAToRsHIP.

possibilities and great responsibilities.
The opportunity is now here to unite
all forces, or to get still more divided.
Those who advocate some practical
plan for getting all wings of the party
working tremendously together for
the election of the whole Republican
ticket, national, state, district, county
and township are recognizing the pos
sibilities and those who advocate a
continuance of the internal conditions
that have governed for several years,
must assume great responsibility.
The Republican party of Iowa has
nominated its candidates for state,
congressional, county and township
Offices. 1t owes these candidates the
best efforts it can put forth for their
election. After they are elected then
the best service they can give is due
to the community from them, but as
the election comes first, the burden
of proof is yet on the party that nom
mated them.
There is no sense in trying to side
step the fact that the Republican
party in Iowa has been woefully toll
ing in It's own light. 1t has worked up
a factionaI separation within its own
house that has got to be recognized,
admitted and sensibly dealt with. It
has now gone far enough and this is
the time for the party to take this
matter up and dispose of it. 1t is fool
ishness to carry it on longer. Two
years ago, the Republican party dur
Ing the campaign presented ridicul-
Gus spectacle-both factions doing
sort Of a continuous stunt for the Dem
ocrats, who applauded and then went
around the corner and laughed at the
sorry plight the Republicans had got
ten into. In numerous counties where
Republican candidates should have
had big majorities, they were defeated.
Candidates who had given time and
money to the campaign were, In many
Instances innocent victims of the dis
gushing conditions within the party.
This is the time for serious thought.
1t is the time for Republicans to coun-
sci among themselves without outside
Interference from any other party The
results of the primary and future pos
sibi1ities must be diagnosed and de-
cisions made.
In the recent primary 100000 votes
were cast for the Republican candi-
dates for senator. OF these Senator
Allison received 100000 and Governor
Cummins $4,000. This is a very small
difference in that number of votes. 1t
shows that there were almost as many
people in Iowa who wanted Governor
Cummins to be the next senator as
there were who wanted Senator ALI
son to succeed himself There were
hundreds of men who voted for Sena-
tor Allison, who would have been for
Governor Cummins as against any
other candidate than the senior sena-
tor. This is especially true along the
Mississippi river. The great number
of voters who cast their ballot for
Governor Cummins should be given
consideration and this is the time to
do it, and there are thousands of Re
publicans in Iowa who are now anxi-
Gus to use this method as means of
uniting the party:
u -
There are many Republicans who
always opposed the nomination of Gov.
Cummins and who voted fo1 Senator
Allison at the primary, who now, TAX
ing into consideration the large vote
Gov. Cummins received for senator
and the obligation the party owes it's
candidates now nominated, believe
that Gov. Cunmins is the logical
candidate for United States senator,
and that his is the only name that
should come before the legislative
caucus of the Republicans at,the, COM
ing session of the Legislators. There
can be no effective candidate against
him and his election should be treat
ed by the Republicans of Iowa as a
foregone inclusion The Republicans
of Iowa should shoulder the RESPONSE
bility and make the legislatures part
of it simply a formality
AZ AT Waterloo, from the platform of
the convention hall Gov Cummins vol
unfairly made the statement that he
FIRST wanted a Republican legislature,
nd that when elected, he wanted ev-
try member of that legislature to cast
slis vote for Senator Allison for United
States senator In the same speech he
said that he would just as energetical-
" as he ever had in any campaign,
work for the success of the Republican
ticket from the first name On it to the