Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-16
Much Amusement on Part of
Progressives Over Opposition
to Dolliyer's Nomination
MAKE DAMAGING ADMISSIONS
By Confession standpats Prove Charges
That Have Been Frequently Lodged
Against Them - Board Of Exam
iners to Meet and Classify Colleges
State Capital News.
pecial to Times-Repuplican.


Des Moines, June 16.-The conster-
nation of the standpatters over the
possible nomination of Dolliver for vice
president is furnishing an abundance
Of amusement for the progressives OF
Iowa. 1t is hard to say whether the
progressives are more amused at the
discomforture of the standpatters OF
the admissions Of the standpatters
that the progressives will not bolt bu!
that they, the standpatters, will.
AS understood here LATE Young
John F. Lacey and other standpatters
are telling the delegates to the national
convention that If Dolliver rs nominated
for vice president 1t will endanger the
legislature in Iowa. They are telling
these delegates that everything is all
right in Iowa now but that If an OPEN
ing is made for Cummins for the I'm
tied States senate there will be trouble
and the legislature will go democratic
This is horrible admission for them
to make, but it is just the situation
that the progressives have always pre-
dicted. With Allison nominated for the
senate and Carroll for governor, there
will be no bolt, for the progressives
will vote the ticket straight, say these
standpatters. But if Dolliver Is nominal
ed for the vice presidency and there is
probable vacancy in the senate which,
Cummins might slip into, the stand
patters will vote the democratic ticket
and elect democratic legislature,
sacrificing even Allison and allowing
the election Of two democratic United
States senators from this state rather
than allow Cummins to be elected sem
ator.
The Cummins men of Iowa have been
charging this for years. They have
been saying all along that the sole OBJ
ject of the standpatters in their cam
paigns in Iowa is the defeat of Cum
Minis, to pound Cummins into the
EARTH" as ]. w. Blythe put 1t on one
occasion. The standpatters have de-
MED it in every way possible and now
by all their actions and sayings In
Chicago they admit the whole thing. IL
is understood too that they are hint
ing that the ticket would not be so
strong in Iowa with Dolliver on 1t. IT
that line of argument is taken by
them, then they admit that Dolliver Is
weak man and admit all the charges
made against Dolliver. Certain 1t Is
that the friends Of Governor Cum
minis, having a desire to see him go to
the United States senate, are not going
to put anything in the road of Dolliver
being vice president. They can not be
accused of being so shortsighted to do
anything that would be against Cum
Minis going to the senate.
Information from number OF the
progressive republicans here makes 1t
very doubtful whether the progressives
are more rejoiced over the possibility
of Dolliver being vice president and
making a vacancy for Cummins or
over the corner into which LATE Young
and John F. Lacey and others have
been forced when they admit that they
will bolt and vote for the democratic
candidates for the legislature rather
than allow Cummins to go to the sem
ate. Undoubtedly the progressives in
the party campaigns yet to come will
use this situation against the stand
patters many times.
For the most part the prominent
republicans here can SEQ nothing In the
way of DolMver being nominated for
vice president Leaving out Of consid-
Grafton the state Of Iowa there is no
doubt but that Dolliver is good
speaker and he being popularity cred
tied over the country with being the
father of the rate law, whether he is
or not, his name on the ticket would
probably add strength TO it. Inside OF
Iowa he will not weaken the ticket
On the other hand if he Is nominated
it is believed by most Of the progress
sives that the possibility of his sue
cessor would not be of any interest In
the campaign till the next Legislature
meets. The parties have agreed to
the nominees for the legislature and
it is believed that Allison's influence
will be strong enough to keep any very
great number of the standpatters from
boiling the legislative ticket.
The state board Of educational ex-
anriners will meet Friday to take up
the matter of the classification of col
leges. Under the new law the board
classifies the colleges and the gradu-
ates of these colleges get certificates to
teach without examination. The better
and more thorough the college the
higher the grade of certificate. The
board has already classified the col
leges, having met for that purpose
after the legislature adjourned. The
meeting now is for the purpose of a
Reconsideration.
Educators say that this new law is
one of the best things for the colleges
of the state that the legislature has
ever done. Every college is now try
ing to raise the grade of its efficiency
so as to get the best certificate for its
graduates Otherwise the students will
seek the better colleges of the state
Already some of these colleges have
laid the matter before their trustees
and II means better equipment and
better paid professors and more thor
ough training.
The conference of the superintend-
ents of the state institutions met this
afternoon in the rooms of the board
of control at the state house and will
continue over tomorrow. The confer
ences are held quarterly Most of the
superintendent reached Des Moines
last night or this morning md they
have been in conference odrtsnallS