Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-22
Agricultural Department Sc
cures Relic of Frontier Days
For Night Attraction
pRoeREss,vEs CAN'T FORGET
Rereadins the Evidence Showing the
Party in Iowa Was Misrepresented
by standpat Delegates to Chicago
Convention = Represented Blythe,
Not the State.
Special to Times-Republican.

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Des Moines, June 22.--John C. Simp-
son, secretary of the department OF
agriculture, is arranging to give the
people who attend the night show In
the stock pavilion this year glimpse
of real western life Of the prairie
schooner days. The historical de-
partment has recently come into pos
session OF one of the old prairie
schooners Of the Conestoga type. II
is a wagon that has seen much hard
service of the pioneer days.
As one Of the features of the night
attraction this wagon with team OF
oxen to pull 1t will be brought into the
arena Of the stock pavilion. 1t will
be manned by a group of men and
women dressed like the pioneers. As
the wagon enters the arena the lights
will be turned low and the occupants
Of the wagon will alight and arrange
their camp for the night, just as the
early pioneers travelling across the
prairies of Iowa did some fifty years
ago. After the camp fires are lighted
and supper served the lights will be
turned on again and the campers will
break camp and continue their march
1T will be one of the features of the
horse show and vaudeville attraction
that will assist members of the present
generation to get a realization of the
actual conditions of frontier life and
in a measure of what the pioneers
faced when they first entered the state.
The prairie schooner in itself is a
whole show. The wheels are about
ten feet in diameter and the wagon is
an immense load, and to go over all
only in museums.
James Sherman. the republican
nominee for vice president, is one OF
the republican members on the rules
committee of the house. A recent
"whos Who" article in the Saturday
Evening Post had quite discussion
of Sherman. Speaker Cannon and
Representative Dalzell are the other
two republican members on the COM
mittee, and the democrats have two
members on the committee consisting
of John Sharp Williams and one
other.
Now that the rush of the Chicago
convention is over with, progressive
republicans are inclined to go back
and reread just what Ernest Hart,
Lafe Young, George d. Perkins and
others said while they were in Chi
cago. Conspicuous among the sayings
and part of the record in the con-
vention is the telegram from National
Committeeman Ernest e. Hart which
was sent to Taft and which was as
follows:
"Please discourage talk of Dolliver.
1t means practical anarchy in Iowa and
almost certainly a democratic legisla-
ture. You can't afford to upset a strong
republican state.'
John F. Lacey in an authorized in
terview in Chicago said, speaking of
the outcome if Dolliver should be NOM
mated: 1.-THE upshot of this situation
will be democratic legislature and it
takes only twenty-five votes to change
the political complexion of that body"
The Associated Press is generally
considered accurate. 1t quoted Leslie
M. Shaw, one of the prominent IoWans
not mentioned for the vice presidency,
as saying to Senator Lodge: "You don't
want another La Toilette in the senate
do you? Well then, don't open the way
for sending Cumnins to the senate
as you will do if you cause Dolliver to
vacate his seat there"
1t will be remembered that 1t was
the Associated Press that carried the
news from Washington that either Dol
liver or Cummins would be satisfactory
for vice president. The same Associ-
ated Press quoted Perkins and Lafe
Young as predicting a democratic leg
islature in the event Of Delivers elec-
ton as vice president.
The quotations are important and in
teresting only as they show that the
move of Perkins, Lacey and Lafe
Young was not one in the interests OF
the party but one solely as the emissar-
ries of Blythe in a campaign OF exter-
mination against Governor Cummins. 1t
was stated in the meeting of the Iowa
delegation authoritatively that the
president and Taft preferred Dolliver
or cummins, either one. The standpat-
ters it will be remembered have fire.
auently claimed to be the real dyed in
the wool Roosevelt people in Iowa. Yet
they were disinclined to follow the
presidents lead in this instance.
The disclosure of the hand Of the
ringleaders of the standpatters that
their campaign is to be one of exter-
mination will not be forgotten soon by
the progressives.
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