Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-26
HARMONY.

The conference has come and gone
The Kilkenny cats were there. bu!
somebody threw bootjack and
they adjourned their convention
Harmony reigned instead. According
to the latest Methodist Interpretation
as expounded by a no less noted di-
vine than Senator Dolliver, the text,
Love thine enemy" has become the
doctrine of necessity since it is the
only way we can get along with him.
There was disputation and disserta-
ton and backsliding, of course, but the
outcome was harmony and all eandi-
dates came away smiling Let us
have peace.
Some arrived loaded and prepared
and armed to deliberate, but Governor
,Cummins relieved them of the neces-
sity. Possessing the constitutional
duty and privilege of calling an extra
session of the legislature he notified
his, friends in advance of the con-
ference that he had decided TO call
the extra session and that the, de-
cision was. irrevocable. Thus stripped
of all further necessities, there was
nothing left to be done but to ratify.
.And,be it said to the everlasting credit
of the republican party, the ratifica
ton was made unanimous, practically.
Mr.. Bryan has been so notified.
Neither Senator Dolliver, nor Lacey,
nor Perkins, believed that the gov
ernor's decision was a wise one, but
they each acquiesced in lit with the
one proviso that the amended primary
be, so equipped with exclusion treaties
as to keep the democrats out forever
and forever. In this they We're app
proved by the governor who made it
eloquently clear that he wanted to
win nomination by republican votes
or not at all. Candidate Carroll could
see merit in a 100000 majority. Con-
gresham Smith admitted that the
governor had not asked for This adj
vice but he was for harmony. Cam
didate Kendall brought good cheer and
harmony in at a critical moment, and
Congressman Dawson expressed his
appreciation of harmony on the ground
that it was needed III the Second con-
gressional district. Attorney General
Byers then moved three cheers for
Hepburn, and Henderson, and Lacey,
and Cummins, too, and Chairman
FRANKIE moved to adjourn, carrying 1t
unanimously before anybody had a
chance to sit down again. LATE Young
had commanded, Let us have
peaee!n and there was peace.
The political situation is now up to
the special session Of the legislature
for its future protection. When the
candidates for the legislature con-
yened in the Hobbies in the morning
each discovered that they, one and
all, had already received identical in
vtations from solicitous acquaintances
to declare, each for himself, on the
senatorship. A panoramic view of
this situation had passed before the
governor some two weeks previous in
the form of about 1000 letters. To
accept or reject in each and every case
seemed to be about equally fatal. The
governors plan promised to provide
that replies be declared unnecessary
and it's popularity grew with close ac-
quaintance. 1t was adopted by cau-
Gus of congressional candidates held
in the forenoon. acquiesced in at a
caucus of non-llero worshiping repub-
licans at about noon, ratified by the
general conference after noon and
thoroughly endorsed by the state CEN
trail committee before evening.
Few such good days work We're ever
done for the republican party. 1t is
believed that all republicans will unite
in the legislature in amending the pri-
mary law, SO as to provide for re-
submission of the senatorial issue to a
vote of the people of the party Cum
Minis will either win the nomination
in such a manner as to make his cleo
ton by the republican members of the
next legislature unanimous or some
other man will win it upon the same
conditions The policy of proscrip-
ton will no longer invite reprisal.
There is harmony until somebody
spoils it again.
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