Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-09
HAS EARNED RIGHT TO BE SENATOR.

headquarters and perfect an organiza
tion for the senatorial campaign should
be followed by the friends of the pro-
gressive cause in every county What
volunteers. There is no money for
Cummins' work in this campaign, and
the candidate himself is at work in the
service of the party committee, speak
ing for the whole ticket in this and
other states. On the other hand there
seems to be much of the machinery
used in the Allison campaign available
for use in boosting Lacey and the Cir
culation of literature in 100000 lots
does not seem to be prohihitive.
Progressives in northern lowe should
study the returns of the June primary
and realize that enough of them staid
ait home then to lose the election. They
should then organize county campaign
gressive vote is registered on the sem
atorial issue. Republicans this time
must sign printed application blanks
requesting the special senatorial pri-
mary ballot and 1t will require no little
education and organized effort to get
all the voters to vote on senator.
II ever Governor Cummins was en-
Titled TO the support of his friends and
of the republican party, 1t is at the pri-
mary this year. He was Defeated tor
United States senator once by very
marrow margin in Legislative contest
and the aged Gear was elected solely
to beat Cummiils. His mental and
physical faculties We're failing at the
time and he died before he could enter
upon the term to which he had been
elected The defeat Of the progressive
candidate had been accomplished, how
ever, for the men who had elected Gear
were able to control the appointment
to the vacancy caused by his death.
Cuanmills was then national commit
te1eraan from Iowa AMID had done val
liant service for the party i'm the Nc
Kinley campaign. The men who had
defeated him for the senate sought to
a,umiliate him by electing another to
his place on the national committee,
but the voters of the party made MIN
governor. His record aug chief execu-
tive of Iowa has been SO conspicuous
for integrity and ability and actual ac-
complishment of great reforms that he
gained a national reputation. No iowa
| man has ever done more in public Of
| flee to gain the everlasting gratitude OF
his party or the plaudits of a peo-
pile.
When 1t came time to elect another
senator and Senator Allison at very
| old age. had so declined in physical
and mental powers as to be entirely
| fncapaeitated for further public sery-
| ice, Governor Cumanins sought the
nomination of this party for the sue
cession For this he was maligned
and abused and defeated by giving thu
! nomination to a man who in his SICK
room was probably unaware on pri-
mary day that an election had been
given to him and he died two months
afterwards.
4 Under all rules OF moral equity the
party nomination should then have
been offered to Cunnnins unanimously
4 burt a fight was threatened at a time
when it meant certain destruction to
/ the republican panty i'm this state. I'he1
! if was that Governor Cummins braved
public criticism and called an extra
4 session of the legislature to institute
a special primary for the purpose OF
settling the senatorial issue by popu-
i lar vote and thereby relieve all Other
| party candidates from fractional in
Jury. The majority of the republican
membership of, this Legislature was
composed of the governors politica
/ friends and they sought to honor hin
with an election to the brief unexpiret
term, as 1T was the legal duty of thai
Legislature ito elect somebody. Here
| Cum1nins was defeated by a numbet
4 Of republicans refusing to he bound by
la parity caucus and the whole con
trpversy has gone to the special pri.
mary for settlement.
Here we have clean man, an abb
governor a national figure in repub
liean politics. man who can SHOW
/ more, actual accom- lishment While II
1 public office rllan any statesman low
can command today. Offering his seaN
/ Ices as United Staites senator a a lIn'
when 1t has been proved tnat allothef
D state has given one of it's seats TO tn
paid ATTORNEY of the Standard Oh
monopoly Governor C,lmmins can AM
did earn in private practice twice tn
income of an United States senator
he has demonstrated to the people o
Iowa that he can and does repre- SEN