Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-14
Iowa Newspapers
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
POINTED WHEN REVERSED.

POINTED WHEN
Webster City Freeman-Tribune)
The nominee of the Chicago con-
vention must bear a certain tag or
he must expect to bite the dust. Such
is the spirit of the hour. 1t remains
to be seen how much longer the rank
and file of Iowa republicanism will
yield to the rule or ruin doctrine which
is now so rampant. 1t is high time
that some careful rejecting were be-
ing done.-Des Moines Capital.
This is respectfully referred to I'm
Gle George" Colonel LATE and Boiling
Dave, and other Iowa republicans who
aided in the contest to elect Porter.
They gave US a vivid Illustration of the
rule or ruin policy in 1906. But thanks
to the loyal republicans of the state,
they We're unable to accomplish their
purposes-they could neither rule nor
ruin, tho they rried to do both.
ARGUMENT FOR THE OTHER SIDE
(Sioux City JournaD
The Marshalltown Times-Republican
knows no more of square dealing in
politics than a hog Of pigeon wings on
ice. 1t has felt compelled to notice
the Allison organization at Dubuque.
1t says of the reputable men present:
1T would seem from their presence
that the blind of the Allison candidacy
is to be kept up for some weeks long
err; at least, until it can be definitely
decided who is the strongest man to
substitute in his place against Cum
Minis" This invention may be a bor-
rowing from headquarters in Des
Moines. 1t is intended to spread i'm
preston thai Allison is not a candi-
date in good faith-that there is a
niger in the woodpile, and that Curl
osity should keep its eye peeled for the
appearance of the colored gentleman.
Allison will not withdraw. There will
be no candidacy among his friends
against him while he lives. 1t would
be as easy to say Cummins' health is
not what it might be-; that Prouty is
an understudy, and that Prouty has a
promise of the mantle. The men who
are interesting themselves in Allison's
campaign-conscious that a campaign
in republican Iowa in Allison's behalf
ought not to be necessary-are not
hypocrites. They are in the open:
their stand is for the republican party
for Roosevelt, if you please, and for
Taft in all sincerity. They believe in
the republican party; they believe in
the honor of the record in association
with the party the senior senator has
They take faith from the con-
fidence he has established in his in
and wisdom wherever he is
known, and most of all where longest
he has served. The motion of the
country is to keep Allison; and the
true blue republicans Of his home state
second the motion out of the warmth
of their hearts. The Marshalltown
Times-Republican in it's own way tes-
titles to his greatness and the love of
a nation for this molder of party
policy and leader in statecraft. 1t does
this by indicating that with Allison
out of it the task in which it is en-
gagged would be easier. What it says
With chuckle and insinuation it says
out OF concealed opinion from the
breeding place of umo Why not
make a campaign in the open? Why
stand up for the spoils system and
crucifxion of all men daring to
appear in public without the tag? Why
undertake the ask of concrete
Illustration of superior virtue, con-
sistency of record, merit of service
trust in the people? Let the wedge
that has gloried itself in the strength
by which the party has been split
stand forth in its own shape, without
mask and free of the folds of loose
garment for the hiding Of appearances
suitable to the moment. Let it be
nan against man, record against rec
ord. the republican party against the
.ummins party. Allison needs no
oogv man. Is a bogy indispensable
TO the machine? .