Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-21
DEVELOPMENTS INDICATE IA.
TOILETTE WILL HAVE LIT.
TILE OPPOSITION.
HAVE NO ONE OF STRENGTH
FOR RACE AGAINST HIM
Ike Stephenson Refuses to Tap His
Barrel for Campaign sinews-Tafts
Winona Speech Contributed Strength
to La Toilette = Governor Davidson
and Others Out of the Race.
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
Washington, Oct. 21.-Reports to the
contrary notwithstanding, there is
concensus OF. opinion among Wiscon-
SIN people who have been in Washing
ton recently, that instead of having
hard fight for reelection. Robert Mar
ION LaFollette will be returned to the
senate with long margin of safety
in his favor
For, it is explained, the opposition
is thus far utterly hopeless in its
search for the man who can do the
business. You can't beat somebody
with nobody is an axiom OF very prac-
ucal<polltics which has never been bet
ter illustrated than in the present Wis
consln situation. There are plenty of
people who want to beat LaFollette
Some. of them are in Wisconsin, and
some'others, powerful high placed and
influential, are outside the state There
Is line wad of campaign funds ready
TO be dumped into the state to beat
the ponpadour statesman, whenever it
can be shown that the investment will
not be throwing lot of good money
after vast deal of bad that has gone
in that direction heretofore The peo-
pie who invest money in politics, how
ever, want results. They don't do it
from philanthropic motives 1t is quite
possible, according to recent advices
from the state. that next year may see
thoroughly tame and spiritless cam
palgn in the erstwhle war worn home
| of the badgers; for there is no chance
of real fight against LaFolette I'M
less somebody comes up with a fine
/ big Doodle
| They did hope for time that Uncle
Ike Stephenson would dip into his bar
rel and provide it, in order to be re-
venged against LaFollette-who first
made Stephenson senator. But the
canny old lumberman, with all his mill
lions, has no recollection of making
any money by recklessly throwing it
away. He spent quarter million or
more getting himself elected to the
senate last year, and admits it, II is
not at all impossible that he would
spend as much more to beat LaFollette
if he could be given a guarantee that
its expenditure would produce the de-
sired results. He isn't at all sure of
it. Last winter Stephenson was given
a vast deal of encouragement by en-
emies of LaFollette, especially in the
senate, who pressed upon the aged SEN
ator the assurance that 1t was patrio-
| tic duty to beat LaFollette at any cost.
1t perhaps wasn't a very heightened
sort of propaganda, but it was worked
all thru the tariff session. Stephenson
was urged that if he could force La
Toilette into retirement, it would be the
browning achievement of a great ca
reer, and would leave him, Stephenson,
the sole boss of the state. The fed
eral patronage has been so handled as
to justify the strong impression that
the administration is in full sympathy
with the effort of the senatorial ma
chine in Washington to be rid of La
Toilette.
But Stephenson has not been very
sure about beating LaF'ollette. More
over, the maneuvers of the Washing
ton authorities became generally un-
derstood in the state. and the old-time
insurgent disposition broke out anew
If the national administration was OH
the trail of LaFollette-why. well
show en- That is the growing WIS
) consin attitude The Winona speech,
of President Taft contributed a good
deal to strengthen LaFollette, because
the state is thoroughly impregnatet
with disaffection over the bill LaFol-
lette, too, has appealed vastly to state
, pride. The fact that a short time ag.
he stood alone in his opposition to the
senate powers. while today he has raj.
lied a strong and effective fighting
force TO his standard. has caused tn.
Wisconsin people to regard him as &
good deal bigger national factor thar
they used to realize Everybody in Wis
consin has been calling him Bob
since he was % years old, and to tho
: folks at home the realization has COM
slowly that Bob" is first-class ma
, tional factor The insurgent move
e movement of the last session did NOR.
than anything else ever did, to fore
this upon them.
!. Governor James H. Davidson was ac
counted a serious possibility agains
: LaFollette for the republican primar.
I race: but he is out of it. E.. A. Ed
monds. chairman of the republican
state central committee, looked goo
for time to the stalwarts; but whel
he came to Washington and secure
assurances that he would be allowe
: TO handle certain patronage that i
, other states goes to the senators, III
g revulson of feeling against such
I program was so strong that LaFollett
: has been vastly more helped than in
g inred by the evidence that he is in dis
y favor with the national authorities q
,. the party. And so of all the variou
u possibilities. There is no strong re
publican to pit against LaFollette, an
u 1t is certain that in case of need abou
' half the democrats in the state WI
y support him.
= Wherefore the prediction is now CON
- ing from the state, that there will b
= no very hot campaign. after ALL tina
- the opposition will "just fiat out" an
u LaFollette will have a walk over to re
nomination and reelection. 1t is
course too early to predict, but plent
Of speculation of this kind is going d
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