The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-01-07

So Hepburn will contest maybe.

f r.. ig the ,ndianoia Advocate-Tfihune:
So Hepburn will contest maybe.
1t has been our opinion that when a
man was elected to an Office he should
be permitted to serve for the time
elected and in this particular case our
good friend, Senator W. ID. JAMESON Of
Shenandoah, is the man elected and one
.sho should serve as congressman from
the Eighth congressional district of
Iowa, Notwithstanding the fact that
Col. Hepburn and his political aifinities
are now asking that a post mortem be
held.
Senator Jameson was elected ~
majority of $40 votes after one of the
most vigorously prosecuted contests
ever conducted in the state. The
Aquestion now is whether or not a re-
publican congress will permit him to
perform the duties which mej ,rity of
the people of the Eighth district have
nv their votes asked him to perform or
will they substitute a man who ran
9,000 votes behind his party in the
district?
The first guess most people would
make on the proposition would be adj
verse to Jameson as the membership
BIZ the lower house is so everlasting re-
publican that it is figured democrat
would stand about as much show there
as a SNOWFALL would in that place down
/ the other side of Texas. But this is a
ease that is not all one-sided dor at
least it was not one-sided affair dur
n ing the last campaign.
1t has long been an open secret that
a very bitter feeling existed between
Gov. Cummins and some of the Iowa
A = hi nj al
that Cnmmins would lose some of his
hest Des Moines support If he continued
II ke-warm to Hull and in order to make
good with his own faction it was SAID
that The governor would do things and
the result in the Eighth district is
\ r,ointed to by many as the handiwork of
q Cummjns. 1t is known that in
u flueptiaI progressives in the Eighth
district were lined up and working
4 over time, not exactly for Jameson, but
against Hepburn, and it SO happened
that Senator Jameson was the bene-
4 ticiary. There can be do doubt now but
what ninety per cent of the people of
the Eighth district are satisfied with
I the result-they are honest, and believe
that Jameson was fairly elected but
The votes of the people of the Eighth
district will not be heard in the contest
I it is carried to finish.
We have made the statement that the
contest during the campaign was not a
pne-sided affair. 1t was the standpatters
On one side arrayed against the demo,
Gratis with progressive republicans as
allies opposing. The aid of Gov. Cum
Minis was not open and above board, but
It counted just the same and resulted
ia the defeat of Col. Hepburn. The
work of Gov. Cummins was known to the
standpatters of the Eighth district dur
ING the campaign.
While it is true that the progressives
ted against Hepburn as much as they
bted for Jameson, it is now true that
he contest for Jamieson's seat in con-
gress is fight made by the standpat-
Eers against the progressives as much
hs it is fight of Hepburn against jamie
Yson. This being the case the result lies
largely with progressiyes whether
Jameson is to win or lose. Should the
progressive republican congressman
vote. with the democratic congressman
the chances for Senator Jameson would
1 he much brighter than if left to a
strict party vote. Gov. Cummins is now
IN the senate and will be reelected for
long term when the legislature