Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-06-24
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ReaCtionaries MiSrepreSent Poll
tics in Iowa and Wis
cOnSin. i
RESULTS IN HAWKEYE STATE
Interference of President Shows That
He Is Heading the Movement to
Eliminate ProgressiVes From
Councils of the Repub-
ican Party.

Washington-By misrepresentation
as to the outcome of the Iowa pr1-
maries and of the Importance of the
meeting in Wisconsin which, having
no convention standing under the
Wisconsin election laws, is dign1t1ed
by those who promoted it by the title
of a convention, the ReactiOnarles IN
the senate and the house hope to
gain some prestige with the country.
The cutting down of Carroll's ma
jority in the Iowa primary from $4,000
to less than 1000, and this after some
of the leading Progressives in the
state had pledged their support to
Carroll, who has made a pretty good
governor, the nomination of eight
Progressive congressman instead OF
six that were nominated two years
ago, cutting the districts in which the
Standpats controlled from five to
three, this is all minimized, and an
effort made to obscure it by the per-
sonal victory of Walter |. Smith.
The Progressive vote increased in
Iowa. 1t increased sufficiently to
change Hull's plurality of 40, two years
ago to upward of 5000 against him,
and Judge Proty carried every county
in the district now represented by
Captain Hull, one of Cannon's chief
lieutenants. In the face Of adverse
conditions SO far as the governor was
concerned, and of the lateness OF Mr..
Garst's entrance into the contest, the
Progressives almost wiped out Car
rolls plurality of two years ago, yet
these victories are being represented
to the country as Standpat and Re
dictionary victories.
1t has been persistently represented
in Washington that the Standpatters
will control the Iowa state convention
and that they will pass resolutions de-
nouncing Senators Cummins and Dol
liver for their course upon the tariff
and the railroad bill. The exact con-
trary is true according to the reports
of the outcome of the contest for del
egates to the convention which will
elect delegates to the state convention
and which have come to Senators Dol
liver and Cummins from their friends
throughout the state. According to
these reports the friends of the Iowa
senators will be in absolute control of
the Iowa state convention.
Sherman Was Deceived.
Weep President Sherman brought
back glowing reports to Washington
from Wisconsin, where he said he
found the Republican state conven-
ton to be a noble band of patriotic
Republicans, having a splendid brand
of Republicanism and being splendid,
loyal fellows whom it was a pleasure
to be among.
The so-called Republican conven-
ton in Wisconsin was representative
of nothing except of that element in
the Republican party which has
served, in that state, the interests of
the railroads and special privilege
during all the years that it has been
in politics, together with a handful of
dissatisfied and discarded politicians
who have, because of their failure to
crafty their personal ambitions be-
hind the La Toilette banner, deserted
it.
The interference of the president in
Wisconsin was as direct and more
than it was in Iowa. Vice-President
Sherman made this plain in the
speech at the meeting in Milwaukee,
when he said: Il was sent here by
Mr.. Taft because that man is inter
ested in Republicanism and in Repub.
licanism in Wisconsin this year" The
vice-president reported Immediately
to the president upon his return.
The dipping of the president into
the campaign in Iowa, the sending OF
his emissary, the vice-president, to
Wisconsin, and his promise that he
should go to Wisconsin later in per
son during the primary campaign in
August, is significant 1t shows he
is not only fighting for a renomina
ton. but that he intends to take the
field openly in behalf of forces OF
reaction and party platform repudia
ton. 1t might as well be understood
that there is a great movement Oh il
this country to eliminate from the
councils of the Republican party
every Progressive senator and con
gresham The president himself is
at the head of that movement
Attitude of the Progressives.
The Progressives have abandoned
hope of being able to enlist the presi
dent to fight for these policies in gov
eminent which would give the people
greater control for their government
and shape the laws in the interests O
the people, and not in the interests O
the railroads and other holders of spe
cial privilege. Those from the mid
die western states have no fear as t.
the ultimate outcome in their states
Misrepresentation of what happenet
in Iowa and of the sentiment of tn,
marty in Wisconsin can only have al
effect in states other than Iowa AM
Wisconsin.
The Progressive Republicans woult
rather have the president with then
than against them, but they woult
rather be right and serve in the in