Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-10
NEXT GREAT TEST OF POLITICAL
STRENGTH WILL BE IN
WISCONSIN.
INSURGENTS AND REGULARS
TRY CONCLUSIONS AT POLLS
LaFollette Declares He Will Accept
Results Of Primary as Final-Resu-
lars If Defeated May Garry Contest
to Legisiature-Burke, Of South Da-
kota, as Presidential Possibility.
Especial Correspondence

great test of strength between the reg
ulars and insurgents in the republican
party will be in Wisconsin. There,
the war is on over the question of
whether Senator LaF'ollette shall be re-
turned to the senate.
Primaries will be held Sept. in
Wisconsin to settle the question Of the
senatorship. In the meantime. a speak
ing campaign of great activity and bit
terness will be carried on. This cam
paign has already begun. Senator La
Toilette has already made some
speeches and will cover the state by
automobile. On the other hand. his
opponents are working desperately to
accomplish his political determination.
S. A. Cook, a millionaire manufacturer,
of Neenah, is the senatorial candidate
of the regulars against LaFollette.
LaFollette has given 1t out that II he
IS beaten in the primaries he will ac-
cept that as final defeat. He will not
carry the fight into the legislature.
This is looked on here as indicating
that LaFollette is confident OF winning
at the primary. The reports reaching
here as to the situation are that the
opponents OIL Lar gillette Will
not be able to defeat him in the pri-
maries.
The LaFollette forces believe that
his opponents plan. If the senator is
successful in the primaries, to carry
the fight into the legislature and win
out there. Ii is declared by the La
Toilette men that no means will be
spared to defeat him In the legislature
and that large sums Will be expended
to accomplish this purpose. They think
that II Cook is beaten in the primaries,
the regulars will center on some other
man whom they will support for the
senate in the legislature.
It Is learned that the LaFollette men
in Wisconsin are much encouraged by
the results of the Kansas primaries
and by the control of the Iowa conven-
ton by the insurgents. They think
that the insurgent wave which has
shown Itself strong in Kansas and
Iowa is powerful In Wisconsin and will
carry LaFolette thru to a senatorial
victory.
The defeat Of 14aFollette for the SEN
ate would be a hard blow to the senate
insurg ut forces. He comes close to be-
ing the original senate dnsurgent. so
far as present issues are concerned.
His career in the senate has been a
continual fight with the leaders Of the
old guard. In order to help him out.
other insurgent senators will go into
paign. Senator's C1lmmins, Dolliver,
Clapp and others Will speak out LOT
him.
1t is noticeable that Roosevelt will
not speak in Wisconsin before the pri-
maries there. He will speak in the
state on his western trip but he will
reach there the day after the prin1a-
ries are held.
Governor John Burke of North Da-
kota has been added to the list of the
democratic possibilities for the pres
idential nomination in 1912. Governor
Burke was recently endorsed for the
presidentcy at a big meeting of North
Dakota democrats at Bismarck who
are enthusiastic over the fact he has
twice carried a state that has been
generally rated as republican.
Burke's friends believe he stands
good show for the nomination and they
propose to push him forward in the be-
lief that he may be able to capture the
prize which Governor Judson Harmon
| is making a strong effort to get.
Burke's friends have been anxious to
Ills CdilOldaSS AOA
but did not do so as long as Governor
Johnson of Minnesota was alive as
they did not wish to interfere with him.
! The Burke supporters urge that they
| can get the support Of William j.
Bryan for their candidate. whereas
| they think Harmon can not. Burke
| and bryan have campaisned together
and are good friends. In the opinion
/ of a good many, Of course, Bryan will
not cut much political figure, now that
his own state organization has been
wrested from him and is in control OF
his opponents. But it is a practical
certainty, however, that he will be on
deck and active when the next conven-
ton rolls around and. that 1t will be
Impossible to ignore him entirely.
Burke is originally from Iowa. He
was born in Sigourney Of that state.
He is a self made man who has risen
by his own efforts. Whether he gets
far toward the presidential nomination
or not, he is likely to have good deal
of northwestern strength and to muddy
up the water for Harmon. His advent
into the presidential situation is q re-
minder that the number Of dem ocratic
presidential aspirants is thickening
Aside from Harmon, there are now
Governor Marshall Of Indiana, former
Governor Folk of Missouri Mayor Gay
nor, President Woodrow Wilson OF
princeton ana several others wiio arc
less clearly in the open.
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