The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1910-06-05
IOWA REPUBLICANS
HAVING 4 BIG FIGHT
Issue in the Party Ranks Is Present Administration
Primary Campaign Will Continue
Uninterrupted Uutil Monday

DES MONIES. Ia. June 4.-This
state, the immortal centnr of tho n7.
tions interest In Republican politics.
refused 10 close the primary campaign
with tonights meeting, and Will con-
tinue 1t Monday.
State officers und representatives Ia
congress will be nominated.
Broadly speaking, the issue Ia the
Republican ranks is the present Re
publican administration. Outside the
broad line OF demarcatlon between
the factions there are. however. fac
tional differences SO complicated tnat
even veteran observers. like LaFay-
cite Young. admit their inability TO
solve the situation. All the prestige
of Senator Cummins Is involved In
the fight between Governor b. +. Car
roll and Warren Garst for the guber-
material nomination. Cummins IS
said to have been forced to support
Garst by the "stand-pat" maneuvor OF
placing the present governor under
the banner OF the national admiDistra-
tion. The formation OF n Taft CLUB
in support Of Carroll was the princi-
pal play IN this development Thus
the denomination or the governor will
be hailed, If 1t takes place. by the
! so-called reactionaries as slap at
! Cummins. AS to his own thoughts on
the matter. the governor has sold lit
tie. save that he does not purpose
TO be dictated TO by Cummins and
| Dolliver.
On congressional nominations. the
contests exciting greatest interest are
in the first, seventh and ninth dis
tricts, in the last named greatest OF
all
In the first district. Congressman
Charles A. Kennedy. at Montrose, is
being subjected TO the assaults Of
those who do not approve Of his So
| called "stand-pat" record The pro-
eresslye candidate Is Smith W. Brok-
l'hart
Judge s. F. Prouty. for the fourth
| time, is seeking TO wrest the nomi'
nation from Representative John A
Hull in the seventh district AT tho
primaries. two years ago. Hull Won
over Prouty by only 40 votes, al
l though Des Molnes. the largest city
| OF the state, Is In the district.
In the ninth Congressman Walter
|. Smith Is being tried on his record
as a staunch wheelhorse OF the reg
ular organization at Washington.
Smith was q member of the old Can
non rules committee-his opponent is
III. w. Byers. the present attorney
general of the state-ln the second,
third. fourth, fifth. eighth and eley-
enth districts there are no contests
among the Republicans.
Charles Grilk. candidate in the sec
ond district, is said 10 be a progress
slve. but the regulars" decline to OPP
pose him when Congressman Dawson.
the incumbent. refused TO seek renom
ination. and Congressman Prickett oil
the third is regarded as sort OF con
servatiye progressive.
Representative Haughen of the
fourth is another UnoDposed progress
slyesiye." Representative Good. un'
opposed, In the fifth is labeled by the
progressives as generally lnsurgent
Congressman Kendall. who stands
without opposition in the sixth. is also
claimed by the "progressiyes.
The press representative from the
eighth district is William D. Jamie
son, a Democrat-Mr. Jameson re-
fused to be candidate again. and the
honor is being sought by III. VI. Tow
ner, "stand-patter," and John Fl
Darrah. a progressive. The candidates
have eschewed oratory In the cam
palgn in favor Of gum shoe can
yass. In the tenth. Lewis H Mayne
has becn selected 10 make the run
against Congressman Woods, who
stands on his record AK an "insur
gent"
There are Democratic contests iu
the first, second, third. seventh. eighth
and ninth districts No Democratic
nominations will be made in the
tenth and eleventh districts.