Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-04
STEER steam ROLLER
WITH Discretion
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION
QUITS WITH GOOD FEELING ).
EVIDENT.
PLATFORM so woRDED THAT
BoLriNG is UNNECESSARY
Greatest Convention in Iowa Reveals
the Tragedy of PoIitics-old Regime
Fails to Realize Young Men Must
cortroI-5urden of Campaign Rests
With Progressives.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to mes-Republican.
Des Moines, Aug. 4.-The republican
state convention had several conspicu-
Gus features worthy of mention.
There was no evidence that the pri-
mary law has destroyed all interest in
state conventions: there was sufficient
intellectual activity to satisfy most Of
the delegates.
There has never been a state conven-
ton in Iowa where the delegations
| were so completely located as to their
attitude toward the two brances of the
| party; yet there was adjournment in
| general good feeling.
The convention Illustrated, perhaps
better than any before. the ira gedy of
human life; the passing of the old, the
! coming of the new: the inevitable
| change which time makes for men ard
| parties.
This last was the real study Of the
convention. A philosopher familiar
to some degree with the currents and
counter currents of political life in
Iowa and elsewhere. would have had
abundant material here for an inter-
estfng study of the personnel of the
| convention. On the one side there was
| the group of active. virile, young men,
fully determined that the political at
| fairs Of their generationf shall be ad-
| ministered by the men OF this genera
| ton. On the other hand was smaller
group Of men. insthe main older, some
Of them feebly clinging to the notion
| that this Is their generation, many of
them irritable and nervous with knowl-
edge Of the passing of power from their
| hands. Senator Dolliver had this in
mind when in his convention address
he referred with tenderness to the crit
icisns of many of his old time friends,
| and to the fact that-he bore with COM
| posure the thrusts Of the men whose
| intellectual processes had ceased twea-
| ty years ago. He knew of the program
] to follow. He knew that there was
coming an effort to stay progress. He
| knew who would speak against the in
evitable.
! Climax Of the Convention.
| The climax came as Chairman Dolli-
yer stood before great crowd Of re-
publicans, hanging in the balance: on
the one side bright, courageous. force
| full Robert EHsaly in his very person
| typifying the progressive movement,
and on the other the venerable Pete
Hepburn and the irritable Major
Lacey, with the plethoric Perkins vain
| ly clamoring for chance at just one
more speech.
! The contrast might be drawn at
hundred places with the same effect
The majority OF the convention was
made up Of men who are living in this
generation and looking forward to bet
ter things in the future. The differ
marked that he must be blind indeed
who could not see it. There has not
been in public life in Iowa any such
splendid group of active and earnest
men, every one loyal to his state and
his party, every one filled with convic-
| tions and Jealous for the right, as COM
| posed the more than 500 progressive
\ delegates to this state convention. One
can easily recall from memory the
names of representative men who in
| their persons illustrate this fact. for
| instance, aside from public officials,
A. B. Funk, James A. Smith, Fred and
William Larrabee. Smith Brookhart, S.
F. Prouty, A. I. Smith, Warren Garst
F.. L. Maytag. John Hempel, e. E.
Hasner, George Scott. Sam Riniker.
| Dan Turner, John Darrah, Clifford
Thorne, E. P Adler, George Curtis
Frank Woods, w. H. Berry. Joe jun
| kin, and scores Of others. It Is true
that on the other side there were some
! active and able young men, because
| there are sections of the state where
the only avenue to public life Is thru
following the leadership Of the passing
generation.
| Difference in the Factions.
| The reception given to the two por-
L <1,~
trated again the difference in the fac
tions. The standpatters started their
shouting by showing portrait of Taft
They had made their resolutions laud-
atory of Taft beyond even the ex-
| travagance of the Ohio standpatters.
| They did a good job OF making ali
| ovation for Taft. Then the progress
sives in like manner rallied around a
portrait OF Roosevelt. In the platform
| adopted there was a direct endorse
ment Of the policies and principles
| which. Roosevelt popularized. 1t was
| highly appropriate the separation OF the
factions should come on a show down
as between the president and the ex-
president.
/ So it was that the convention in IT.
self was typical of the tragedy OF hu-
i man life The men OF the present gem
GRAFTON showed that they are fully de-
termined upon having the affairs Of
this state, at least. administered by the
men Of this time; and the men and
lleaders of twenty to thirty years ago
showed that they will not yield control
into the hands OF the younger genera
'|tton without a struggle.
i Burden On Propressives.
i Another thing made very plain at the
convention was that 1t Is the progress
sives OF Iowa upon whom must fall the
burden of elechng the state ticket and
the candidates for congress, and this
Includes candidates OF both factions It