Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-16
MUCH EVIDENCE THAT GOOD
ROADS MEETING WAS PoLITI.
CAL DESPITE DENIALs.
MANY PLANS OF CONFERENCE
FAILED TO GO THRU
Claim, Now Made That Standpat Meet
ing Was Called in Fact by .Presi-
dent-old Joker in Iowa Law I'm
acknowledgements Likely to Com
bfne on Jameson For Governor.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, March 16.-An effort IS
being made by the staAdpatters to dis
claim that there was any connection
between the good roads meeting and
the standpat conference and also to
deny thar it was astandpat caucus dis
tinetly for fractional purposes. Some
of the republicans, however have been
looking into the standpat attitude to-
ward the whole plot and find variety
oracle Of the Second district. who is
said to really control the repu blican
party Of numerous counties, starts his
report of the event by SAYING:
al the good roads convention We'd
nesday over 25o republicans met in
conference 10 consider the political sit
uation in the state and to determine a
line OF action
The Burlington Hawkeye also edi-
torially remarked as 10 the close rela-
lion between the two things:
Good roads and good republicanism
go hand in hand. 1t was significant
that both had their inning in Des
Moines the same day"
That il was standpat conference
rather than a republican conference
was admitted by some OF the standpat-
tiers. For instance the headlines in
Jarnagin's paper al Cedar Falls, said
-Standpatters plan to fight" That it
was also the intention 10 precipitate
a hot fight was recognized. The Gin
ton Herald declared:
The fight between the two factions
of the party is on. There is no longer
denying the fact. There is TO be no
such thing as harmony. 1t is to be
fight 10 the finish
That the conference did not quite
carry out the prearranged plan, as it
had been fixed up in Washington, was
disclosed by the Burlington Hawkeye
which on one day printed what pur-
ported TO be the platform, and the next
day printed the real platform Of the
standpats, in which was stricken out
the pledge about the admins trative
acts Of the president, which would in
clude the Baninger program, etc.
The leaders also differed somewhat
as 10 what is really planned, or pro-
fessed to be planned. For instance, Two
of the really great leaders present were
Dave Branr, of Iowa City. and Charles
f. Chase, of Atlantic. The latter was
for many years conspicuous in demo-
cratic circles but now runs the Smith
paper IN Atlantic, which is backed by
Hart Chase was present and took
prominent part and he reported that
1T is distinctly not the Intention to
boost any candidate for any office nor
to engage in a scrap for delegates to
the state convention"
Bat Brant got a different tip on the
program and declares that the 'repub-
lican congressional committee will
stand for the election Of every candi-
date who. if q member OF the present
house, is friendly 70 the bills introduced
for the fulfllment of platform and par
ty obligations" And it may be in
ferred that they will not stand for
election of anybody who does not have
the o k Of the committee which IS I'M
der control of Mckinley, Of Illinois.
The claim is now made, also. that the
conference was in fact called by the
president or at his direction by his
close friends, and it was mis- desire to
have a fight IN Iowa.
An illustration of the complications
which naturally follow insertion in
bill for a law one of those "jokers' for
which the old machine in Iowa was ia
nous, and which were common before
the reform era. came UP at the state
house in connection with applicable OF
the Iowa Land Company for renewal OF
charter for twenty years. The COM
pany has large capital and is really
London company but with main Office
in ST. Paul. Some time ago the secre-
tary of state called attention of its Of
fcers to the fact that the twenty-yeal
period of its life had expired A re-
fling was rendered with recording fee
Notice was served of amount Of the NJ
ing fee and the LAWYER Of the company
! claims exemption under the Joke'
which was inserted in the law about
/ fifteen years ago, when nobody was
/ looking, under which the railroad com
I panies organized and engaged in bust
! ness would be exempt from paying any