Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-24
TOSS BROTHERS BUSY
TWO ooNGREssMEN SEEN DE-
TERMlNED TO "GET ON" IN
POLITICS.
TO SEEK SENATORIAL ToGAS
IN RESPECTIVE STATES
Hope to Induce Suckers of Illinois ana
Goldfish Of Massachusetts, to Bite -
Each Busily Engaged in Getting
Next to tho People in illinois and
Massachusetts,.
Especial Correspondence

Washington, June 24.-The great po-
litical trapeze act Of the Brothers foss'
George and Gene, IS going to be put on
again. Positively no appointments
on account of weather, no postpone
ments for want Of an audience. Great
est two ring, high-air presentation ever
made before the American public.
Brother George-that is, the Honor
from Illinois-is going to run for SEN
ator from Illinois Brother Gene
which is to say, the Honorable Eugene
N. Foss, congressman from Massachu-
setts-is going to run for senator from
Massachusetts,
Brother George viii uphold nightly
the banner Of republcanism In the
sucker state, and brother Gene will
fight under the orifiamme of demo-
crazy, in the cod fish state. If all the
Illinois suckers and all the Massachu-
sets cod fish get ripe, this great fra
ternal political trapeze performance is
going to be the most marvellous PTS
catorial display Of recent times. In fact
the Foss boys rather have 1t on their
minds that when they get things
warmed up they will have more hooks
out for suckers and cod fish than were
ever before strung out from Quincy,
Mass. to Quincy, Ill.
Just as a modest starter, Brother
Gene, the Massachusetts democrat Of
this com binat!on. Is mailing 100000
copies Of his recent tariff speech to the
voters of Massachusetts, There were
only 456,000 votes cast in the last presl
denial election in Massachusetts, and
brother Gene figures that he will get
to pretty nearly every one OF 'em that
reads English. The point about it is
and this may be worthy the considera-
ton Of the Honorable Henry Cabot
Lodge-that brother Gene has list OF
names that includes most OF the voters
of Massachusetts,, and that he is right
on their trail with some violent views
about the cost OF living and its relation
to the tariff. There Is going to be a
free distribution of Illuminating and
literature thruout the pro-
vince OF Massachusetts in the next
few months that will make Boston
blush for shame that 1t ever dared sus-
pect 1t was really a literary community.
Now, the truth is that there is some
difference OF opinion whether brother
Gene is going to run for governor or
Tor senator. The national politicians
all insist that he is going to run for
senator; the Massachuset ts folks per-
sist that his ambitions lie In the direc-
ton Of the governorship. Anyhow
Gene Is going to run. and he Is going
to run mighty hard and nightly in
earnest, and he Is going to do 1t this
fall: and beyond all that he has Sen
ator Lodge so badly scared that he has
appealed to Oyster Bay for
countenance and support.
Now, as to Brother George George
ran for the senate in Illinois two years
ago. and altho he confined his run
ming to the home stretch Of the cam
paign, he came down to the wire so
fast and in such form that all the touts
said II he had started with the bunch
he would have been a sure winner
Anyhow. George has decided. according
to the stories, that he will be a real
start-to-finish candidate for the very
next senatorial vacancy in Illinois, and
there is violent suspicion in this con-
nection that Senator Lori1ner wifi not
serve out the entire six-year term for
which he was elected. In which case
Brother George is likely to be distribut-
ing literature himself at car load rates
within year or so. The two Posses
are just determined to get on in poll
tics, and there seem to be a lot of
suckers in Illinois and a tremendous
shoal Of cod fish IN Massa chusetts who
sympathize with their purpose.
Here's little story which beautt-
fully illustrates what a marvellous mix
up has overtal1en the course Of politi-
cal affairs in this country In the last
year.
Both Of the senator's from Mime
sofa voted against the Payne-Aldrich
tariff bill when it passed Some Of the
representatives from Minnesota voted
against the bill, and some voted for It.
During the campaign this fall, there
fore. some OF the republican statesmen
from Minnesota will be on the stump
demonstrating that the tariff law is the
worst ever, while others will be pro-
claiming from the rostrunn that 1t has
all former efforts at tariff making
backed into an acute corner and
screaming for first aid to the injured.
That sort Of thing is always calcu-
lated to muss up the political situation
in community: and things in Min
nesota surely are mussed up at this
writing. The other day a good repub-
lican wrote to one of the senators and
said:
IT wish you would send me about a
hundred copies Of your tariff speech,
in which you showed that the duties
were raised instead of lowered. ] think
I could use them effectively to beat
our congressman in this district"
The congressman In question being a
republican, who had voted for the tariff
bill. and the senator likewise being a
rspub1ican altho he had voted against