Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-17
REAL REPUBLICANS OF STATE
WILL FIGHT sTANpPATs AND
OUTSIDE DlcrATtoN.
SENTIMENT is GROWING
IN FAVOR OF NAMING TICKET
Many Believe Progressive Candidate
for Governor Should Be Placed in
Fieid-No Conference Called and One
May Not be HeId-DoIliver Working
for Farmers.

Special TO IimeS-Republican.
Des Moines, March 17.-There has
been no conference of republicans at
any time TO plan for the coming pri-
mary campaign; there may be none;
but one thing appears to have been
settled by the good-roads- standpat
combined movement Of last week, and
that is the certainty that the republic
cans viii make vigorous defense Of the
progressive principles which they
have kept foremost in Iowa in the past
dozen years.
During the past six months. while
some of the progressives have fell that
the only way TO make the fight TO up
hold their principles is to rally around
candidates, many others have urged
that the offices be left 10 the stand
patters, especially where not held by
strong characters.
Now, and especially since last We'd
nesday. the almost universal sentiment
is for a strong candidate for head of
the ticket TO lead the forces of repub-
licauism TO victory. Whether this Will
be the outcome or not remains 10 be
! seen.
Four years ago when the standpats
wanted a distinctly fractional candidate
for governor they held their confer
ence in Chicago and sett'ed it. Two
years ago when they wanted a dis
,inctly standpat candidate f3r senator
they held d conference and brought
out their strongest man. The progress
sives have not favored doing it this
way, but generally hold TO the notion
that anybody can be a candidate for
tany office and il is unbecoming 20 have
/ the discredited caucus method :ecog-
nized.
| But as 10 the necessity for getting
| together TO organize a committee to
offset the work of the committee which
was organized here at the dictation CT
| Chairman Mckinley, and is to be
financed by him, there is no dissent.
| The other day a very prominent re-
publican who is distinguished FOR con-
servatism said in the Savery LOBBY:
! Il have been saying all along that
there was no occasion for contest
in this state. l have discouraged al
candidates., especially for governor.
/ But, by the blankety blank, If we are
TO be told by outsiders what to think
and what to do and who to elect, and
/ are advised that we must 60 back on
everything We have been lighting cor
| in recent years, then l am for meet
ing the issue squarely. We ought TO
have a candidate for governor a. once
Ia man of high standing, unoaestioned
integrity, of training for the office and
recognized as capable of filing il. He
should be man VINO has stood
squarely with the people IT. their long
fight He should make the fight square
" on the issue of uphold'ng the in
tegrity of the party in Iowa and Civ
ing support to our splendid senator's
who are doing so much 20 carry out
the principles Of republican, ;m."
With the republicans now it is a
matter of self defense. Th@y feel hat
the fight has been forced for dis
tinct standpat Endorsement which
would discredit the Iowa senators. It
is state campaign, with a whole state
ticket and legislature to be elected,
| and each district will attend 10 ma
tional matters in its own way.
The question as TO whether or not
the delegates elected 70 county con-
ventions this year will have the selec-
ton of the delegates for national nom
mating conventions in 1912 is still an
open one. The question is not new
one The popularity Of the law was rec
ognized as soon as the legislature fixed
it so as to avoid complications in
state matters.
Governor Carroll is convinced fully
that there is not the slightest doubt
about the right OF the national COM
mittees TO provide for the manner of
selecting delegates TO county conven-
tions leading up to the presidential
conventions. He takes the view that
the primary law refers entirely to state
matters and not at all to national mat
tiers. or in other words that only state
questions and issues should ever have
any consideration in the primary to be
held in June. 1t is all wrong to inject
into that campaign anything relating IN
any way TO the national situation.
This has also been the view Of very
many of the progressives who have