Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-11
PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICANS OF
IOWA PLEASED WITH Ut
TERANcES.
DID NOT ATTEMPT TO
READ MEN OUT OF PARTY
Review Of the Complicated Situation
in the Democratic Camp in Iowa
Another Conference to Ee Held This
Week-Iowa Fire Insurance Com
panies Pay Heavy Losses.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, April 11.-Iowa repub-
licans are greatly encouraged in their
campaign to back up all who are earn
estly laboring for progressive principles
by the utterances of President Taft
Saturday night. What the president
says is all right" said one of the
staunch supporters of the Iowa SEN
ators and the national platform me
promise which seems to have been
made in his name but without reason
that the president would undertake
again TO read out of the party those
who do not bow to Aldrich. proved TO
have been a false trail We can ap-
prove all he said. The politics of every
man is of his own making. Nobody mas
authority 10 say VINO shall and who
shall not belong TO our party our
Iowa senators have been sincere and
honest in their effort TO have national
legislation conform to the pledges OF
their party They have not claimed in
fallibility, but they have done what
they believed was right and best for
their party. If the position now taken
by the president should be followed by
all republicans there would be no oc-
casion for contest in Iowa"
There is qualification especially
among the republicans supporting pro-
gressive principles, over the eXcep-
tionally strong and earnest statement
of the situation by Senator Funk. of
Spirit Lake Some of them are say
ing that his editorial is a complete an
swer TO those who are now complaining
about alleged injecting of factionalisn
into Iowa There is no doubt but that
great majority of the Iowa republi-
cans will be united under the progress
sive banner.
Practically no plans have as yet been
perfected for the speaking campaign.
1t all depends upon the senators. There
is hope among the progressives that
one or both OF the senators can come to
Iowa for at least one meeting prior 10
May /, just to get the campaign started
right and to furnish a keynote" VIVA t
follows will depend largely upon the
work in congress. 1t is certain, how
ever that both of the senators will
make a number of speeches in the
state. not so much for any one or half
dozen candidates. as for the principle
of faithfully supporting the party and
upholding the platforms.
The net result of the democratic con-
ferences held in connection with the
jefferson banquet was to leave the sit
uation as TO the state ticket in exactly
the same position it was before. S. Fl.
Bashor, Of Waterloo, is the sole candi-
date for government at present. There
may or there may not be another. A
conference is to be held one day this
week to see what can be done. Jerry
Sullivan will return and some of his
friends in Des Moines are still insistenr
that he should enter the race for gov
ernor against Bashor. They do not like
the Waterloo man and they say that
the speech he made AT the banquet did
him no good. On the other hand it is
very likely that John D. Dennison, OF
Dubuque, will be a candidate if a suffi-
cient number Of the democrats indicate
that it would be best for the party.
They are not SO much opposer to Mr..
Bashor as they desire that there shall
be friendly contest between repre-
sentative leaders of the party to the
end that all the democratic votes shall
be garnered in the primary for the
democratic ticket. There was, it is
true, a little effort on the part of a
small group to induce Judge Wade to
say he would be a candidate. but this
was without avail since it was known
definitely that Wade would not con-
slider the matter. 1t is therefore very
probable that in the democratic pri-
mary there will be but two candidates
ro oc ;,JrO
Dennison. Their candidates. will be
in friendly spirit.
Iowa fire insurance companies suf-
fer fire losses much greater in proper
ton to the charges made for carrying
the insurance than the companies out
side Of Iowa doing business in the
state. This is shown by the reports of
the companies as made this year to the
state auditor. From the reports in the
office of State Auditor Bleakley it is
shown that the percentage of fire losses
to premiums paid for the Iowa fire
companies in the year 1909 was 375;
while the percentage for the outside
companies was 2S.9. The total of bus
mess done is much larger for both COM
panies than ever before. Eleven new
companies came into the field and four
uToppeu Jul. Inc HSuieS as tHSy VIII
appear in his Forthcoming report are:
Iowa fire insurance companies:
Total Of risks written .S145, 7T6, 646. 7s
Premiums received ...... 2,74Sy949.27
Losses paid $3.50. 1853. 1,131,13
Other than Iowa companies:
Risks written ........ .s4S7, 314 ,596. 80
Premiums received $3.50. S,9o7 ,s3o.5s
Losses paid ......... ;. 2,57s, S72. 81
Fidelity and casualty companies:
Risks written $3.50. ....s97, 460, 927. OF
Premiums received $500. 77,873.5s
Losses paid $500. $500. 327,27S26
From this it is shown that the tota.
amount which iowa people paid for in
surance other than life, during the year
1909 was $9.9O5, 7O4O 5: and the total