Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-30

any ore else OF the crowd with which
he IS identified.
Next in a position to be considered
is Judge Kenyon, OF Fort Dodge. He
has called himself a progressive" and
yet stands in with many on other side.
He is very attractive, personally, n
he a the faculty OF not getting into
q fight Ear enough to get hurt. He has
been a prominent railway attorney and
is now an assistant attorney general Of
the United States, and he probably rep
resents all the chance there is Of Iowa
sending to the senate a man who is
and will be tied up with the Taft ad-
minisration. There IS no possibility Of
his being elected by the progressive"
forces: but II enough on that side hold
out for him there is q lingering posi-
bility that the other side may go to
him for the purpose OF getting an ad-
mfn~istratiOn follower. Probably thiE
chance Is remote. however; for the
men who have been fighting "~standpat-
ters' have little more use for a man
Of his type than have most of the men
who have been fighting "progressives."
His candidacy is essentially OF the
good fellow order and it is not found
ed upon any considerable public service
nor upon Identification with well-de6n-
ed public issues. Candidates. such as
his ~undeniably do succeed occasionally:
but they almost invariably result in
fresh demonstration that there is a
vast difference between an habitual
anxiety to avoid offense and the ability
effectively 10 discharge large RESPONSE
bilities. The Kenyon movement is Just
now in the way Of being sized up as
were the Young and Byers movement
before il: but it gathers what strength
it has by means of motives that are
radically conflicting. and it's vitality
will have to be remarkable il it sur
wives the stress row being put upon 1t.
The inference from this general rea-
soning is that the candidate who will
land the senatorship has not yet got
started; but this is nearly as far as we
are able to carry our inference. On
the progressive" side Harvey Ingham
has taken himself entirely out OF con-
~sideration. and our personal estimate
Of he other men OF similar promi-
hence on that side has been that the
one who would make the best senator
! is State Senator Smith Of Usage; but
we also have an impression that the
one who would have the best chance of
reuniting the considerably divided
| progressive" forces is former Senator
Funk, OF Spiri. Lake. On the other side
the latest rumor is Of an attempt Of
| Governor Carroll to effect an alliance
] with Lieutenant Governor Clarke by
which the former might get the .ena-
torYhfp and the latter an immediate
promotion to the governorship: out
this is one OF the numerous PROPOSE
tons that it is asy to advance but for
which 1t is exceedingly difficult to
count the votes necessary to success.
If the matter continues clear up to the
time OF balIoting to be as thoroughly
mixed as it is now q deadlock must
necessarily result, the key to which
will be the action of one or the other
disguised faction in going to the other
side and picking out therefrom the man
most acceptable. Any guess as to the
beneficiary of such a movement must
be founded first on insight into the
~question OF what crowd will first get
disguised, and next on the question az
to what man on the other side such
crowd would be most willing to take.
such contingencies are too much for
us. We give it up.