Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-12
srANDpArs IN IOWA NO LONGER
SUPPORT HIM NOW THAT PA
TRoNAGE is GONE.
BITTER IDENTIFICATION
ALL ALONG THE LINE
No Kind Word Spoken For President
Since the Issuance of the Norton Let
ter-UtiIities Bill to Come Before
Leeslature-No Likelihood of Repub-
Iican Convention Being Reconvened.
Special to Times Republican.

Des Moines, Oct. 12.-It is greatly
feared that the appointment of Mr..
Clark as postmaster at Newton the
first proof that the Norton letter meant
just what it said, may be followed by
another outbreak Of III temper like that
which was Simultaneous with the
breaking UP of the Taft Club. That
the Norton letter was the cause of
much soreness was evidenced by the
utterances of the organs upholding the
boycott. The Colfax Clipper which
lis standpat all the year round. said
The Iowa Taft Club headquarters
lat Des Moines has been closed and the
club has gone into inocuous desuetude.
the officers concluding there was no
use to fight for a man that had no
fight in him. The president might
with as much reason have permitted
democratic senators and congressman
Ito control the patronage of their states
and districts as 10 extend that priVil-
eye 70 that branch of democracy head
ed by Cummins, La Toilette, ct al
/ Referring 10 the Norton letter the
Fairfield Ledger said that there is a
gpOQ zeal OF DOHCoi1lDt III IL. ana lIIt-
Cedar Rapids Republican was sure
broker or hriber and therefore he has
blundered when il came 70 handing
them our-blundered both ways
The Anita Republican. whose edi-
tor is a postmaster. declared it TO be not
good politics to recognize progressives
and says That I'VE would have seen
them thirsty in a land where water Is
scarce before We would have made an
appointment on the recommendation
of an avowed enemy of the administra-
ton" Most Of the strong factional
papers assume that the progressives
are "avowed enemies of the admin
is,ration and still cling 70 the notion
mat they. the standpatcers. are the
regulars.
The Atlantic News, whose editor has
bean one OF the most conspicuous
spokesmer for the Jackson committee.
has kept up a running fire on Presi-
den. Taft a charact eristic paragraph
is his:
THE general who surrenders his
army y the enemy while making terms
for himself is guilty of a crime de-
scribed by only one word in the Eng
ish uage-treac cherry"
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