Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-16
WHAT THE NEWSPAPER MEN SAY.

According to Washington advices
the ~concensus Of opinion expressed by
those newspaper CORRESPONDENTS who
We're not attached to the presidents
party, is hat up to date the presidents
trip has been a failure insofar as it
attempted to stop the rapid growth Of
progressive sentiment, and that this
progressive sentiment increases in an
astonishing manner in cities and towns
where the president has stopped to eX-
! plain his policies. The report from
Washington says that Fremont Older.
managing editor of the San Francisco
Bulletin, one OF the most progressive
| editors in the United States. and the
man who was directly responsible for
sending Abe Rueff to prison, has az
rive | in Washington With information
about political conditions on the Paci-
fic coast which fatty contradicts that
being sent from the presidents train.
California will send a LaFoiIette
delegation to the republican national.
GUN SIilIOll, SGIO MI. oluCI. iAt (
egates from that state Will not be lone
~. for they will be joined b. LaF'ollette
delegations from Washington and Ore
gon.
If the voters in the other states
who are opposed 10 a denomination Tor
President Taft would only realize their
own strength the nomination OF a pro-
gressive republican would be assured
far in advance of the convention. My
observations lead ME to believe that
the people are rapidly breaking away
from the notion that it is impossible to
deprive the federal office holders OF
the control of the convention.
II this conviction continues to grow,
as l believe it Will. MI. Taft5s nomi-
nation will be Impossible. The only
chance for the republican party to win
the presidency in 1872 is TO nominate
a progressive. The people are begin
ming to realize this fact and from this
time forward, l expect TO see the anti
Taft sentiment grow in every part OF
the country.
Angus McSween, a political writer Of
national reputation, is writing TO his
friends in Washington that the feel
ing against the administration is far
more intense than ii was during he
congressional campaign a year ago.
Mr.. McSween has been travelling thru
the west. He finds that while public
resentment against the Payne-Aldrich
tariff bill was given expression in 1910
in the election Of a democratic house
OF representatives, the presidents veto
of the cotton and wooden schedules,
of the farmers free list bill and his in
created a demand for the nomination
Of a progressive republican for the
presidency which Will result in the de-
feat Of the president if he permits his
name to go before the national con-
vention.
Gibson Gardner, another political
quarters in Washington that after
spending weeks with voters OF every
class. he is convinced that Mr.. Taft
can not be nominated.
Iowa. Nebraska, North and South
Dakota, possibly Minnesota and Of
ccur.e Wisconsin will send solid La
Toilette delegations TO the convention"
writes Mr.. Gardner. Taft car not
POSSIBLY win. 1t is impossible TO over
estimate the sentiment against MIN in
the middle west
These statements from trained news
pa DER men in the field mereIv confirms
the opinion expressed in the thousands
of letters from the voters themselves
which are being received at progressive
headquarters.