Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-14
Prosrsssivss Not Saying Much.

Prosrsssives Not Saying Much.
| 1t is not worth while, from the mea-
ser Information obtainable. to UNDER
take to single out individuals and tell
how they will vote. A great majority.
especially of the progressives. have not
been very talkative about who 1t Is
they prefer. Nearly ali of them have
main iained an attitude OF avoiding per-
soialities and expressing a wish that
good republican in fun harmony with
The party be selected. They practically
all say that any one of number Of
splendid republicans would suit them.
1t is known. of course, that Gillilland,
Harding, Moore, and others of the rec
ognized standpatters. are for Young. 1t
is also known that Larrabee. Fitchpat-
rick. Huff and Campbell are for Ken
yon. The Funk con .ingent is led by
Francis, Cunningham. Dawson and
Bascom. The Garst movement has back
of it Chase, Mates Stillman and 9TH
ers 1t is probable that Smith, Hogan.
and others will be for Bvers. Beyond
/ this it is not safe to go in dealing with
personalities.
But for one thing, and in this the
candidates may be thankful, every one
/ Of them has back of him good and true
men who are sincerely DESTROYS OF the
success of their candidates.
The Progressive Sentiment.
The whole lobby argument has pro-
ceeded upon the theory that the man
elected by the legislature will be can
dldate for election two years hence and
will ask the approval of the voters at
! the primary next year. 1t also proceeds
I upon the theory that certainly Sena-
! tor Young will be candidate before
the primary If he is elected now. and
very probably he will be a candidate
even if not elected now The discussion
among the progressives is largely about
who should be selected and designated
either by election or by obtaining prac-
| tically all the progressive votes. to be
the leader in the inevita BILE fight before
the people next var. VIVA. is wanted is
a candidate who is sufficiently adver-
tised 10 the neople as a man of great
capacity in public affairs and especially
legislation. who is known to be fully
and definitely committed to the cause
of the people on every subject OF ma
tional Importance, and who has a per-
snna!tty that will commend him to the
voters.
! Thus far there has been absolutely
not mention made, in the lobbies of
{ is
there any thought on the part of the
republicans that they Will be unable to
make selection from the already large
| list Of availa bles.
1t is probable that the members OF
the legislature will go into the separata
sessions on Tuesday with no program
other than merely to each one vote his
| sentiments. In a large sense It will ba
nothing more than an Informal ballot
On the following day the balloting in
the joint session will begin. Between
the time of the informal ballot and
the taking Of the first formal ballot
| something may happen
Working At Gross Purposes.
| Perhaps the most Conspicuous phase
or the entire campaign has been what
appears to- be working at cross pur.'
poses on the part OF men who mean
Wen and apparently intend to be fair
but who in this case have failed to
measure up to expectations.
The first unfort unate and inexcusable
Misrepresentation which crept into the
preliminaries related to the attitude OF
Senator Cum Minis and there are men
who IN other fields are known to he
honest men who are still repeating
some OF the falsehoods about the senior
senator 1t was represented at the out
set that Cummins was going to settle
the whole matter. that he would assume
the role OF boss. that he had picked
Mr.. Byers as a candidate. etc. Later
when the Kenyon candidacy was
launched 1t was based. apparently.
upon the assumption that Judge Ken.
yon would be bitterly opposed by SEN
ator Cummins. None OF these assunp-
tons had any foundation in to-; yet
this sort OF talk is still heard IN the
/; lobbies from men who want to be reck.
oned honorable citizens
Another cheap campaign trick was
to represent that the candidates. Of
Garst and Funk were due to the i'm
portunity OF Cunnmins and that they
were not honest nor sincere. AS a
matter OF fact they had both been con-
sidered from the first as In the list of
ca ndidates
Efforts to Confuse.
| Still another phase of the campaign
that is unfortunate in every way is the
! deliberate effort to mix up the whole
| matter with a special primary and to
confuse the public as to the real at
titude OF many Of the members The
prosress1Ves have not at any time been
committed for or against the special
~ iiiidiS ited. -nT. ayers was quoted
As for II at the very outset, but he and
others have held that it is the first
duty Of the legislature to see If 1t can
not elect. and If the disagreement -
hopeless then it will be time to talk OF
extra ordinary expedients No special
primary has ever been ordered and it is
not certain that the people would take
Kindly to 1t. The matter was once re-
ferred to the people at a regular elec-
ton owing to standpat bolt from Q
caucus. But it is certain that the re-
publicans will do the right thing when
the time comes. With no deadlock In
sight and the bolt only In part there
can be no excuse for adopting special
primary now.
Kenyon and standpats.
! For a time it looked az II the con-
tinued dinning it into the ears of leg.
islators that If Judge Kenyon was
elected he would antagonist Senator
Cummins and the two would not be
able to work together at all, would
have the effect OF causing the stand
patters to break away from Young to
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