Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-14
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. MARsHALINOW1s: iowa, OCTOBER "A l81l

strongest and most level headed demo-
Gratis of'the state and to leave the del
egation free to act as it deemed best
as to candidates but instructed to
stand for advanced ground in the plat
form on the big issues made conspicu-
Gus by thu administration.
II any there are among the regular
non-bolting republicans Of Iowa who
imagine that the s%tandpat ~reactionaries
have given up hope Of returning to the
old conditions and restoring the old
machine methods, they ought to be dis
abused Of this notion. This Is the view
of a travelling man who has been out
in the state looking around and asking
questions. 1t is the deliberate plan. so
he declares, that the situation in Iowa
shall be SO jumbled up and confused
that the slate yet to be framed up by
the kitchen cabinet, that small coterie
of self-appointed conservators Of party
traditions, shall sweep the state in the
presidential e At present The az
~tivities Of the plotters are confined to q
scheme to break up the progressives
and to split them into hostile camps.
Their agents are cultivating the notion
that there are proGressives and insur-
gents. that some progressives either
move too fast or too slow, and that the
time is ripe for organizing a new pro-
gressive movement. 1t is known that
the coterie has been for weeks engaged
In trying to find out who is available as
candidates FOR state office, and hen
prominent prcgressives have been APP
preached with offers Of stardpat ciD-
! port If they you'd come cut for this or
that state office. In fact the plan is to
choose a number Of candidates, some
Of them nocainally progressives, to run
: for state office and thus to make it GER
tain that there will be quite a lieli 0f
candidates. Then late IN the spring,
after the c:Inpaign has been shaped up,
a nice new clean slate composed wholly
of s%tandpatters will get into thu field,
posing as regulars" and it viii carry
Off everything. But just now the i'm
portant thing is to spread as widely
over the state as possible IN" notion
that many of the tried Il true leaders
OF the progressive movement: arc no. II,
fact devoted TO the principles of the
party and that because they have at
tanned ropu'arit! in many ;fsta: is
Lt oLu ol. IaCt!'itdl lAic up lazy az
not to re t-usieG. While on the SUI
face there appears to be little 1o.n@ IN
the standpat camp the fact is that a
great deal of quiet and eif>,tl,e organ
! izi,:g work IS Icing done with regard 70
the campaigns Of the presidential
year; and ,ney intend to make e hard
and bitter fac:io1al fight no. o,l.y IN
the early caucuses or primaries but
in the regular June primary.
Governor Carroll may be the third
man in the race for United States sem
ator fou years from now. according to
Charles c. Pugh, of this city. a close
friend n great admirer of the gov
eTnor. Referring to the denomination
of Carroll last year and his election
by a narrow margin. he says:
Gle won and now has IN ambition
to go to the senate. and Albert B. Cum
Minis may find him a hard man to beat
poets to be a candidate when Cumlnins'
name goes before the primary in four
years from next Tune. His ambition
is without limit now. He has been so
fortunate that he fully believes in his
lucky star"
This suggests a nice nlix-up in view
Of the fact that it has already been
announced that LATE Young expects to
be a candidate against Cummins in
case he does not win against Kenyon.
The Young and Carroll ambitions