Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-03
CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION IN
NINTH DISTRICT FOUGHT ON
PARTY LINES.
EFFORT TO INJECT TRADE
QUESTION ABANDONED
Success Of Judge Green Will Tend 70
End fractional Strife in lows.
Green's Act Of Honor-study Of
vots Shows Republican Will Win by
Good Majority.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican
Des Moines, June 3.-The by-eiection
for congress in the Ninth district will
be neither case OF passing judgment
on the Taft reciprocity pact nor decid-
ing on the merits OF the republican ma
tional administration as compared with
one by the democrats.
The pretense Of. putting reciprocity at
issue has already been abandoned. The
absurdity Of the situation so impressed
itself upon all that there is not now
anywhere in the district any notion
that in this way can any fair express
sion Of the sentiment Of the farmers
and townspeople be secured either
upon reciprocity as a general princi-
pie or this particular treaty as it has
been worked out in secret.
A Ninth district republican who
spent several days in the east end of
the district this week stated today that
he had found the campaign unusually
qutet. 'This Is a feature do not like"
he said, ebut it will work as badly for
one party as for the other. Among
Che republicans find that some Of
the standpatters are saying that the
progressives are going to scratch Green,
and the progressives are saying the
same thing about the standpatters; all
Of which means that they are not either
Of them going to do it. But one thing
did find out was that the democrats
can not be got together on a platform
of support Of the reciprocity pact which
is before congress. They are as much
90 Sv1xSA %1n nd
practically all the farmers. at least in
Adafr and Guthrie counties, are against
the pending bill as they now unde-
it nor getting excited; they do not
tear it nor do they especially want 1t.
they appear to be Indifferent, and but
for the efforts of few politicians to
stir up the matter nothing would be
said of It,"
Issue Made Plain.
That which is involved in the cam
paign is a plain party issue as to
whether or not a progressive republic
can Is better fitted to represent the
views OF the majority Of the district or
a standpat democrat on a Taft plat
form. For one thing it is settled that
the election of Judge Green would
greatly strengthen the Iowa delegation
in congress and as that delegation now
consists of two progressive senators
and seven progressive members Of the
house, with only two standpatters, It's
Importance can be seen. Prior to the
nomination an effort was made to stir
up feeling for distinctly standpat
candidate on the ground, as stated, that
'the Ninth district is the last ditch Of
standpatism in Iowa" Success Of
Judge Green will go far toward ending
the fractional fight in Iowa by solidify-
ing the entire Iowa delegation.
Green's Act Of Honor.
In the outlying parts of the district
it is learned that the democrats are
making some capital out Of the fact
that some years ago Judge Green went
thru bankruptcy. and they are saying
that he first put his farm out Of his
possession. The fact is that he turned
the farm over to the creditors Of his
brothers bank, the brother having in
volved Judge Green entirely without
the connivance of the latter. The judge
was in no sense holden for the debts
but he made good as far as he could
out of his own savings. Ut was an act
Of honor which reflected his high char
acter as a man.
The fact that some of the strongest
standpatters Of the district have sup
ported Judge Green from the first, for
the nomination and for the election.
shows that he is a harmonizer. Ernest
Hart, national committeeman, while in
Des Moines during the session of the
legislature, did some earnest work for
the nomination Of Judge Green. Ex-
Attorney General John Y. Stone has
been for Green all the time. So has
John Lindt, former G. A. r. command
err.
When the. resolutions committee re-
ported the resolution condemning the
tariff pact there was some surprise
The fact is that an effort was made to
have the committee report plank in
dorsing the Taft administration. This
was unanimously turned down and it
was agreed that the only thing they
could agree on was the plank reported.
The committee was Overwhelmingly
controlled by the standpatters as was
the convention.
Good guessers at the state house
predict the usual republican majority
for Green. 1t will be a light vote. But
there will be many democrats who will
not interest themselves in the game at
this time.