Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-13
COLONEL eRookhARr FAILS ro
PUT SENATOR YOUNG ON
= RECORD.
ASKED pEs MONIES MAN
soME PERTINENT QUESTIONS
Mr.. Young Proceeds to Evads Thorn
-erookhart Says Senator'S Recent
convsrsion to Primary Idea 10 Re-
sort to Forlorn Hope = Farmers
Would Beat Any standpat Candidate
Special to rimes-Republican.


Des Moines, Jan .13-Col Smith
Brookhart, Of Washington. has had to
give it up. he will not be able to get
from Col. Lafayette Young, candidate
before the legislature for election at the
hands Of the legisla ure for senator. any
statement of willingness to really sub
sentatives Of the people, or willingness
to abide by any decision of the repub :
licans alone.
Some time ago Colonel Brookhart
wrote Colonel Young on the harmony
talk and closed by asking him as to
whether or no. he would consent to
submit his case to Il caucus of republic
cans and abide thereby. After some
weeks of waiting he received very
brief reply from Young, to which he
promptly answered as follows:
Yours Of the 9th inst, in answer u
mine Of Dec. 3 at hand. 1 was very
glad to hear from you, but very sorry
you did not answer my questions even
at this late date. BY those questions
wanted to know if you were willing to
submit your case to the republicans of
eide who should De the party nominee
and whether you would abide by that
decision.
II have noted in public print that you
now favor a special primary, but the
fact that you are such late convert to
this principie leads me to believe that
you know you are defeated in the legis-
lative caucus. and therefore demand a
primary as last forlorn hope. Now
am for a primary. too. l think the
farmers of this state will thoroughly
clean up any standpatter who favors
tariff bill with free hides and high rates
on shoes. However, the fact that
have always favored a primary and
that you now favor it is not conclusive.
In this county the progressive senator
and the standpat representative both
pledged themselves before election to
enter party caucus on the senatorsh1p
and abide by the result. l Therefore
have no doubt both will carry out their
pledges and If a majority Of the repub-
leans are elected on similar pledges
then you and l, as good republicans,
should waive our personal preferences
and submit to a caucus nomination.
am willing to do it. What l triel to
find out was whether you are wi!;ir;
~ do the same thing, and in this l
failed.
How About Harmony?
"You say, I am still in favor Of party
harmony and 1 still believe that such
harmony is possible. but it is not DOS
s.bie II the progressives intend to take
everything in sight. believe that you
want to do what is right for the re-
publican party, therefore. colonel, you
ought to be supporting me for sen"tor
This is very peculiar declaration
Of principles to me. The nub to 1t all,
as l view your statement. is that we
can have harmony only with Lafayette
Young; otherwise it is anarchy. If we
beat you either in the caucus or in the
primary, and thereby gobble everything
in sight. that according to your idea.
would destroy all chance of harmony.
Now. my dear senator I think you need
to revise this position badly.
II remember not long ago when !
was in favor of party harmony. and I
was also in favor Of the First district
nominating myself for congress. l did
not think the standpatters had any
business to take everything in sight.
and like you, I thought there We're a
great many standpatters who ought to
be supporting me. I talked to them
very earnestly about the wrecks along
the c. B. & @. right OF way showed
them how the corpora lions had ruled
the First district with an iron hand;
how the railroads had bumped Iowa
with rate determinations: told far
mers how my opponent had voted 70:
free hides and for bonus Of 100000, 900
year for the sugar trust: but in spite
of all my eloquence those blamed
standpatters remembered the free
passes they had in the good old days
and voted for the other fellow. They
just took everything in sight. 1t was
the meanest trick anybody ever played
on me.
"But in spite Of it all, dear senator.
put on the harness and worked for the
entire republican ticket abiding by the
decision. and with this kind of record
I feel that have some small right to