Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-22
IOWA S|ANDPA1S
Plan COMPROMISE.
LATEST SCHEME Is TO FORCE 81.
VISION OF DELEGATES, AND
NO INSTRUCTIONS.
SCHEME TO sLupeEoN MEN
TO SUPPORT sTANDPAT CAUSE
Effort Being Made to Select Two Dele.
oates At Large From Progressive
Counties in Order to Line up suffiei
ent Deies ates to Put Thru Program
-Cummins Men Confident.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, April 22.-The Iowa re-
publican state convention which meets
Wednesday will do one of three things:
Select four regular republicans as
delegates who will go to Chicago and
stand for progressive principles in the
platform and a progressive candidate,
and present fairly the name ana the
merits of Senator Cummins a@ can
didate for president: endorsing and
commencing the Iowa senator and ap-
proving the republican party, and leav-
ing the dele cation in position to take
whatever .tion is deemed best for
party success in November.
Select four standpat delegates to
Chicago pledged to a reactionary plat
form and program of approval of the
leadership of Loriner. Penrose. McKin-
ley wickershanl, ct al. instructed to
vote for their candidate for president
and no other, with hands tied so they
can not have any real part in the work
ing out Of the problem at Chicago.
Or. selection of four delegates, two
of them regulars and two standpatters,
without instructions. and with perfume
tory approval of the republican party
While the progressive figures, or
rather those that appear on the face OF
the returns. show total of 14l Tor the
regulars. it IS certain they Will nave
more than this number In the conFen-;
tion. While the standpatters lay claim
publicly to TIA delegates their own
figures in fact are 74S as the extreme
limit Of their hopes.
Standpats Fear Compromise.
This much has already been de-
termined by the standpatters that II
they undertake radical program
which means insult to Senator Cum
MINIS and Senator Kenyon and defiance
of the strong progressive sentiment OF
the state, they know they will meet
with disaster as they did at the st
convention on Similar progfam. They
have found that they can not command
anyway near half the convention on any
program that will spell disaster to the
party. Hence they are planning COM
promise or moderation. Ten days ago
they started story about compro-
mise delegation. That was conjured
IN at a conference of standpatters In
Des Moines and put out as a feeler 1t
fell fiat.
The latest scheme of the anti Cum
minis people is to gain control OF the
convention by inducing delegates in
strong progressive counties to betray
the progressive cause. To this end
overtures were made to Senator Lar
rabee to find place on the standpat
delegation for him if he would deliver
Webster county en- bloc to the stand
pattere. That similar overtures We're
made to others there can be little doubt.
Plan to 8Iudgeon Men,.
The plan Of bludgeoning men into
support Of the standpat cause will be
worked to the limit. This Is aimed di-
rect at Senator Kenyon and at Gov
ern6r Clarke. The standpatters are say
ing that as a matter Of fact these can
didates control their own delegations
and can deliver them If they want to
do so. They are going to exact deliv-
erance of votes enough to control the
state conventional they can. Insofar
as this applies to Governor Clarke they
are assured Of the assistance and sup
port of prominent newspaper editors
who are making pretense just now OF
being with the progressives but are
fighting candidates.
AS a matter of fact. the situation In
Webster and Dallas is much the same.
and in truth neither Of these delega-
tions can be handled by or for any one
man. 1t would not be possible for
Kenyon to deliver all Of the Webster
county delegation nor fer Clarke to de-
liver all Of the Dallas county delega-
@rc rPuY
and neither the senator nor the gov
ernor would undertake to do so no mat
ter what are the demands of the oc-
casion. But the standpatters and their
alleged progressive allies are working
this phase Of the game to a finish
Try to Keep cummins Away.
That the standpatters Nof Iowa have
been keeping in mighty close touch
with their associates elsewhere Is IN
dicated by the desperate game that
has been played to keep Senator Cum
minis away from his convention. No
sooner was 1t announced here that the
senator would come to the Cedar Rap
ids convention than the guiding sptr-
its bf the United States senate got
busy and planned to hamper him. They
finally set for hearing today-Monday
In yRe SENATE. the HPOA SdhS hSuA
which Senator Cummins is champion
ing, authorizing Intervention and an
appeal in the tobacco trust case for
the purpose Of permitting the supreme
court to pass on the trust compromise
effected by Wickersham in court. They
have made it impossible for Cummins
to leave Washington before this even
ing. whereas the bill could have been
disposed Of so he could be at Cedar
Rapids today.
There Is no doubt whatever. that
the managers OF the anti Cummins
campaign here have been In daily com :
munication with the senate reactior-
aries-Penrose. Smoot, Lorimer and
Others. Between them they have
planned to keep Cummins away from
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Senator Cummins. however. notified
them he would leave Washington q :