Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-24

| upon perpetuat1ng their own power
even to the destruction OF the party,
they would have conceded the dele
gates elected by Roosevelt primaries
and would have thrown their votes to
either Cummins or La Toilette as a
compromise.
Delegates generally from both
Roosevelt and Taft instructions con-
lceded that Cunmins was their choice
for a compromise candidate and the
support of the machine or steam roller
crowd was offered to Cummins if he
upon a machine made platform but was
promptly refused by his manager, Sen
ator Kenyon.
That the seventy eight delegates in
volved in the Roosevelt demand We're
fraudulently seated there was no rea-
sonable doubt. The bosses themselves
could scarcely contend otherwise so
they said as little about it as possible
and voted.
Had the republican party been the
thing to have been saved the purging
of the roll as demanded by Roose-
welt would have been conceded as a
compromise and the nomination of
compromise candidate accomplished.
Eut there was far less concern for the
republican party on the part of power
full political bosses who serve the IA
vored interests and who operate in all
parties than there was for the de-
(; struction Of Roosevelt.
| Roosevelt and his progressives had
| carried the primaries overwhelmingly
| in all of the big republican states.
| Those states alone in which the voters
had decided for him cast within three
| OF enough republican electoral votes
at the last presidential election 20
! elect a president. So it was apparent
. that if Roosevelt succeeded this time
! Or even if the party was saved by
progressive candidate as compromise
the progressives would turn up in ac-
tual possession of the party machinery
Rather than lose control of the ship
the bosses deliberately steered it for
the rocks when deep water was avail
able.
Roosevelt, however, could have oc-
com plished the temporary success Of
the party candidate had he not con-
sidered the larger issue of control by
corrupt bosses paramount to the sue
cess Of the party's candidate in this
controversy over fraudulent delegates
and dictated the nomination of a pro-
gressive other than himself by conpro-
mise but he considered the conflict Of
people to overthrow the domino
ton of powerful and crooked bosses OF
larger moment than the preservation
Of the republican party of the past.
, And he was backed by men who had
, stor1ned thru shot and shell of political
persecution and corruption to accom-
p!lsh the same purpose in their several
states. The republican party of the
past was no fetish to Governor John
son, Of California, who had known it
! as the Southern Pacific Railway even
unto the courts Of its making. Nor
was it to those progressives from
Pennsylvania who had thrown off for
the first time the yoke OF corrupt
bossism which for thirty years had
constituted national scandal. These
men had stood upon the platform
Thou shalt not steal" at home and it
was their platform for the nation. A
republican party steered and doniu-
ated by corrupt bosses must give way
Tor them TO a political party. repub-
I lican or otherwise, which would stand
/ On platform which would at least
not violate or repudiate the ten COM
mandments.
We saw in national republican con-
Vention at Chicago, republican con-
! vention. a demonstration which called
men to their feet by the thousands to
give William Jennings BRYAN an ova-
ton as he arose from his seat at
press table to leave for an early train
and inside of one hour the same re-
| publican convention Kissed at the
! presentation of republican presidents
name for reelection. There was ad-
nliration for the integrity and upright
ness of the one aitho a democrat and
indignation at the methods condoned
by the other altho a republican presi-
dent.
| The definite verdict of the people
awaits the result at Baltimore this
week. If it is true as generally sus-
sected that the game of the bosses
was to accomplish the rape of both
great parties and then finance both
campaigns with heads 1 win. tails
You lose cinch on the result. the third
party movement will become formid-
able. If the democrats are able to
elevate their honest leaders above the
bosses of the special interests the dem
ocratic vote will be larger than the
| Taft vote and the stay-at-home repub-
lican vote will be nearly as large as