Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-23
VICIOUS srANpPAr CAMPAIGN
HAS ULTIMATE DEFEAT FOR
SENATE ITS OBJECT. /.
HOPE TO ovERTuRN ENTIRE
PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT
Reservation Hopes TO Elect Reaction.
ary Senator This Year in Place Of
Kenyon and Thsn Defeat cummins
in Campaign to FoIIo~-Forty- Two
Counties Vet to Hold Conventions.
saoo,., - r;me.-Ranublican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines. March 2s.-1t renamed
for Charley Junkin, First district mem
Der of the republican state committee
to confess at once the hope and pur-
pose of the long time and bitter enc
mics of all progressive republicanlsm
in the fierce fight which has been made
against Senator Cummins for control
Of the next state convention.
Indications now are" says the
boastful First district committeeman.
that the state will be carried By the
regulars a. e. standpatters) and II TINS
does happen it spells defeat for Sen
ator Cummins when he comes up Tor
election again."
In other words the fight has been
and is not alone to prevent the posi-
bility of Iowa securing the presidency
but also to completely overturn Iowa
and by defeat of Senator Cummins et-
feet destruction Of the entire progress
sive movement and thus to put back
into the hands of the leaders of a dozen
years ago the direction of Iowa re-
publicanism.
This is something that the progress
sives. who in Iowa are the only reg
ulars," probably have not considered
at all; for the candidacy Of Senator
Cummins has been with them sincere
and honest candidacy for the presi-
Dental nomination with nc Interior
motives nor consideration Of patronage
or other matters. Now it is waited
q
line of the Burlington that what the
unyielding enemies Of Senator Cum
Minis have in mind, among other
things, is to elect a reactionary SEN
ator this year and then elect another
|reactionary senator two years hence,
and SO on with program that would
certainly attract attention it nothing
else.
The fight against Cummins has been
made in many respects along the IA
miliar lines and with as much real
venom as in any of, the half dozen
campaigns in which he has won for
progressive principles. But 1t is prob
ably true that very few Of the pro-
gressives have realized to what extent
progressive principles are at stake In
the campaign and how far the plans
Of the ants have gone. The quotation
from what the First district member
says In his newspaper the Fairfield
ledger. serves to indicate what is IL
the air. 49,
During the past week few more Of
the county conventions have been de-
cided, including Lyon. Woodbury.
Franklin, Benton. Plymouth, Emmett
Blackhawk and Buchanan.
The, counties that have already beer
decided either by conventions or a.
least in caucuses show a larger mum
Der of nti-Cummins delegates than Of
the progressives. The counties tha
are yet to be decided. including quite
a number that hold scaucuses today
will show q large majority anti-Taft
II the counties that are yet to de-
eide are divided as at the last con-
vention, then the progressives will have
over hundred majority in the state
convention.
The score Of the reservation" dis
tricts and the capital district show the
following results, all disposed Of: