Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-18
TRYING 70 FOOL
ONh REPUBLICANS
sTANoPATs ATTEMPTING TO RE
PEAT TRICK WORKED FOUR
YEARS AGO.
EFFORT TO sow pissENsioN
AMONG CANDIDATES. FRIENDS
Lies Against Various Progressive Cam
didatss Being Psddled to Suit LOCAL..
-standpats Finding Il Necessary
to Apply Military Discipline in Order
to Hold Voters in Line.

70 60J0 voS0rS III I1nOs
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, May 1S.-Can the repub-
licans Of Iowa be fooled again this year
as four years ago and by similar
tricks? That is q live question.
Evidence has been accommodating that
reliance is placed on the old tactics for
defeat of the majority. The enemies OF
Senator Cummins are playing the game
to set progressives against each other.
The general plan is to SO work it
that progressives will begin slashing
their own candidates. To encourage
this all sorts of stories have been set
in circulation. In one place it is
canard about Kenyon, in another a
falsehood about Clarke. elsewhere OF
tosen's name is juggled with, then a
SLY story Is put out about what Van
Law ia doing, and so on to the end. 1t
is all for the purpose Of breaking up
insurgency" as some of them put it.
In one of the counties of this district
thes tory is being circulated that SEN
ator Kenyon and his friends are back
Of the Holden movement, and this
story is relied on to cause some of the
strong progressives to withhold sup
port from kenyon The same tactics
have been tried in small way here
but can not be used where the pro-
gressives are alert In a First district
county one Of the Holden field agents
or kitchen cabinet has been assi1vo;S
" a inO 1no fo1
that Clarke is working for Young, this
being intended to induce progressives
there to withhold support from Clarke.
however, that the stories will have no
effect.
In one northern Iowa county where
Chris Ottosen is very strong the anti
progressives are circulating the story
tosen, this being to the injury Of
Clarke. In one Of the Eighth district
counties work is being done for Proud
foot by coupling his name up with
Senator Van Law and seeking to get
progressives to work for the two.
Another line Of work for those who
desire more than anything else that
something be done they think will do
on the prejudices Of progressives by
pointing out that certain standpat pa
pers are supporting this or that pro-
sressive. The fact is that some Of the
strongest standpat papers Of the state
are giving earnest support to Senator
Kenyon. others to Governor Clarke,
others to Mr.. Chassell others to Otto
sen and Van Law and Brown and
nj hfu Ho
each of these men has been in public
lie long enough to have won the ia
vor Of all fair minded men.
As for the stories of trades and COM
bines and deals which are being circu-
lated Tor the sole purpose Of advancing
the interests OF standpat candidates for
office there is not word of truth in
them. The progressive candidates are
running each on his own merits and
each one without any regard to COM
oinations or alliances. Any and all
stories as to what any Of the can
dldates are doing that might injure
some other progressive candidate are
merely part Of the campaign of fool
Ing the people on which the standpat
cause relies for success.
THE friends of good government and
the square deal for every man ought to
take encouragement from the fact that
the political situation has become such
that entrenched standpatism finds 1t
necessary even in Iowa to apply mill
tary discipline to keep the battle lines
intact"
So declared a keen observer Of DO
litlcal events after the departure Of the
fourteen Taft delegates" following
their all day session at which they re-
solved thta they would do what every
body had supposed they would do any.
way.
1T is an amazing thing" he contin-
ued, that half delegation all of them
supposed to be of one mind, should be
required to meet every SO often and re-
new their vows of allegiance or run
the risk Of forgetting where they are
at. One would hardly have supposed
that 1t was needful that fresh oath
to the sacred tenets of standpatism
should be taken just a few days prior
to the Ohio primary In order to make
sure that when the news is received
from there these fourteen delegates do
not make a scoot for the band wagon
Now you can set 1t down as fact
that these standpat delegates did not
como here to pick out members Of the
various committees They can do that
Job in five minutes after they get to
Chicago. They did not come here to
choose the member of the national
committee alone, tho that was prob
ably In the minds Of some Of them.
They did not come together Just to get
acquainted, for are not they all among
the most conspicuous party leaders?
Neither did they get together to con-
slider whether they should really vote
for Taft.
'sWhat did It mean then? Evidently
they arc looking beyond Taft They
know that Taft Is out Of It. They know
that II Ohio gives the progressives
any encouragement at all. the TAFT
PILES CURED AT HOME BY