Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-03
IOWA SENATOR WILL BE CANpl-
DATE AGAINST COLONEL IN
CHICAGO CONVENTION.
If NOT CANDIDATE HIMSELF,
ROOSEVELT WILL DICTATE
Former President Can Take Large Part
Of East Away From Taft-Cummins'
Candidacy Taken Seriously Every
~hers-Major Lacey and His Stand
pat Crowd Insist on Fight.
special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines, Feb. 3.-When the name
of Senator A B. Cum1nins is presented
in the Chicago convention by the Iowa
delegation of republicans as the Iowa
candidate for the presidential nomina-
ton it will be as a candidate against
Col. Theodore Roosevelt rather than
signs indicate that long before the
close OF the campaign it will be a
question Of Roosevelt against the field,
with CumminS leader in the field. For
one thing it now appears certain that
nobody will have any such lead in the
convention as to make nomination GER
tain. and least OF all will it be Taft.
The mar Cummins will AVE TO beat is
Colonel Roosevelt or someone 0esis-
mated by him.
The conspicuous feature OF the situa-
ton in a national way is that every
where the candidacy of the Iowa man
is taken seriously. In NJ place is it
made light OF or treated as Of small
consequence The fitness of Cummins
for the place is not questioned any
where. HIS right to be a candidate Is
not denied by anybody outside OF
Iowa. In no place has he been sub
jected to personal attacks. In the main
the attitude of republicans in many Of
the states is to wait and see what Iowa
does and il Iowa is in earnest in back
ing up the Iowa candidate hen the
Iowa demand will be received with
much consideration.
Nearly all the big eastern papers are
a1y-S S-I3, 80 ~-- - --y;%;111
news indicating thai there is an up
heaval in every state. 1t generally
takes the form Of a boom for Colonel
Roosevelt. and this in every instance
illustrates, so 1t Is stated, far more
OF antagonism TO and lack of confidence
in Taft than it does affirmative desire
for a thir term for Colonel Roosevelt.
Nearly all Of the uprising for Roose-
Welt Is regarded as an expression Of
desire for q candidate who can win and
recognition OF the fact that Taft as a
candidate could not win except by the
most terrific efforts. Wherever a
straw vote is recorded, in the east or
wes there are votes cast for Cum
Minis, for LAFollette and for Roosevelt,
INC III every instance these aggregate
far more h the votes for Taft.
Republicans everywhere ire engaged
in cropping along seeking a candidate
who will make a good president, who
Will wiz at the polls. Senator Cummins'
availability is not questioned anywhere
outside of Iowa.
The fact that Major Lacey has called
his cohorts together at Oskaloosa for
March 6 to select the Sixth district
delegates to the national convention in
dicates that SO far as the irreconcil-
ables are concerned they will not be
satisfied unless they force a Disagree
able fight in Iowa. and that they are
determined to again stir UP a factional
warfare to rend the state. The intent
is to hold an early convention and have
the word 90 out over the country that
Iowa regulates the Iowa candidate"
or that the old guard refuses TO en-
dorse C~uUrnins,' and TO thus convey
the impression that Senator Cummins'
candidacy is not in earnest. They
figure that this will 90 a long way
toward preventing the election Of an
Iowa maj as president; and still more
important that it will have the effect
of keeping alive the factional troubles
of the republicans and making it less
probable that a republican legislature
can be elected.
That this program Is not approved
bv the great majority of those who
have in the past opposed Senator sum
minis is shown by the letters and ex-
p~ressions of personal opinion from
hundreds Of the so-called standpatters
who are giving assurance that they
will not stand in the way of a delega-
rion that will be for Cummins honestly
and sincerely and all the time.
One OF the prominent republicans OF
Des Moines. in answer to a question
nut to him by a friend in the Second
district. wrote this week as to what
kind of a delegation the republicans
ought to send to the Chicago
ton. summarizing as follows:
A delegation that will stand first and
all the time for Senator Cummins as
the Iowa candidate for the nomina-
ton.
A delegation that viii be for Cum
Minis for first choice. sincerely n
honestly, and every member OF which
will take a firm stand for Cummins in
all the preliminaries.
A delegation that will have no sec
ond choice. as a delegation. nor con-
slider second choice matters at all.
-s "A O"oIegallOH tUdl Will lOt oiis NoIS
for Iowa but work for Iowa
A delegation that will not be antag-
onistic to other republicans but simply
for the iowa candidate because he is
best fitted for leadership.
A delegation that will not be for any
one for second choice. neither Taft.
mol Roosevelt, nor LaFollette.
A delegation hat will not be traded
of nor be bulldozed nor bribed nor
frightened away from its position.
A delegation that will uphold the
Iowa banner honorably and courag-
eously in convention and in the Hobbies.
A delegation without grudges, big
men, broad minded men. not self-seek-
ing Adventures, men who are sought
out for the place because Of fitness and
capability.
A delegation that will be harmonious.
earnest, sincere, loyal to Iowa, loyal to
Cummins, q credit to the state.
Only two names were talked OF
among the democrats 1t the recent
conference ~ possible candidates for
governor, according to Judge Wade,