Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-01
Roosevelt DESIRES
P[lCE N IOWA
col oNEl NOT sEgKiNo 70 STIR
UP srR,FE AMONG PRooaEs-
s,vEs or STATE.
ONLY sTANDpATs ANXIOUS
FOR THIRD STATE TICKET
Roosevelt Admirss cvmnsins and Socks
to Avoid Antasenixins HE Frisnds-
etandpattsrs Hope 20 Gauss Middle
Among State and County Tieksts %
Taft's Only Hope.

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Taft's Only Hope.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Aug. Lit will never De
upon the advice or insistence OF Col.
Theodore Roosevelt II there IL q tri-
|angular fight made In Iowa for senator
members of congress. governor, at
|torney general and county officers.
This much can be asserted positively
and upon the best OF information.
lColonel Roosevelt realizes that the STU
alton in Iowa II quite different from
that Of some other states. and that un-
ilesS the main issue In which ne anu
his friends are concerned Is to be iost
sight of his friends will stick TO the
text Of the Iowa progressive PLATFORM
II there is q fight made lot new
taspirants for office In the state, placed
ON the ticket as independents py petl,
ton. and thus general muddle st.rreo
n up, extending to county and perhaps
township officers, 1t will be due wno,ly
to the shrewd manipulation OF .ns
standpatters. This can also De stated
with positiveness, for the evidence 10
abundant that It Is standpat inlluence
that Is sWorking now for q state con-
vention to nominate an Independent
state ticket and put up candidate
for senator and members Of congress.
Roosevelt Not Antaoonizin0 Cumm'ns.
what is the reason Colonel Roose-
velt has declined to advise q new state
ticket in lows? % was asked this week.
II "rll tell you." was the answer, and
in one word. Cummins. Now that may
seem strange at first, but am going
\ to confide to you that at Chicago tie
\ last time this same Colonel Roosevelt.
after he had fully decided on his course.
stated to an Iowa man in substance
L that there was no person anywhere
whose support and cooperation ne
would rather have than this same SEN
ator Cummins, Of Iowa. Don't think
for a moment Colonel Roosevelt falls
to understand the immense power that
the senior Iowa senator possesses thru
out tho nation. He does; and II no
realizes that perhaps he can not nave
the active aid Of Cummins. he at least
realizes how important 1t is to him to
not have Cummins' active opposition.
And he 10 not going to do that which
he knows would literally force q ma
11oritys OF Cummins' friends in Iowa to
antagonixe him"
The 9tandpat Trap.
And Il 10 for exactly the same reas-
ons, looked at from the other end OF
the horn, that the Iowa standpatters
are quietly doing all they can to stir
up sentiment for what they call a bull
moose state ticket" While they REFER
to It as state ticket what they are
after il also a candidate for senator or
{.1o ovnA NAy nd III,
dates for congress and fight all along
the lire. They realize that II things
20 on az they are going now. Roosevelt
is going to carry the state. If the
fight IL confined to the one main issue
that of electing Roosevelt president
1T can hardly be called three
for every straw vote shows that
Roosevelt II way in the lead. But they
also believe that If 1t can be shown
that this means q fight for sheriff. and
for treasurer. and for railroad COM
missioner, attorney general. governor.
Legislators. congressman. judges and
tho senate, then an entirely different
situation will be presented.
9tandpats Hope 60 Create Middle.
What the Taft people hope for is
that the T. r. progressives can be
drawn into action that viii put upon
them the responsibility Of forcing
local fight. They know this would I'M
lmeaiately5 lose from Roosevelt thou
sands who are now giving him sup
port that will count, In the ballot boxes.
II they can get general scramble It
lmeans that the Taft chance is inn
proved materially.
There il another element IN the
game on which the Taft people count.
II Il 10 decided that. candidates shall
be placed in nomination all along the
lime, as has been suggested, this will
mean several thousand candidates IN
Iowa, and among them Will of course,
Ibe q great many who were candidates
|before the June primary and were de-
feated, or have been candidates for
this or that Office and failed OF sue
cess. This Is inevitable. Then the
lstandpatters would begin to pound
down the whole T. r. progressive
movement and to decry It az nothing
else than an office-jobbfng scheme d.
lrected by q few "sorehead politicians;
land they would have enough ground
lfor the charge e make 1t effective.
Il Taft1tes Much Disturbed.
That the Taftites are very much dis
It,rbed over the situation IL shown by
1.-The attention they are giving the mat
ter. especially in their newspapers
THE two political newspapers here
have been doing everything they can
Ito encourage Tight especially on the
LEGISLATURE and on the state ticket
LEADERS in tho progressive movement
complain they have been misrepresent-
ed and misQuoted. There was not at
. the time Of the, state conversation any
serious discussion Of the "third ticket"
i among those who attended, yet II was
{ represented that the all-absorbing
II TOPIC was that Of putting up ticket
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