Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-07-20
EVIDENT THAT PRoGRESSIvEs
OF IOWA WILL NOT CONSENT
TO NAME NEW TICKET.
PURPOSE TO CHOOSE
NATIONAL CANDIDATES
To Brine Choice Of Men for President
and Vice President to the People and
Crush Rossism-State Convention to
Avoid Any Breach in Progressive
Republican Movement
oecial to rimes-Repuhlican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, July 20.-F'our days more
and there will be held in this city
convention for the organization Of
movement the primary purpose OF
which is to guarantee and establish
the right of the people to choose their
own public servants. The privilege OF
choosing between candidates is fairly
| we'll established, and in Iowa the right
OF choice of candidates is seldom dis
puted now: but nationally Il mas oeen
demonstrated that the men of the rank
and file have no voice whatever IN say
ing who shall be candidates. 1t is to
bring about that in the nation Whlch
has been fairly we'll established In
Iowa that a convention of protest Is
TO be held.
No political gathering in Iowa IN
many years has attracted the attention
this one will. Iowa progressiEeness is
known TO be moderated by conserT-
atism What will Iowa say? What
direction will the movement take here:
Rooseve't's Presence No Aid.
Theodore Roosevelt will not be here.
In the opinion of great many OF the
leaders Of the movement this Is good
! thing They had hope. very FAINT
hope that he might decide TO come ana
here give first urterance to oehni'e
program of political action. They
never al any time had any assurance
ne would do SO. They realized that
his coming would be a great attraction
and draw big crowd; but they also
realized that better work for the cause
could be done if Iowa men should be
left to their own devices and resources.
The convention is more likely TO reflect
| the sentiment of the men Of Iowa who
are convinced Of the parting OF the
ways The suggestion is that perhaps
this is what Colonel Roosevelt wants.
Will Deal in GeneraIities.
The resolutions that will be adopted
are pretty sure to be Of a general ma
ture. with little attempt to go into de-
tails Privately 1t will be admitted
among the delegates that there is very
little in the way Of good legislation or
| political reform that could not be Sc
cured thru existing parties. provided
always that platform pledges are lived
up TO and party promises kept. There
l
ali,ies and undertake TO state funda-
mental principles only. But there will
be great interest in those resolutions
Why did Colonel Roosevelt change
! his mind about coming out to the mid
| land country at this time? Why does
! he not come to Iowa and speak OF his
| plans now?
Disposed to Be Cautious.
! These are questions being asked. and
! at the convention next week they will
! be asked many times. A suggestion is
! that ne is not ready now TO state his
position. 1t may be necessary 10
| change the program. 1t is not yet
quite clear what direction this move
merit is TO take, when all parts Of the
country are considered and the di-
vergent views of thousa Of protest
ants have been collated. There is evil
! der &c, very strong evidence, 50 the OBJ
servers are saying, that right now
there is disposition to halt TO wait
awhile. TO pause and consider, and to
go forward with due caution. Here in
| Iowa there is a distinct hes!tan cy
about taking up with the new move
ment. not thru lack of sympathy and
not because radical factionalists have
res orted to name-caIlng as an all
sufficient argument against IT, but
thru sincere desire 10 find out first
just where the movement leads to in
the end.
No- Deserving Republican Candidates.
One OF the friends of the movement
pointed out yesterday that there is al
ready a cIeariy-delined difference be-
tween Colonel Roosevelt ard a group
Of his immediate counselors and the
leaders in a number OF big states. For
instance. the plans made in Pennsyl-
vania do not contemplate any distinct
breaking from the republican party:
neither are such plans being made in
Nebraska. California or Ohio. If the
plans of Colonel Roosevelt are to form
a distinct party that will fight repub-
lican candidates for local offices just
as hard as it will fight democratic can
dictates, then he will lose a large part
Of his following. For instance here
is Governor Stubs OF Kansas writing:
Il will not support either Taft or
Sherman so long as they are the bene-
ficiaries of fraud. 1 will work for the
success of the republican party. /
shall not desert now or surrender back
to the old machine and its faithless
bosses the fruits Of the great victory
people Of Kansas. This is no time for
a progressive republican to desert his
friends in this state"
This spirit does not fit in exactly
with suggestions emanating from Oys-
ter Bay, as to the practical working
out Of the problem. Here in Iowa
there Is just one thing certain, and
that is that II the new party move
Inert is to break up the solidarity OF
the progressive republican movement
it will not get very far. There will be
linen at the state convention who will
talk plainly about that matter.
National Campaign Only.
It is more than probable that there
viii be before the state convention this
week a resolution, in some form. de-
claring definitely that 1t is not the In
. tention Of those in the movement to
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