Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-12
CONGRESSMAN AFTER INTER-
VIEWS CONCLUDES PARTY
HAS COME TO STAY.
REPUBLICANS STANDING STILL,
NO ENTHUSIASM FOR WILSON
Concludes Third Party Has
Como to Stay and That Republican
Organization Must Be RehabiIitated
4 and Win in 1916 or Go Out Of Exist
ence.
Especial correspondence

! Washington, Aug. 12.-"The progress
sive party is not losing ground but on
the contrary is gaining new converts.
The republican party is standing still
and dormant. The democratic admin
istration is exciting no enthusiasm
that have been able to discover"
This is the way Congressman w. H.
limbaugh, of illinois, who is just back
! in Washington after several weeks in
his district, one of the largest in CEN
trai Illinois, sizes up the political sit
uatlon. Judge Hinebaugh is one Of the
foremost bull moose members Of the
house and a member Of the house APP
preparations committee.
Judge Hinebaugh. like every other
man in congress, is losing no oppor-
tunity these days to sound political
sentiment. Not in recent years. per-
maps. has there been such uncertainty
among the politicians here about poll
teal conditions. Men who have, been
accustomed for years to gauge condi-
tions accurately tell you il is impossi-
bic, or nearly SO, to tell how the poll
teal currents are flowing, that every
thing is chaotic and no man in politics
district. Judge limbaugh said he went
the rounds pretty thoroughly and lost
no chance to talk to men Of all cali
ings.
Party Not Losing.
Il can not, OF course, tell what is go
ing on all over the country" said
Judge Hinebaugh, but l believe I 90
have some knowledge Of conditions in
lyfI ~,
tparty is by no means losing strength. I
talked personally with many men who
voted the bull moose ticket last fall.
Far from finding that these men in
tend to leave the progressive party, l
found this sort Of spirit: We are going
to stick to this fight and win. We are
more thoroughly progressive party
men than ever
Il could find no evidence that the
republican party was gaining strength
On the contrary. it is standing still and
dormant. The democratic administra-
ton is exciting no enthusiasm that
have been able to discover"
Voters Can't Be Led.
| He asserted that any movement for
the uniting of the republican and pro-
gressive parties was q movement OF
| leaders, that the rank and file of the
voters had no part in it and that in
! this movement the voters would not be
lied.
The only hope for the republican
party, as Judge Hinebaugh sees 1t, lies
in such disastrous results from the
tariff bill as to drive the country back
to the republicans. He says, however.
he does not anticipate this. as he does
not expect the new tariff measure to
cause serious disturbance. He de-
scribed business in the middle west as
good and said there was small appre-
hension of any general trouble over the
tariff.
Republicans Must Win in 1916 or Die.
/ Unless the republican party can get
itself pulled together and win In 1916,
Judge Hinebaugh perdicts its dissolu-
ton. He does not believe in its resur-
rection, apart from the possibility the
country may rally to it again on tariff.
He admits the democrats are likely to
win the congressional elections in 1914
and says one reason why the demo-
Gratis will probably do SO is that even
if there should be any gripping Of
business by tariff revision the farmers
will probably not feel it for months
and until the congressional elections
are over. In 1916, he predicts the real
battle for the presidency will be a
democratic and bull moose battle, bar
ring the rehabilitation of the republi-
can party thru the tariff or unex
| pected circumstances.