Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-26
Gathered il, the By,uays
Special to Times Republican.

| past week. The published excerpts
from the speech have been read by
| many With deep interest.
The outlook for Senator CummiIs
is becoming better all the time" said
a state official, commenting on the
speech. HE said just what was to be
expected Of him. AS one who believes
that the republican attitude toward
the tariff Is right and that the basis
for action by the democratic party
makes 1t impossible that party shall
ever deal with the tariff in the RICH,
way, he voiced very popular view as
to the tariff situation. His speech has
strengthened him with the people.
But signs multiply that there is to
be many sided effort TO do next year
what someone set out to do a good
! many years ago, namely, to pound
Cummins into the earth; and that
when it is all summed up it is going
to be a fight OF Cummins and anti
Cummins people and all of the Null
hall kind Of politicians arrayed against
Cummins.
Despite that the democratic machine,
backed by the Perkins faction of anti
Cummnsites, has picked Pepper to be
the man to finally make the race to de-
feat Cummins, this dictum is not fully
accepted. For instance, Bill Hutton, Ct
this city, in his democratic organ, says
naively this week that Claude Porter
has a clear field and apparently no OPP
position; which indicates he Goes not
have the Sioux City Journal and Iowa
City Republican on his exchange list.
But there is also floating about story
to the eeffct tina. John T. Clarkson is
being considered as the man who can
best make the race. Now Senator
ClaIkson is growing and popular man
but he would never get the backing
of Nick Reed, Fred fischer or Dave
Brant. Later still comes the announce
ment through Harvey Inghams morn
ing paper that Billy Jameson is going
to be the candidate picked to beat
Cummins at the finish. Now Jameson
has had a remarkable career In poll
tics and he engineered the whole fight
10 keep Iowa from going TO Wilson
last year for the nomination, but aside
from this we'll financed movement he
has had little statewide experience in
garnering votes. He would, however
come pretty close to uniting all fac
tons Of the opposition TO Cummins, in
GLIDING even the G. D. Perkins fac
ton.
The assumption apparently stands
that Cummins will receive the regular
nomination al the June primary and
nothing bu, perfunctory opposition Is
TO be made to him then.
But of course there will be other
candidates in opposition to Cummins
in November. There Will be three or
four of them. The one who will be
counted On to get the place Will be on
the democratic ticket, but there will be
a progressive party candidate. pro-
hibition candidate. a socialist candi-
date, etc. The progressive party man
ayers have not as We, located the man
for their candidate, SO 1t Is said. There
is talk that Harvey 1ngham would like
very much to be the man. He fiirted
with congressional politics once or
twice and might run for the legisla-
ture, but is said 10 be receptive TO the
other nomination.
But after ALL said an out of-town
visitor the other day, 'our politics for
d,
made in Washington just now; we car
only play the game as ii has been out
lined for u.s.
The action Of the Wilson admins
tration in cons oiidating the two in
ternal revenue districts of the state viii
strengthen the president in this part
of Iowa where there has been no ma
terial interest in the revenue Offices
no a
without prejudice. 1t has long been
recognized that one office can do the
work as we'll as two. II is related
that the reason for the continuance
of the division, years ago, was due to
the fact that the two senators lived
in the towns where the Offices were
located But that which appeals to
men here without regard to politics,
is that the president in this as in many
other matters. has shown himself
Indifferent to personal interests and
perhaps also to party interests and
placed the public interest above ali
else.
The late Col. Henry Bousquet was
great reader The last few weeks OF
his life he had been reading Work
that would hardly have attracted the
attention of the ordinary man as good
entertainment for summer time. 1t was
a work on The Nature Of Man." by
q learned French professor. VINO
treated Of man in cold FLOODED way
as an animal and summarized in
striking fashion wherein man is like
or unlike other animals in physical
characteristics. But Colonel Bousquet
liked to read travel stories and works
| of information on all subjects and ne
kept himself remarkably well informed
on what was doing thruout the world.
It has been generally forgotten but ne
made the race for the nomination Tor
supreme court clerk good many
wears ago and was defeated.
There is considerable fiutter among
the newspapers of Des Moines about
the plans being made to promote a
new newspaper enterprise here ~ Is
said the scheme Is to make II morn
ing paper. The National Democrat
the local democratic organ. scouts the
idea and says:
! "The partisan daily is fast disap-
! nearing and instead of political or
gan the people are demanding broad
guase newspaper which Is printed IN
the interest Of good government ana
reliable news matter. Des Moines 10
particularly fortunate at this time IN
its daily publications, and democrats
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