Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-25
COMING TO CUHM.Ns.


Judge TowieI. whose fac.iona. status
in Iowa previous to his election to con-
gress has been standpat is out in an
interview strongly favoring the Cum
the republican party. He agrees with
Cummin$ that southern representation
must be cut down and that at the ma
tional committee must respect state
primary laws. The congre ssman says
that the present plan has destroyed in
part the representative character Of the
republican national convention and
made it a place of intrigue" and ex-
presses his conviction that the only
hope of the party is in the plan pro-
posed by the senior senator from Iowa.
tho it is notable that he refrains from
placing the credit for the suggestion
where it belongs.
This conclusion Of Senator Root,
Murray Crane and Judge Towner is a
| little belated to have the effect that it
might have had if made earlier. These
eminent persons seem to have waited
until the plan suggested appears to
them to be the only hope" The con-
fession that the convention misrepre-
sented the republican party is in the
nature of one made on deathbed or
while the executioner waits. The con-
vention hasn't become any worse since
| it was pulled off, the southern delegat tie
sentation have not changed character.
But other things have changed mater
tally since the convention.
| The reorganization will need to in
clude more than new ninion in the
machinery. 1t will have to accept the
spirit of progressiveness 1t is not
merely a matter OF fixing the car
| buretter but of the impeiling pow
The moving spirit in the parties which
are to live and have a chance is pro-
gressive. Unless the renewed organi-
cation admits and accepts this it not
only faces its last hope" but has had
its last chance.
1t Is not the first time that stand
patism has come as last hope to the
principles and methods advocated by
Albert B. Cummins. OF all the ner
who have been prominent in Leadership
for the past ten or fifteen years, A. 3
Cummins has been most r-sightet
and consistent. There's a reason
Whatever his enemies may say Of tho
man he has been actuated by desire
TO DE Of actua, service 20 his state ans
his country. He ras held office at per
sonal loss as this commercial time
announced a candidacy without an
nouncing a principle and he has in.
variabiy made the principle paramount
and the cause and reason Of his candi
dacy. He has been utterly fearless
politically. Those who cried cruelty
when he made the primary, the anti
which he offered himself 20 the servic
of the state are defending those law
and those principles. The man is honest
He is a statesman. He is big enough
to hold office and big enough to refus
it unless 1t carries with i. approval o
the policies and principles which in hi
iconviction constitute political righteous
ness. He has lived in the midst Of pc
Utica, alarms and turmoil to the high
ct success that can come to any states
man. not the success of office but t
see the policies and principles he dare
advance and maintain in the face O
unpopularity and against powerful
persecution, cornerstones of every part
which appeals with a hope Of success
; to the franchises Of the republic.
; When the history of Iowa and Of tn
: nation is written in the calm contem
= plation of later years, when the me
I who have fought with him and agains
Y him have passed with the turmoil c
: the generation in which he and the
e lived and struggled. when time ha
y blown away the mists which obscul
: and thru which men see other men
n y,,1tiya. <3;p,Iy in oYag rpratpd out