Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-13
[By q Ora W'illia,ns.l

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Whatever else may be said Of II
the progressive political party has de-
veloped to sufficient size to have fac.
tions. which. II Its friends follow the
reasoning OF the oli-time greenbacker.
is a healthful sign Of Intellectual ac-
tivity. This fact of factions became
quite evident to i'll who wanted to. see
or were willing, to sec. at the various
conferences held in Iowa last winter,
out from which came 50 much OF the
boastful talk OF "a candidate against
Cummins." Out of 1t grew the contest
for the senatorial candidate. It re-
mains to be seen, however what track
the party will take now that 1t is fac
ing the voters. That tho outside In
terests looking to Iowa have clearly
defined attitude 10 indicated by this
closing paragraph Of an editorial IN
the Chicago Post (bull moose) re-
Gently:
Casper Schenk. according to tele-
grams from progressive headquarters.
is leading Mr.. Bashor for tho progress
Cummins. If Schenk gets It. he will
8lSc Iuo L4AC l6AS "a $40 SAASs
You see that thought of against
cummins. is still uppermost among
the financiers Of the progressive party
from outside the state
But the latest development Of fac
tionalism in the party IL shown In the
east. 1t appears in the form of q Pin
chot faction Vs. Perkins faction.
Amos Pinchot has made demand that
Perkins be deposed as boss of the
party. He used 1000 words in max
ing the demand for change. In brief.
what he says Is that Perkins IL posi-
lively opposed to the principles Of the
progressive party in that he believes In
protection Of private Industrial mono
poly and in fighting labor unions. MI.
Pinchot says that through the progress
sive party's official bulletin. thru pub
lie speeches and interviews and In
pamphlets printed as progressive party
literature and distributed from the
party's headquarters in New York and
Washington. Mr.. Perkins has conducted
an extensive .pro-trust opaganda CAL
culated to convince the party and the
people that the trusts are useful and
sacred institutions, that those VIII. at
tack them are bent upon destruction
Of all healthy industry on large scale,
and finally that the progressive party
fully agrees with him in these views"
1t is expected that very soon it will
be disclosed thru the party's organ IN
this state which faction OF the party the
Iowa organization will be identified
with.
Possibly a little further light on what
is happening in connection with Mr..
Perkins and his party may be obtained
by careful persual of the following
short editorial which appeared re-
Gently in the Philadelphia Record. a
staunch and time-tried democratic
newspaper, very much devoted to the
administration at washington.
EVERY democrat will heartily well
come the determination Of Theodore
Roosevelt to resist all efforts to ANAL
gamate the republicans and progress
sives. 1t is the one thing needful to
assure democratic victory in the con-
gressional election. It Is the usual
thing for the congressional election in
the middle Of the presidential term
to 20 against the administration. II
the democrats should lose the election
in November Mr. Wilson would be no
more repudiated than a number Of re-
publican presidents have. II Mr..
Roosevelt can keep his progressive
party alive the democrats will have no
trouble in retaining the house. But we
must not count too much on him. OF
course he would be glad to keep up the
agitation for its own sake. and because
he has nothing to. lose and much to
gain. But there are thousands OF pro-
gressives who would rather get back
into the old party than to divide the
wilderness with the prohibitionists and
the socialists"
Anent the discussion OF the increase
in valuation on Iowa property made
last year to fulfill the requirements OF
the law and reach a lawful equaliza-
ton, 1t is interesting to note that the
state board Of tax commissioners OF
New York state made an increase last
year in the aggregate assessed valua-
ton of real estate in that state OF
s277112,5s1 and a decrease Of $3.50
s74 in personal property.
After all the advertising he got. Edi-
tor Rowley Is referred to by the Wash
ington Democrat as editor Of the
Keosauqua Democrat" Mr.. Rowley
has not yet followed the Lee example
and sent his congratulations to the
governor.
The reason Polk county gained from
thirty five to forty-four in number OF
delegates to the state convention Of re-
publicans this year is the difference IN
treatment Of Carroll and Clarke. The
convention Of two years ago was based
on the vote for Carroll and Polk county
voted FOR Claude Porter and gave Car
roll very light vote. But two years
ago, despite the fact that not a single
Des Moines newspaper supported
Clarke, he got a very large vote. hence
the increase in representation in the
convention. Polk county does queer
things. Carroll lived in Des Moines and
Clarke didn't It was. however. the
influence Of Senator Cummins that gave
Carroll his majority. slender as it was.