Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-21
terest whatever in the welfars Of

terest whatever In the welfare OF
Iowa.
But other questions Why should
the committee which has offices In
Wall street have given publicity ia
their thought Of candidate against
Senator Cumming and their "hope OF
beating Senator CUMMING" and ignored
the fact there will also be demo-
cratic candidate to 60 against, d. also
several other party candidates? Why
against Cumming and nobody else1
Why not against Jameson" Oh
against Porter or just -l~simply
against all other candidates."
1t would seem from their own rec
ord as published in their chosen ave-
nue. Of publicity that they desire rather
to help defeat Cummins and to thus
help in the election of democrat. No
other inference is possible from their
own announcements.
Aiding Democrats.
There is other and more direct evil
dence of this purpose to help the dem
ocrats. Why call the iowa leaders
together to tell them they must hunt
up as candidate for head of their
ticket a former progressive ,republi-
can" Why reject the one, candidate
now in the field for the nomination for
senator on their ticket? He Is a former
democrat-Mr Stuart He is the ables!
speaker they have in their party. He
can, better than any other, play upon
those who are dissatisfied with both
the republican and democratic parties
He is a tried and true anti monopolist
Aye there's the rub: for when he
speaks with eloquence and feryer iii
denunciat ton of special privilege he is
hitting too close to the mark to suit
some who are relied on for financing
the campaign.
When the conference was held in
January and two or three of the speak
ers of the bull moose party we're given
a chance to say their say, SO that the
national leaders would know which
one to pick as a candidate against
Cummins" Frank Stuart delivered the
only really progressive speech Of the
whole bunch, but he did most unmerci-
fully skin the promoters and defenders
of Special privilege" and the trusts
and combines including the harvester
trust and all those who would like to
have the nation legalize the big COM
bines. No applause from the national
leaders" Then they went back to
their offices in Wall street and re-
ported. The February conference was
called and Frank Stuart was not here
The aforesaid national leaders" were
aged In selecting some other can
didate for senator. Evidently in Wall
street Frank Stuart had been rejected
Evidently his brand of progressiveism
is not that which the national lead
ers" desire to have advocated.
Motive 10 Plain.
1t was represented to them, also,
at the February meeting, that mas
much as the bull moose party had in
the campaign of 1912 appealed almost
wholly to dissatisfied republicans, 1t
would be a good thing, If the intent
was to really build up a party rather
than to merely wreak revenge or feed
spite to appeal this year to to dis
satisfied democrats; hence that for
mer democrat like Stuart would be just
the man for leader. But they now
appear in the role Of hunting a former
republican, evidently not to secure
democratic votes but to toll off re-
publican votes. 60
Incidentally, it has recently been
somewhat widely published in the east
that as a matter of fact the only
United States senator who 70 persist
emily urging upon congress an effec-
tive law for curbing the rapacity OF
the trusts is Senator Cummins. There
NAV be no connection between this
duplication and the fact of the orders