Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-05-26
Psnro.s IN uaIy Fact

The denomination of Senator Boies
Penrose in the Pennsylvania primary is
fact of evil import which il would be
foolish to try to dodge. Some highly
respectable Republicans in Pennsyl-
vania are trying TO dodge it.
The Philadelphia Press" which fol-
lowed Penroses compaign in silence.
says. now that he is nominated, that he
was 1.-The logical candidate Of his party
for reelection and it would have been
a manifest weakness to have refused
him support at this time
The idea Of The Press and of those
who sympathize with 1t is that however
base and coryupting Penrose's leader
ship has been. and whatever his al
dances with all that is disreputable and
gross in politics. he has always worked
In the senate to obtain the highest pos
sible protection for Pennsylvania
manufacturing interests For that one
virtue, exhibited with constancy and
industry by practically every Pennsyl-
vsnia leader in congress for the last
fifty years, they are willing to forgive
him for all he has done to make re-
publicanism ineffective and odious
THE Public Ledger" which had the
courage to affront business sentiment
In Philadelphia by opposing Penrose,
rightly attributes the latter's strength
In the primary to the reaction against
the Wilson administration. 1t says
that the large Penrose vote was due
to the deep resentment felt by the peo-
pie over the destructive effect upon
Pennsylvania interests Of democratic
laundering and persistence OF stupid
Legislative attacks upon business.
t.
where TO grasp at an opportunity OF
showing their dissatisfaction with the
Wilson ninietration. Many may feel
that any republican is good enough to
be used as an instrument to strike at
the muddlers in Washington. But such
a view is terribly shortsighted.
1t is just as necessary to build up re-
puhlicanism as it is TO tear down demo-
cracy. The republican party is In
minority. It went two years ago to
the most crushing defeat it ever suffer
ed under the leadership OF men whose
ideas and methods il had outsrown
More than half its members deserted 1t
because they were tired Of boss!sm ana
standpatism.
What will it benefit the republican
party TO recall to power the incompet-
cnts and reactionaries who wrecked the
Taft administration The success OF
Penrose in Pennsylvania thru the
cowar6ly acquiescence of respectable
republicans will prompt other exiies-
exiled for the party's good-to clamor
for recognition Ex-senator Joseph b.
Foraker has been inspired to announce
hat he is a candidate for the republic
can senatorial nomination in Ohio.
Why shouldn', he be vindicated II Pen
rose is 10 be? Both are tarred with
the same stick Both are earnest oil
barrel statesmen.
And if Penrose. Foraker, ct al. ap-
pear again at Washington as ac-
credited republican leaders. what hope
vii! there ever be of attracting to and
holding in the republican ranks those
who believe that the partys mission
should be one Of public service and
progress.
Colonel Roosevelt has just returned
from South America and expects TO
give his attention this fall to a revival
of the progressive movement. Nothing
could play more directly into his hands
than the nomination Of men like PEN
rose and Foraker on republican tickets
Even Pennsylvanians who want 10 hide
their heads in the sand and vote for
Penrose as a protest against the VIII
son administration ought 10 realize that
they are blocking their own game.
They are contributing TO keep repunN-
canism On the defensive Men with
records like Penrose's are always on
the defensive.
A clean, aggressive party Is the only
kind of party that can win In this
country under present conditions. II the
republican party iS to meet that test
/, must cut loose from the undesirables
Who crippled it and robbed II of popu-
larity The defeat of Penrose, Foraker
and all of their kind is necessary this
year IL republicanism is to come into
It's own again two years from new.