Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-17
GATHERED BY THE WAYSIDE

! Dies Moines, June 1.-THE Iowa con-
| tingent which departed from Chicago
! a week ago returned home with no III
feeling and no regrets beyond the
main regret over the failure of the
managers to permit consideration OF
any person as a possible candidate OF
, the republican party If he lives west
! OF the Alleghenies. But there was not
! among the delegates and the larger
number of guests from Iowa any feel
/ ing that there had been any misman-
agement or blunders in any way con-
tributing to the situation. IL is agreed
/ on all hands that the, Iowa delegation,
and the men who We're active in work
for Senator Cunmins. did everything
within reason 10 encompass his noni-
nation. and it was certain that not
anywhere 81 Tie doiiaSi Siivii~ 4, s..:e
Hobbies was there any dissension
among the Iowa people. They We're
a unit fer the main purpose The
writer was with the Iowa contingent
! in Chicago. seven days and did not
! hear one discordant note. These
things We're developed, which ought to
now be made matter ofrrecord:sr
The republican nomi nation was
dictated by group of leaders who had
an iron grip. on the convention whose
chief purpose was to effect such a
nomination as would most surely win.
The chief difference between the
bossism of the TWO conventions this
year and the one four. years ago was
that this time the bosses We're re-
10 yrr1llay ola and sought
rather to do what the people want
than what might best suit them
When the nomination was decided
upon, the situation as TO Senator
Cummins was almost identical with
the situation as TO his candidacy
year ago, namely, that next after
Hughes and Roosevelt he was the
strongest candidate before the con-
venulon. If Roosevelt could have sue
ceeded in his ambition TO block the
nomination OF Hughts after the latter
had forced the former out of consid-
GRAFTON, then the candidacy OF Cum
minis would have doomed large upon
the horizon.
The real reas son that Hughes was
nominated was that there was nobody
else who had the favor of the bosses
and al the same time had apparently
gained the approval of the rank and
file His candidacy was negative, but
II crowded all else off.
There Is a good deal of sham about
the game Of politics as it is played "in
the trenches The old time romance
OF the game has been taken away. A
pretty play was made by the man
ayers in the closing up of the two con-
ventions In the first place Roosevelt
knew before either convention met
that he could not receive the repub-
lican nomination. While in Kansas
City he called on Ex-Governor Hadley
al his home and tried to induce him
to go 10 Chicago 10 become a candi-
date and stated to him that he was
aware that he (RoosevefD could not
be nominated But Hadley is dying.
Roosevelt had no notion whatever OF
starting a Lodge boom That was
bluff But he wanted TO be left in
the position of not having Endorsed in
advance anything the republican con-
vent!on might DO. And when the
| Roosevelt deciinapion was read TO the
! bull moose convention It was so en-
phasized at the wrong places as 10
| leave the impression it was an &C
ceptance, or half way that: ana not
until the progressive party convention
adjourned. did the delegates realize
what had happened. But the game
was well played by all hands.
The most interesting part OF the
entire convention at Chicago was the
rank display of partiahty on the part
, of the Chicago newspapers The old
| fashioned way of reporting conven-
ton Is no more. The old time news
papers hired a man for political work
who could command the confidence OF
the big men of the party, and he gave
! facts from the inside. But the chi
cago newspapers were filled with
! pages of siush that represented
nothing more than the mental wand
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