Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-11
sAIJINGER- HARDING MACHINE.
IDes Moines Registerl

SAIJINGEIs- HARDING MACHINE.
uDes Moines Register.l
We know that Judge Salinger Will
not take 1t amiss II in referring to the
state situation we single out Ben Sal
niger, Jr., OF Sioux City as the senior
member Of the political firm Of Sal
niger & Harding.
The Register is very far from mimi
MIXING the interest Of the judge in
what is passing, and very far from
Understanding his talent for just
such a situation as exists. The Reg
lister has known the judge too many
years to be under any misapprehen-
sion as to his talent or his interest.
1t would be easy to credit the judge
with far larger part than he would
be willing to have the public under
stand he is taking. For altho the judge
is man Of prodigious industry when
his interest is aroused he is now some
over 100 opinions behind in his work
on the bench, by far the most dilatory
record ever made on the bench. and
il was this unpunctual habit on the
part of other judges that he most se-
verely criticised when he offered him.
self for that place
But the Judge has found large part
Of his time taken up with trips to Chi
cago. In the old days there was &C.
casion for the moulders of things in
Iowa to gather in Chicago, but in these
days we had supposed that the old
Chicago habit had been dropped. The
judge very evidently has other inter-
ests to take him away from home so
frequently, much as he himself, no
doubt. would prefer 10 give his time to
writing the decisions Of the court so
long overdue.
It is therefore to Ben Salinger Jr"
whose home in Sioux City has brought
him into such intimate contact with
Mr. Harding. and whose management
Of Mr.. Harding's primary election cam
paign fell so naturally into the lines OF
the Salinger campaign for the supreme
bench. that we turn in bestowing Of
fetal recognition on the Salinger. fam
lily. Nor should we be wholly ,nn-
justified even if Judge Salinger felt
a little resentment over being ignored
for Salinger. junior, Is no whit behind
Salinger, senior, in any matter OF IN
genuity or industry in politics. what
he may lack is merely the experience
and practice his father has gained In
the years so faithfully devoted to his
art -r.
This matter Of recognition disposed
Of we come at once to the rumored
purpose Of the SalinEer- Harding ma
chine to displace either Judge Deemer
or Judge Evans at the coming Cleo
ton, and thus pave the way for sec'lr-
ing a Salnger supreme bench. and
also rumored purpose to supplant
Senator Cummins when his term eX-
pires, either with Governor Harding,
whose second term will then be draw
ing to a close. or with Judge Salinger
whose services on the bench will by
that time have lost something of fresh
interest to one of SO restless and am
bilious frame. .ssj 81
This is hopeful program to be laid
so long ahead, but the men who are
behind it are men who have long. long
thoughts in politics, and they have not
perfected a method Of operations so
intricate and so effective for any mere
ly temporary victory. The members
Of the combination are. all OF them
young. they are all in splendid health.
they are all of alert mind. and they
are all Of determined purpose We do
not know that ever before has Iowa
had such a combination Of brains,