Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-10
"A cuMM1Ns OUTLOOK.


Editor w. O. Payne, of the Nevada
Representative. has contributed re-
view of the Iowa senatorial situation to
a late number Of the Chicago Times
Herald, In which he says:
The most engrossing topic of con-
versation among those attending the
Iowa state convention was the sena-
torial contest; and though no test vote
was taken anywhere, yet out of the
tangle of claims it was possible for the
observer with general acquaintance to
draw the plain and unmstakable infer
ence that Mr.. Cummins is winning the
senatorship. Two essential conditions
are contributing to this end: First, the
friends of possible dark horses have
come generally to recognize that the
contest has gone too far to permit of
new candidates coming into the field
with profit; and secondly, the northern
two-thirds of the state are with scat
tering exceptions gradually but surely
coalescing upon Cunmins.
The Gear strength is the easier to
count because it is the more compactly
located, has been the more noisy and is
the less numerous. Primarily the Gear
territory has been considered to consist
of the First. Sixth and Eighth congress
sional districts and the south half of the
Ninth. This territory has been definite
ly broken by the passage of Cummins
Resolutions In Poweshiek and by the
nomination Of Cummins man In Jas
per. Further. the counties of Van
Buren,, Keokuk, Mahaska and Ringgold,
though lying in the solid Gear territory,
have pointedly refused to follow the
universal Gear tactics where the Gear
men actually control, and have by omit
ting instructions in his behalf placed
themselves in an equivocal attitude;
while in the great county of Pottawat-
TAME there is contest that can be de-
termined only by the primaries and
county convention.
eff, however, Senator Gear shall get
every doubtful vote in his own territory
he must get about twenty-five more
from the part of the state north of the
Rock Island railroad. To this end he
senator from Osceola and the repre-
from Butler is an avowed Gear man,
and the senator and representative
from Franklin are generally counted
commitment. II is probable that Sioux
county. which was responsible for the
instruction of the Osceola senator, will
|send a Gear representative. The hold
lover senator in Blackhawk and the nom
Iinee for representative from Palo Alto
have been suspected of Gear proclivi-
ties. and the Gear people hoped for two
Tor three in Linn and possibly something
d in adjacent counties in the Fifth dis
ltrict, before they made war in the state
convention upon the Fifth district cam
didate for supreme judge.
This is the Gear situation in the
north half of the state. Much of the
strength above counted for him is
: problematical; and yet to win Senator
.lGear must actually poll all this
3 strength and then realize on at least a
dozen hopes. These hopes imply that sc
j many men may be found who will quar-
Irel with their counties and with their
colleagues from neighboring counties
will resist local and district and sec
tional pressure and will then ally them
selves with a candidate whose pros
: poets are infinitely less now than they
-Iwere in the month of March.
From the Rock Island north the Cum
minis movement meets with little eff
Elective resistance. The north half of the
J Ninth. the Second, the Seventh. half at
!. least Of the Fifth and Third the Fourth
the Tenth and the Eleventh are already
with scattering exceptions, Cummins
l districts In order to win Mr.. Cummins
I has only to hold the strength which
upon the surface is already his: and fol-
a rising candidate this is not ordinarily
: difficult thing to do.
4 The longer the contest continues tht
v more evident does it become that tht
> popular judgment sustains him; and il
, Iowa the candidate who has this sort o
: support is invincible. Mr.. Cummins il
I winning the senatorshtp because he il
: of suitable age, splendid abilities ant
. high character, and because with thes
requisites he has the confidence of tn
people and has. even against the advic
n of friends, had the courage to be q can
II didate. No Iowa man has ever won
more richly deserved success than Will
be his if. the senatorial contest shall
end as now seems probable, and tn
:. best of it all is that Mr.. Cummins' com
S manding lead has been attained with
! out reflection upon Senator Gear. TIL
latter has simply served his time, an
y he will retire, if such shall be the de
G the state to whose service he has giye1
50 many years.
r BURNHANI AND LINN COUNTY.
e Editor Murphy, of the Vinton Eagle
was manager of the Burnham boom a
q the republican state convention, and a
r "a leader in the movement his review G
u the contest will be read with Interest
o Under the caption of THE Linn Count
y Pirates he says in the latest issue G
q the Eagle:
Probably the most despicable piec
y of political work ever perpetrated i
II this district was the action of the Lin
:. county delegation towards Judg
Burnham at the late state convention
r By reason of jealousy, malice and spit
lie certain attorneys of Cedar Rapids con
IF spired together to take the count
:. away from him tBurnham). In orde
= not to hurt one of their own member
le for the future they endorsed an es
= Judge of Marion, named Giffen, wea
,s and vain-minded man, to stand as the
stalking horse. and by their palave
made him think he might be nominate
~ in tho hreak-IIp