Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-06
AGREEMENT IS broken
Des Moines View Of Contest Pend
ing In Muscatine County-Hot
Time Promised.
Claimed Leaders Agreed Not to En-
danger Republican Success With
Senatorial Issue.
Native Of Ceylon Talks on Philip.
pines "A Woman Money Maker
Of Mason City.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Sept. 6.-The primaries
in the city of Muscatine will he held
this evening and there are ntimations
that they will occasion re-enactment,
on small scale, of some of the scenes
that marked the recent caucuses in
| ICpuncil Bluffs. There is hot fight in
progress for the control of the county
Iconvention and the city of Muscatine is
likely to control.
Cummins men who have been in town
recently from Muscatine say that some
| time ago the leaders on both sides in
THAT county agreed that there should be
lno fight on the sena torial matter lest it
lshould cause bitterness and lose the
|county at the polls. 1t went republican
| two years ago by only about 200 and il
there should be a slump this year that
majority would easily be wiped out So
lit was understood that no fight should
be made The Cummins men declare
| they have lived up to the agreement.
but they add that the Gear people have
| not done so.
1 The Gear elements. it is stated, have
recently gone into the county in the eff
forts to secure resolutions instructing
4 for their man. There are two candi-
dates for representative, John l.. Gels
Ter, the present member of the house.
and Ira Hendrix, member of the board
lof supervisors and uncle to j. T. Hen
dirk, of the state commission of phar-
lmacy Mr. Geisler does not come out
for Cummins, but is generally regarded
las the Cummins candidate. His position
lis that as the county is close he would
prefer, if nominated, to have the con
vention instruct him. But. it is also
understood, he would prefer nstruc-
tions for Cummins. On the other hand
Hendrix is pronounced Gear sup
porter and wants to be nominated as
such. He doesn't care If he is in
|structed for Gear, but he wants it un-
Iderstood how he stands personally.
4 The rural townships held their eau
1cuses last Saturday evening and results
were mixed, though Gear had the bet
ter share of delegates named. But
4 Cummins sentiment is stronger in the
lefty of Muscatine than in the country
land a Cunmins victory would mean a
ICummins convention. Consequently
the result of tonight's primaries is like
lily to determine which senatorial candi-
date will get the vote of this county in
the lower mouse.
Des Moines was visited today by Mr..
i ". l.. t ssero, a native of the island of
,eylon. and now, and for many years. a
resident of the United States. MIR. Tis-
sero is employed as agent and expert
for a big tea concern. He talked to the
Times Republican correspondent about
4 the United States and its relations to
/ the Philippines and he advanced some
Interesting suggestions. He says first
that the people of the islands do not
know as much as they ought about this
slcountry They do not appreciate its
wealth and power and resources: they
cannot be made to understand that in
the end they cannot possibly make a
Showing of force to cope with what the
limited States can produce. They have
known the United States only through
lrelatio with certain commercial in
lterests of this country. which have not
lpleased them very well. They have
found the American merchant hard
lbargainer and close calculator and
lthey believe the American government
would be just as severe in its aepart-
lment.
He declares that it will require fully
$50 900 American soldiers in the islands
to effectually conquer them, and then
the conquest can be held good only by
keeping an immense garrison. 1t is use
lless TO use small army. for as soon as
an uprising is suppressed in one place it
,,.an II In, nn b1r a
must be sent there. 1t would be like
trying to gather up a cupful of water
in ones hand AS to the rights of the
matter Mr. Tissero is disposed to the
opinion that the islands would be bet
ter off for American rule and would
ultimately come to realize it. But they
must first be thoroughly defeated. Mr..
lTissero, an intelligent. capable. shrewd
business man himself, is a pretty good
Illustration of the results of Anglo
/ Saxon rule of an oriental people He is
one of the products of British rule in
India.
Iowa is, as usual all right this year.
The hot winds of yesterday might have
done good deal of damage to corn if
they had come along three weeks ago,
but all the crop authorities agree there
is little chance of serious harm being
done now. The corn is too we'll adj
vanced toward maturity.
But out in Nebraska it is otherwise.
A Des Moines man yesterday received a
letter from former Iowan who lives
in south central Nebraska, saying that
the hot winds of the past ten days, to-
gether with a drouth that has been un-
broken for three weeks, has cut the
corn crop 80 per cent of the yield that
was promised month ago. These con
ditions are duplicated in many other
counties of that state and it looks as if
the magnificent corn crop which was
expected this year, and which for a
time promised to beat that of Iowa
would after all fall below the average
The senatorial sizing-up. as presented
in the Times Republican yesterday, Civ.
ing the claims in detail of the Cummins
forces, has attracted good deal of at
tention among the leaders on both sides
Many of the Cummlns men have fel,
that not enough effort has been giver
! by Mr.. Cummins and his associates te
keeping the public posted on the situa.