Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-16
SENATORIAL ESTIMATE CRITI-
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7. j. sHEARER.
SENATORIAL ESTIMATE CRIT
CISED.
The Times Republican is carrying /
along from time to time an estimate OF
the senatorial situation, its footings
last Saturday night being Gear o.
Cummins AZ, with lot of doubtfuls |
still to be placed. The T-R. has cor
rected and added to its estimates in
successive articles until it is not prac- T
ticable to tell just which 81 votes III
counts for Gear nor just which AZ il I
allows to Cumnnins; and if one could I
tell it would be profitless to QUARREL
over details concerning which neitherf
party might be able to produce author |
itative testimony. A sentence in the
T.-R.'s article of last Saturday is, how
ever, suggestive of the thoroughness of
its investigation. 1t says:
If Floyd goes Gear. then it is quite
certain that Chickasaw- Floyd Will
nominate Gear man for the senate,
and now the Cerro Gordo mas spoken it !
only needs assurance that eithe
Franklin or Hancock IS Gear 10 insure
q Gear nomination for the senate in
that district.
we 40 Ilpl care u put 5dlly BdFlicultl5
stress upon the facts that Floyd has
not yet gone Gear and that Cerro Gordo /
has not yet spoken; but we only call
attention to the fact that in the Chick |
asaw-Floyd district Senator Perrin
holds over and that in the Cerro- Gordo-
Franklin Hancock district Senator
Hartman was re-nominated SEVERAL
weeks ago. BY such biundering does
the T.-R. disclose the generally mag
NATIVE character of its figuring. Ne
vada Representative.
The above is from the Nevada Repre-
sentative and we publish it only to
show how a partisan can bubble when
facts are not to his liking. In following
this matter it is difficult TO retain in.
mind the exact status Of 100 legislative
districts and the slip we made is
wholly irrelevant and immateria We
think we have already made sufficient
apology for so slight mistake. The
Representative however, finds in the
sentence criticised, sufficient evidence
to establish the Imaginative cnarac-
ter of our figures. This is really toe
bad, but if the Representative will.
point out wherein we have @blllndered'
I in our figures, II viii have more weight
with the public than 10 bubble over
trifies. When we wrote, Floyd had not
gone Gear, bur it has nov. Cerro
Gordo had spoken and if Brother Payne
didn't hear it it was because he did not
keep his ear close TO the ground. The
Representative is a good paper and an
able supporter of Mr.. Curnmins. It mas
a right TO support Mr.. Gumnins but
to misstate Gears strength. or find
fault with Others for publishing facts
is simply partisan
The Representative gives Mr.. Gear
only thirty votes, Anybody knows this
is not true. The Representative has MOI
a word 70 say in criticism of the Is
innate that recently appeared. Thi:
estimate names seventy-nine district.
from which Mr.. cumrnins is to recetv,
fiftysix votes. and is 50 arranged tina
not single district can be Identified
If st is not practicable 10 tell jus
which ffty-seven votes it counts TO
Gear, nor just which torty-seven it al
allows for Cummlns. itsls no fault o
ours. The press. generally had no diff
Guilty in understanding US. and We wer
called down for assigning Pottawatri
ME, Decatur, Clarke and other countie
to Gear, all Of watch have since de
nla -a5 60,
to play a game of hide and seek W
again name the representative an
senatorial districts that make up tn
ffty-nine Gear and forty-nine Gun
minis votes.
For Gear in the senate.-Adams- Ta5
Tor, Butler Bremner. Buchanan DELE
ware. Blaekhawk Grundy, Cedar
Jones, Clay Dickinson Emmett KOS
suth-Palo Alto, Decatur Ringgoid- u
lon, Des Moines, Fremont-Page. Jeffel
son-Van Buren,, Keokuk- Poweshie.
Linn, Lucas Wayne, Louisa -Muscatin
Lynn o Brien, osceola-sioux, Mon
gomery- Mills, Mahaska. Pottawatt
mie.-1s.
In the House-Adams, Adair, App
moose, Butler, Bremen Buchana
Blackhawk, Clarke, Cass, Clay-Pa
Alto. Cerro Gordo. Delaware, Decatu
& Des MONIES (2). Floyd, Greene, Henri
Jasper, Jones. Jefferson, Keokuk, Ly'
(2). Lucas. Louisa, Linn-O'Br Mon
= gomery. Mahaska, Mills, Pottawatt
ME (2). Page, Ringgold. Sioux. Taylt
Union. Van Buren,. Washingtc
Wayne. wapello-41.
We do not say these have all go
Gear. It is our belief they will be I