Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-01
TIE BIG SIDE ISSUE
Senatorial Contest Proving the Most
Interesting Part of the Repub-
lican Convention.
Both Parties and Their Friends on
the Grounds and Actively
At Work.
Candidates For the Judgeship Also
Mixing" With the Crowd
Temples Interview.
Special to Times-Republican

senatorial contest and Iowa republicans
find SO little this year on which they
disagree that the state convention
would be flat, stale and unprofitable"
were 1t not for that interesting by-play.
The friends of Senator Gear and Mr..
Cummins are on hand watching each
other and making hay whenever the
sun shines in their immediate vicinity.
the corridors and has a cordial and ap-
preciative word for all his many
friends. No man in Iowa knows bet
ter how to do this mixing" and to
this fact Mr.. Cummins owes much of
his popularity and success.
Senator Gear, j. w. Blythe, Senator
Macarthur and others came in from
Burlington Monday noon and proceeded
TO make themselves felt. Senator Gear
stirred around in the crowd and found
his friends as he has been doing, 10,
these many years, and he showed as
much alacrity and skill in finding his
way around among politicians as ever.
In the course of the evening he gave
out an interview, when urged to declare
what he thought should be in the plat
form. He was very firm for strong
sound money declaration, going as far
as to say that it should demand legis-
lation 10 perpetuate the gold standard.
He added plank on trusts to his rec
ommendation and, of course. said that
the platform should cordially endorse
the administration and policies of Pres
ident Mckinley and Governor Shaw.
Never was so little heard about plat
form or the personnel of the committee
that Is TO make it. 1t will be a formal
ity, merely, 50 general is the agreement
as to what it should contain. 1t will be
short, too, and all minor and veNing
matters Will be excluded.
Judge Sherwin made a very strong
Impression upon the politicians here
from the moment of his arrival. He
looks like the solid, vigorous, able mar
that he is. and with the active support
ers and experienced workers who are
here in his interest he was bound tc
make good showing. He has made II
understood that he is not here merely
time. Judge Burnham holds his strength
ty he would surely be nominated That
loss is recognized by his supporters and
opponents alike as his greatest weak
ness. Where it is understood, of course,
it does not hurt him so much. but it
can not be explained to every one. The
anti -Burnham Hubbard men are
here from Cedar Rapids pouring oil on
the flame. and occasionally little red
fire. Their motives are not the best, to
be sure. but their acts count. Some of
them are proceeding from the motive of
disappointment at decisions Judge
Burnham has made. and not from de-
sire even TO iniure Judge Hubbard. One
of them has a brother who had case
before Judge Burnham in Which a
mortgage was set aside as fraudulent
and in which the supreme court Went
still further in affirming the decision OF
the lower court and put the brother in a
worse light than Judge Burnham had
done. Judge Burnham's friends clai..a
that he viii overcome all this and viii
be nominated because ne has the or
ganized strength to do 1t. The southern
Iowa candidates. Judge Sloan of lNeo-
sauqua. and Judge Fee OF Centeryille.
will make a good showing, too. Moth
ing is said against their ability or fit
ness for the supreme bench and they
have personal following all over the
state. Judge Robinson will undoubtcd-
ly have the most votes on the first bal
lot. He Will be nominated If the other
candidates continue ther fight among
themselves long enough. His strength
is widely scattered and will be gradual
ly increased in the same way. though
if a big break comes some of the other
candidates would probably profit more
than he.
The auditorium is far from complete
and only the first balcony aud part of
the boxes can be used. The stage Will
be seated and the room, though rude in
appearance. Will be better in most WAYS
than the convention has had before. 1t
will put all the delegates in more
compact body and will afford all bet
ter chance to see and hear. When fin
ished ii will be all that could be asked
in Iowa.
The remarkable Interview given out
by NJ. L. Temple. of Osceola. in which
he comes out strongly for Gear and de-
clares that Mr.. Cummins had nothing
to do with the Temple amendment fight
in the legislature and was willing to
compromise on it in the republican
state convention two years ago, has at
tracted wide attention Mr.. Temple
says he is for Gear and that his county
is and that 1t is not for Cummins. He
goes into the bolting record of Mr..
Cummins rather severely and extols
Senator Gear. while expressing his ad-
miration for Mr.. Cummins personally.
1t is a significant statement, consider
ing the fact that Mr.. Temple is still
fighting the c., r. & Q. Railway Conn
pany on one oc the cases that caused
him to introduce the famous amend
ment which bears his name. The inter-
view in full was printed in the Creston
Gazette yesterday.
Chairman Hancock had a hard time
deciding whether he would be chairman
again or not. Strong influences pulled
him both ways. He has more on his
hands than any one man ought to un
dertake, with his big race meeting the
last of the month, his private horse
business and wholesale business. 1t
keeps him at work now eighteen or
twenty hours a day and his health is
beginning to show the elects .. the