Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-23
DEFEAT OF BERRY.
interesting Details of the Fight
Against Him in Warren County.
THE DEMOCRATS FOUGHT HIM HARD
They Organized n school for Instruc-
tion How to Scratch Ballots-
Howard Tedford Candi.
date for state Binder.

Des Moines, Nov. 22-The details
from the Clarke-Warren senatorial
contest are quite interesting. 1t was
not until the last few weeks, perhaps
two weeks OF the campaign, that any
one realized there was hard fight for
Senator Berry and that he might be de-
defeated. When Senator Jameson
came back from the senatorial conven-
ton and declared that he would sup
port Berry the democrats threw up
their hands and had hard work to get
an eligible man to take the nomination.
First, they nominated young fellow
in Osceola who proved to be too young.
Tallman, of Osceola, because no one
sentative Movers, the, man who beat
Mr.. Temple two years ago, but he
thought it was no use and preferred TO
run for representative again. The DEM
ocrats are now kicking themselves
about as much as the republicans be-
cause they did not give the nomination
thing.
1t appeaYs now that the Berry bolt
ers in Warren county organized a
school to teach voters how to stratch
the ballot, voting against Berry and for
all the other republican nominees. The
rest of the republican ticket suffered
very little from the fight over the sena-
tor, but Berry did not carry single
township in Warren county. He carried
two wards in Indianola, but was heav-
lily scratched there by the prohibitions
lists who understood he was for Cum
mins The fact is, however, that he had
practically pledged his vote to Gear in
his speeches in Clarke county during
the last few days of the campaign, and
would in all probability have voted for
Gear had he been elected. An anti
Berry republican club was organized in
Warren county and the leaders in the
movement went over to Clarke county
to try to get up a similar club there.
They were met by Senator Jameson,
who reminded them that they had not
been willing to help carry Warren
county for him when he needed it and
1t could have been done, and therefore
they need not expect the republicans OF
Clarke county to turn in and blacken
their own record to satisfy the spite of
the anti-Berryites of Warren county.
So the movement failed in Clarke conn-
tv and Berry carried it. Nearly the
same thing happened two years ago
when Riley, the republican nominee
from Warren, was beaten under just
the same circumstances by Barnet, a
nobody from Warren, which gave him
forty-three majority, while Clarke gave
the republican forty majority.
| &x&
W. B. Tallman, the man who was the
beneficiary of this unfortunate repub-
lican detection in Warren county,
studied law in the Office of N. L. Tenn
| pie in Osceola. Mr.. Temples pupil has
outgrown the things he learned in that
successful law Office, however, and
those who know him promise that he
will furnish some fun this winter by
the airs that he will put on. "The man
who beat Berry" will naturally attract
some attention, for that reason if for
no other.
| Howard Tedford, of the Mt. Ayr
Record, is formally announced as a
candidate for state binder, though it
has been understood for some time that
he would be. Mr.. Tedford is success
full business man, as well as politi-
clan, a fact which is proved by the con-
dition of the paper with which he is
connected as part owner and business
manager with his ia ther, j. Fl Tedford.
No more deserving or competent man
could be suggested for the place. He
has been a steady, reliable and efficient
party worker, and has all the qualifica-
tions for making the administration OF
/ the Office crelitahle to himself and II, !,