Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-12-22
gave a pledge to the public that they
We're for Gear and Bowen.

| We're for Gear and Bowen.
| There was joy in the Cummins camp
when the announcement was finally
| made that DR.. Bert l.. Eiker. OF De-
catur county v, would vote for Cummins
| for senator and Eaton for speaker. DIR.
Eiker declares that he is doing what
| the people of his county demand, and
/ as evidence he shows that the Cum
Minis and Gear factions Mere given ten
days each to prepare petitions, and that
| the Cummins petition represents the
! majority of representative republicans
1 of the county. DR. lsker told the
| Gear and Cummins men in the county
1 that he would vote as the majority Of
! the county wished. He gave till mid
night of December 20 to get their peti-
| tions prepared and said as soon as pos
| Isible after examining them he would
lannounce his decision. A soon as ne had
been able TO examine the documents
4 he announced that he was satisfied
1.-The majority of republicans We're for
/ Cummins. and he would vote for Cum
Minis and Eaton. To supplement the
] petitions which Were presented. re had
sIinade personal house-to- house cans
vass of the county during the fall. He
/ had asked their senatorial preferences
4 from almost every voter in the county.
One day he shook hands With sixty-six
4 men in a single ruraltownship; another
day he met eighty-eight, and on the
third day he shook hands and talked
i politics with l46 men. Hewas nominated
i without instructions and made q great
4 race, being elected in dangerous
lleounty by 2l6. and. having only one man
lon his ticket carry a larger majority
DR.. Eiker said to a newspaper man:
After making close personal canvass
lof the county and after considering
carefully the petitions that have been
i presented to me by both sides in the
I senatorial matter, L am of the opinion
a that a majority of the representative
republicans of Decatur county are Iav-
orable to MIR. Cumnins for SENATOR all
though concede that the county is
very much divided. Further, believe
THAT if the sentiment of the people OF
the Eighth district could be accurately
registered ii would show that a major
: ity are for Cummins l shall vote for
i Eaton for speaker and Cummins for
senator.
4 OF hardly less Importance to the Cum
minis people than DR.. fiker's announces
u,
sentative 8. c.. A. Wise, of Blackhawk
county that he Will vote for 6'ummins
and Eaton MIR. Wise has been claimed
by the Gear people from the start, and
has been all along questioned by the
Cummins men. Mr.. Wise is a banker
at Cedar Falls. and bases his decision
for Cumnlins on The sentiment of his
county He says he will vote for Guns
Minis for senator and Eaton for speak
er.
The Gear people claim victory in
! securing Gardner Cowles. representa-
,lstive from Kossuth. But 1t can not be
regarded as a vietsss,, in any sense, So
/, the Cummins people say, because they
have always placed Gowles either in the
l3Gear or doubtful column. He has been
!relied on in all Gear estimates, so that
: 1.-the expectations of both sides are SIM
ply verified in the announcement that
: Inc will Vote for Bowen and Gear. How
lever. the Cummins men do not yet con-
sider that they have irretrievably lost
Mr.. Cowles, ard say that he may yet be
With them.
, Representative A. j. Rarkey of Boone
county has been in town looking into
!, the senatorial and speakership contests
He says that from all the Information
he can gather Gunnlins ard Eaton are
s going to win. Il know something aboul
the claims that have been made for MIR
, Bowen and Senator Gear" said Mr.
Barkley but think members all fully
: appreciate now that these claims are
not based on the facts of the situation
{ am satisfied that Mr. Eaton is now as