Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-02
THE GEAR FA|jNON WON
Council Bluffs Cauouses Held and the
Result a Decided Gear
Victory. 4
Believed he Will Have a Comfort.
able Majority at the County
Convention.
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State Fair Officials Claim $4,000
Cash Surplus Francis Murphy's
Temperance Plans.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Sept. 2.-Pottawattamie
county will tonight hold the last OF it's
|caucuses. which will determine whether
the three members of the. legislature
from that county shall be for Gear or
Cummins. The city of Council Bluffs
held its caucuses last evening, and Gear
got so to Cummins IL of the delegates.
Carson township held its caucuses
Thursday evening, and a Gear delega-
ton was elected. Indications are that
Gear will have a comfortable majority
IN the county convention, and that
Hazleton, the Gear candidate, will be
named for senator. There has been lit
tie talk of candidates for the house, and
ut is understood that one of them may
be friend Of Cummins, or at least not
a decided Gear partisan. This arrange
ment, however, If it Is finally carried
out, will be accepted merely as a means
of placating the elements, and the Gear
men will in that case take the precau-
ton of instructing all three for the
present senator.
i lie Stblc lSilT OlilcldiS announce lIlaC
they are going to close their gates this
evening with somewhere between $1,000
and $4,000 cash surplus in the treas
ury, after paying all expenses of the
season. There will be no difficulty in
spending the money, however. Many
repairs are needed on the grounds, and
highly novel sensation for the society
To- b.1y he 10
Lieut.. Col Miller. of the Fifty first
Iowa, has been nominated for senator
by the democrats in the Taylor-Adams
district, against F. L.. Arthaud, the re-
publican candidate. Col. Miller has been
one of the most popular officers in the
regiment. He was for a considerable
part of the campaign in command of
the regiment, during Col Loper's ill
ness, and 1t is said that on the ground
of friendship and general good will the
members of the Corning and Bedford
companies will genrally vote for him.
| If this proves true, it will make the dis
trict very close, with fair chance fof
the election of the soldier candidate
The district is uncomfortably close at
| best. Taylor county is surely enough
republican under ordinary circum-
lstances, but Adams is uncertain. and is
not in the best of spirits on account of
| the refusal of Taylor to give a second
nomination to Senator w. o. Mitchell.
He demanded q second nomination un-
der the two-term rotation rule which il
was claimed had always prevailed in
the district, and was refused.
Adams county will. hold it's nominat-
| ing convention today, and it is hard to
ltell who will be nominated for the
house. The nominee will. however, un-
doubtedly be instructed for Gear. c. S.
Grouse. of Prescott. ex-member of the
board of supervisors. is probably in the
lead. and if nominated will be strong
candidate c. II. Bacon, of Cromwell,
and A. F. Collman, of Corning, who a
wear ago was candidate for the nomf-
nation for railroad commissioner, is
also an aspirant.
| AS was announced in this corre-
Ispondence recently, G. S. Gilbertson, at
present senator from the ninety-ffrst
district, composed of Winnebago.
Worth and Mitchell counties, may come
back to the next legislature as mem
ber of the house. The representative
convention for the Winnebago-W Worth
district began its sessions at Forest
Lefty yesterday, and Winnebago pre-
sented Mr.. Gilbertson's name and ball
| loted for him all day. 1t is intimated
here that he will be nominated after a
good showing of opposition in Worth
county.
The arrival of Francis Murphy in Des
Moines this week is expected to have
considerable influence on temperance
work in the state, and it now looks as
Though a vigorous campaign Would be
begun Immediately. Mr.. Murphy spoke
at the fair grounds yesterday to about
| 1000 people on The Gospel of Total
Abstinence" His talk was more per-
suasive than forcible, ne believing in
the theory that people can be argued
into belief but not compelled to take
it. He advocates the passage of bill
making it against the law for one man
to treat another, and says he is going to
bring the matter up at a conference
which will be held between him and
the temperance people of Des Moines,
and urge that they take 1T up as part
| of the fall campaign. In speaking of
the matter yesterday he said:
THE liquor man drinks by himself,
purely for the drink itself, is not par
lticularly harmful. The evil comes when
half dozen get together and begin
drinking. They don't stop, because each
wishes to pay his share of the ex-
penses. Suppose five men go into a
saloon and one of them orders drinks.
When they are through the next man
says Set 'em UP again. And so the
next, each man buying a couple of
times, and the first thing you know they
have had ten drinks and are drunk 1t
/ is crime for ycu to give me a drink
| If you know 1 can't stand it, but it has
now come to such stage that man
| is considered stingy and of mean dis
position unless he occasionally buys his
friends drink or two
Here is my plan: If man does not
want to sign pledge not to drink, be-
cause he believes he can control his APP
petite, all right; don't try to force him.
But let him pledge himself never to ask
another man to drink with him, and
never to drink with another man. Then
let the man who is wholly beyond his
'deDth sign the total abstinence pledge.