Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-20
THE DEFEAT OF B[gi
Details of the Fight Againss dim
In Warren County Are
Interesting.
The Democrats Organized a School
For Instruction How to Scratch
Ballots.
Howard Tedford a Candidate For
State Binder-Head and the
Speakership.
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Des Moines. Nov. 2O.-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
| Senator Berry and that he might be
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
ian eligible man to take the nomination.
First they nominated a young fellow
in Osceola who proved to be too young.
| Then the committee nominated w. B.
i Tallman, of Osceola, because no one
/ wanted it. II was offered to Repre-
| sentative Movers, the man who beat
Mr.. Temple two years ago, but he
1 thought it was no use and preferred to
Irun for representative again. The dem
locrats are now kicking themselves
about as much as the republicans be-
lcause they did not give the nomination
to some man who amounted to some
thing.
4 1t appears now that the Berry bolt
lers in Warren county organized a
school to teach voters how TO scratch
y the ballot, voting against Berry and for
all the other republican nominees. The
4 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
1.-TWO wards in Indianola, but was heay-
lily scratched there by the prohibitions
lists who understood he was for Cum
Minis. 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
Il Berry republican club was organized in
f Warren county and the leaders in the
movement went over to Clarke county
to try TO get up a similar club there.
: They We're met by Senator Jameson
who reminded them that they had not
been willing to help carry Warren
icounty for him when he needed it and
lit could have been done, and therefore
i Ithey need not expect the Republicans OF
iClarke county To turn in and blacken
their own record TO satisfy the spite OF
the anti-Berryites nf Warren county.
So the movement failed in Clarke coun-
Ety and Berry carried it. Nearly the
Isame thing happened twelve 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.
w. E. Tallman the man who was the
beneficiary Of this unfortunate repub-
Ilican detection in Warren county
, studied law in the office of NJ L. Tenn
pie in Osceola. Mr.. Temples pupil has
out grown the things he learned IN that
successful law Office. however, and
those who know him promise that ne
Twill furnish some fun this winter by
the airs that he will put on. The man
lwho beat Berry will naturally attract
some attention. for that reason if for
no other.
Howard Tedford, of the Mount Ayl
Record, is formally announced as a
candidate for state binder, though il
has been Understood for some time that
: ihe would be. MIR. Tedford is a success
ful business man. as we'll as a politi-
Ician, fact which is proved by the con-
lition of the paper with which he is
connected as part owner and business
manager with his father, j. III. Tedford
No more. deserving or competent man
could be suggested for. the place. He
has been steady, reliable and efficient
party worker and has all the qualitica-
tions for making the administration OF
the Office creditable to himself and the
party, should the present system con-
tinue.
G. A. Parker, of Carr & Parker, OF
this city, Indignantly denies that he
had any part in encouraging his broth
er III. S. Parker to become a candidate
for the legislature on the democratic
ticket in the Clay-Pal Alto district
He shows copies of letters that he
wrote to his brother advising him
against going into the fight, saying he
would be beaten. Mr.. Parker has q
good record as a republican and no one
but unduly interested parties was
. ready to believe that he or his partner
, had conspired to the defeat of Mr.
Barringer, though some of the repub-
, llicans in the district, in their excite
, ment, We're ready to believe that the
swamp land suit in which Mr.. Bar
ringer was made party was manipu-
lated to the injury of Mr. Barringe,
politically. Mr.. Parker insists that this
, was the only way in which his firm
could protect the interests of its client
= Anyway, Mr.. Barrnger was elected
, and the incidents of the campaign viii
soon be forgotten.
II. NJ Belvel, the well-known demo.
\ cratic correspondent, is doing slash.
: ling good business with his latest news.
paper, the Polk County Democrat
5 which he purchased when he sold ou
S his share of the Gazette to his partner
: Judge S. r. Davis, formerly from Cres
| ton, who is now publishing that paper
/ The Democrat is a Valley Junction pa
e lper, edited by Mr.. Belvel in Des Moine.
: and by local man in charge of the of
flee in Valley Junction, where he has
complete plant. The Democrat hal