Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-05
The CUhk|NS CLAIMS
Managers Deny That Pottawattamie
Was the Pivotal County and
Submit Statement.
Claim Fifty-stx Votes Positively for
Cummins and Concede Gear
Only Thirty.seven.
Henry Wallace Writes a Book on
qrusts-The New Prohibition
Crusade.
Special to Times Republican,

Special to Times Republican.
lclaims that Pottawattamie county's re-
suit has settled the senatorial contest
in Gears favor the Cummins men today
give out statement in which they
lciaim positively forty votes in the house
and sixteen in the senate; total, fifty
six. They say the democrats will get
thirty-one to thirty-nine; they place
twenty-five in doubtful list, composed
either of men whose chance of election
is poor, or whose preference for senator
is not yet determined; and they concede
the rest to Gear. They say from fifty
six to sixty votes will be required to
control the republican caucus.
| In making this declaration-and it
comes as an authoritative statement
from the Cummins headquarter=th
following list of fifty-five districts is
given as not being for Gear. Forty of
them are said to be positively for Cum
lmins; eight are politically doubtful.
i be elected; and seven are not certain
whether to support Gear or Cummins
4 OF course, the estimate included many
districts in which the nominations have
mot yet been made, but in which the re.
suits are forecasted from information
at hand. The list follows, by districts:
i Clinton (2l. Scott, Muscatine, John
lson, Iowa, Story, Polk (2), Dallas. War
1 rem, Madison, Monroe, Guthrie, Adair,
i Audubon, Shelby. Harrison, Sac, Ida
4 Monona, Woodbury. (2), Plymouth,
Buena Vista, Cherokee, Dickinson-
4 Emmet-Osceola, Hamilton Boone,
4 Greene, Carroll, Calhoun, Webster, Po-
cahontas-Humboldt Clayton, Allama-
kee, Winneshiek, Franklin. Howard,
1 Cerro Gordo, Floyd. Fayette, Worth
Winnebago, Wright Hancock, Hardin
Butler, Blackhawk, Buchanan. Mar
, Ishall, Tama. Grundy, Poweshiek, Keo-
kuk and Jasper-Total. SO.
J, Forty of these are CLAIMED to be posi-
lively for Cummins eight are uncertain
of election, with the chances against
them; and seven are uncertain.
So much for the prospects for Mr.
], lCummins in the house. Next comes the
senate. The following twenty-three
} districts are named in which Mr.. Gear
; at this time can not claim the nominees,
whether named or yet to be named
Cummins claims positively sixteen of
/, them. The districts:
Observation-Disclosures, Scott, Johnson
Iowa Polk, Story Boone, Adair- Madi-
Ison, Warren Clarke, Dallas Guthrie
) Audubon, Woodbury., Plymouth Chero-
kee-Ida. Carrol-Greene-Sac Hum
! Iboldt- -Pocahontas-B -Buena Vista. Web
Ister-Calhoun, Clayton, Aliamakee-
Fayette, Mitchell- Worth Winnebago
Franklin-Cerro Gordo- Hancock, Chick
Iasaw-Floyd, Hamilton Hardin Wright
Marshall. Tama- Benton, Poweshiek-
keokuk and Mahaska-Total, %.
OF these twenty-three, seven are
doubtful politically or as to preference
as between candidates; sixteen are pos
litively claimed for Cummins. The forty
in the house and sixteen in the senate
give a total of fifty-siX positive Cum
Minis votes claimed for the joint caucus.
From fifty-siN to sixty, it is claimed,
will be necessary to control the joint
caucus. That is. Mr.. Cummins claims
fifty-siN votes positively for him; he
conceded thirty-seven to Gear places
twenty in a doubtful list, and gives
thirty-five to the democrats.
The Cunlmins people vigorously deny
that they ever regarded Pottawattamie
as a pivotal county; rather, they al
ways conceded it to Gear in making
! calculations, and made fight for it be-
cause they discovered good chance of
carrying it. And they add that if the
primaries had been fairly conducted
they would have won, too. But as to
admitting that they have had any hard
luck, or suffered any unexpected losses
why, they admit nothing of the kind.
They express themselves with as much
confidence as ever, and say the cIAims
of the opposition are SO ridiculous as
to need no denials.
Henry Wallace of this city, whose ar
ticles On the money question during the
campaign of 1896 attracted national at
tention, has in press little volume on
The Trust. and How to Control It."
1t will be on sale in few days, and
those who have seen it's proofs believe
1T will attract general attention. Mr..
Wallace accepts the truts as inevita-
BILE, and after philosophically consider
ing the conditions that have brought it
Into existence sets forth his views as to
the means by which it should be con-
trolled. Mr.. Wallace proposes to con-
troll the trust by.taXation of their COR
, porate franchises, that is, the right to
corporate organization, by limitation of
their powers, and by subjecting them to
the same rigorous supervision that the
government now applies to national
banks. He would have them regularly
examined and the reports published. He
would have these examinations so COM
plete as to determine whether their Sc
, curities are watered. and would compel
them to be so conducted as to squeeze
out the water of old combinations, pre-
vent it's injection into new ones and
prohibit the earning and payment OF
dividends on fictitious valuations of Sc
curities.
1t will be interesting to know that
Hon. James Wilson, secretary of agri-
! culture, furnished the original inspira-
! tion which induced Mr.. Wallace TO un-
I Idertake this work He has himself been
q close student Of the trust problem