Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-30
10 STAND By RERR|O11'
Ninth District Men Confer at
Savery and Will Stick to
Herriott.
Insurance Men Watching A. o. U.
W. Experiment..Antis Boeey
Man Stories.
The Daily Capital Acknowledges
That 1t Faxed the Coneer
Interview.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, July 3o-The Herrott
boom took an up-turn today. John Herr
riott has been in the city for few days
resting and planning He has been in
consultation with his faithful friend and
admirer, James Wilson. of Adair, whose
reputation for political acumen is well
deserved. Others were in conference
with Mr.. Herriott last evening, includ-
ing Webb Byers of Shelby. Frank Fos-
ter and p. l.. Sever of Guthrie, w. b.
Martin of Adair and John Y. Stone OF
Mills. The Ninth district men are san
guine. They have received encourages
ment recently. They claim that theirs
is the logical compromise candidate, il
a compromise candidate is necessary.
Herriott represents the idea in politics
which is coming to the front in the re-
publican party. Nobody can question his
honesty and ability. He is an old soldier
and man of statewide acquaintance.
Really they have much in their favor.
And then the Ninth district is the only
one that is solid for its candidate. True
1t is said that there is some reluctance
In various counties of the district, but
the Ninth district politicians have been
accustomed to standing together in all
matters and they are likely to do so
aasin. 1t is said that H. W. Byers is
anxious to go TO congress from his dis
trict and therefore Will hold Shelby
county in line for the Ninth district can
didate, a least az long as there s hope
There is some trouble in Harrison and
Pottawattmie. but in general. 20 the
Herriott men say, the district is in good
shape for fight for Herriott.
In the list of delegates as finally made
up by Mr.. Cummins yesterday and Civ
en- out to the papers is the name of
James G. Berryhill. Now a good many
republican newspapers have shed news
paper tears over the fact that once up
on time Cummins and Berryhill were
pitted against each other in a local cam
paign. 1t seems not to have caused NJ.
Berryhili to lose his respect for Cum-
Minis. 1t is true that Berryhill was not
beat by Cummins, but flis associate on
the ticket was.
Apropos of the recent assertions Of
Max Bealer. examiner of insurance
companies under Auditor Merriam. that
the fraternals are all going to the dogs
and the only hope of the insured per-
son is to die before the society does
there will be watching with interest the
experiemnt lnaugurated by the A. o. L..
w. The Workmen at their grand lodge
meeting in Marshalltown last May
made a radical change in the plan of
collecting the money to pay insurance.
When Father Upchurch founded the or
er he had no precedents to go by. He
planned that when one of the members
dies all the rest would Chip IN" a dollar
apiece and pay it over. Nothing better
was known then. becauset there was
nothing else. But the system was crude
AT MarShalltown the grand lodge voted
Overwhelmingly in favor of getting
down to more nearly an insurance basis
and the step rate plan was adopted, by
which the assessments are graded ac-
cording to age. The amount each one
pays on each assessment is increased
every five years. This 10 a radical de-
parture from the systems generally in
vogue in the fraternal insurance orders
The first assessment under the new sys-
TEN has just been made in Iowa the as-
sessment for July, and returns are com
ing in. The one assessment so it is es-
timated by r. F. Rehkopf the grand
recorder. will bring in fully double
what waS received under the old plan
Hence there Will be fewer assessments.
There will be no two assessments
month. as heretofore. the younger men,
bers will not pay as much and the older
ones will pay more What will be the
effect? Doubtless many will drop out
of the Workmen and get into other or
ders; but the officials anticipate that
next fall and winter when the lodges
get TO work there will be a great increase
in membership. The Modern Woodmen
attempted the some change and SUBJ
mitted the question TO the members un-
der a referendum. But the membership
voted it down. Next time the grand
lodge Will not indulge in any referen-
dun business.
The scheme Of trying to frighten the
republicans away from Cummins and to
prevent his nomination on the theory
that he could not be elected is still being
worked in some places. Its chief uss
is to brace up those who are inclined TO
get on the band wagon and prevent a
breaking up of the opposition forces
For instance. the Red Oak Express de-
clares that 1T is freely stated that in
Jones county there are precincts in
which Mr.. Cummlns will not receive GO
per cent of the republican vote In
other words. If is confessed that practi-
cally the entire anti-Cummins strength
of the county is prepared TO bolt the re-
publican ticket II 1t can not have its
own way AT Cedar Rapids. In all prob
ability the same story is being circulate
ed in Jones and other eastern Iowa
counties with reference to what will be
done by the antis in Montgomery coun-
ty. A 40 per cent loss going over bodily
to the democrats would of course mean
the defeat of the republican ticket in
Iowa this year; but sane men and men
honest with themselves know that there
is not going 10 be any .bolt from
Cummins In fact it is known
that hundreds and thousands of demo.
Gratis would vote for Cummins. not be-
cause they regard him as a. democra,