Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-08
Clinton's Vote AGainst Jackson
Regulars Injured Brant..
Viewers Victory.
Mowry's Defeat the Result Of
Cummins and Anti Cum.
minis Alignment.

to name the entire ticket themselves.
Had high handed robbery not been at
tempted some OF the minor candidates
might have been saved. The vote on
the seating of Jackson and Carroll coun--
ty delegations was not considered on the
merits Of the contests at all. No word
of explanation was uttered before the
convention, the delegates knew what
was coming. they knew the purpose OF
1t and the moment fighting Tom Healy
presented his minority report they were
ready to vote on the proposition. 1t was
dastardly piece of politics and 1t re-
mains to the credit Of Pete Hepburn
that when he learned what was expect
ed of him as the Eighth district Of the
committee on credentials he withdrew
and positively refused to be party to
1t.
Never did a set Of men go into con-
vention so absorbed with one purpose.
The contest had been fought out in the
precinct and township and wherever
there was a Cummins delegate no local
claim, congressional pressure or COM
bination could move him. When Major
Lacey was offered the support of all the
ants under a promise that both Harri-
man and Trewin would withdraw IL he
could line up the Sixth district the Cum
Minis men in line that district stood Arm
and said no. The feeler for Shaw sent
out in the Tenth met quick cebuf.
The Cummins men simply smiled and
looked pleasant while the steering COM
mittee of the opposition laboreu and
fsweated in vain. The character of the
Cummins men was well demonstrated
by contrast in. the Marshall county dell
egation. Divided from the start, but
offering hopes that it could get together
since the majority and the best Citizen
ship stood for Cummins the Cummins
men labored for hours and hours that
its delegation might compromise so
as to go into the convention with solid
front but to no avail. Likewise the men
in southern Iowa and other counties
who were opposed to Cummlns would
not waver. There were no deals and no
selling out. They were opposed to
Cummins and Judge Towner's interests,
Judge Dewey's interests or Col Now,
rvs interests could not move them. The
contest was Cummins and anti-Cum-
minis and every man stood by his guns,
willing, however, to accept defeat like
soldier and eager to put on the Cum
minis button when 1t was all over.
John Herriott was accused OF having
stopped to a deal for second place in re-
turn for getting out OF Mr.. Cumming
way, but those on the ground and ac-
quainted with the situation know that
he did not. To the last he did all that
he could in an honorable way to win the
nomination for governor and positively
refused all deals and all prizes for with
drawal until fifty-six Cummins men In
his congressional district caucused ana
decided that they would support Mr..
Cummins on the first ballot Then there
was nothing left for Mr.. Herriott to do
but pull out. However, he would not en-
terrain the proposition, OF being made
lieutenant governor, simply walking
away with the statement that "as a can
Gidate am out" The fact that Hsrri-
cit and Cummins stood for the same
BILE for his being placed on the ticket
Cummins men all wanted to vote for
both Cummins and Herriott and they
men in his own district who insisted
that he withdraw from the governor
ship because he had no chance of sue
cess. The bait held out by the .opposi-
ton was bait only and not fish. AS it is
now Mr.. Herriott will .preside over the
state senate, name the important COM
mittees and direct legislation on the
subjects in which he is Interested more
effectively than had he been named for
governor.
David Brant's defeat was, of course,
due to the fact that Herriott was pre-
ferred by the Cummins delegates and Is
no reflection upon Mr.. Brant, but the
Clinton county candidate destroyed his
chances, or his county did for him, when
Clinton cast thirteen votes against the
seating of the jackson county regulars.
No delegates in the convention knew
better than did the Clinton county men
that the attempt to unseat that delega-
ton was nothing less than an outrage
and their action received merited rebuke
when Jackson's sixteen, Scots thirty
three and Muscatine's twenty-one votes
were cast against their candidate.
Judge Weaver earned his victory. His
county was loyal to him and Weaver
was loyal to his friends. 1t is5true that
none other than Cummins man could
rave been nominated, but under differ
emit circumstances Judge Weaver could
probably have won anyway.
The defeat of Welcome Mowry for re-
nomination for railway commissioner
was the direct result OF the Cummins
and nti-Cummins alignment. Mr..
Brown was on the winning ticket. The
time has come in Iowa politics when
candidates to succeed must exhibit a
disposition to represent others besides
the railways. and q railway boss prom
Use that 1--WE have promised him re-
nomination will not always hold good.
The victory for the younger element in
republican politics, foF Is good govern
ment. clean politics and the destruction
Of ring rule was 50 comple 1e that words
refuse to express 1t. The republtcanssof
Iowa never presented atstroHker ticket
and the T.-R. prdicts that not only will
the party poll q tremendous ma orlty,
but that no democrat Of any standing in
the state will dare oppose that ticket
The ballot on 4ovsrnos shsge the com.