Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-04-27
CONTEST ON N POLK.
Primary Election There Today
to Select Delegates to
County c Convention.
Sid Foster Is Opposing cummins
Champaign Managed by
Frank jackson.
Claims Everything. But Will Ge
Little or Nothing-.Cummins
Is Not Scared.

Specialize Times Republican.
Des Moines, April 27-Republcans of
Polk county are celebrating Grants
birthday today by holding their county
primaries The county ticket will be
selected and delegates to the county
convention. and incidentally the voters
will have chance TO say whether they
desire that Polk county shall present
the name of A. s. Cumamins or the
name of Sidney A. Foster to the state
convention or both of them. 1t IS one
of the hardest fought county primaries
ever held here. A good many cf the
republicans believe that 1t is UP TO them
to make or unmake II governor today.
and they are not Indifferent to the trust
thrust upon them. The names of Cum
minis and Foster are upon the ballots.
Their friends seem TO be confident. Both
sides are claiming a good deal There
has been much activity in the prelimin-
airy canvass. The forces arrayed
against each other GO into the fight to-
day much as if they wtre engaged in
electing a president. Mr.. Cumniins was
not in the city last evening, but one of
his organizers who is entirely familiar
with the situation stated TO your cor
respondent al late hour:
MIR. Cummins will carry the county
with a big majority. He will not get
every precinct and Mr. Foster will have
some delegates to the county conven-
tion. But Mr.. Foster will have only a
flew scattered precincts and will not be
able TO carry a single ward or supsrvi-
sor district and will not have dele
isgate TO the state convention. Os this
We feel quite sure. We understand
they hope to carry the Fourth ward OF
the city and control it. They will not
do it. They will not have a ward in the
city and may not have a precinct in the
city. What strength they have will be
out in the small rural precincts where
there mas been no work done by the
friends of Cumnins. The vote Will be
Overwhelmingly in favor of Cunmins
and will demonstrate that Foster is not
wanted by the republicans of this coun-
ty.''
on the other hand it is expected by
Mr.. Foster and his friends that quite
the reverse viii be true. Nh. Foster
has been making speeches almost
nightly in various parts of the city and
county. sometimes making as many as
four speeches a day Ex-Cit,v Frank
| d. jackson has had personal charge Of
his campaign. MIR Foster wil carry
a majority Of the townships of Polk
! county said Mr.. Jackson last evening
/ He will carry a sufficient number oil
/ precincts to give him control II at
least two of the supervisor districts and
will give him not less than twenty dele
gates to the state convention of this
1 county He will have at least a third of
| the delegates To the county convention.
4 This. in the face Of the claims made by
| the Cumnins people. Will demonstrate
1 TO the state that the people Of Polk
county do not Want Cummins for gov
ernor. 1t Will prove that the immense
| popularity of MIR. Foster, for he has had
/ no organization and no work has been
| done for him except what ne has done
for himself. While MIR. Cummins has a
complete organization and the politi-
cians are for him almost e, a man /
think the Cummns people are doomed
| to the greatest disappointment they
/ have ever experienced. They will not.
| realize that the situation here in Polk
4 county is different from what it has
/ been represented in the newspapers. OF
/ course | know thar the result of an.
election cannot be fortold by anybody,
but am giving You my judgment We.
have had a careful canvass mace in
some parts of the city of Des Moines
/ and in every instance we have found
an overwhelming sentiment for Foster
as against Cumnins. In my own pre-
cinct Of the Fourth Ward. at the eau
Gus, there were sixty republicans pres
| ent. and there was just one vote against
| my motion to have the delegations to
the county convention composed of per-
sona friends of Sidney A. Foster. That
| is the situation as we see it in prac-
ticaMy every part of the city"
When pressed to give reason for this
state of affairs. Gov Jackson said
There are several elements in this
campaign in Polk county that are not
| fully considered by thoss who are so
sure that Cummins will have every
thing his own way Out in the coun-
try the very best farmers are for Eos
/ ter on his merits as a man and re-
| publican. We find his strength greatest
| in the better wards of the city. Then
| Mr.. Foster appeals strongly TO the la
1 boring men and working classes. for
they believe he is one of the tham-a
plain. common, hard working man II
is a case of a thorough democrat on the
! one side and on the other one who is
| more exclusive. Mr. Fosters sentiments
and sympathies are more in line with
the plain people. Then there is the tenn
/ perance element which has not forgiven
| Cummins for having taken the stand he
| did against the proiibitory law. The
old line party men who believe in party
/ regularity are also for Foster because
he has always been for the party and
stood by it in hours of need instead of
betraying it as have others. These are
what we rely on. We may be de-
ceived in our expectations but we be-
lieve 1T will be the others who will be
disappointed
| The campaign as it relates to the
county ticket is also interesting. Of
the two candidates for state senator
Cassiuss G. Dowell and j. X. Macomber
1T looks like Dowell will win with fair
majority. He is now representative. is