Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-06-25
POLITICAL REVIEW
AS Des Moines Sees the Situation
just Now.
TO COME DECIDE IT


ent Indications There Is a Chance
That He May Lose the Nomination
for Governor.
Des Moines, June 24.-Fifty.one
county conventions have thus far oeen
held in Iowa. Forty-eight remain to
will decide the governorship. 1t is
conceded that Mr.. Cummins will have
to secure a goodly number Of these to
enter the convention with sufficient
votes to nominate and his chances Of
doing so are poor The Cummins pa
pers all over the state, especially the
democratic press, claim that last week
settled the matter. The Marion con-
tvention and the other conventions of
the week that declared for Cummins
were held to have assured his nominal
tion. Nothing, they declared, could
now prevent his nomination.
AS matter OF fact the real fight Is
just, commencing. Cummins has thus
far not secured county that it was
not supposed that he would get. When
the campaign opened of course there
were number of counties in the
eleventh district that it was supposed
would re for George D. Perkins. Up
on his withdrawal 1t was conceded
that most of these counties would go
to Cummins. His strength thus far has
been largely in the tenth and eleventh
districts. These districts have held
practically all of their conventions and
the anti-Cummins territory is just be-
ginning to hold its conventions. I'm
less he is able to invade territory that
has in the past always been against
him, Mr.. Cummins is by no means
even likely to secure the nomination.
There seems little prospect that he
will be able to do this.
None in the Fourth.
No conventions have thus far been
held in the fourth district. This dis
trict will naturally be largely for SEN
ator Trewin but the Cummins men
will make hard fight in nearly every
county. They hope to be able to Sc
cure some of them and will, as they
did in the eleventh district, attempt
to kill Mr.. Trewin by taking his own
district away from him. 1t has been
freely threatened that Mr.. Trewin
would have to fight for his own dis
trict and that he would lose the great
er part of it. That he will have to fight
for 1t is very likely. In this campaign
all of the courtesies that have here
tofore characterized Iowa republican
politics have been thrown to the
winds. The Cummins men are PLAYING
a desperate game and are willing to
take the chance of wrecking the party
in order to win. Politicians generally
are of the opinion that Mr.. Trewin
will be abe to hold together the great
er part OF his district. His campaign
is an active one and he will spare no
effort to make it successful one.
Look to First Ballot.
The Cummins men are straining
every nerve to nominate on the first
ballot. They realize that this is almost
absolutely essential to the success of
their candidate. The second ballot will
also be goal and if they fail on the
flrst ballot as they will, they will rest
their hopes on the second. A supreme
effort will be made to secure enough
votes by that time to carry their man
through. 1t is the opinion of politicians
that II Mr.. Cummins passes the second
ballot without being nominated that
his chances are very slim.
One thing that the Cummins mana.
gers make such capital Of is that the
strength of the other candidates so
far will be in measure thrown to
Cummins on second choice. They say
nothing of the fact that In all proba.
bility some of their delegates will not
stick with them through a long sue
cession of ballots. Yet they realize
the truth of this statement, for the
fanaticism of the followers of Mr.Cum-
minis is confined largely to the leaders
IN hot convention hall the rank and
file of the delegations are no more
likely to stick to one side than the
other. Politicians are beginning to
realize that this year as in other
years the convention will be the only
real index of the strength of the can.
didates. Cedar Rapids will be the
scene of the real fight. It will before
and in the convention, and no one can
foresee the outcome.
Penrose Hurts Cummins.
1t is the general opinion over the
state that the withdrawal of Senator
Penrose will hurt Cummins. 1t re-
moves his last chance of anything
more in the fifth district In a divi-
sive strife between two home candi-
dates he had some show. Now that
unity has been restored the district will
be against him as it is normally and
the delegation from Tama county will
be against Cummins. There now seems
to be little doubt but that Col. We'll
come Mowry will be nominated for
railroad commissioner. This would
probably have been the outcome any
how but the withdrawal of Penrose
simplifies matters.
Warren Against Cummins.
The next hard fight in the seventh
district and the last one will be in
Warren county. 1t will probably be
for Conger although the Cummins men
will make hard fight. Warren coun-
ty has always been against Cummins,
however, and the indications are that
it will be this year. Every county In
the seventh district has been the
scene of fight this year and at least
four of them have been bitter Warren
will probably add fifth to the list.
CAUSED BY CIGARETTES.
Thomas Collingwood Made Insane by