Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-13
Unmarried TIE GAN[
Greene County Bound to Cinch
the Delegation for
Cummins.
Judge Church. Local Candidate.
Demands Delegation That
Can be Traded.
Denied, With Cummins Instruc.
tons :. Church Withdraws..
County Unanimous.
ecIal to Times-Republiean


Cummins for governor and selected a |
solid Cummins delegation to the Cedar
Rapids convention. Judge u. A. Church, |
OF this county, who until yesterday was
candidate for supreme judge, with
drew from the race at the close of the
county convention, giving as his reason
the fact that his county was for Cum
minis. Evidently Mr. Church was ex-
pecting great reward If he could pre-
vent Cummins resolutions. as he cast
his lot with the opposition. and made
the hight OF his life against Mr. Cum
Hins Men who have been life-long
friends OF Judge Church We're placed in
lhe position yesterday of being com
PEELED to vote against him because of his
uNtrlendly attitude toward Mr.. Cum
MINIS who is the choice of nine tenths OF
the republicans of the county for gov
elnor. The outcome of the convention
was surprise to ALL a. every Cummlns
man was Church man, and had hoped
and expected to support both candidates
loyalty Mr.. Church would concede notn-
ing to Cumnins. but demanded dele
CATION which could be used either for or
aaginst MIR. Cummins at Cedar Rapids
This yesterdays convention would not
have granted to any man living Greene
county was misrepresented in last years
state convention and republicans We're
on their guard this time.
The vote on the resolution endorsing
Mr. Cummins was IS for and "a against.
This was In no sense n test of Cummins
and anti-Cummns strength, but it was
test of strength between Cum1nins and
Judge Church in the latters county. The
fight in the convention was the most
earnest and interesting In the history of
county politics, and yet there are very
few sore spots in the party this morning.
1T is the quite general opinion that our
genial judge made a vital mistake in not
shaping his candidacy in accordance
with the sentiment of his county instead
of attempting to shape the sentiment of
the county In accordance With his can
didacy.
Special to Times Republican.
Glidden, Dune 13.-The resolutions for
Cummins in Greene county We're OPP
| posed in the interests OF Judge Church
| by seven of the best men in the county,
| including AIahlon Head and p. A. Smith.
both staunch Cummins men. But at
| least a half dozen men in the convention
had resolutions in their pockets ready to
introduce. They absolutely would not
lay down and forced the matter to a
vote 1t was strictly a contest between
the Cummns men, for on 4 rising vote
TO make it unanimous for Cummins, but
three men remained III their chairs.
and there was a Wild hurrah. MIR.
| Church felt that 1t was useless for him
| to go into the contest for supreme judge
| without delegation from his own
I county in shape to be traded. There was
a strong suspicion that Church had been
too intimate with influences at Denison,
| Cedar Rapids and Burlington and the
| feeling in Greene county against the old
| machine Is intense. 1t was made more
| so by the fact that w. E. Jenison fed
eral otiiceholder from Oklahoma by viz
| tue of work done for Gear in the sena
| torial fight, came to Greene county
| few weeks ago and did his best to Gre
| ate anti-CuinminS sentiment. Hon.
| Mahlon Head made q ringing speech be-
| fore the convention in which he scored
4 the railroad influence and gave some of
/ his personal experiences with the cor
| ruptionists in the last legislature. He
lis grand man and exercises a very
\ potent influence in Greene county. The
Republicans of Greene county think that
1 Church made the mistake Of his life in
withdrawing.
| The resolution instructing for Senator
| Cart were unanimous. &. j. Martin, OF
/ Churdan, made a ringing speech IN pre-
| senting the resolutions i'll which he de-
| nounced the injunction IN Carroll coun-
ty and other methods used by Giarst's
opponents, and created the widest sort
of enthusiasm.
Special to Times Republican.
/ Jefferson June 13.-Greene county at
/ a very late hour Saturday afternoon
1 took a positive stand in the ranks of
| the counties instructed for Cummins
| and its fifteen delegates were Instructed
4 for him against Judge Church's oppo
4 sition and his threat of withdrawal az
candidate for supreme judge if the
/ delegation were instructed for Cum
i Minis. The convention developed the
liveliest kind of a time. 1t was the
! sharpest struggle in the history of
/ Greene county's conventions, but was
in no wise to prevent a Cummins dele
/ CATION to the state convention. 1t was
a fight among Cummins men th.uout.
! Judge Church was the choice for SUI
preme judge of almost every delegate
i on the floor but his chances for nom
i nation at the Cedar Rapids conven-
i ton seemed so far away that the re-
1 pubicans Of this county turned him
| down when he asked for an uninatruc-
ted delegation to be named by himself.
i His threat of withdrawal fell on deaf
4 ears. 1t was solidly Cummins cons
vention and proposed to voice its sem
/ timents on the gubernatorial question
in such manner that Its fifteen votes
i could not be traded away from him.
The convention met at II a. m. and
i organized Hon. P. A. Smith was
chosen chairman and John Stevenson,
secretary. The candidates for county
offices We're nominated without a
| struggle While the convention was
holding its breath and waiting for the
battle on the Cummins instruction
resolution which everyone knew was
coming.
A motion was made that Judge
Church be permitted to name Greene
county's fifteen delegates to the state
convention, which carried. but not
unanimously.
There came resolution endorsing
Allison, Dolliver and Conner, which
was unanimously adopted.