Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-29
.R[BUK[ DIRTY POLITICS
johnson County Voters Resent
Anti Methods and Unite
on Cummins.
Sweeping Caucus Victories Make
County Certain for Des
Moines Man.
Story Of the Plot, the Paid EN-
issaries and Their
Failure.
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Iowa City, July 29.-The friends of
.Cummins in Johnson county are jubi
liant today over the result of the eau
cuses held in Fremont and Union town
ships Saturday evening. In both of these |
townships the anti-Cummins paid mel:
attempted to secure the delegations. AS
in other townships they caused the cau-
Gus to be called with hut few hours
notice and figured that their plans OF
raining anti -Cummins delegates to the
county convention would be successful.
They We're doomed to disappointment,
however, for the friends of Cummins,
hearing of the plan but q short time
before the caucus, notified their forces
in the townships named and the eau
ouses We're largely attended by repub-
slican voters who had not been invited by
the machine managers. The result wac
u sweeping victory in both townships
for Cunmins. Fremont named eleven
Cummins delegates and Union five.
The methods employed by the anti
are frowned upon by 90 per cent of tn
republican voters. The republican party
in this county has always been in the
minority until recently. The voters
have worked together, been honest with
each other and have ever been mindful
of the party's interest. The result has
been republican successes and at pres
| ent the republicans control about half
l
| publicans realized that the county has a
| fight of its own to conduct and it was
/ mutually agreed between the factions in
the fight for governor that Johnson
| county would send a divided delegation
to the state convention in order that no
one should be antagonzed. With this
4 thought in mind the campaign did not
/ awaken any more thar ususi interest.
Then came the denouement and the
! plot of the ant-Cummins machine was
disclosed. The attempt to sell the dele
4 cation was shown up and now war is on
/ in earnest. There can only be one re-
suit and that is a solid delegation in
structed for Cummins. The caucus
fights of Saturday night was the first
battle and victory perches upon the
standard of the Cummins forces.
The fight has sounded the death knel!
of more than one local politician. and
from this time on no compromises will
I be made and no quarter shown. The
Cummins men have acted honestly ant
uprightly in the campaign and did no
make an attempt 10 influence caucu.
until the plot to sell The county was ex.
posed.
The anti-Cummins force sent severa
II strangers into the city and it was only
q few days before that several paid loca
men We're driving over the county
! George w. Swords. chairman of ms
county republican committee. was Al
first a Cummins mar. then he began t.
talk divided delegation and now he i:
for any one to beat Cummins. H.
! steadily refused to call the county con
! vention until late date. Meanwhil,
:. the plot in the out-of-town districts wa
:, Matching: When all was ready tn
!, county convention was called and befor,
. the call had reached the out-of-towl
- townships a number of township eau
:. cuses were called. notice being given b,
posting the same on telegraph poles o
:, bridges, one notice only being put up il
;, a township. The plan worked in 81:
. townships - Cedar Monroe. Hardin
q Newport. Pleasant Valley and Scott
: and IN these townships in all twent,
, / anti-Cumnins delegates We're named
These caucuses We're held a week ag
: and the matter kept secret. Not
ne wspaper reporter in the county kney
of the holding of the caucuses and in tn
cover of darkness the machine worke
on. These eaucuses We're attended b
). Very faw voters. In Hardin townsh ir
. Where there are nearly 100 republica
Voters and which sends four delegates
:, two voters attended the caucus til
a anti-Cummins chairman and his broth
q er, who named the delegates and in
.. structed them against Cummirs. In tn
$ ether five townships ike methods wer
d employed.
III But the steal has beer stopped and tn
81 exposure means the doom of the anti
IS Cummins cause. Saturday evenin
II! Union and Fremont townships. With fl
teen delegates. refused to ne stolen an
named Cummins men. Other township
will follow suit and Iowa City-tifty de-
egates-wil name Cummins men Town
d ships counted sure for Cummins an
: delegates are as follows: Jefferson
e Oxford 8, Madison 4, Penn 5, West LII
d cas- I. Washington S and Sharon
t. This will make a total of 1o7 for Cum
y minis of the l5l delegates in the CONVEX
i ton. Ii is probable that other caucuse
o will be held in the stolen townships an
n regular delegates named, the last one
: named being given seat in the CONVEX
n ton by the majority vote.
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Duncombe Not a Candidate.
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