Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-02
.CUNA|NS CONTROLLED
The Convention Was His Friend
Thruout - Cummins Men
There in Force.
No Cummins Lines Drawn in
Counties = He Controlled
Platform Committee.
CONGRESSIONAL Gossip in Second
and Third Districts-Assess.
ment Fair.
oecial to Times-Republican


Des Moines, Aug. 2.-NoW that 1t is
;.ll over it is entirely safe to make note
Of the fact that the Cummins men are
not making any criticism of the work OF
the republican convention of the past
week, especially in regard to the plat
form. The friends of Cummins We're
there in force, and yet it was true that
very seldom was there any drawing OF
factional lines in the county conven-
the name of the governor as that plank
of the platform was read which re-
ferred to him must have caused cold
shiverS to run down the backs of some
of the antis present That the Cummins
people controlled even in the district
caucuses is now a matter of history
The Seventh district caucus showed
what they could do here where hard
fight was made that would have been
deeply humliating to the governor if it
had succeeded. The Sixth district pre-
sented candidate for state office who
is a strong Cummins man and he was
nominated unanimously. The Third
district elected a Cummins man for
member of the state committee when he
was not even a delegate to the conven-
ton The Second district reelected
Phillips as committeeman, after hard
fight had been started on him. when in
fact he doesn't live in the district any
more and has had two terms. The Ninth
district trouble was settled on the ba-
sis of allowing a good friend of Cum
Minis to go on the state committee. The
state committee was reorganlzed viz
tnally as Governor Cummins had it or
ganized last year. This committee will
not get To work al once, but will lay the
foundation for Il good campaign. This
being congressional year the district
committees will have more to do than
the state committee and these local
committees must bear the burdens of
the only hard fights.
The situation in the Second district
:. interesting just now and ii received
q good deal of attention from the dele
gates who We're attending the state con-
vention. The republican convention is
al Clinton on Aug. 90, and the demo-
cratic at Iowa City on Sept. 10. The
democrats are still talking of Judge
Wade and the judge has permitted it to
be made known that he doesn't intend
to leave Iowa for ST. Louis until late in
the fall anyway. He has been doing
some lecturing in the state. The Mus
catine republicans who We're attending
the state convention We're quite conf
dent they would nominate their candi
date, William Hoffman. He is an able
lawyer of Muscatine and as Muscatine
has not had congressman the claim
on the district is a strong one. Gregory.
of Jackson, is also regarded as a likely
candidate. Whether Scott will put up
Wilson or Nutting remains to be seen.
Whatever happens there is going to be
q pretty fight in the district next fall.
The Sixth district is in a similar con-
dition. Major Lacey will be opposed by
j p. Reese, and those who were here
the past week feel that Reese is as
strong candidate as the opposition
could have named. However, Major
Lacey was not apprehensive of trouble.
The Third district situation was
attended the state convention and they
all phases of the question.
The fact that the Third district has
three of the candidates for state office
on the ticket nominated this week will
help out All are regarded by Third
district people as strong and helpful.
But intimate friends of Colonel Hender-
son have no hesitancy in declaring their
hope that neither eN-GoVernor BoieS
nor his son. Louis. will consent 20 be the
candidate against Hende1
SON 1t is known that the democrats
who manage the congressional cam
paignS in other states have brought
pressure to bear ON the ex-governor to
induce him to make the race against
Henderson with a view to reducing the
majority of the speaker and thus make
capital for the opposition in the next
And perchance if Boes should
he elected he would be in line for the
and this is an inducement
not to be overlooked. A friend of the
eN- governor stated here the past week
his belief that the ex-governor was Sc
r:ously considering being a candidate.
Colonel Henderson is not in the least
alarmed about the matter. but if BoieS
should be put up as n candidate it
would be the hottest contest the Third
district has known for many years.
The action of the executive council in
an increase of $iO0O,O00 in the
assessment on railroads goes far to
show that the council is disposed to do
the fair thing. There has been a show
ing made many times that the assess
mcnt of railroad property was not upI
to what it should be. When the MEM
bers of the council went over the fig
ures they reached the conclusion that
the assessment of railroad property is
not in fact onefourth of its actual
value. This much seemed clear to the
members. But there was n showing be-
fore them that real estate and other
is in fact assessed at from is
to is per cent of its value instead of %
per cent. With this showing before
them, and bearing in mind the constitu
tioilal requirement that taxation should
be as nearly uniform as possible. the
assessment was fixed at Il point aSgre-
eating $51 112,000. The plea of the rail-