Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-11-24
FACTS D|SPROV[ /
Claims of Element of Factional-
ism as to Election Returns
Are Unsupported
cuMM,Ns' EXCESS THIS YEAR
His Net Excess Ahead of His Ticket
i. ISL in the state, as Compared With
His Deficiency of Hall as Much Two
Years Ago = Campaign Settlement
soon-other News.

Soon-other News.
Special 10 Times Republican.
| Des Moines, Nov. 24.-More or less
has been said in some of the papers
about the significance of the vote at inc
last election and the question as 10
whether Gov Cummins ran ahead
| of his ticket or behind II
has been raised in some quar-
Il ters. The state board OF canvass
ers is engaged in counting the vote and
| 1t will soon be known just how big the
vote was and how the voters treated
/ the different candidates. 1t will be
recalled that two years ago Gov. Cum
MINIS ran a little behind his ticket. the
vote for head Of the ticket being 269
less than for Lieut.. Gov. Herriott. A lew
days ago an organ of factionalism un-
dertook to make point by saying.
THAT the election returns vindicate
the lowe idea is not true. In the first
place John Herriott. the candidate for
lieutenant GOVERNOR who came out
sQuarely against the Iowa idea, ran
4 far ahead of A. b. Cummins. who kept
4 still about the idea during the cam
paiKn." The returns as opened toda.
| and counted by the state executive
council hardly support this boastful
contention of an ardent hater of Gov.
Cummins. With one county. Benton.
not reported. the count shows that
Gov. Cummins received ISL votes In the
state more than Lieut.. Gov. Her
riott. The figures on this are inter-
esting. tho they may not have any
bearing whatever on the popularity II
the governor or his unpopularity. The
following shows the excess OF votes one
has over the other in each case:
Cummins excess over Herriott-Alla-
makee 26, Appanoose 81. Blackhawk
IS, Boone Is. Bremen 5. Buchanan %,
| Buena Vista 90, Calhoun 13, Cerro
Gosdo 2, Cherokee IL, Chickasaw 10,
iClayton, 10, Clinton Is. Crawford g..
Delaware &c, Des Moines %. Dickinson
II, Dubuque S4, Emmett II, Fay
ette Is, Fremont 6. Greene l, Grundy
g, Guthrie I, Hamilton 10. Hancock
AZ, Hardin 46, Harrison IA, Henry Z.
Howard 9, Humboldt 8, Ida %, Iowa 81.
jackson 12, Jasper s, Keokuk 4, Kos
suth 81, Lee "a, Linn 10. Louisa 4. Lucas
81. Mahaska 49. Marshall 20, Mitchell
"a. Monona 4, Monroe 35, Muscatine II.
O'Brien 25, Osceola 10, Palo Alto 3.
Plymouth %, Pocahontas %, Potta-
wattamie 10, Powesh!ek 2. Sac 5. Scott
80, Sioux 33. Story Al. Tama 6. Web
ster SIS, Winnebago 26. Winnishiek "a.
Woodbury. so, Worth 43, Wright 10
total excess l,525.
/ Herriott excess over Cummins-
Adair s, Adams 6. Audubon 2. Butler
5, Carroll II. Cass Z. Cedar 33. Clarke
81, Clay l, Dallas 5S. Davis 5. Decatu' :
| 19, Floyd s, Franklin Z. Jefferson ~.
johnson I, Jones 4, Lyon I. Madison
20. Marion s. Mills 8. Montgomery IL.
Page 9, Polk 40, Ringgold 26, Shelby
4. Taylor 90, Union 1S4, Van Buren, 13.
Wapello 9, Warren Is, Washington. 2,
Wayne IL, total excess IA.
This leaves net excess for the gov
ernor ahead Of his ticket OF 751 in the
state, which is somewhat different
from his deficiency Of half as much two
years ago.
! The fact of the whole matter. Is that
there Is very little to be found indicated
I
made in some places to discredit tn.
| |governor and to join In the democratic
| attacks upon him on the railroad as
sessment question and by taking up
the democratic argument that the gov
ernor completely reversed himself on
the tariff question. did not accomplish
the purposes intended; and while there
was factionarism exhibited at places
| for instance in Des Moines-before the
election, 1t has all disappeared and
there is none now. The figures prove
conclusively that there is no factional-
ism In reality in the state, no matter
what may be the statements OF tbs
interested parties 1t all disappeared
| in the big republican majority of the
present year. But IL Gov. Cummins'
plurality had been cut In half. then
the song would have been quite DIFF
ferent among those who thrive on fac
| tionalism.
| The republican state committee will
Ihave a meeting some time the coming
month to settle up the business of
| the campaign. The finance committee
will go over the books and check up
on all the receipts and expenditures.
| This was arranged when the committee
was organized at the time Of the state
| convention Then the whole manage
ment Of the campaign was turned owe.
to the chairman and now there will be
a careful checking of the whole. The
meeting would have been held sooner
but Chairman Spence had to go home
to engage in court work and has been
busy ever since. Other members of
the committee have also been busy
in court. and the committee Will be
called as soon as possible.
A bill is pending in congress to out
law certain OF the COMPANIES doing an
irregular business under the Insurance
laws, the companies that are what the
Insurance men call wildcat compa-
nies." The bill is intended to prevent
any company from doing business by
mail In any state where It Is not regu-
larry authorized by the insurance COM
missioner to engage in business. Com
panies that solicit business by mall In
states thus declining to grant author
lity shall be denied the use OF the mall.