Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-19
The PROBABLE VOTE
jerry Sullivan Predicts That
Cummins Will Receive More
Than 100000
HUFFMAN is STILL sANeu
He Is Confident That at Least 5
Republicans in Iowa Are Not G
to Vote for Their Candidate for
ernor This Year-creat lntere.
Political Questions. .

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Sept. 19.-Two years ago
in the guberna torial campaign in Iowa,
when Albert B. Cummins, republican,
was pitted against Thomas j. Phillips,
democrat, the total vote of the state
was 100000 in round numbers, of which
Governor Cummins received 226, 900
and the republican plurality was 49,
Coo. A year ago, when the congress
slonal election absorbed attention, the
total vote was $4,000, and the head of
the state ticket got $4,000 votes. or a
plurality of about $4,000. At democratic
state headquarters last evening George
Huffman, In charge of the campaign
estimated that the vote would be about
100000 this year in Iowa, and that
Governor Cummins would receive only
democratic candidate for governor, was
present and he laughed as he heard the
estimates.
| The figures are too low" he said.
Governor Cummins will receive more
than 100000 votes and the total will
run over 100000. The people are really
interested in politics this year. There
| Is no apathy. There will be q much
larger vote in Iowa than many OF the
politicians believe"
But the ever sanEuine Mr.. Huffman
still insists that Governor Cummins
Will not get over 100000 votes this year.
| There are $4,000 republicans In Iowa
who are not going to vote for their
candidate for governor this year" de-
clared Mr.. Huffman.
Well, I'll say this" continued Mr..
Sullivan, that the governor has many
lukewarm friends in the state and a
whole lot OF republicans are his politi-
1eal enemies and don't care who knows
1t. That is their situation at present" !"
Mr. Sullivan has had but three
strictly political meetings, but has ad
dressed number OF nom political
gatherings. He spoke at New Virginia
today At Rockwell City during the
fair and carnival Mr.. Sullivan was
lucky in having the fairest day and a
fine crowd. At Denison the day was
bad. but he had fine meeting. At
Pleasantville he reports fine crowd
at small town.
There Is abundance Of interest in
political questions" declared Mr.. Sulli-
van. The people manifest real inter-
est In the affairs Of the state and ma
ton. There are two topics upon
which you can interest the eople any
where-the tariff and the currency. II
as a mistake II the impression prevails
anywhere that these questions do not
interest the people this year. And
they are already pretty well informed
on the subject. They have kept pace
with the times and are readers.
Now, in regard to the tariff, 1t is
very easy to get the people to listen
ing. Take the lumber schedule, for
Instance, and the people find II easy to
understand the result Of the tariff tax
for they see the effects on every nand.
and realize what the tariff does to
them Individually Illustrations OF the
working Of the duty on lumber may
be found In every community And /
quote from the recent speech Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, In which he advises the
American people to plant pine trees
because of the loss of our forests and
the scarcity of pine lumber. Secretary
Wilson also makes suggestions along
the same line. II pine trees are be-
coming scarce and pine lumber is high
because so little Of 1t can be had. the
people fail to understand why 1t would
not be we'll to let little more OF 1t
come over the line. And this is only
one branch Of the subject find that
whether the listeners are for you or
against you they are anxious for in
F~w t<,1 %I,n ~
AS for asset currency as presented
in the Fowler bill. the people are
against IT. continued Mr.. Sullivan
You can interest a crowd in nve min
utes on the currency question. They
are in an inquiring frame of mind.
see that the republicans declared they
would not discuss it this year. They
want to put 1t off for another time
They say the proposition has not been
sufficiently worked out yet for the re-
publican party to take a stand on the
question. But I shall discuss 1t because
the people want to hear It, They want
to know the nature OF this currency
that it is proposed to issue by banks,
with old clothes or trust securities or
other assets as foundation. They
are hardly ready for a return to Wild
cat banking of the olden times.
"And am going to hold the Iowa
members of congress right to the record
they have made on this asset currency
bill which Mr.. Fowler is pushing and
working for. / took the pains to secure
the entire record right from the re-
ports of the short session. The bill
came from a committee with unani-
nous recommendation but it required
an order to get 1t advanced on the
calendar. Every Iowa member of con-
gress voted to give that bill preference
over all others. They did this a second
time. Now when a state delegation
votes solidly to fix time for a hearing
on a bill advancing it over all others,
the conclusion cannot be avoided that
they are deeply interested In the meas
ure. This Is all that the record dis
closes. The Iowa delegation stands be-
fore the country as committed to asset
currency. l understand that some OF
the members are trying to shirk re-
sponsibility by saying that they were
not in fact for the measure. The rec
ord shows. drew the record on Judge