Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-13
ranks A number of the best work. :
for Huh deserted and Went over to
enemy. :

LOT HUH uSSeI'lBtl siIIu htIli ONcI "
enemy.
Judge Prouty wisely took adve : ge
of the city campaign to make J E ELF
strong. Prouty and MacVicar Il .ose
friends. and their followers are nlucn
the same persons. But when the Mac
Vicar people were demanding that
Prouty help he sat back and did moth
ing. Now there were certain large and
influential local corporate influences
thar were much more concerned in
having a mayor than In having con-
gressman. and they were for Mattern.
and desperately for him. Following
Prouty.s neutrality in the mayoralty
fight these interests turned up sup
porting Pruity as against Hull. 1t is
an item of no mean consequence. Then
there is the situation which forces the
Mattern men to keep hands off the
congressional fight because Of the dan
ger that the Prouty men a week later
may turn against them in the city cleo
tion-fur Mattern's election must come
later than the congressional primary.
These are only few OF the complica
tions growing out OF the municipal pri-
mary.
But what gave Prouty his great star.
in the past six months was his vigor-
GUS speeches on the Iowa platform and
in denunciation of those who. accord
ing to his assertions, have abandoned
more vigorous defender. II that is pos
ernor Cummins. He has been preach
houses all over the county. He talked
It in the campaign last fall. He has
gathered around him a great follow
ing on this account. In way this
question is forced into the campaign
from the fact that at the primary
where II is settled between Prouty and
Hull. delegates will be selected to Il
county convention. which will seiect
delegates to the republican state con-
vention. The question is inevitable
here: Will the county convention be
for Cummins or against Cummins? :?
The Prouty delegates Will all be for
Cummins. The Hull delegates may or
may not be for the governor. The
friends OF the governor are. therefore,
OF necessity drawn into the controver-
sy to gone extent. The governor is
keeping bands of. He has declared TO
the Hull men that he will not take any
part in the congressional fight. But
that matters little, since the primary
must choose as between friends OF
cummins and his opponents to be sent
to a convention which may be decisive
as to whether Cummins or Young shall
be sent to the national convention at
Chicago. And so II happens that the
congressional primary will be q square
this county.
One reason why the contest Is not as
much discussed as two years ago is the
fact that the newspaper situation has
materially ctanRed.a Then there were
two morning papers, and. one was sup-
porting Prouty and the other Hull. and
both with great zeal. The situation IN
the evening field was the same. Now
one evening paper Is giving support I'd
Hull. and the other Is Indifferent, with
possibly a little leaning toward Hull:
The one morning paper is not taking
any active part in 1t, and will not at
tempt to do any good to either one.
The remainder of the district IS
waiting to see what will happen here.
The Dallas county primary has been
called for March IL. but others have
not been. The Polk county primary is
on the last day Of this month. But as
Illustrating the feeling in the district,
the Nevada Representative, speaking
for Story county, perhaps. has already
declared that even II Judge Prputy
wins he will have a hard time getting
q standing among his colleagues as a
republican; in short, that he is demo-
crat and ought to be so considered. II
Is known also to be the plan of repub
licans in the outside counties to bring
out candidates in every county pro-
y1ded Judge Prouty beats Hull here.
But the attempt to brand him as a
democrat, like the attacks on Governor
Cummins in local papers here, rabid
are, have only served to solidify the
and intensity the fighting. On the 9TH
er hand 1t Is declared by the opponents
Of Hull that II he wins here there will
be a determined effort made to unite
the outside counties in opposition 20
him and thus take the nomination
away from Des Moines.
In the past rev days there nave been
rumors floating about that Captain
Hull Is about to withdraw, that he has
given up hope, that he has expressed
himself as despondent over the OUT
look, etc. These are regarded as mere
ly campaign symptoms and unworthy
OF consideration.
But on the whole the concensus Of
opinion at this time Is quite different
from what 1t was three or four months
ago. and the belief is quite common
that Judge Prouty has shown surpris-
ing strength and has brought into
requisition a better organization than
anybody supposed he had. The fight
is not over yet. but unquestionabl bly,
Prouty has the best of'it now and
appears to be gaining.
ropAYs COURT DECISIONS.