Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-28
TON D[NN|SON
Fighting FAuON
Fight on County Attorney In
Harrison County Arouses
Strong Suspicion
is, IT TOM DENNlsoN's MONEY!
Frank sherciffe is Running a Repair
Shop at Logan-TeIls of His Meet
ing With Mcmillan and His Heavy
cane-shercliffe's Estimate Of Pink
erton.
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Forthcoming election? is q question
| that Harrison count voters are asking
| of each other and of their candidates
| for county attorney. Is a Dennison
campaign fund being disbursed in
| Harrison county to defeat Fallon, the
county attorney who has had charge
Of the prosecution of the Dennison
case in that county in the hope that
| his successor may be less vigorous or
more amenable to Omaha influences
and the forces inside of Iowa that are
| moving heaven and earth to prevent
| the trial of DenniSon in the state with
! its inevitable revelation of political
rottenness and individual knavery?
| These are questions that are making
Harrison county hum like a hive.
| That Dennison is spending money in
Harrison county to kill Fallon is wide
| ly credited and freely asserted From
| Omaha the report comes that Dennison
| has levied an assessment upon the
crooks and shaken down certain cor
porations for which it is alleged that he
has acted as business agent before
the Omaha city council and has Great
ed a huge corruption fund for his own
protection. He has an unfailing sup
ply of money. If the corporations re-
fuse to come down, Tom threatens to
take off the lid. From Omaha 1T is as
serted that Dennison has lost hope in
the habeas corpus proceedings and ex-
poets to be sent to Harrison county for
trial Dennison sees his finish in the
penitentiary If he gets fair trial In
Iowa. He is desperate. His influence,
his efforts and his corruption fund are
to be transferred from Nebraska to
| Iowa. On Fallon's defeat he hangs a
thread of hope With Falle@ IS his
| own successor Tom Denniso = nom-
ed and he knows it. Neitl nor
any- other man can Influence" the
Logan county prosecutor. Consequent
| ly he is ready to spend any amount OF
money or use any Of the scoundrelly
methods of which he is past master
| to wipe Fallon out. That is the way
the situation is sized up by large
proportion of Harrison county people.
1t is due to the democratic candidate
to say that no evidence asolutely con-
meets his campaign with the Dennison
movement against Fallon but there
are ugly whisperings and suspicious
af1oat 1t is alleged that he refused the
nomination for county attorney when
Harrison county was a democratic
county. and his election certain, be-
cause ''he could not afford to hold the
office" land the questions are being ask
ed how can he afford to hold the office
now when his business interests have
increased and he has more to lose than
when he refused It? why should he be
willing to fight now for an office that
he refused when 1t was offered to him
as certainty? Why should the coun-
ty attorney be the only republican Of
flee holder attacked In Harrison coun-
ty. and why should money be spent
freely to elect a democrat to this par
ticular office at this particular time |?
l.. r. Bolter the democratic candidate
is q member OF the reputable firm of
Better Bros, sons Of old Senator Boil
ter. Carroll Bolter inherited the abil-
ity and vigor Of his father. He is
splendid lawyer. The candidate is not
the trial lawyer Of the firm. Both are
we'll to do and Of good reputation.
Boilers candidacy in ordinary years
would poll the democratic vote Of the
county. AS 1t is it is asserted by Fall
Ions friends that many democrats will
support the republican nominee. The
suspicion is not against Bolter him.
self but it is the simultaneous publica-
ton by the three newspapers referred
to, the sudden develoment of a siren
uous opposition to Fallon that awak-
ems the suspicion that Tom Dennison
is fighting Fallon.
Fallon, it Is said, was without OPP
position for a second term until the
Dennison case loomed up at Logan.
Why should this opposition develop so
strongly when Dennison gave up hope
of remaining in Nebraska. Whence
does that undercurrent set that pro-
duced Simultaneous attack upon Fall
Ion by republican newspapers in wide
~ separated sections Of the country?
Where does the gumshoe campaign
being waged against Fallon by GER
tain republicans originate? Fallon's
friends are propounding these ques-
tons and answering them with Tom
A/E~11A1SO1As 4ASy say lA4C SOu1SJ e1S~
torneyship is the only office that Den :
nison has any reason to make a fight
on, and recall the news dispatches from
Omaha to Iowa newspapers last July
which foretold Dennison's intention to
take a hand in Harrison county poll
tics this fall.
The basis of the attack upon Fallon
is alleged to be incompetence. 1t is
claimed that over $500 has been spent
for legal advice and assistance in con-
Quoting prosecutions for the county
during Fallon's term. 1t is charged
that he has caused over fifty people to
be indicted, and has only succeeded
in sending one to the county jail on a
charge and that one who had
pleaded guilty. In reply to these
charges Mr.. Fallon shows that $50 is all
that has been spent for legal assistance
at his request and this in two civil
cases concerning claims running back
many years and amounting to about
Sc, 600 He also shows that about ST.
400 was paid for legal services con-
tracted for by the board of supervisors
more than eight months before he
assumed the duties of his office, aud
shows by the records that the firm of
which his democratic opponent is
member was a party to this contract