Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-04

RESULTS ARE SATISFACTORY
Only Bribery and Treachery Can De-
feat Him Before the State Conven-
ton Now-Gloom at the Perkins
dquarters-R aiIroads Were Actu-
ally Counting On Story County.
[By Ora Williams
Special to Times Rep, blican.


| Special to Times Rep, bllcan
| Des Moines, June 4.--Revulsion ov-
er the coarse work by which Blythe
| planned TO stampede the remaining
counties of the state and prevent the
control of the August convention by
| the rank and file of the republican
party has had it's effect the past week
in raising a notch or two the comfort
able lead of the progressives. Unless
bribery and debauchery and treachery
can he relied on more than ever before
Blythe cannot beat Cummins.
They have already done their
worst; they cannot defeat me- satd
Governor Cummins as he scanned tns
returns from Saturdays results. we
have demonstrated that there are some
things money cannot buy. We have
shown them in Story county that the
will of the people cannot be ove"r.d-
den They We're just as confident Of
their ability to get Story county as they
ever have been of anything. IAe;
probably did not hope TO get the pop
ular ma jority at the primary, but they
did expect to get the delegations so
that they could ignore the decision OF
the republican voters of the county.
The republicans of that county showed
what republicans can and Will do when
they know what is going on and are IN
earnest in defending their rights. The
complete rout of the opposition In the
popular vote and in the delegations
leaves them stranded. There is no
doubt about the progressive republic
cans having a comfortable majority OF
all the. delegstes in the'ssrata .eoavef-
! stion,,s Ffsst ,1es ts3s ~ b ~ NJ
AT Perkins headquarters there is
gloom. The advertised stampede failed
to materiaize.
Il want to say that it is now all ov-
er; I have got Cummins beaten. l will
nominate Perkins for governor" Thus
declared Ed. II. Hunter on Saturday
morning. His air was that of supreme
confidence. He believed it. He felt
that what he had paid for he would
get.
But Saturdays results made it look
different. Perhaps when it is all over
Mr. Hunter will not claim all the credit
for himself individually and alone He
may be willing to share blame for fail
ure with some of the boys who handled
the money even If they did not supply
1t. But the past week he has been the
whole thing.
The other day one who is In posi-
ton to know, and does know, great
deal more than he dares tell, said:
'If the republicans of Iowa knew
what is going on in the name Of their
good name of their party, there would
be such revolt that not one of the
men who are manipulating politics
would be permitted to show his head in
the Des Moines convention. If I was
to tell you plainly of the corruption
the sheer rottenness, the villalny and
insolence of the methods that are be-
ing used to encompass the defea. o.
the governor, you would require an at
tdavit before you would give my state
ments credence. What is being done
is the most disgraccful thin g that '.v,r
happened in Iowa. Such proceedings
| have been disclosed in some of the
eastern states where political corrup-
ton is common but nothing like 1t
has ever been known in this part Dt the
world. The men who have assumed to
take charge Of the republican rartv
! and to manipulate it-in their selfish in
| terest are resorting to every wicked
device known to dirty politics.
Ass
It seems strange, in view of the vote
that the railroads were actually count
ing on Story county. But they We've
dead sure of It, They believed Story
could be overwhelmed. They had flood
ed the county with literature. Lafe
Young's villanies were furnished free
to the farmers every day. Meetings oi
all kinds were held. Money was poured
out But the Story county farmers re-
mained true to their principles as re-
publicans and for every one who was
seduced by Hunter there were two who
boldly proclaimed they were for Cum
minis now and all the time. But the
railroads were also counting confident
ly on Franklin, Wright and Hardin
They spent vast sums to get these
counties They believed they could be
got if only high enough price was
paid They failed. Now they are con-
| fident in like manner that they vii; be
able to steal away with Jasper, Dali
las, Marion, Poweshiek and Black
Hawk. They count all these as wei
within their grasp. They also deciare
! their ability to either get or 70 divide
Carroll, Shelby and Buchanan.
The Reservation" situation is lit
| tie different. The fight in Lucas was
made wholly by the people of Lucas
county 1t represents an honest and
earnest endeavor to throw off the
yoke of corporation domination. Rep
resentative Darrah is largely respon-
sble for the fight. An effort was made
to pledge him to be against Cummlns
in case senator is to be elected some
time in the future. He refused TO tai