Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-20
How the Hunter Henchmen Put
Up Pretext For Claiming
a Precinct
cuMMlNs DELEGATES NAMED
After tho Caucus Had Been Held and
Perkins Defeated the Hunter Hired
Workers Held Fake Caucus and
Made 1t the Basis Of a contestins
Delegation.
tBy Ora williams.1
Special to Times-,Republican.


Special to imeS-Republican.
Des Moines, June 20.--A fair sample
of the kind OF trickery which passes
for genuine republicanism" in Ed
Hunter circles comes from that pre-
cinct in Dallas county nearest to Des
Moines. Hunter has great hopes Of
getting Dallas county for his man. He
has based his hope all along on ability
to do what has been done in several
rural precincts. In Grant township the
committeeman. relative of Carroll
Wright held the caucus without let
ting any of the Cummins men in the
township know anything about it. But
in Boone township the climax was
reached The man on whom the pro-
gressives relied was Daniel Beatty, a
prosperous farmer, gentleman OF the
old school, a fair and honest lifelong
republican. He went to the primary
and saw to it that u good many came
out and voted AT the appointed time
the primary was closed and the vote
counted 1t was found that Cummins
had majority. The vote was duly re-
corded and announced and all was over.
Mr.. Beatty went home. The Hunter
men stood around and waited, talking
matters over: and when Mr.. Beatty
and all progressives had disappeared
they put the rural telephone into serv-
ice and called up some Perkins men
in the township and insisted they
should come and vote. The polls were
,,,1I Ia In, ,nnr ~
ed more than an hour for three or four
Perkins people to come in and vote
then the votes were counted again and
the result declared to be victory for
Perkins. Ed Hunter and his methods
had triumphed again and a dispatch
was sent out from Ed Hunters office
declaring that the "stalwart republic
cans of Dallas repudiate the Tam
many methods of the Cummins ma
chine" and telling about the "unrepub-
lican policies" of Governor Cummins.
Mr. Beatty did not learn what had
been done in his township after the
polls were closed until several days
afterwards when he read in one of
the railroad organs how Boone town
ship had gone II to 10 for Perkins.
Then he made investigation and dis
covered that the polls had been re-
opened in the manner Indicated.
II by any chance Dallas county goes
against Cummins it will be because of
this trickery and similar subterfuges
resorted to elsewhere in the county.
An interesting fact has been de-
veloped that the rural mail carriers in
Dallas, or some of them, at least, have
been paid out of the Ed Hunter fund
S. apiece for scattering the railroad
newspapers along the rural mail routes.
They are sent in bundles to the post
offices and are taker by the carriers
and distributed to the rural boxes
daily. It is understood that in many
other counties Of the state these car
riers were required to do the work free,
but in Dallas they insisted on pay and
got it.
Because of the strike in the office
of the Iowa Printing Company last
winter where the state printing is
done, the Official Register will not APP
pear this year till about July 1. which
will be about three or four months
late. The session laws will appear at
about the same time. The Of
icial Register will this year
contain considerable amount Of
information on the monuments to be
erected on southern battlef1elds and
the pictures of the various monuments
and in addition information of all the
colleges and universities in the state,
in addition to the usual information
that regularly appears there in the
form of statistics of elections and
census.
Grail & Peterson, the contractors
who rebuilt the interior of the house
chamber and made most of the other
repairs about the state house, are now
engaged in relaying the paving in the
street above the tunnel that runs from
the capitol to the heating plant on the
north side of Grand avenue. The old
covering to the tunnel was full of |
chuck holes from the wagon traffic |!
and had sprung leaks which interfered
at every rain. This is the last of the
major Improvements about the build |
ing.
The state historical department has |
secured a very large and complete col
lection of birds from the Philippine i
islands which are now being mounted |
and will be placed in the historical |
building.
The historical department has re-
Gently received from the st. Louis Ex-
position commission gold medal for |
the award for the exhibit made there |
and Curator Aldrich is as justly proud |
of the reward as any of the winners of
awards in any department. 1t is an |
additional testimonial of his ability in |
gathering valuable information for the |
state department.
PLANS IN O,RRIEN.