Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-24
cummlNs WILL HAVE 1920 DELEGATES.


the success of their candidate in the
coming republican state convention.
This is to be accomplished in the fol-
lowing manner. In addition to the 32l
delegates which Mr. Perkins now has,
his managers claim II of Clinton coun-
tvs delegates who are instructed for
Rathbun's 80 delegates after the first
ballot They will buy Dubuque's %
delegates by giving Kretschmer a way
up job and purpose to carry the fol-
lowing counties: Lee, Henry, Jeffer-
son, Muscatine, Johnson, Iowa. Black
Hawk, Delaware, Allamakee, Chicka-
saw, Jasper, Poweshiek, Story. Dallas,
Marion, Warren. Lucas, Page, Adair,
Montgomery, Pottawattamie. Cass,
Mills and Audubon, which would add
4O3 more, or $50 in all With this many
votes the Perkins delegations from Des
Moines and Wapello counties will be
seated, adding 40, and raising the total
Perkins strength to 90S.
There are only eighteen or nineteen
things wrong with this estimate. In
the first place, the standpat newspaper
at Clinton which met defeat when the
delegates were instructed for Cummins
now admits that the delegation from
Clinton will vote for him according to
instructions. To take II out Of q for
Perkins is hardly justified.
Rathbun's delegates would probably
vote as Mr.. Blythe directed on matters
Of organization, SO Perkins can count
them safely.
Perhaps they can buy Dubuque ana
perhaps not, but Cummins does not
need Dubuque in order to win. so let
Blythe claim it for Mr.. Perkins.
Out of the "a counties which they
purpose to carry for Perkins. only sew
en- are actually sure for him, giving
him only 1903 delegates from that source
instead of 403 as predicted.
Thirteen of them gave Cummins 202
votes five years ago, and nothing has
yet appeared on the political horizon
TO indicate that Cummins would fall
behind that record, especially since he
has run ahead in the counties wherein
conventions have been held If Cum
minis barely holds his own in these
counties, Perkins can have only 657 for
purposes of organization. If Cummins
only gets 40 delegates where he had
2O2 before, Perkins will still be short
of enough to control.
For instance, in Iowa, Delaware and
Chickasaw caucuses have been held
and have developed Cummins dele
gates. He will get every one of the
three counties. No one but fool would
claim Poweshiek for anyone but Gov
ernor Cummins. There the whole po-
litical machinery is controlled by Cum
minis men and it has always been unan-
imous for the governor. Story never
has DSSH hSpl away Aioiih
and will not this year. Jasper county,
too, is considered safe. Allamakee,
Dallas and Adair will also go for Cum
minis in all human probability. Mus
catine, johnson, Black Hawk Marion.
Warren, montgomery, Pottawattamie
and Cass can all be considered doubt
full, but all, save Warren, gave their
votes to Cummins in 1901, and all are
considered more likely to do SO this
year than to go against him.
Hence, of the 403 delegates which
Mr.. Perkins purposes to capture in or
Just as certainly in the Cummins col
umn as tho they had been instructed.
Only 103 are certain for Mr.. Perkins,
and 157 are doubtful, with the chances
in favor of Cummins.
The Times Republican is willing to
nut Dubuque in the doubtful column
along with Black Hawk, Cass, john
son, Marion, Montgomery, Muscatine,
Pottawattamie and Warren, totaling
1911 votes, and can then figure the NOM
nation Of Mr.. Cummins as follows:
He now has 551 without Dubuque or
Wapello. He will get 335 more from
the following counties:
Adair, Allamakee, Buchanan Chicka-
saw, Dallas, Delaware, Fayette, Frank
lin, Carroll, Hardin, Howard, Iowa,
Jasper, O'Brien, Poweshiek, Scott
shelby Story, Winneshiek, Worth and
This will give him $50 with which he
can organize the convention, and in
all fairness will proceed, as we believe,
to seat the Cummins men from Wapel-
10 and the Blythe men from Burling-
ton. This will give him 912 votes. The
mes-Republican also expects to see
him get from the doubtful counties,
Black Hawk, johnson, Marion, Mont
gomery, Warren and at least half of
Pottawattamie, 1OS votes to add to his
912 making his final roll call 1920. He
does not need Dubuque, nor Wapello,
nor any of the doubtful counties, in or
der to win.
has 221 delegates. The Times Repub-
lican believes that he will get 103 more
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