Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-22
CONTROL Of COMMITTEE
Considerable Interest Taken in
the Election of New State
Committeeman
PRoeREssIvEs HOPE TO WIN
Believed That After the State conven
ton the Prosressives Will Have a
Majority of the State Central Repub-
Iican committee-BIythe Blaming
Federal Crowd for BIunders.
Special to Tlmes-kepublican.

Special to TImes-hepublican.
Des Moines, May 22.-The question
of the central committeeman still holds
some attention in the political gossip
here. While the progressives are con-
fident of getting one more district in
addition to the five they now have
cradle attention must be paid to the
matter In a number of counties where
Governor Cummins has instructed del
egations it is expected that there are
men on the delegations who, while vot-
ing according to instructions on the
governorship are quite likely to vote
for the Blythe crowd on the central
committeeman. There are probably
"a few instructed for Perkins who will
vote for a progressive for state COM
mitteeman, so that in ! the Third,
Fourth, Seventh, Tenthand Eleventh
districts the progressives are sure of
having a majority in the congressional
districts caucuses. There is consid-
cradle. chance that the progressives
with I. p. Spillman leading them will
district. With Jasper and Poweshiek
and Wapello the progressives would
divide evenly the strength in the dis
trict caucus but the caucuses are held
in the forenoon before the regular con-
ventiQn passes on the credentials and
the contested delegation from Wapello
may therefore have no voice. 1t is not
impossible tho that this caucus may
be put off till.safter dinner SO that the
Wapeno delegates may participate. In
order that the progressives. may con-
troll the central committee there
must be committeeman secured
from either the Second, Ninth or Sixth.
The strength of the progressives will
be known in the Ninth after this week
when the cancuses and conventions are
held in sPottawattamie and Cass coun-
ties. In the Second district on COM
nitteeman it is claimed that not more
than half of the Clinton delegation can
be counted upon. This with the votes
in Jackson makes it necessary for the
progressives to carry Iowa and johnson
along with Scott in order to control.
The question is whether or not the
Blythe people will attempt to bolt in
other counties in order to juggle the
situation in the district caucuses SO
as to shut the progressives out and
thus select the central committeeman.
Capt. j. A. T. Hull is doing all he
can in the counties outside of Polk to
assist George d. Perkins. In Polk
county it was a question of not fight
Governor Cummins or not go back to
Washington. 1t was only because the
governor and his friends did not wish
to take the time of the governor for
a fight in his home county that they
allowed Hull to have the choice. Hull
chose to return to congress. His ac-
ton now that he has the Polk county
delegates, is no surprise to the Cum
minis people, 1t is we'll known that
Hull is a politician for politics sake.
His following is held together solely
by federal patronage. The fact that
he is now assisting Perkins in the
other counties of the Seventh district
thru his postoffice appointments is an
indication that he has made some sort
of a peace agreement with Berryhlll-
Young Hunter combination.
It is learned that Blythe at the re-
cent conference in Chicago repudiated
the bungling part of the Iowa cant
paign for Perkins thus far and laid i
all on the shoulders of the federal
crowd at Washington. Tte gave it out
then that he had had nothing to do
with running the campaign out here
and charges all the mistakes to the
Elkins letter, the Jackson letter and
other such deals. In the light of the
present situation the claims OF Blythe
are amusing to the progressives at
this political center. They recall that
Blythe was in touch with the Wapello
convention by long distance telephone
They recall that he has been looking
after the Lee county situation and
iourneyed to Dubuque to offer kret-
schmer the position of United States
marshal for northern Iowa. They re-
call his trip to Des Moines on the OPP
ening Of the legislature here for
conference with his lieutenants and a
number of other little matters that in
dictate his close supervision Of the
campaign for Perkins, aside from the
opening of the Perkins headquarters by
A. F. Mccall, another attorney for a
jim Hill road.
Some amusing little incidents oe-
Cured during the recent Polk county
primaries that have not gotten into
print. When Nate Vertrees was aoout
to board street car to go to the city
Perkins headquarters he was in com
pany with a number Of colored gentle
men. A political opponent to Vertrees
joked him and told him if he wished
to take his friends up to headquarters
said political opponent would wait for
another car A crowd gathered and
when vertrees boarded the car one OF
the colored gentlemen having gotten
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