Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-15
SORE At DELEGATION
Standpatters Foreseeing Defeat
Seeking to Lay Blame On
congressman
ASKED TO FOLLOW sEc'Y SHAW
Perkins Managers Believe the Delesa
ton Should Have Come to the State
and Spoken Against Cummins-Ed
Hunter May he Deposed From the
Management.
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| Special to Times-Republican.
! Des Moines, June 15.-There is a
disposition among some standpatters
| to blame the Iowa delegation for not
coming to Iowa in force and taking the
| stump in opposition to Governor Cum
| minis. When the Perkins campaign
started out it was with the full belief
| on the part of his managers that they
would have no difficulty at all in de-
| feating the governor. LATE Young and
other emissaries of the corporations
We're sent to Washington to line up tho
| Washington delegation. The delega-
| ton showed some signs of taking a
| part In the campaign till Roberts and
! some others came to Iowa and can
vassed the situation and carried the
! word back to the delegation to stay
out of the fight here. The managers
here We're not greatly put out about
| the refusal as they felt they had the
| full sympathy Of the Iowa delegation
and believed they would have the quiet
support wherever it was possible for
| it to be given without detection. Now
| in these last days of the campaign
| when the strength of the corporation
campaign is breaking up and is rent
with strife because Of the disappointed
ambitions of the managers for Mr..
Perkins, the blame must be placed
somewhere and the Iowa delegation Is
getting it's share. 1t is claimed by
some standpatters that the entire dele
cation should have come to Iowa and
taken the stump and there are yelled
hints that some of the Iowa delegation
may suffer for their indifference to the
situation here. The belief of
some of the progressives Is that they
have been even too active. 1t Is known
that Congressman Hull in this district
has had all the postmasters he could
induce to act out on the firing line for
Perkins.
There is some possibility that E. II.
Hunter may be deposed as the Per-
kins manager or rather as the Blythe
manager of the Perkins headquarters
and that Charles w. Johnston may be
given try out at the management.
When things began to slip away from
Perkins during the early stages Of the
campaign and Senator Jackson "ai-
lowed" the entire Tenth and Eleventh
districts to go for Cummins, there was
change and Will Parrott was given
an opportunity to show what he could
do. Things did not go any more sat-
isfactory till Ed. H. Hunter directed
that a lot of Perkins counties be
punched to stampede the state fox
Perkins. This gave the Perkins papers
a chance to make big "holler" and
led to Hunter being given full control
Of the headquarters and relegated Par
rott to the position of assistant and
finally sent him back to Waterloo per-
manently. Hunter engineered the deal
to buy Kretschmer which has given
him longer lease of life on the head
quarters than he otherwise might have
had. The Kretschmer deal and the
Chickasaw deal having now reacted
there is trouble for Hunter. All the
managers of the Perkins headquarters
are now laying the blame on each 9TH
er. Charles w. Johnston has thus far
had no position higher than assistant.
If there is a change it is expected that
he will be the next appointed
The Perkins headquarters have
long since ceased to be under the con-
troll Of Perkins. Friends of Mr.. Per-
kins who know the real conditions
and know how completely the Per-
kins headquarters are now in the con-
troll Of ]. w Blythe are disposed to
blame Mr.. Perkins. They believe that
he should have retained control of his
headquarters for there is evidence now
that the management of the campaign
jc RI ~ g. ~
interests and entirely in the interests
candidacy for the United States sem
ate.
1t is learned that there is a move on
among the standpatters in some coun-
ties to defeat the party ticket and es-
pecially the candidates for represent
tative where they are progressives
In Cass county especially this is the
plan. The corporation crowd there
failing to defeat Meredith for the
house are endeavoring to get the
democrats to nominate a Strong" man
with the promise that they will vote for
him. The especial desire to defeat
Meredith is because of his position
favorng the primary election law.
Meredith was chosen at a special cleo
ton there last year to fill a vacancy
and his opponent was DR.. Campbell
who was chairman of the county CEN
trail committee and refused to resign
his position as chairman during the
campaign Since the session of the
Legislature Meredith has continued his
position in favor of the primary. He
made campaign Of his county there
just before the Cass county primar
les in which he declared his position
in favor Of the primary election law
and told the people of the county of
the corruption in the last legislature
and of the open and fragrant manner
in which the railroads gave out rail-
road transportation to members of the
of the corporation supporters in the
county and they are conspiring for his
defeat The democrats at the special
election last year endorsed Meredith
because Of his position on the primary
question and against the corporations
and they will likely do the same thing
this year The Blythe people are en-
deavoring to get them to make NOM
nation and if they fail to do SO the
railroad crowd will get out an inde
pendent candidate to which they will
throw their support. Roosevelt re-
ceived $3.50 al the last general election
and Parker 1894, but the real strength
OF the democratic vote in Cass is
greater than that.