Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-04
Results Saturday Were Emf
nently Satisfactory to the
Progressiyes
MANY DELEGATES INSTRUCTED
Conventions and Primaries Held in
Several Close Counties Carried for
the misunderstanding of the Rail
road Crowd May Beat Cummins Out
of Montgomery County.

The results in the county conven-
tions and primaries We're satisfactory
| to the friends of Governor Cummins.
| The victory in Story county. where the
| Perkins Blythe machine had made
| such a fight was one of the most
sweeping of the campaign, the voters
of Story county giving Editor Payne
and other henchmen of the Blythe ma
chine such a rebuke as they have new
er before experienced. Perkins Will
have but eleven of the 1870 delegates in
the county convention.
The primaries held in Hardin coun-
ty We're equally decisive, Cummins
carrying the county by about to l.
Conventions in Wright, O'Brien. and
Franklin carried out the instructions
of their caueuses and primaries AMI
selected solid Cummins delegations.
These counties alone added seventy
three instructed delegates to the gov
ernors list 1t is true that they had
been counted upon by the governors
followers to be for him, but the Per-
Rns men had claimed Story and had
hame desperate efforts in Franklin
county. Lucas county, which was not
counted upon by the Cummins men,
was carried by the progressives ana
they might have controlled the conVen-
ton The popular vote being tie,
however, the Cummins men with
fairness that the Blythe machine would
never think of emulating, agreed to dl-
vide the delega ton, thus giving Per-
kins six and Cummins six delegates
from Lucas, a clear gain for the pro-
gressives The Cummins men had the
delegates in the convention and could
have chosen all Cummins delegates,
but accepted the compromise rather
than fight out a contest at the state
convention.
Warren and Adair held their conven-
tons and instructed for Perkins and
Mills county held sufficient caucuses
to indicate standpat delegation, which
has all along been conceded, giving
Perkins Al, in addition to the six given
him by the progressives in Lucas Most
important contests are on for this week
in Dallas, Jasper, Black Hawk, PoWe-
shiek, and Muscatine counties. The
contests in these counties is close. Both
sides are claiming them, altho the
Cummins men have little hope of car
rying Museatine. They believe Black
Hawk safe for the governor, and eX-
pect to win in PoWeshiek, Jasper and
Dallas, but are not making positive
claims. The situation in Dallas and
Jasper is especially encouraging and
the governor has a good lead in Powe-
shiek. Worth county will hold it's con-
vention today and add nine delegates
to the Cumrnns column. A significant
dispatch from Des Moines today to the
mes-Repubican says Governor Cum
Minis today declared he would be nom
mated, after a survey of the results oe
Saturdays conventions and caucuses.
Stealing Montgomery.
One of the worst pieces of political
chicaery every attempted in Iowa is
that perpetrated by standpat leaders
in Montgomery, by which they hope to
steal the county for Cummins. A dis
patch from Red Oak says:
Red Oak, June 4.-Governor Cum
Minis fairly carried Montgomery coun-
ty at the republican primaries Satur-
day, but it is probable that he will
be cheated out of the victory by the
manipulations Of the railroad poll
ticians.
To this end they refused to allow
the republicans of the Second ward in
Red Oak to vote on the candidates for
governor until more than seventy ball
lots had been cast, and when forced. to
obey the call Of the central committee,
To bn The
candidates for delegates in the ward
are Perkins men, but the vote of the
ward plainly instructed them for Cum
minis. There are fifteen delegates in
this ward. Without them Cummins has
seventy instructed delegates and Per
kins eighty-one instructed delegates.
If the convention heeds the voice of
-fifths of the republicans of the
Second ward, demanding that their
vote for Cummins be counted instead
of thrown out the fifteen delegates
there will be seated with instructions
to vote for Cun1mins, giving him eigh-
ty-five votes to eighty-one for Per-
kins.
In popular vote, also. Governor Cum
minis defeated Mr.. Perkins and the
other standpat candidates. With four
precincts missing, Cummins has S77
votes and Perkins S62. The four miss
ing precincts would break about even.
Two precincts We're carried by Per-
kins by one vote only. If the cOnven-
ton needs the demand of the people
the ballots will be recounted and 1t is
possible that Cummins will get the
county without the Second ward in
Red Oak and with it win by about 80
delegate votes majority.
The call issued in regular form by
the republican county committee OF
Montgomery county directed that pri-
mary be held aturday-M ontgomery
always has had a primary-and that In
addition to the names of the candidates
for county office, the names of the cam
didates for governor be placed on the
official ballot This action was taken
on majority vote of the committee and
was absolutely regular.
Approaching the fact that Cummins
had Montgomery county, the railroad
to defeat the popular will and majority
rule within the republican party I'm
der direction of eminent men, resolu-
tons were passed at Perkins mass
meetings directing the nominees for
delegates in precincts to pay no at
tention to the instructions of the pri-
mary vote in their various precincts
And then, fearing the popular ndigna-
ton that would be aroused by the
boiling of instructions of this charac-
ter, Committeeman Baxter of the Sec
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