Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-09
By Carrying Shelby County
Governors Lead Has Been In
creased to That Figure
NOT INCLUDING CONTESTS
Perkins Carried Marion and the Gov.
ernor Shelby caucuses-Persisten
Prevarication Of the Standpat News
papers Responsible for the Result in
Marion.
IBy Ora williams.l
Special TO Times Republican.


cuses of Saturday 1t is possible to
state for the first time with eXactness
the status of the different candidates
for governor. Shelby county will send
a delegation for Cummins. 1t may not
be instructed, but it will be solid for
his renomination This will increase
the total of delegates for Cummins to
SS5. BY carrying Marion county the
Perkins total is increased to 430. To
this should be added large part OF
the uninstructed 161, probably 100,
which would make the extreme
strength of Perkins $50. 1t is known
that among the uninstructed delega-
tions there are many delegates who
will not vote COR Perkins under any
conditions. Unless another candidate
is brought out they will vote for Rath
bun and in fact his total of 104 Is
recognized by everyone as entirely too
small. His vote is more likely to be
about 200 on the first ballot. Several
of the uninstructed delegations will be
divided, some voting for Perkins, some
for Rathbun and some for Cummins.
So far as known there is not a delegate
to the convention who purposes voting
for Herriott, which may explain the
entire willingness of Herriott to sub
NIT to arbitration his chances of the
nomination. If the delegations which
are contested by Hunter in behalf OF
Perkins should all remain in the con.
vention. the majority refusing to un.
seat the regularly elected delegates,
then the Cummins vote would be ups
wards of 945. which would give him
more than 400 plurality over Perkins
and at least $50 over all. Should the
contesting Perkins delegations be seat
ed Cummins would still have 1870 clear
majority of the convention.
Results in Marion and Shelby were
surprising to many persons. For some
time the standpatters had been trying
to secure a division in Shelby county,
and H. W. Byers was strongly urged
not only by mis- friends among the
standpatters but by many of the pro-
gressives. to accept division and
avoid fight. 1t was pointed out that
even should he win and the county be
carried for the progressives the best
he could hope would be a contested
delegation, for it was on the program
of Hunter that every county carried
for the progressives should submit to
the ordeal of a fake contest. But the
fight was made, quietly it is true, but
none the less earnestly, and at appears
from the returns that the farmers of
Shelby county have decided for pro-
gressive principles.
In Marion county the result can be
explained in just one way-the infiu-
ence Of persistent newspaper lying.
For months Marion county has been
flooded with newspapers which have
carried the most outrageous falsehoods
concerning Governor Cummins, these
newspapers paid for out of the big
fund raised by the corporations. Mar
ion county has always been close. 1t
is normally democratic county. Five
after a fierce fight This year, If the
May, the county would have gone for
Cummins without a contest. But the
corporations were given time in which
to SOW the seeds of dissension and the
result was a victory for Hunter.
The caucus results in Marion were
close, and it doubtless would be a very
easy matter to trump UP an excuse for
a contest in the county. If the progress
sives had Won Hunter would have or
dered a contest. But the progressives
took the ground all along that the will
of the majority should rule, hence there
will be no contest
The announcement made from cor
poration headquarters that Major
Charles Mackenzie had started con-
test to prevent the delegates from Polk
county sitting in the state convention
appears to have been premature. If he
stays In the race until the convention,
the votes of Polk county will go to
him for attorney general, and he de-
clares that he is not joining Ed. Hunt
er in his job of trickery. 1t is believed
here that the plot to disfranchise Polk
county has been Matched up quite as
much to affect the vote of railroad
commissioners and other places on the
ticket as to affect the result on gover-
nor. 1t is we'll known that the corpor-
ations are more concerned just now
about some other places on the ticket
than they are on the candidates for
governor and lieutenant governor
For the next three weeks Governor
Cummins and members of the execu-
tive council will be busy with consid-
GRAFTON of the reports of the railroad
companies on which to base the esti-
mates of valuation for taxation pur-
poses. These reports show a very
great increase in railroad earnings the
mast wear On this showing alone it is
probable that there would be mate
rial increase in assessments. But the
railroad attorneys and tax commis-
sioners who appear annually before the
council are embarrassed by the claims
and declarations and arguments which
have been made use of by the railroads