Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-25


/ ID. Perkins" but now says, "he forfeits
the respect of all honest men when h
is willing to become the beneficiary OF
such methods as are being used to pro-
mote his candidacy"
The Webster City Freeman- Tribune
| promises that the Cummins people, il
successful in getting the governorship
and the legislature, will enact Il PR
mary law that will insure honest and
| fair nominations"
The Perkins adherents pursue the
| lgis fatus of his nomination with the
persistency of pup that tries to catch
| the end of its tall comments the
| Charles City Press.
PoSESAiEK COUNTY POLITICS.
The facts related in the dispatches
from Toledo and Grundy Center in the
T.-R. of June % are true of Powe-
shiek.
In the Capital of the Goth appears an
alleged Grinnell dispatch to the effect
that the caucuses here We're so fraud
ulently conducted that a contest was
contemplated. 1t is more than prob
able that this dispatch was written in
Des Moines and not in Grinnell at ALL,
but If written in Grinnel it was writ
ten by man who is SO narrow and
such a crank that he has no influence
and following, and altho he is honest
himself, he is so narrow and prejudiced
that he cannot be relied on to state
any fact.
"a ol,,,
practiced in two precincts, Grinnelrs
Third ward with six delegates, and
Pleasant with five. But both were
counted for Perkins, and the Cummins
side scored no advantage. In every
other precinct except Jefferson the Sc
lection of delegates was absolutely
honest and fair. Scrupulously so.
Jackson kept her polls open until p.
m. In nearly every precinct the pri-
mary plan was used. Except as above
the statement that any advantage was
taken or sought to be taken, by either
party, is false.
The statement made in the Capital
that in one precinct the call WAS made
at ] p. m. for caucus that afternoon
is a deliberate and malicious lie. In
Jefferson no notice was posted or pubs
lished. The committeeman, a stand
patter, simply notified the Perkins men
to come. The Cummins people learned
of it and got out, and the vote was a
tie
The Grinnell Herald deplores the
methods used by the Cummins people:
but calls attention to the fact that in
one precinct (Chester) presided over
by standpatter it was fair. 1t is
the same old dreary story with the
Herald, God, l thank Thee that / am
not as other men are" 1t is true tina.
Chester was absolutely fair. So was
every precinct in the county except
the two mentioned.
The standpat committeeman in Sug-
ar Creek did not want to be fair, bu.
overwhelming numbers compelled him
to be fair. The Herald also complains
of the use of money 1t is to be de-
plored. 1t is fair enough always to
pay a worker for his time, but the man
who will not work for his convictions
without pay is dangerous man. and
to pay $3.50 man $500 day is brl-
berry indirectly. The Cummins people
here, contrary my wish and advice. did
pay a certain man $25 for five days
work. l thought the contract an I'M
wise one. We are now informed tina.
the other side paid this same man $40
TO quit and stay at home. Whether
I ae or not / can't say, but it is true
that this worker suddenly lost all in
terest in Cummins and got sick and
didn't even come out and vote. In the
eleven precincts in the western part of
Poweshiek, we spent s153.35. This
covered everything. workers, livery |
formed that one of the leading stand |
patters admits an expenditure of $3.50.
What was it for? Where did it come
from? Who got it? What did it ac
This is in addition to the
money he bought with this county by
Bob Haines and Blythe's man Friday
IToulouse) from Burlington.
We will make the Herald this chal-
enge: We will publish an itemized /
statement of our expenses if they will |
10 the same, and we will publish the
names of the men who contributed to
,ur fund if they will tell where they
got theirs. We had no Des NIoines
und, no railroad fund to draw on. In I
addition to contributing to Cummins'
fund at Des Moines, we
oaid every dollar Of our $15335 our
selves. I want clean politics, clean
Methods, just as much as any one, but
don't ask the other fellow to do all
he cleaning.
The whole thing is wrong, dishonest,
often, corrupt. The Herald is a sim
ere advocate of a statewide primary,
fence they have right to complain;
tut in this campaign that paper voted
md worked against the men who have
been fighting for a primary. and with
he men who defeated it last winter
But, let the opponent of the primary
ystem keep still. If it is rotten it is
ust what he voted to sustain.
D. w. NORRIS.