Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-11-15
CuMM|NS REELECTED
BY REDUCED MAJORITY
Complete Returns Show the
Governor Carried State
by 22.456.
INTEREST in LEGISLATURE
Republicans Have Majority of Tween.
ty-Two and Will Control the House
by Majority of
Forty -Four.

Des MONIES. la. Nov. 9.--complete
returns from ihe Iowa election SHOW
Governor C',mmins. republican. re
elected by II plurality of 22,456. Cum
MINIS received 1856. 81 votes. and Porter,
hi; democratic opponent. l14,366
The hulk of Governor Cumnins'
plurality comes from the Fourth. Tenth
and Eleventh districts IN northern
Iowa. The Third Seventh and Ninth
also helped swell his vote cons'derabiy
PORTER c;.rrie; the First, Second. Fifth.
Sixth and Eighth districts. This gives
1'umlnius six congressional districts
and Porter i've. The preservation did
not turn soidlN against Eummins, for
he carried II number of counties III
southclaA iowa. In the First district
I.ouisa gave ''umnns u plurality, all
The other e"Gnties cong iof ioi,sei,
The Second aistriu, adj went 10: i'or-
ter but NIllscltine and Scott. ihe
Sixth spill; even. three gong tor Porter
and three ior CumlniiS, the itet"r ;Jc-
ing Mahask;s Monroe aad PowSshiek.
Even The !1igiln gave support 10 Cum
MINIS. i,inggold. l.ucas Taylor and
Onion counties giving plurallties ioi lhe
Mead OF he repupliO an ticket. line Niilth
proved Il surprise Ia tnc friends oi Nil
Porter. for otdy one county in the dis
trict Went for him. Pottawaitainic gave
t'unfinilis II suruiisillsy large Vote
which W.ls due 10 The efforts 81 tile
anti ufnins leaders 5herc to save
their county ticket. III tllc Tenth dis
trict Porter carried only Carrpil ard
Crawford and ia line Eleventh he got
Mononl aud Woodbury.. Only two Por-
Ter counties showed UP in the Fourth
district. ,liciiasaw and clayton. The
latter may y" republican on recount
-Four OUT of nine counties in the Third
were for -IslaciShawk, liremer
Delaware and Dubuque.
Interest in Legislature.
III vicw OF tho Important functions
which The next general assembly of
Iowa will be called upon 10 exercise.
not only in the making OH laws, but in
playing II part in the great game of
politics. much interest is being man
ifestctl in TIN, personnel OF that body.
r@leefa,,hic and tiephonic inquiries
from all parts OF ne state are being
received very iloul concerning it's par
1istm and ftctionai complexion. The
legislature viii convene January IA,
1907, and will bc safely republican in
both branches. In the senate the re-
Iubicdi!s hive :; majority of twenty
two and i'll tl!c hous, Il majority of
fort four. J'hc large number of hold
over se9ii.lors kept that body from the
danssel. iiii0, for The democrats sue
cceded in clcctmS within TWO OF as
laany s'MaleHs rs the republicans
Amor. the. republican candidates de-
tented foi the senate We're Two mem
bclS Of the last senate Senator Z. w.
Crawford, of Dubuque, whose district
IS really democratic, and Senator :.
II. Harper, of OttumWa, past grand
commander of the Iowa Ct. \. r.
,f'la deinoerats succeeded in gaining
Floyd district owing Ia the independent
c;tuGicl,iev OF - + Wright tho pro-
greSsive editor of the Charles City
Press. who was defeated in convention
fol the republican candidacy Wright
received 9l3 votes IN Floyd county,
running ahead of Foley, the democratic
candidate. Who had sos votes Martin,
county, but Foley oNcrcame this in
Chiekasaw and Won out by plurality
of 6S
III the Fremont page district William
D. Jaimicson, of the shenandoah World.
WAS elected over William $. Farquhar
to succeed Senator Lewis Farquhar
had 4 majority of lS5 in Page county,
but Fremont gave IL larger democratic
majority for Jameson.
The Crawford HarrisoG- Efonona dis
trict. normally republican, elected Will
G. Whiting 10 succeed Senator Hogue,
d.. N,,Vr .a.I \.
w ~" 49,, ~ W. '
,,l,an ,.,,.,.i,,,l
80. u, ~. i,n,,,n countv si,n ..a,
w IN siis ,"'' =, a. Aio'ioii'i.
NM, ~ ,,a,,<.l w. ,a,,'iii. 49,
- 70 ~
"'''si',s, =.
f7ouss NS'''oeFs 70 oehaee.
Five of those elected TO the next
senate Mere members of the last house
Joseph MATES. Who viii represent the
caiTpil-Greene- sac district rs the sue
cessor 10 senator tiarst, the next lieu
tenant governor. A';il c. Whiting, OF
the ,'!aHford- iimr.so'i- Monona dis
tiict A. +. lSrudden. of Dubuque: z.
w. t'l;f"k, of the kco3zuh PoWeS1iek
GiElriGt. Allh y. !. Nien@iS, q. the l1culsi-
M,iseiiliNe district!
She nulisc - REPRESENTATIVES. will
!aayr uiily thirty old members out OF
los members. fhirty-nine We're candi.
dates for Recollection. but nile We're de-
fc;liee. Five OF the house members
dc!'seted for recollection are Representa-
tiNr j. G.. l1lenniken. of Clayton, IL
ll}or of ,bG Tlellnillen primary bill Il.
OF Marion. VINO would nave been cam