Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-12
The Governor Believes That He
Will BE Renominated by
Large Vote
DuBuouE's ACTION GRATIFYING
Placing of the Delegation There in the
cummins Column Will Aid the Gov
ernor's chances--Consderab Inter
est in the Outcome of the Webster
County Convention.
IBy Ora williams.l
Special to Times Republican,

Special to Times Republican,
Des Moines, May 12.--Governor A.
B. Cummins has been at home mora
this week than for some time. He was
kept at home two days suffering from
throat trouble and what appeared to he
the grip. He was at his office again
yesterday and is billed for a speech
in Intaianola today. The governor is
quite cheerful over the situation. He
gives out no figures and does no
boasting, but if you want to int 'rest
him in the figures as to the number Of
delegates he will have in the August
convention you will have to set the fig
ures very high. Some of his more en-
thuslastic friends are talking about
1000 or 1,100 delegates. They may be
right
The Dubuque result was decidedly
gratifying to the progressive republi-
cans. They were not surprised at al.
even tho the Perkins people We're
printing Dubuque in the Perkins COL
lumn with immovable assurance. Just
why Dubuque, the old political capital
of the Iowa republican party, should
be forever counted as if it was living
in ante-bellum days. was not made
to appear. Placing the Dubuque bench
in the Cummins column was an agree
able offset to the feat which appears
to have been performed Of placing
Linn on the political fence. The
do ola; ;,,
anything in Linn. but insist that moth
ing shall be claimed there for the free
silver tariff revision editor candidate
at least until the delegation IS pollad.
What was done in Sioux and Duena
Vista caused no surprise. Washington,
Appanoose and Monroe, holding their
conventions today, are distinctly in the
reservation which belongs body and
soul to j. w. Blythe. The progress!ves
say they. have nothing to expect from
these counties. Judgeship fights com
plcate matters in each one.
The coming week the home of DOlli-
yer will show whether 1t is ready to
take the advice Of Dolliver without
questioning. The progressives are go
ing to make the play for an instructed
delegation They say they do not want
any half way business about it. They
report that they desire 10 emphasize
that Goth in Iowa and in Washington
they are supporting the men who are
with Roosevelt. There is hard fight
on for Harrison county. Keokuk is
close. jackson will be divided. Louisa
is fighting ground
It is here regarded as entirely posi-
BILE that Eugene Buttles will come to
the state convention with the vote OF
Des Moines county back Of him, and II
he does there is nothing that can pre-
vent his nomination for railroad COM
missioner. He has had the courage to
beard the lion on his own preserves. If
he gets the delegation it will be signal
for the temporary rout of the Burling-
ton dictatorship Of all that country
south of the political Mason and Dixon
line in Iowa.
The progressives believe that every
week during May and June will add to
the clear majority Of Governor Cum
Minis and his friends in the state con-
yentiOn.