Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-17
Likely That Cummins Will
Have Enough Instructed Del
egates For Nomination
EARLY PREDICTIONS
At Beginning Of Campaign 1t Was Not
Expected to Carry Moro Than Half
of the Counties in Eleventh District
Interest in the Postoffice Fight in
Dcs Moines.
Special to Times-Republlcan.

asaw counties for May IS and Black
ems the assurance that Governor Cum
Minis will have the majority of the
delegates to the state convention sew
eral weeks before the convention is
called to order. These three counties
will give Cummins 1ifty-nine of the
3O4 that he needs to give him the NOM
nation, not counting Wapello. which
will be In dispute till the county con-
venton there Saturday. and not count
ing any other county that has not held
its convention.
/ 1t is recalled now that when the
campaign first opened there were Cum
minis supporters who were willing to
admit that Cummins would not get
/ more than about half of the Eleventh
district Now he has carried all but
four counties of the district, three of
| which went for Perkins and the fourth
| of which will so for Cummins as soon
as the standpat chairman of the coun-
! ty central committee allows the con-
| Nention to be called. 1t is claimed now
/ that the county conventions to be held
are many of them no more in doubt
and not SO nluca so as some of the
4 Eleventh district counties when the
campaign first opened. There are now
/ Just fifty counties of the ninety-nne
| in the state yet to hold conventions
Land caucuses to determine the senti-
ment of the county on governor This
! includes Wapello which both sides
| still claimed TODAY
With Cummins we'll in the lead there
! has been and is not the slightest doubt
as to his carrying the state for
third term. The only question Is as
to how long before the state conven-
ton he will have his majority of dele
gates. Following are twenty-three
counties the carrying of which is as
reasonable to expect for the Cummins
side as was the carrying of Dickinson,
| Emmett, Cerro Gordo and other north
ern counties and the total number of
delegates of these counties Is 400 or
ovel 100 more than Cummins needs:
Blackhawk u delegates. Buchanan 10,
Chickasaw II, Dallas is, Delaware Is,
Franklin 13. Hardin 10, Howard TO-,
Iowa IS, jackson Is. Jasper 81. Marion
16, O'Bren II, Pottawattamie So, Pow
eshiek II, Scott 35, Shelby ID. Winne-
shiek is, Story 81, Tama II, Webster
%, Worth 8. Wright Is,
This does not claim for Cummins
Des Moines county, Louisa and other
counties that resident Cummins men
in the counties claim will be for him.
1t doesn't even include Muscatine, War
rem and Allamakee. There is very lit
tie dispute but that they will be for
Cummins at the state convention.
The attack in an evening paper
in this city last night on Governor
Cummins in which it was charged
that the police of Des Moines COM
planned because the governor failed
to make public the parole of every
prisoner, is a sample of the baseless
attacks that are Matched up by some
newspapers. 1t was claimed in the
attack that Governor Cummins failed
to notify the police of the parole of
criminals and the impression was Civ
en- or sought to be given that great
many were being paroled and turned
loose on society. The fact is that every
time the governor paroles a prisoner
notice of such parole is sent to the
county clerk of the county from which
the man was convicted. Mayor Mat
tern of this city and Chief Jones of
this city were quoted as saying that
the governor should make public such
paroles and claimed that the first they
knew of some prisoners being released
was when they caught them in some
crime. Mayor Mattern was one time
sheriff and Chief of Police Jones
deputy sheriff of this county and both
knew or ought to have known of the
governor notifying the county clerks
of the parole OF prisoners.
Considerable interest is being at
tached now to the postoffice fight in
this city, as l. M. Lesser, one of the
Hull supporters who persuaded Con-
gresham Hull not to sacrifice his po-
litical life in fight against Cummins,
is one of the candidates for the posi-
ton. He is quite we'll known here To-
cally but has not an extensive To-
auaintance over the state. Against
Mr.. Lesser is j. I. Myerly, one Of the
ill-,Young-Hunter camp of poll
iticians here and John Mckay the To-
cal postmaster Mckay is somewhat
between two fires in his own camp
He is likely not to get a second term |
Myerly is being boosted by the Berry
hill Young-Hunter crowd and the |
question is now how much influence
will they have with Capt Hull against |
whom they are in almost open revolt.
Myerly started out early before the late
complications arose and secured sig
natures Of a large number of business
men, Now that the situation locally
has gotten to a place where Young has
a knife out for Hull there is some ques-
ton as to what action Hull will take.
Lesser is a Cummins man but sup
porter Of Hull for what Hull has got
fen for Des Moines. He has a strong
following.
Senator Bleakley of Ida county show
ed open pleasure yesterday when the
first report was circulated by the
Blythe people thru the state house that
Wapeuo had gone for Perkins. The
first reports were that Cummins had
carried Wapello. There was consid-
cradle of a debate with the Cummins
people as to what to expect from the
Perkins crowd. 1t was known that
either they would claim the county
was carried for Perkins or else claim
that it was democratic votes that car
ried 1t for Cummins. The bets were
about even on the two propositions.
Before the Perkins people got out the
report that he had carried the county