Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-09
HOT IN The ELEVENTH.
Fight in That District is One
of the Severest in History
Of State
OUTCOME WILL SOON BE KNOWN
Perkins Men Making Desperate Efforts
to Carry the District for Their Can.
didate, But the cummns Men Claim
to Have Several Counties in Their
Grasp.
Special to Times-Repupl1can.

Special to Times-RepubIlcan.
Sioux City, April 9.-Within three
weeks most of the caucuses or con-
ventions of the Eleventh district for Sc
lection of delegates to the state con-
vention will have been held, the fight
in the backyard of George D. Perkins
of Sioux City will be practically over
and it may be possible to predict def
nitely the outcome Of the struggle of
Governor A. b. Cummins for renomin-
alton for a third term.
The first convention in the district
will be in Woodbury. county Monday.
April 16. Dickinson will follow April
81, and it is probable that whole
group of counties will hold conven-
tons in that week.
1t has been considered necessary
all along for Perkins to get home in
dorsement if he is to ask the repub-
licanS of the state at large to sup
port him. Governor Cummins recog-
niZed this when he came into the
Eleventh district as early as February
to make his first campaign speeches.
The Perkins supporters have lately
determined to hurry the conventions
in the counties of the district which
they hope to carry. In this way they
can concentrate their forces on these
counties, and can then devote their
energy to other sections, where the
Cummins strength is more formidable.
They also desire the prestige which
the instructions of two or more county
delegations would give his candidacy.
1t was for this reason that the Wood
bury convention was called for April
16, and steps taken to have early
conventions in Monona and Osceola.
which are almost certain to go for
Perkins, and in Lyon and Dickinson
where the Perkins forces are making
vigorous campaign.
Claims of Cummins Men.
1t would be rash to undertake even
at this time to predict what all of the
counties will do. The Cummins men
are inclined to concede just three of
the thirteen counties in the district to
Perkins-Monona Osceola and Wood
bury.
Woodbury. is Perkins county, and he
has many friends in Monona on the
south. which the Cummins men will
not try to take. Osceola county has a
good many followers of the governor
but the leaders seem to be all against
him. so that it will be difficult to or
ganize the county, and it is likely it
will go by default to Perkins.
just now the Perkins artillery is
centered upon Lyon and Dickinson |
counties. In Lyon E. c. Roach, county |
chairman. is for Perkins, while S. d. |
almost equally influential with |
Roach, is leading the Cummins forces. |
Much Perkins literature has been sent |
into Lyon and both factions are organ |
tied.
Hard Fight for Funk.
Dickinson county, casting only 1,30G |
republican votes and having but eight |
delegates in the state convention, is |
about the smallest county in the state,
yet the Perkins managers have made
their most determined fight there. This |
is for the reason that it is the home of
Senator A. B. Funk, editor of the Spirit |
LAKE IoGdCOIl anu Ulle VI luG leduIIlS
Cummins men of Iowa Mr.. Perkins |
desires to punish Funk for not sup
porting the candidate of his district
Dickinson is the only county in the
state to date where Perkins speeches
have been delivered, and it is thorough
ly organized by Perkins supporters.
The caucuses will be held on the 18th. |
Perkins Confident.
OF the remaining counties in the |
district, the Perkins men can concede
absolutely none. However, there can
be no dispute Of the fact that Sioux,
Sac, Clay and Buena Vista are safely |
for Cummins. Both claim Ida, Chero-
kee, O'Brien and Plymouth, and there |
will doubtless be contests in each one |
In Cherokee the fight will be between
Tom McCulla, editor of the Cherokee
Times, for Cummins, and Bill Striker
of Aurelia, politician by profession, |
for Perkins A. R. Molyneux, a Chero-
kee lawyer, is for Perkins admittedly,
because he claims Woodbury. county |
has been promised to him for the
for judge.
In O'Brien lives w. d. Boies, nephew !
of the former governor and himself a
former democrat, who has engaged to
deliver O'Bien to Perkins in exchange
for Woodbury. for the judgeship but he
will have trouble doing it.
In Plymouth lives E. D. Chassell, of
LeMars, another editor-p politician, who
offended Perkins by refusing to sup
mort him. He is opposed by l. S. ,Stru-
BILE, former congressman, and it is
likely every township will be fought
for. Ida leans toward Cummlns, but
here may be contest there.