Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-14
Ed Hunter Laying the Founda-
ton For a Contest in Scott
County Convention
TO VOTE ROCK ISLANDERS
Plan Said to Contemplate Attempt to
Vote Toughs From the illinois City
and to Raise Rough House if They
Are Refused - Kendall and the
Sixth.
pecial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, June Ibid H. Hunter
was in Chicago yesterday and there is
a report out that the plans of the
Hunter management of Perkins cam
paign to carry Scott county include
bringing lot Of voters from the Un-
Rosk Island today. These men will
then be taken care of by Howard Ted
ford and run over to Davenport and
voted at the caucuses there. 1t is un-
derstood the plan of Hunter is that
these toughs will simply capture the
caucuses by breaking heads The
standpatters in the mean time will be
off in some corner naming the dele
gates to the county convention. The
system in Scott county is TO hold pre-
cinct caucuses and name delegates to
/ ''e county convention which selects
+ - > delegates to the state convention
and dominates the county officials.
Primaries are not in use and there is
no ballot taken except in the mass
caucus. The toug1ls from Chicago
will simply raise a riot in each of the
| caucuses in Davenport and break up
the caucus.
Ed Hunter is desperate. Since he
took charge of the Perkins campaign
the Kretschmer deal in Dubuque coun-
ty and the purchase of two delegates
outright in Chickasaw to get that con-
1,nt in,, nd
Shaw have so muddled the situation
that the Perkins people have been
distanced and even should they secure
every county without Il contest from
this on would be far short of enough
to nominate. The exposure of Hunt
er's democratic affiliations has exas.
perated him and it is understood that
he is now engaged in repudiating How
ard Tedford, the Daily Capital and it's
editor, and other standpat workers.
Mr.. Hunter Tuesday night made trip
to one of the Des Moines papers to
deny that he is democrat. Il am q
republican," said Mr. Hunter land
you have no right to assert that am
democrat" When his attention was
called to the fact that the Capital is
calling Cummins a democrat Mr.
Hunter repudiated the Capital ana
asserted that he was not responsible
for what it said and did. The desper-
ate condition of Mr. Hunters mind,
with all the plumbers of himself and the
other campaign managers to vex him,
has caused him to become desperate
over Scott county. Tuesday Mr.. Hun
ter declared that the standpatters
would carry Scott county for Perkins.
The next day it was learned that How
ard Tedford had headquarters in the
Harper house in Rock Island and that
Hunter had made trip to the Union
stock yards district of Chicago, pre-
paratory to bring toughs from that
city to participate in the Davenport
caucuses. The progressives have forth
fled themselves with the registration
lists and no man not registered as a
qualified voter will be allowed to par
ticipate in any caucus. Extra precau
tons are being taken to have an
abundance of policemen present to
enforce order.
Hon. Nate Kendall probably holds
the key to the situation in the Sixth
congressional district. 1t is believed
from Monroe county to the state con-
vention Monroe has IL delegates and
Kendall is coming back to the legisla-
ture next winter as a candidate for
speaker of the house. 1t is believed
that Kendall as candidate for speak
err of the house will be able to exert an
influence on the delegates from Mon
roe county In the Sixth district caucus
in the interests Of his own candidacy
for speaker Kendall is progressive,
or has always been classed as such,
and all indications now are that the
next house will be strongly progressive.
1t is believed that Kendall will hardly
allow Monroe county to go solidly for
the standpatters at the Sixth district
caucus in view Of the fact that the
house will be strongly progressive and
he must depend on progressive votes
to give him the speakership. If Ken
dali can control the Monroe delegates
in the district caucus and throws them
to the progressives 1t will further in
sure the selection of a Sixth district
progressive as member of the state
central committee and further insures a
majority of the committee for the pro-
gressives. The fact that the progress
sives are sure to dominate the entire
convention will further enable Kendall
to control his home delegation to vote
for Cummins In the caucus, the dele
cation being instructed for Perkins In
tho convention