Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-05-03
GOVERNOR VICTORIOUS AT PRI
MARIEs IN HOME COUNTY AFT
Err HARD CONTEST
VOTE is TWO TO ONE
Showing. Made BY Perkins Forces a
Surprise to the cummlns Men-Dem-
ocrats Win MayoraIty Election in
Omaha BY Big Majorlty-smith Re-
Elected In st. Paul.

Des Moines, May 2.-Governor Cum
mlns carried Polk county in the repub-
llcan primaries yesterday by popular
vote OF two to one and will have about
215 instructed delegates in the county
convention to f1fty-five for George D.
Perkins.
Mr.. Perkins carried a number of the
precincts which Sidney A. Foster car.
ried against Cummins five wears ago.
Inc division Of instructed delegates
tnen was forty-six for Foster and 257
for Cummins.
Murrow was endorsed for treasurer
and Palmer for railroad commissioner
Hull carried the county by a large ma
Jority There Is much doubt as to the
secretary OF state and the result will
not be known until after the conven-
ton.
A Light Vote.
The vote was light. This is believed
by the Cummins people to account for
the fact that the governor carried the
county by approximately two to one,
instead Of three or four to one.
Perkins Men Pleased.
The Perkins managers expressed
themselves as well pleased with the
result. They say that with all the
power Of the Cummins organization
aroused against them they consider the
vote given Mr. Perkins high compli-
ment to him and to the clean and dig
nlf1ed campaign which he conducted.
81. Slap at Shaw.
Iowa Falls, May 2.After passing a
nesniition yesterday nnd0na1ing athe
action of Secretary Shaw and Senator
Elkins In interfering with the Iowa
political situation, the republican coun.
ty convention named delegates to the
congressional convention that meets
at Waterloo May 8. The convention
later rescinded the action in the inter-
est of harmony.
Sentiment Against Shaw.
Early In the day twas evident there
was strong sentiment in favor of 60
ing on record as opposed to the inter
ference of Washington officials in the
Iowa political contest. This senti-
ment appeals to have crystallized in
the shape of resolution that was re-
ported by the resolution committee on
the floor of the convention.
The resolution seems to have met
with hearty Endorsement, for it was
adopted by three to one vote.
After transacting other business and
Just before adjournment the PROPOSE.
ton to undo the Shaw-Elkins resolu-
lion was made, and on the plea of har-
mony in the next convention to name
delegates to the state convention the
resolution was withdrawn. but not un-
I'll it had expressed the sentiment Of a
big majority of the delegates in theI
convention.
Resolutions were passed indorsingl
president Roosevelt, Governor Cum
MINIS and Congressman Birdsall.
Democrats Win In Omaha.
Omaha. Neb., May flames G.
Dahlman. democrat, was elected mayor
of Omaha yesterday over Erastus A
Benson by surprising majority. The
.otal vote, according to unofficial re.
.urns, was: Dahlman. 1O,247; Benson,
1:455, making Dahlman's plurality
2,792. The vote for the socialist can
lidate was small.
The democratic candidate for mayor
vas understood to favor a more liberal
policy in the city government than is
'avored by his opponent. Dahlman is
he first democrat elected mayor of |
Omaha in sixteen years.
Smith Reelected in st. Paul,
St Paul, Mimi, May 2.--Mayor Rob
srt A. Smith (dem.) was reelected in
he municipal election yesterday, de-
eating his republican opponent, Luis
J. Hoffman, by a majority which the
Unofficial returns indicate will be an
,roximately $500. Otto Bremen and
4ouis Beiz, democratic candidates for
e-election as city treasurer and con-
roller, respectively, have about the
ame majority over their republican
opponents