Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-09
AsruDy IN HARMONY.

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A STUDY IN HARMONY.
II Congressman Hubbard should
again repeat the ASSERTION that the
SCummins party is the republican party
in Iowa We would accuse him OF sum-
! narizing the election returns. Out OF
& the fifty-eight counties which went re-
publican on the head IF the ticket in
this election all but eleven were Cum
minis counties in the dominating con-
vention. From his gross plurality OF
#41,733 in these counties Cummins
would have lost only 4.s15 If every an
ti-Cummins county in the nominating
convention had gone democratic in
this election and the republican plur-
alities in the Cummins counties alone
would have been sufficient to have
elected him by 1900 ,r better.
A grasp of this view of the situation
q is important when recs ling tine situa-
Z ton which was faced at Des Moines
a In the August convention. The Per-
kins men, generated by Blythe went
there with the determination to steal
the convention. They controlled the
/ state central committee and could vote
d 1t and did vote it to llnseat Cummtns
delegates. The Cum minis men saw
only one alternative. two conventions,
two republican tickets and a campaign
which should determine the move
ment in Iowa for pc itics free from
corporation control. They were not
afraid to face it. Not until the morn
ing of the convention cid this situation
change. The state central committee
had done its bidding, tile regular Cum
minis delegations, tho arbitrarily voted
I out, yet denying the authority of the
committee, had already taken their
seats. Then it was that Mr.. Blythe
i gave the word to abanG on the fight and
permit the Cummins delegates to con-
I troll. Perkins was bllck In the face
+ with anger at Blythe. Rumors reached
the lobby of a row between Perkins
and Blythe, whose rooms adjoined in
\ the hotel Why did Blythe give this
command?
Study the election returns. He must
way of beating Cummins. There were
in that convention forty-five counties
which were Cumlnins or divided;
all but eleven went democratic in this
election, and twenty five or all but nine
of these are normal republican coun-
ties Somewhere in an early school
history there is story of Il frontier
garrison admitting party Of Indians
within the stockade lnder flag of
truce-it would have been called har-
mony in these days-and the Indians
carried their weapons concealed un-.
derneath their blair kets, promptly
scalping the entire garrison as soon
as they were once within the stockade
walls.
A study of the returns by districts
is even more instructive. In Mr..
Blythe's own district, the First, every
one of the seven counties was anti
Cummins in the convention. All but
one, or six, went democratic in this
election, and five Of the six were car
ried by Cummins three years ago.
On the other hand every one of the
ten counties in the Fo urth district ex-
cept Chickasaw went republican in
this election, and ChickasaN was the
only -Cummils county from the
Fourth district in the convention.
Even in the Third district every
county which went democratic vas an
anti-Cummins county in the conven-
ton with the exception of Black Hawk
and there factionalism was terrific.
Every county which went republican
this time supported t-ummins in the
convention.
In the Eighth district eight out of
eleven counties went democratic while
Cummins had carried all but one in
1908. From this district Union county
was the only one that supported Cum
minis in the convention.
Move Missouri up two tiers of Iowa |!
counties so as to annex the %" res
ervation and main lire of railroad and |
Cummins would have carried Iowa by
10000 even in this election.
Likewise in the Fifth district four
out of seven counties were anti-Cum-
minis in the convention and these same
four went democratic in this election
while every one Of them had been car
ried by Cummins before and the three
counties which supported him in the
convention returned republican plural |
tiles in this election
Upon the same unsrring rule in the