Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-16

SPECIAL INTERESTS AT WORK
Representatives, Of the Railroads Are
Making a Desperate Effort to Put
Pottawattamie in Perkins Column:
Audubon County Campaign is Bit
ter.
[By Ora williams.l
to Tilnes-Republican.

Special to Tines-Republican.
Des Moines, May 16.-One of the
many political storm centers of the
state just at this time is PottaWatta-
mic county. The whole Ninth district
not, already preempted is being raked
over. but especially in Pottawattamle
county There is organized work being
done at Council Bluffs. The progress
siyes organized in the east end of the
county and then the standpatters were
organized by the railroad attorneys for
a hard fight. The fight against Cum
MINIS is being made by George Wright
and Charlie Saunders, both under deep
obligations to the special interests.
Reports from the Bluffs are to the eff
feet that when Wright went up against
Governor Cummins with a bunch OF
false assumptions CARRIED as questions
he went to his defeat, that the COVER
nor made such answer to them as 10
set the crowd wild with delight and
that no report of the beautiful excoria-
ton he gave the railroad representa-
tive would do justice to tine case. The
strange part of it in Pottawattamle
is that despite the Perkins announce
ment that Herriott is out OF the race
for sure the Perkins people are using
the Herriott name in the campaign
Senator Saunders made an eloquent
plea at one of the railroad meetings.
for Herriott and hoped Pottawattam1e
would stand by man who has not
been able to command the support or
his home county. The exact status of
Herriott is hard to discover. He has
not said word since he was taken out
of the race by his people. His close
friends are saying nothing. Every
body recognizes that Herriott is dis
tinctly out of it; and the belief pre-
walls that he is permitting the use OF
his name by the railroad attorneys
with motives not of the best.
An amusing feature of the situation
in Pottawattamie is the activity OF one
Attorney Shinn, who came into prom
inence some years ago by making a
whirlwind campaign for the defeat OF
Hepburn and to elect Anderson, and
who did so on the ground Of opposi-
ton to corporation dictation in poll
tics. Later he was made local attor-
ney for the Blythe machine at Carson,
since which time he has been consider
ed "a safe man" for them. Now he Is
fighting Cummins, of course.
It is learned that a cry for help some
time ago went from Audubon county
to Chicago, and Asmus Boysen. the
Danish dictator of Audubon county,
was urged to come back to his low.
farms to help kill off Cummins sent!-
ment. Boysen was elected to the leg
islature some years ago. He got
foothold on some western land and
mining schemes and the Iowa delega-
ton at Washington helped him out OF
pretty bad hole. He has made big
fortune by exploiting a blue sky ven
ture and selling stock. He lives iii
Chicago and sports one of the most
elegant automobiles that traverse
Sheridan road. When there is politics
doing in Iowa he lives in Audubon
county. He is nominally committee
man from the Ninth district. Three
years ago he sent his proxy to Ed
Hunter and this year, by insistence Of
Chairman Spence, he sent it to Attor-
ney George Wright Boysen, it is stat
ed, has agreed to furnish the enthusi-
asm with which Audubon can be kept
from going as it would If the people
are left free to choose.
A fight in Adair is in progress like
that in Cass, where both sides are hard
at work.