Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-30
In Thirtyfour Counties Where
Sentiment Has Been Taken
His Vote Increased
POLK COUNTY WILL ADD 72
Importance of the Primary in Polk
County Due Largely to. Efforts of
Perkins Crowd to Make Good
Showing With a View to Giving
Candidate Prestige.
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Des Moines, April 30-rhe sentiment
en- governor of Polk county, Cherokee
county and Mahaska county will be
decided this week by primaries ana
conventions to be held in them. Inc
primaries in Cherokee and Polk Will be
held tomorrow, May /, and the Mahas-
ka county convention as well as those
of Polk and Cherokee will be held
Saturday. While the action of bat
three counties will be decided this
result, especially in Polk county as
there are seventy-two delegates to be
instructed by the results of the pri-
maries Tuesday. While there is no
doubt but Polk county will give its
undivided support to Governor Cum
Minis, interest attaches to the action of
the primaries because the Perkins sup
porters are making a desperate effort
to poll a large vote for their candidate
for the prestige it will give Perkins
Furthermore the primaries in Polk
county tomorrow will be the first leg
allied primaries ever held in the state
where there is vote on state officers.
The action of the primaries will be
watched for that reason as an object
lesson and it is not improbable that
the action and workings of the primar-
les may be referred to in the discussion
Irxf, noic 1nti hot w;
| up at the next session of the legisla-
ture. Practically every candidate for
state office has filed his certificate and
| had his name placed on the primary
| ballotsio be used in this county tomor-
row. The primary principle in all it's
| workings will thus be given test for
| the f&st time IN this state tomorrow in
| Polk county.
| The sentiment in thirty-four of the
ninety-nine counties of the state has
| been ascertained in the republican
campaign thus far and the result is the
| selection of 3S1 delegates to the state
convention for Cummins and los for
Perkins. The same counties in 1901
when Cunmins was a candidate for
the first time gave the governor 366H
delegates Cummins' net gain is thus
| 141s delegates and that too in the face
of losing Woodbury., the home of Per-
| kins, which has 80 votes.
The plan of the Perkins campaign
thus far has been to call early conven-
| tions in the northern and northwestern
| section of the state where Cummins
| was strong in 1901 with the view to
landing these counties before Cu1nmins
could do effective work in them. The
results have been strongly in favor Of
Cummins thus far. There are three
months before the state convention
meets and it is to be the plan of the
Perkins people from this on to call the
conventions but few at a time and
string them along in the hope that a
change of plan may result in stemming
the tide 1t is the hope of the stand
patters that the aroused sentiment will
quiet down and that later conventions
may vet result in some substantial
gains for Perkins.
The action of the thirty-four coun-
ties that have acted thus far with the
vote of the same counties in 1901 on
Cummins is as follows: