Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-24
70 GET LEGISLATURE
Democrats Making Desperate Eff
fort to Gain Control of
One Branch
WOULD ELECT = SENATOR
WOULD ELECT a SENATOR
Corporation Allies Are Doing All in
Their Power to Elect Enough DEM
ecrats to Name Delivers Successor
They Would Defeat the Primary
Law in iowa.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican
Des Moines, Oct 24.-There has been
some inquiry as to the probable COM
plexion Of the next legislature of Iowa
There is no doubt that the democrats,
or rather the Ed Hunterites, are hoping
for more in the way of controlling the
legislature than anything else. They
know they cannot defeat the republic
can ticket or any republican candi-
date They hope to control at least
one branch of the legislature. 1t
would be especially pleasing to the cor
poration allies of Miller. Marsh, ct al.
if they could effect defeat of enough
republican candidates for the legis-
lature so that a democrat like w. w.
Baldwin or George Ball could be sent
to the United States senate. But there
is really little possibility of such an
overwhelming bolt OF the corporation
men as to make this possible.
The democrats will probably make g
slight gain in the senate. They now
have eight members. They are sure TO
lose two or three districts. They may
make up these and a few more. AT
most they cannot have over twelve IN
the senate. It wilt take thirty votes
on Joint ballot to elect United States
senator. The democrats would have to
get sixty-eight seats in the house to
win.
But the republicans are dead sure OF
more than sixty Of the house seats.
More likely they will have seventy
five or eighty Most optimistic esu-
mates of the democratic strength IN
the house place it at from thirty-five to
forty-five. If the democrats get thirty
seats they will have achieved a
great victory.
The senatorship is not all that IS in
volved. In the last senate the pro-
gressive and the standpat republicans
had an equal number, with the demo-
Gratis holding the balance. In the mouse
the progressives We're as numerous as
the standpatters, both republican ana
denbcratic. 1t was this situation
which made possible the coalition OF
democrats and standpatters which was
the controlling factor in most of the
legislation of the winter. 1t was this
coalition, then denied but since openly
confessed by the democrats and made
a matter of boast. which forced rae
tionaIism into the legislature.
In the Senate.
In the senate it seems probable that
the most of the democratic gains wall
be from standpatters. Nobody here
seems to have taken the trouble to-
make a canvass to find out how the
republican candidates for the house,
would line up, if line-up were forced
by another coalition with the demo-
Gratis. Certain it is that nobody at all
interested in the management OF the
has even gone so far as to
make Inquiries as to the personal
views of the republican candidates.
Rut this fact is true, that the demo-
ratic-corporation machine is expect
ing to carry more than three-fourths OF
the counties that went for Perkins last
spring. They point to counties like
these and say they are dead sure OF
success, namely: Fremont, Decatur,
Appanoose, Wayne, Ringgold Davis,
Lee. Des Moines, Iowa. Bremen. War
rem. Madison, Pottawattamie, Clarke,
Jones, Harrison, Monona and Adair.
These and others they count as easy
ones for their men.
But the especial effort Of the cor
poration men who are working in har-
mony with the so-called democratic
committee is to have it so fixed that
the standpatters can. join with the
democrats and defeat any legislation
they like. In other words, the demo-
Gratis will hold the balance Of power,
just as in the last session, only they
will be in q position to do some things
aggressively.
Primary Bill.
Right ahead is the primary election
bill, sure to come to the front as one
of the most important Of the measures
to be pressed by the republicans. And
an effort will be made to either defeat
this or to pass a bill that will be harm
less and ineffective. Then there is the
anti-pass law, which they intimate
needs tinkering. They will be in po-
sition to kill off any 2-cent fare bill.
They will again prevent any legislation
for the grain shippers or the stock
men. In short, the situation is likely
to be, as the result of the expenditures
now being made by them, very much
of the corporations.
And under the circumstances it may
be set down as certain that the coming
season of the Iowa legislature will be
an interesting one.