Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-20
The Perkins Camp Placed on
Defensive In their Own
Territory
ANYTHING TO CARRY A COUNTY
Waning Strength of the Opposition to
cummins Sadly in Need of Some
thing to Encourage Their Workers
Big Howl Expected From Madison
Capital Gossip.
pecial to Times-Republican.


Des Moines, April 20.-From a pro-
gram of keep Cummins busy" the
standpat Perkins Blythe Railroad
combination has switched to a program
of anything to carry q county. If the
Perkins combination should be able to
carry Madison county today there will
be the biggest howl go up from the
standpat press that the state has
known. 1t will be made solely for the
reason that encouragement is needed in
the Perkins camp and must be had by
all means. If the Cummins forces
should carry Madison, the Perkins
combination will hardly survive the
blow in the present low-spirited con-
dition of the camp. If they carry the
county, as they are expected to do from
the fact that the people in that county
have newspapers that give but one side
of the question and have never read
anything but exaggerated statements
and gross misrepresentation of Gov
ernor Cummins, the encouragement
will only tide over for a short time the
Perkins waning strength. No real ad-
vantage will be had to the Perkins
strength from carrying Madison county
because it has always been conceded
to be standpat territory.
Working on the new plan of ANY
thing to carry a county or two" the
railroad managers of Perkins are go
ing to carry the campaign into the
eastern part of the state. There are
reports of activity in that section of
the state. The hope of the Perkins
element is to carry some of the Fourth
district counties that are conceded now
TO be strong Cummins counties. 1t is
expected also in this way to attract the
attention Of Cummins and keep him
from doing work in doubtful counties
in which he has been making such
progress.
AS viewed from this point the weak
ness of the movement for Perkins has
been the methods adopted by the rail-
road management Of this campaign.
These methods are the old style politi-
cal methods of working schemes rather
than submitting the issues to the peo-
pie. In counties which are rated by
the railroad managers for Perkins as
being doubtful, the scheme is to call
the conventions early before the Cum
Minis people have had time to get the
issues before the people. In not sin
gle county where there is an over
whelming standpat majority has con-
vention been called early by these rail-
road managers for Perkins. The plan
of working political plots and maneu-
vers, Schemes" has worked thus far
disastrously for the railroad managers.
But it is the only method known to the
railroad managers. When they can't
get a county by calling a snap judg-
ment convention or caucus or by hand
ing out railroad transportation, they
can't get it at all. Like the lawyer who
brides jures and when he hasn't amy
opportunity to bride the jury is unable
to win his case, these railroad mana
gers know but the one method of work.
ing politics.
Politicians who reach Des Moines
from over the state are unanimous in
their opinion that scarcely before in
the history of the state since the civil
war have the people been so aroused
over public questions as they are at
this time over the question of whether
the corporations or the people shall
rule Iowa. In year when no political
questions are before the people the
methods used by the railroad manag-
ers work for in such years the people
are asleep. In a campaign such as the
present, the people are awake and go
to the polls and because they out-num-
Der the corporations they are carrying
county after county
A large number of very important
ted to the supreme court at the May
term which convenes May s. One is
the murder case of the state against
John Hayden OF Decatur county which
will be fiercely contended. Hayden is
under conviction OF numbering a neigh
Dor whose cows had broken into Hay
denis field. The neighbor rode over on
horse to drive the cattle out and
Hayden is accused OF having shot him.
The neighbor was w. E. Bracewell.
Hayden served term in the state PEN
itentiary of Kansas before coming to
Decatur county.
The case Of the state against Charles
Woodland of Decatur county is another
murder case to be submitted. The
Woodland case consumed three weeks
at the trial He was convicted Of MUIR
dering his wife supposedly to get 81
600 for which she was insured.
C. j. Norman of Decatur county was
convicted Of chicken stealing in a more
or less famous case and his case will
be submitted.
The Day Cumming case from Ring
gold, in which he was convicted of re-
ceiving deposits at his bank when in
solvent will be submitted.
The famous murder case of the state
against Willard Buck from Jasper
county is to be submitted at this term.
Bucks attorneys made the defense
that he was insane but he was con-
victed Since his incarceration it has
been necessary to send him to the in
sane ward at Anamosa.
On petition for rehearing the case
of the state against Willianl H. Moore
of Muscatine county is again to be
submitted. Moore was convicted of
riding his horse over an old man who
was out trying to help Moore catch
a loose horse running in the streets.
The case of the state of Iowa against
the Amana Society in which suit was
brought to force the society to incor-
porate will be submitted from Iowa