Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-30
TERMS:
AT THE CONVENTION.
[By the Editor.l

reply indited by Governor Cumnllns 10
&, Tho notice served on him by the rail-
road leaders that they really intended
to steal the convention. The governor
merely stated that he considered their
proposition one to "decimate" ma
jority and that the state central COM
mittee had no jurisdiction to- do the
thing asked Of it. The result was to
Iorce either slide down the pole for
the railroad crowd or two conventions.
In fact it was generally conceded last
3 night that two conventions were In
eyitable. The prospect was faced very
cheerfully by the Cummins men, but
not so cheerfully by the others.
Secretary Shaw and congressman
pAcey and Hepburn are all quoted by
men who know as having said that
they were willing to meet personal de-
feat even, if Cummins could only be
beaten. There are many federal Of
fice holders and standpatters who feel
the same way. but the railroad attor-
news are counting the cost. The rail-
way assessment has not yet been made
and Cummins appears disconcertngly
cool about the situation. They do not
know how far to trust his idealistic
notions about justice in this matter.
Then there is an awful campaign 10
be faced Two tickets in the field
means such an anti-railroad fight as
fa. never been seen in this state. With
Cummins and Prouty and Healy and
Garst. and Speaker Clarke and Tom
Cheshire, backed UP by La Toilette and
3. Van SAINT. and several hundred young
j attorneys all on the stump inf1an1ing
the public mind. there would be no end
to two-cent fare bills and the like in
the next legislature. A railroad would
find it impossible to get even hear
ing before the average jury. Jim Da-
Wis. of the Northwestern, and Carroll
Wright. of the Rock Island, see this
now. They are counseling caution.
Then there are the other candidates
to be considered The proposition has
already been thrown out that if the
Cummins men will give up Garst and
Hayward, the whole thing can be fixed
UP in thirty minutes and Cummins will
be nominated The Cummins leaders
S all want defeat rather than give con-
troll of the senate committees, which
lieutenant governor names, and of the
executive council, which Hayward, as
serceratry of state, would dominate.
The governor himself considers that
z his nomination alone would be worth
less. and he would withdraw if his
friends should make any such conces-
sion None is even thought of, how
ever
On the other hand if there are two
tickets, the law requires that mans
name can appear on one only. Byers
for attorney general, Carroll for audi
tor, Morrow for treasurer, Riggs for
superintendent, the candidates for SUI
preIne judges, railroad commissioners
ct or the other, and there would be the
danger that if they failed to elect to
go on the Cummins ticket their places
would be filled with strong men from
the Cummins faction. This would
mean a strong man against Morrow.
whereas it looks as tho he collld now
y secure a nomination. if there We're
only one convention. Likewise Carroll
and Riggs and the supreme judges now
have no opposition. Byers and Garst
and Hayward would probably elect to
Palmer would not stand ghost Of a
show. In fact, j. w. Blythe has admit
ted in private conversation that Cum
minis could probably be elected if he
should run on an Independent ticket.
So the situation as shaped today is
that the radicals among the federal
Cummins can only be sunk out of sight
with it, while the railroad attorneys
are afraid that the cost will come out
of their hides at price too stiff for
them to bear. Hence, we have the rail-
road attorneys, heretofore putting up
the money and giving the orders for
all the inquiry of this campaign, actu-
ally holding back on the federal crowd
who are willing to make any sacrifice
in order to beat Cummins
Speculation is rife as to who the
railroad crowd will nominate if they
have a ticket Of their own. Perkins
has shown himself to be so weak "a
candidate in himself that he would
never get even started in race after
votes. If he is deserted, however, the
charge is admitted that this has not
been campaign for Perkins, but one
by the railroads to defeat Cumnins.
] Delivers name has been mentioned,
but without his consent. and he is not
here. Shaw is here, and it is believed
that he would accept Either Lacey
or Hepburn would accept. The stu
4 alton in this respect greatly resembles
& that which was confronted In the Ce-
8 dar Rapids convention, when the rail-
& roads could not find any one man who
could break into the Cummins ranks.
have talked with the leaders of