Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-14
BLYTHE CONTROL
Of RESERVATION
Events Along the Burlington
Prove the Truth Of Cum
minis Prediction
FREE PASS DOING THE WORK
Blythe Still Able to Hold the Counties
Along the "o' Right Of Way, as
Events Are Provins-some sgnifi
cant Results in the Reservation Ter
ritory-campaign Figures.
GBy Ora will!ams.l

| Special to Times Republican,
| Des Molnes, May l4--One day last
fall there appeared In print in Iowa an
article In which political matters were
discussed somewhat freely, in which
was contained this pertinent query:
without being ovcrriddcn by the slaves
of favoritism and the syrophantic BEN
eiiciarIes of free transportation"
II was written In lowa, and the writ
er had In mind Iowa conditions as they
sometimes exist
Events of the past week indicate that
the free pass brigade is doing all pos
sible to give an emphatic mo" as
answer to the query.
The reservation counties are being
heard from. AT the outset OF the pres
cnt campaign Governor Cummlns de-
clared that the campaign was much
Hike that OF five years ago. when he de-
clared that he was a candidate be-
cause Hubbard and Blythe did not
want him to be. The Judge left no
successor, but Blythe Is still doing
business in the old way, and the past
week this has been demonstrated In u
manner which cannot fail to impress
everyone who is not blinded by preju-
dice.
Previous to the past week three
counties Of the Blythe reservation had
spoken. Every one spoke for the
Blythe candidate. Now the list has
been increased to ten. The claim Is
confidently put forth by the Perkins
people that every one of these reserva-
ton counties. every one touched by the
Burlington railroad, has gone just as j..
w. Blythe would have them go.
There We're those who a few weeks
ago he.,htated 10 believe the truth OF
what the governor had said about the
character of the fight being put up
against him. They did not feed sure
that 1t was, so far as 1t related to Per-
kins. a fight under the leadership of
Blythe to undo all that had been ac-
complished by reason Of the election of
Cummlns. Now they had the proof
furnished them. Blythe has spoken by
and thru his agents In the reserva-
tion.
When the twenty to twenty-five
counties which comprise the Blythe
territory march into the state conven-
ton in Dcs Moines, a solid phalanx
arrayed against progressive republi-
canism then indeed will an answer be
given to the query Of Mr.. Perkins as
to whether or not a convention can be
held without being overridden by "the
= ,1,o,
tic beneficmries Of free transporta-
ton" Perhaps they will not override
anything, but they will do what they
can in that direction.
1t is a matter of some surprise that
Blythe has been so we'll able to hold his
lines In the face of a growing senti-
ment for independence. One Of his
put it the other day as IL
Illustrating the power Of organization
and the influence OF the free pass.
Washington county went for Per-
kins naturally. 1t is devoted wholly to
Colonel Palmer, and he is Blythes man
par excellence. For Washington to
have given Cummins any enqourage-
ment would have been turn down for
Palmer.
it was learned that Davis county was
also completely under the Blythe domi-
nation. State Auditor Carroll is on the
slate for denomination by the domi-
nant forces And the rapid anti-Ipro-
gressive organs announced with glee
that Davis county stands ready to en-
ter Carroll for governor as a stand
patter if the progressives fail to win.
Then there is Monroe county, which
puts up Nate Kendall as a candidate
for speaker-and Monroe falls irto
Blythe's lap at the same time.
AS for Keokuk county. which seeks
the denomination Of Superintendent
Riggs, the fact appears not to have pre-
vented the Blythe beneficiaries from
a play to have the county line
up on the losing side.
If Wapello is rescued from the rail-
road control it will be because Of the
spontaneous uprising of the people
themselves and determination that
boss rule shall cease.
But the Significance of results in
Taylor, Mahaska, Ringgold Appanoose.
Madison, Monroe, Davis, Washington,
.Wapello and Keokuk, Is that it makes
so plain that he would be indeed fool
hardy who would now contend that the
Perkins candidacy is in the interests
of the partly" Blythe has at last
been forced to show that this is a sec
tional and factional fight against the
republicans of Iowa, that it is ques-
ton of railroad domination, that it is
the corporations VS. the people. An
unbroken preservation" SHOWS what the
free pass can do.
These figures contemplate an equal
division of the Crawford county dele
gates and contemplate giving Cummins
all of Dubuque as it is known that
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