Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-08
Spoke to $50 Last Night When
Cummins Meeting Numbered
1000 Enthusiasts
WATERLOO SENTIMENT cuMMINs
Primaries in East Waterloo Tonight
Will Decide Black Hawk County
Railroad Money to Burn and Wad
Carriers Active But cummins is
Likely to Win.
Special to Times-'Republican.

| votes to overcome jill over
public sentiment Albert b. Cummins
| will carry East Waterloo tonight by a
safe majority and control the Black
Hawk county convention by at least
| twenty lone delegates and possibly by
| thirty-three Perkins has now won fifty
| seven delegates and Cu1nmins forty
one East Waterloo with forty three
| votes is the pivotal point of Black
Hawk county, and SO far as Mr.. Per-
| kins is concerned the point on which
| his certain defeat or am extension OF
| possibilities depends. If Perkins loses
East Waterloo tonight his hope is flee
and he is Il beaten man. If he carries
| 1t he will be in a position to keep uI
a fight. And he will lose it unless the
| gang Of wstd carriers are enabled to
/ get in their perfect work. The grave
danger to Cum1nns lies with repeaters
| and the purchaSable voters
There are wads and wads Of money
ready to buy anything that offers
against Cummins. Any effective Cum
Minis supporter can set his price if he
is sufficiently venal 10 have a price
| The situation resolves itself into a
with the men who are for sale, Perkins
will carry the precinct. The cash is
on hand and the market an open one.
Buy them?'' said representative of a
standpat paper of wide state circula-
ton, Buy them? Certainly, buy any
thing that offers itself for sale" That
is the situation in East Waterloo to-
day. On sentiment and conviction
Cummins is sure winner.
This was apparent last night when
| Governor Cummins, Senator Tom Hea-
| ley and Judge Prouty spoke to an en-
| thusiastic gathering of between 1000
and 5000 people at the East Side park
while Perkins addressed a meager 250
on the most prominent street corner of
East Waterloo.
| When the Culnmins meeting was an
nounced the Perkins managers hired
all the halls engaged the Waterloo
band and hurried Mr. Perkins to Wa
| terloo to divide the crowd. Several
| thousand people were gathered about
the Logan house last night at 8 o'clock
At 20. when Mr.. Jarnigan introduced
Mr.. Perkins. there were perhaps 100
| to $50 people standing on the side
walks where Perkins platform was
erected Sixty-five people. largely worn-
en- with babies. We're in the chairs and
on the benches The first twenty rows
of plank seats were vacant, and at thai
very time 5000 or more who had fol-
lowed Cummins to the East Side
park were cheering Tom Healey
to the echo as he reviewed the record
of Governor Cummins in and out y.
| legislature Cummins crowd grew
larger rs the speaking continued. Al
nine o'clock Perkins had not to exceed
| $50. If these demonstrations are in.
| dicative of the sentiment Of East Wa.
teroo. the frost that began last night
will snow Mr.. Perkins under tonight
when the ballots of East Waterloo re-
| publicans are counted. Cummins men
say the fight is won. They feel certain
| of success.
The Cummins meeting was a great
success. Senator Healy made power
| full and effective plea for the square
deal in Iowa. The railroad and work.
| ing men of whom the audience was
| largely composed, paid the closest at
tention and when Healy recalled the
| fight Tom Updegraff and A. B. Cum
minis made for the Temple amendment,
dozens of them called out chats So.
Good for Cummins,' etc. Healy made
an excellent and convincing speech. He
was followed by the governor, Who
spoke with great difficulty which IN
creased with his efforts. He sad his
candidacy was the result of the CEN
| d. "A
effort upon Perkins. He had
made this fight and intended to
keep it up. His reference to a state
wide primary law brought cheers and
expressions of approval. Whatever
you do with me-" said the governor, II
want you to see that Black Hawk
county's vote in the next assembly is
for a statewide primary Then the
great crowd cheered like mad. His as
sertion that he had ito win two dele
gates to hold one' brought out yells
of "Kretschmer.' The kretschmer in
cident is resented in Waterloo.
Prouty made the star speech Of the
evening He arraigned the railroads
for their insistence upon control of
the politics of the state and told his
hearers some matters in connection
with Joseph Blythe out of his own
knowledge and experience. He made
the charge openly upon his own re-
sponsibility that Blythe paid cash to
control even municipal politics. He
said he knew that he spent and had
spent $500 in. one campaign, for the
mayoralty of an Iowa city. This state
ment the judge informed his hearers
was actionable and he added Late
Young's paper says Il am financially
responsible for what / say" Prouty
had heard the conversation between
Mather of the Rock Island railroad and
Cumnlins when Mather came in his
private car to force Cummins to let
the Infamous Molsbery bill become a
law He heard Mather tell the governor
what he wanted and insist that Cum
Minis stultify himself and betray the
people of his state for the benefit Of the
heard Cummins say "Mather, there's
the door 1t was a graphic picture
and the crowd listened still as death
to the climax to break out tumultuous
applause.
An cid gray bearded and white
haired man sat near the
speakers table listening painful
ly thru am ear horn. occa-
sionally as the speaker proceeded he
waved his hat, but when Prouty came
to the climax of his svery the old fell
low waved his hat in one hand and the