Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-26
y|ANDPAI RANKS
ARE DISRUPTED
All Is Not Harmony in the
Perkins Camp at the
State Capital
HULL MEN ARE FOR cuMMlNs
Many Republicans Who Are Standing
BY Hull for Representative Are For
cumnins For Governor and Are Re-
senting the interference of Perkins
in Campaign.
tBy Ora Williams.l


Des Moines, April 26.-While George
u. Perkins is to be the central figure
OF great rally of the anti Cummins
forces in the state capital this even
ing, the outlook is not good for an inn
.pressive demonstration. In fact among
some of Perkins friends there is no
concealment of their regret that he
ever permitted use of his name in this
county as a part of the scheme to dis
credit the governor at his home. Just
now the situa ton is complicated by
factional quarrel to decide who is who
lin standpat ranks. The radical anti
Cummlns men. those who are with
Blythe Cor mercenary reasons. or have
been admiring Hull or Perkins chiefly
because they have personal grievances
against Mr.. Cummins, are insisting
that they must again be given free
rein here: while the friends of Con-
gresham Hull who are for him on
principle. and majority of whom are
also real friends of the governor, are
in fact in full control of the situation.
When the rabid Blythe men set out
to pick candidates for delegates in the
various precincts they discovered that
the close personal and political friends
of Hull would not go into the game as
Perkins men. There was tacit under
standing among them that there should
be no fight between Cummins and Hull,
an agreement identical with that of
two years ago, save that it was pro-
vided thai only honorable men should
be entrusted with political control and
there was to be exclusion from the
cotGty convention of the adventurers
who Two ysars before broke faith with
the governor and so shamefuliy be-
trayed both Hull and Cummins.
When these adventures found that
there was no way to provoke a quar-
rel between the Hull men and Cum
Minis men they got real mad. Their
spokesman printed a vigorous editorial
attack on Hull and his friends, accus-
ing them of being only Cummins men,
declaring that Hull is "betraying the
best friends he has in Polk county,"
and denouncing the honorable UNDER
standing as a "clear boycott against
the men who saved the day for stand
patism, railroad domination, ETC. Vir-
tually the Young Hunter Berryhill7
Foster outfit, inspired largely by per-
sonal grievances against the governor.
has declared war on Congressman Hull
because they were not permitted to die
tate in local politics this year
decided slump in interest in the
Perkins movement followed the dis
covery that HulPs name cannot be
used in the game to batter down the
Cummins fortress in the name of Per-
kins and the interest of Blythe. The
local Blythe organ suddenly lost inter-
est in the Perkins meeting, and prints
only paid advertiser ents of the rally.
The G. A. R. movement fell fiat when
1T was found that democrat had been
entrusted with reaching the old SOL
diers. With Lafe Young, Ed Hunter
and their faction making war on the
friends of Hull the outlook is bad for
Perkins in any way.
Late Convention.
Ii the standpatters are hugging the
deluslon that setting comparatively
late date for the state convention will
be dis-spiriting to the progressives
they are deceiving nobody but them
selves. When the legislature closed
their plan unquestionably was to force
the fighting and have it over with
quickly. They showed their hand in
the Fourth district before the legisla-
ture adjourned Then they got action
in the Tenth district. But somehow
the program has not worked out their
way; hence the late convention. This
means determined struggle for mas
terry Of the state between the Blythe
followers and the Cummins followers.
1t means that even tho the republican
voters may be for Cummins every
scheme conceivable will be resorted to
to defeat their will. There will be. if
necessary, "contesting delegations"
from every Cummins county where the
cry of packed by democrats" can be
raised, and caucuses will be controlled
by passes or by bribery But the
friends Of the governor are confident
he will win over all these odds against
him and come out triumphant.
The cry of democrats" and "popu-
lists" and the hurrah- for the man
who-never scratched his ticket, as
raised by Perkins and ms 1olloWers
and managers, comes with poor grace
from them. Perkins is seeking ana
counting all possible democratic sup
port. Several Blythe newspapers Ia
beled democratic are engaged IN sup
porting Perkins or denounc1ng cum
Minis; the old soldiers are being work
ed thru democratic politician OF sioux
City. and Perkins is keeping sil9n.
about his record as a free silveri'e n ne
is being supported by men me laua ,ua,
gerford of Carroll. who can ohls p1eao
the statute of limitations TO Keep MN mn,
out of the democratic column, anu VIZ
probably wouldn't care to explain WY WY
he left Salt Lake City belWee, tmo ,,',o
days or why he had to qul. eolnl''ta =, .ha
junction unceremoniou Al 1Aoe- sAS