Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-26
THE KR[ISCHNER SALE
Sale of the Dubuque Delegation
Still the Talk of the
Politicians
is AN INSULT TO ALLISON
BIythe's Use of the Senior Senator
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is AN INSULT TO ALLISON
BIythe's Use of the Senior Senator
Causing Indignation Among the Sen
ator's Friends-cummins' Candidacy
in No Way involved AlIison's For-
tunes-Political Comment
TBy Ora williams1


Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines, May 26.-The Kretsch-
mer sale of the Dubuque delegation
| is the reigning political sensation. 1t
is something altogether unique in Iowa
politics. No such incident is record
| ed in all political annals of the state.
The most surprising part of it was
that Kretschmer has insisted on max
| ing Senator Allison responsible for it
all. THAT the party may stand unit
ed behind Senator Allison" Is the way
he puts it, u am impelled to and do
withdraw as candidate for the office
of treasurer of state and now retire
from the field"
| The question naturally presents it
self, Who was threatening party unity
| back of Allison? Who was bringing
! pressure to bear on the senior sena-
| tor? 1t is absolutely certain that
from no source other than the rail-
road political machine which is to-
| day enraged beyond all reason at Sen
| ator Allison could there have come,
at this time, any danger to the Du-
buque statesman. 1t is known that
because of his championship OF the
rate regulation bill the railroad poll
| 'ticians are sore at Allison as they are
lat Dolliver and others who have sup
ported the president. But it was not
supposed they would go to the length
of threatening his seat in the SEN
| ate.
| But it is known that j. W. Blythe
aspires to that place, and if he can
| name the governor of Iowa, he will
be in line to get it when a vacancy
occurs. 1t is known that Hart, of
Council Bluffs, has his eye on the
place. Perhaps Allison had reason ito
be scared
But Allison is not before the people
now. His candidacy cannot be con-
sidered before the voters. Yet
Kretschlner puts it right up to AlE-
son that he is responsible for the lat
est deal. Is it true? Politicians here
are loath to believe it.
But the truth of the matter is, and
everybody knows it, that Kretschmer
got into the race claiming to be
friend of Allison, that he made use
of Allison's name in furthering his
candidacy, and his retirement from
the race was in no way related to
the Allison succession. 1t was a
clean sell-out and nothing more. The
reference to Allison was put up as an
excuse. Nobody will believe for a
minute, that there could come to AL
lison any danger because his friend
and follower at home should live up
to the promises of his campaign and
I do what he had told his neighbors and
supporters he would do.
But unless Allison repudiates it in
word and deed the sell-out will be-
cloud his political career. There is
no escape for this.
What Progressves Think.
The progressives here look upon the
kretschmer deal as the browning
blunder by the Blythe people in a
campaign which has been one pro-
longed blunder. The effort to make
it appear that a corrupt deal has been
done in the Allison interest will never
be taken seriously by anybody. The
progressives are jubilant over the sit
uation. They do not believe that
Blackhawk county will repeat the ex-
trading delegation. The purchase of
Kretschmer is certainly standpat
blunder.
1t is stated on reliable authority that
Mr.. Blythe himself has recently sought
to escape responsibility for the cam
paign and is denying that it is being
run by him. He limited that the blum
iders were too numerous and he did
not care to accept responsibility for
them.
The laundering of the standpatters
started with picking Perkins as the
candidate with which to defeat Cum
Minis, on the theory that he was sure
to corral the Tenth and Eleventh dis
tricts, the big, solid republican dis.
tricts of the state. Then came the ef.
I fort to get him into the race ON his
record of being "a better Cummins
man than Cummins himself as one OF
This friends said. Inevitably this pro-
gram had to be changed SO that no
could run strictly as a standpatter.
Then came the blunder Of the Elk :
ms letter, which is laid at the door Of
Shaw, who advised it's writing; then
the Jackson letter. wherein Perkins,
over Jackson's signature, sought to
grossly misrepresent the records of
Iowa history; then followed the stand
pat scheme to put Cummins In n
hole with the Gilliland resolution; then
the defeat of the primary bills, the
outrages of the Sitting committee" and
the weakness of the legislative fight.
The Spirit Lake Debate" was an
other great blunder of the standpat-
tiers. Along with this was the scheme
to seduce Honest John" Herriott into
support OF Perkins, the threat of bolt
ing in Dickinson and Emmett and tie
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