Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-05
DEMOCRATS Do NOT
EXPECT IO ELECT
While Not Openly Admitting 1t,
They Know Their Cause
Is Hopeless
THEIR TAKERS ARE PAID
At First the Railroad Allies Of the
Democrats Had Hope of Defeating
DoIIiver-Porters Campaign a Mega
tive one-Governor cummins Sure
Of Election in Spite Of Opposition.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to oTimes-Republican.
Des Moines, Nov. 5.-Privately' and
almost publicly the democratic poll
ticians and the corporation managers
admit that their cause is hopeless
and that they will go to defeat Tues
day.
The former are less hopeful than
the latter. The fact is that good
many republicans have been led tc
have confidence that they are going to
defeat the republican ticket this year
while very few democrats have gain
ed such confidence.
But the few who are talking of con
fdence about being able to defeat the
republican party this year are gener-
ally those who are under pay for 50
talking.
Ihe Porter campaign has been en-
tlreiy negative. He stands for nothing:
merely against everything about which
any complaint can be lodged. The fight
has been, so far as the state ticket is
concerned, one entirely directed at
governor Cummins and involving re-
publican administration of the affairs
or the state. Porter has refused to
make democratic speeches. 1t was a
part of the agreement that those who
were TO finance the fight against Cum
minis should direct what should be said
In the campaign by the one person who
was picked to do all the talking. Some
others insisted on talking and making
real democratic speeches, but they
were called off. The managers did
get Bryan to make a speech and they
are sorry for it. But Porter has
merely followed the lines laid out for
him by those who are responsible for
! dis nomination and for the manner OF
his campaign.
AT first the allies had hope of beat
ing Dolliver and making such inroads
on the legislature that it would be
easier to send democrat to the sem
ate to succeed Allison They have
given up that hope, as they cannot
break into the legislature with more
than third of it's membership.
When Porter was nominated at Wat
erloo a good many democrats there as
delegates made loud protest and some
of them declared openly that the
scheme involved a sell-out of the
party to the railroads. The democrat
ic committee was Organized by plac-
ing at the head c. w. Miller, who is
a brewer and had sustained close re-
lations with the railroads by appearing
at Chicago year ago as one of their
henohmen to .plot defeat of railroad
rate regulation. Weaver was taken
into the combine so as to get the pro-
hibition vote along with the support
Of the brewers; Walt Butler was taken
in SO as to get the Bryan vote along
with the Parker vote. These men
nominally have managed the anti
Cummins campaign, but they have
handled but a small part of the money
which has gone into the campaign.
Another committee was organized,
or rather it was q continuance of the
committee which had been organized
a year ago to fight the Roosevelt rate
program, and this committee, working
secretly, its membership an unknown
quantity, has done most of the work.
One Johnston has been the conspicuous
head of the committee, a disreputable
cheap lawyer, caring little for his rep
utation. With him was allied Julian
Richards, a reporter long in the serv-
ice of the corporations and now thor
oughly committed to the democratic
position. There was also continued on
the payroll one George Gallarno, who
was to have been deputy secretary of
state under Richards If the railroads
had succeeded in electing the latter.
Gallarno has travelled about with Por-
ter and has furnished the newspapers
with flattering reports Of the great
Porter meetings for which the papers
have been paid. Richards has devoted
himself to supplying the literature
which is being used in the interest OF
the democratic campaign. The demo-
cratic campaign book is largely his
compilation. 1t was edited and super
vised by Richards, Johnston and Gal.
larno. Somewhat keeping in the back
ground, but very active, has been b..
IT Hunter. who in some counties is
giving personal direction to the fight
against the republicans. Upon this
committee is almost the sole reliance
of the managers of the anti-Cummins
campaign.
Many nights during the campaign
little group of plotters could have been
seen in a rear room not far from the
open headquarters of the democratic
state committee. They were scheming
to defeat the republican party. It
looked strange that persons who had
only a few weeks before boasted that
they were the only simon-pure repub-
licans and had never bolted a ticket,
should thus go into conference with
the democrats. But they have done so.
few Sundays ago conference was
held in railroad office in Chicago to
consider the matter, and within ten
days high official of one of the trunk
line railroads came to the city In
special car and spent several hours in
consultation with politicians engaged In
trying to defeat and disrupt the repub-
lican party in Iowa. In this city, inn