Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-26
BLYrnE,s CONTEMPLATED BOLT.


BLYTHE'S CONTEMPLATED BOLT.
A Des Moines dispatch states on In
formation from high sources" that the
state central committee will order new
conventions in the counties that held
their conventions previous to the state
call. AS the committee has held no re-
cent meeting or announced officially
any program, any assertion of what 1T
will do is largely conjecture and mostly
guess work. However, it is generally
known that every Imaginable pressure
will be put upon the standpat members
of the state committee by anti-Cum-
Minis leaders. If the committee may be
coaxed, driven or hired to order re-
convention of the counties referred to
it will be done. 1t has become evident
that the desperation of the Blythe gang
knows no bounds and will stop at moth
ing, however unprecedented or dishon-
est. 1t is not however, yet evident that
all the standpat members of the state
central committee are ready to earn
infamy by blindly obeying any order
may issue.
1t is not likely that new conventions
would change the results in these
counties. Cummins might go into
Woodbury. and take it away from the
candidate who secured it by snap eau
cuses and under the false pretense that
he was the logical successor to Gov
ernor Cummins, because he stood for
the same reforms that the governor
has inaugurated and for which he is
pleading. Cummins' vote in those
counties would be simply overwhelm-
offer opportunity for contests. When
these counties held their conventions
the campaign scheme of fake contests
had not been evolved by Mr.. Blythe.
Under new deal half dozen men
might meet on a street corner, and
name contesting delegates to be fea-
tured by the Blythe syndicated press
as an immense and regular gathering
of simon pure republicans, and in paid
advertisements in other newspapers.
like the Davenport Democrat which
runs these reports at regular rates,
and marked "adv." 1t would help to
befog the issues, keep honestly elected
delegates sitting on the curbstone,
while Blythe trickery had its hour in
convention, and serve as an excuse and
argue justification for the bolt that
without any doubt is contemplated by
the railroad management Of the anti
Cummins campaign.
. Such a bolt is contemplated. The
Cedar Rapids Republicans editorial
announcement Of its desire for the
of democratic governor over
Cummins is highly significant, not that
the Republican Yields any particular
influence, or that it may be credited
with leadership, but because it would
scarcely have made any such state
nent without previous consultation
with Burlington. The attitude of the
Hawkeye and the Des
Moines Capital, papers entirely en- rap
port with Mr.. Blythe, is indicative Of
his resolution to seize the state conven-
ton. if he may, and failing there, to
split the republican party and give the
democrats a chance. All this talk of
a clark horse" is part of the Blythe
scheme to beat Cummins in the con-
vention or out Of 1t; the fake contests,
the lying news reports and paid ads.
the insistence that the state central
committee shall decide contests. are
to a burglarized conven-
ton and an anchor to windward for a
bolt The situation in
Carroll county foreshadowed the situ-
alton it is hoped may be created at
Des Moines. In Carroll, Salinger had
control of the county chairman. 1t
was practically Salinger alone that
refused tickets to regularly elected
delegates and forced 1872 delegates to
take charge of hall that Salinger
claimed with 10.
However, it is unjust to honest men,
whose support of Mr.. Perkins has been
sincere to charge them with these
political crimes, past and contemplate
ed. They won't stand for it. 1t is
incredible that the state central cons
mittee will render Blythe implicit
obedience 1t is not likely that Dolli-
yer and Allison will lie down under
the notice served on the Iowa congress
sional delegation, that unless they lend
their efforts to control the state con-
vention against Cummins, they will be
treated as political foes; notice sign
ed by one G.. w. Johnson for Perkins
and written on the let
terhead of w. +. Parrou. 1t is incred-
ible also that out of 1,640 men gathered
from the 90 counties of Iowa, that a
ma iority of these will suffer Joe Blythe
and Ed. Hunter to usurp their prerog-
atiye. And it would have been past