Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-07
The Governors Entrance Into
the District Spreads Alarm
Among Standpatters
in o'sRIEN COUNTY TODAY
Fact That cummins Has Been So
Strongly Urged to Speak to Far
mers in the Eleventh Indicates Sem
timent Is Not Nearly Unanimous
for Perkins.
[By Ora Williams.l
Special to Times-Re publican

Special to epubllcan
Des Moines, Feb. THE political
campaign in the Eleventh district vir-
Iually opens today. 1t was supposed
to have been opened or almost ended
at one sweep, short time ago; but
today it opens in way not intended
and not relished by some Of the Elev-
enth district bosses.
Governor Cummins starts off with
two speeches today in the Eleventh
district. They are speeches to farm
ers, on invitation, at farm institutes,
the First in O'Brien county in the af-
ternoon, and the second in Cherokee
county. Then he has accepted invita-
tions to go into Buena Vista and
some other counties. Governor Cum
minis Is willing to go when called, and
where the farmers desire to hear
discussion Of the public questions of
the day as they relate to the farming
interests. The speeches the gov
ernor delivers at these farm institutes
is non-partisan in every sense. No
partisan politics enters. But he talks
of live questions about which every
farmer knows something and nearly
all of them desire to know more.
Here in Des Moines the fact that
there are those in northwestern Iowa
who strongly desire the governor to
come into the district and to arouse
Ia 1T Ill t., x.,1,
to indicate that George d. Perkins,
the Sioux City candidate for governor,
is not the unanimous choice of all.
The fact that the governor has gone
into the district is taken to indicate
acceptance by him of the rather defiant
challenge of Candidate Perkins last
Saturday and formal notice to the
governor to stay at home and watch
Polk county under penalty of losing it.
Apparently Cummins is willing to
place himself in position to ba
pounded into the earth" as suggested,
if that is the program.
But among the out and out Blythe
men here the attitude of Cummins in
persisting in talking to the people who
want to hear him Is looked upon as
little less than villainy. They sneered
when Larrabee came to Des Moines
and asked: "What'll the Cummins
men do next to get up a rally" Yes
terday they contented themselves with
the remark, anent the Lawson meet
ing. "Another Cummins rally" Every
thing goes wrong with them.
Within the past ten days the news
that comes from all sources in the
Eleventh district has changed materi-
ally. just after the Perkins announce
ment and the mass meeting to clinch
it, the most of the news from north
western Iowa was of the Jolly up" va
riety and proclaimed that there would
be little trouble for the Blythe men in
carrying every county of the district.
Now the other side is being heard.
One conservative politician from the
district yesterday estimated that at
least five counties would refuse to
stand for Perkins. The anti-iBlythe
men are going farther and saying that
they will control more than half the
district, as they did on the open fight
four years ago. Now there are none
Of the claimants Of the district for
the Sioux City man who can assert he
can have all the district.
The situation in the Eleventh is the
most peculiar ever known in the state
With Perkins working hard as a cam
didate and Cummins still in doubt as
to whether the exigencies Of the oc-
casion demand that he yield to per-
suasion and again become the leader.
1t appears that an effort is to be made,
in the district and by district leaders
themselves to discredit the Perkins
and to show that the senti-
mcnt of the district is with Cummins
rather than with Blythe. The situa-
ton is therefore quite different from
what it was four years ago.
There can be no doubt whatever as
to the sentiments of members of the
legislature in regard to Perkins Every
man who runs with the Blythe ma
chine is taking for Perkins, and the
others are, to man, opposed to him.
But the campaign is opening and
from this time on it will be worth
IOWA GIRL IN TURKISH PRISON.