Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-20
after LEWIS SCALP
standpat Organization Turns
Its Attention to the Page
County Situation
WILL HOLD SNAP PRIMARIES
DR.. Elliott Announced for the Nominal
tion for Representative as a Step in
the Fight Against Lewis-PoIiticans
See Clever Move in Eleventh Dis
trict in Perkins Behalf.

Shenandoah, Jan 2O-According to
the program recently outlined relative
to the snap judgment primaries in
Page county, Dr. j. d. Elliott of Haw-
leyville, was announced yesterday as
candidate for the republican nomin-
alton for representative against Rep
resentative Crosse. The announcement
is formal and is made over Dr. Elliott's
signature in at least one newspaper in
this city and one at Clarinda.
DR.. Elliott personally is a popular
and excellent man. He has lived in
this county for thirty five years and
has been part of the Burlington or
ganization. He has been a member of
the executive committee of the county
central committee and a member of
the committee itself for many years.
He is now member of the board of
pension examiners, which is a federal
appointment.
Des Moines, Jan. 2O.-The Register
and Leader this morning says:
The word has come down the line
from Burlington and Washington to
kill off Senator Lewis, politically. The
Elliott candidacy is believed to be a
move in that direction. 1t is the de-
sire to eliminate the anti-machine ele-
ment in this county and as Senator
Lewis is the leader of it he has been
9rlSal for tha oh
tive Crosse is to be sacrificed as one
of the steps toward the eradication of
the man who dared to make the COL
lege Springs speech.
This is one way in which the Elliott
candidacy is expected to operate
against Lewis, eventually, in the polit-
ical game now being played here. Crosse
lives in Shenandoah and Lewis in
Clarinda. Shenandoah is on the west
ern line of the county and Clarinda is
on the eastern line. Hawleyville is in
the eastern part of the county. The
custom has been to give the senator
ship to one side of the county and name
the representative from the other part
III the representative can be nominated
from Lewis section then the chance to
substitute candidate for senator from
the western part of the county is vast
ly improved. G. II. Bogart, the ma
chine candidate for senator against
Lewis, lives in Shenandoah
Moreover. both Crosse and Lewis are
candidate for second term If Crosse
be beaten for a second term then it
Will be easier to defeat Lewis for his
second term"
The Seventh District Plan.
Waterloo, Jan. 20.-A special 10 the
Courier from Des Moines says:
Snap judgment on the gubernatorial
nomination is to be taken by the
Perkins men in the Eleventh district.
according to the charges of the
friends of Governor Cummins. They
recognize in the projected meeting of
Perkins admirers which is to be held
at Sioux City next Monday night at
which the candidacy for Editor Per-
kins is to be formally announced, a
clever scheme to inaugurate boom
and take the district by storm. They
anticipate that within the next fort
night the various county chairmen
throughout the Eleventh district will
fixing the date unprecedentedly early
IL anticipated lIldl SOIllG OIL ClGSe
caucuses will be called as early as the
latter part of next month and that
all of them will be held during the
month. Normally, these
caucuses would be held in June or
July, and, if the primary bill wins, will
be held in August.
TO the Cummins partisans the mo-
tive in such q program seems plain.
They recognize that Mr.. Perkins con-
trolls the party organization through
out the Eleventh district and that at
the present time feeling of loyalty
to d native SON. actuates the repub-
licans turnout the district so strongly
that Mr.. Perkins could easily secure
the delegations from three-fourths the
counties. They believe that he is con-
WINGED that every day that stands be-
tween him and the county conventions
lessons his chance of nomination. They
base this belief on the fact that the
Eleventh district has heretofore been
the very fountain head of Cummins
sentiment and of antagonism to the
Blythe or railroad political machine to
which the standpatters seem commits
ted They feel, therefore. that Mr.. Per-
kins' strength will wane rapidly when
it becomes known thoroughly to the
mass of voters thruout the district that
he is affiliated with the Blythe machine
and that he has been pronounced sat
isfactory.'' They do not expect the
county chairmen and others in whom
township, precinct and county party
machinery is entrusted to be so readily
influenced, but they think the weight
of public sentiment will force them to.
abandon Mr.. Perkins in order to save
themselves if the campaign is post
poned until thorough understanding
of the situation is gained
Under the circumstances, they argue,
it would be but natural for the Perkins
meeting Monday night to result in
plans for snap judgment caucuses
and they will exert their influence to
defeat such program.
A similar program, it is charged.
has been placed in operation in the
Eighth district in order to avert the
possible defeat of Congressman w.
P. Hepburn. The Hepburn move
ment and rival candidates. were ac-
o,,iring such momel tum that Hep
burns friends became alarmed and,
in sheer desperation. called the eau
cuses for February and March. But
one candidacy that OF Smith, has
been formally launched and is thor
oughly organized. The others are
still in the formative stage. though
several are as good as determined up
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