Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-09
1ue CAMPAIGN IN IOWA,

| Tho news from last nights caucuse'
and primaries is of popular victories
East Waterloo, the pivotal precinct o
Black Hawk county. gave Cummlns l.,
2s3 votes to 927 for the Perkns-Rich
ards combination Poweshiek town
ships fell into line and Poweshiek couh
ty is safe to stand again in the state
convention for the right and the mer
and measures that are right. Jeffer-
son county decidedly leans to the Cum
Minis column. This is a Cummins Week
and when the totals are counted VI
tonight it will require optimism alb
normally developed to find nope foi
George d. Perkins.
The sooner the contest is over and
settled by the absolute defeat OF the
gang that is attempting to debauch ana
huy Iowa. the better for the state. No
such campaign has ever been waged IN
Iowa as the railroads are putting up.
IT is shameless where it dare be shame
less, unclean, leprous. an appear 10
mems lower natures everywhere. When
it is over Iowa should take bath.
The two main dependencies of this
crowd that is pounding Cummins' are
money and patronage. Their campaign
has been mostly barter They have
price for every mans soul. Kretsch-
mer is only an incident. fifty dollar
bill that came by mail to a Cummins
man in Waterloo, from high source.
with the request that he keep quiet
was only an incident. When Thurs
day evening on the street a Waterloo
railroad man laughingly handed back
5000 in bills that were showed into his
hand by Wad carrier, with the re-
quest to "go home lay down and quit
talking for Culnmins,' it was only an
incident. When Carroll county man
in Des Moi1fes the other day was Of
fered $500 to deliver Union, Newton
and Eden townships to the Ed Hunter
Perkins combination and told to set
his own price on the county, it was
only another incident. If there is one
close precinct or county without these
and similar incidents it is yet to be
heard from. Money and jobs are the
arguments Of the anti-Cummins work
ers.
y, s- Is hn1
not actually lay hands ON the ballot
box itself 1t was left to one of the
most cultured and cleanest cities in
Iowa to introduce the methods of
Hinky Dink and Major Sampson into
the politics Of the state. The republic
can central committee of Montgomery
ordered the names Of the cam
didates for governor placed on the
ballots to be voted at the primaries. lr,
one ward the official ballots were hid
den away by a member of the commit
tee that issued the call and ballots
without the names of the candidate fof
governor upon them substituted. Forced
to produce the official ballots the board
refused to count the vote for governor.
The ballots were gathered up by this
and carried away as
soon as the count was over. Nothing
more fragrant was ever worked in the
purlieus of Chicago or New York. No
one knows how the vote stood. If it
had not been for Cummins why was it
stolen by the opposition?
One of the worst features of this
is this: Smith Mcpherson,
once an Iowa congressman, now a
Judge on the federal bench, will name
he delegation from this stolen ward
He had adjourned his United States
.ourt and come home to see that the
~ IMPRESSION of Red Oak republicans
suited him and the men who made him.
lie has announced that his delegation.
nay be depended upon to vote against
cummins all the time. This is the
Smith Mcpherson whose drunken ex-
libition at banquet in Council Bluffs
ecently Disguised Iowa and disgraced
he federal judiciary.
What are we coming to in Iowa? Are
We ready to accept these men as lead