Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-11
THAT ALLISON ED|C|
Senator's Action Has Put the
Brand of Theft on the
kretscllner Deal
RETURNING STOLEN GOODS
Generally Believed That Allison Was
Not Apprised of the Deal or If He
Was Did Not Fully Understand Its
Import - Terms Of the Deal Never
Denied.
LEY Ora 'Williams.1
Special to Republican.

| Des Moines. June 11.-Senator ALI
sons edict has gore forth to the men
of his own household and home. and as
| a result half eXpia ton is to be made
mitted in his name by Hunter and
| Kretschmer. Whether the stain is to
be fully wiped out remains to be dem
onstrated; but it Isl something to have
confession made openly and publicly
| that a crime was committed, and it is
of some consequence that the senior
senator has been able to compel return
/ of at least half of the stolen goods.
This is the meaning of the latest
news from Dubuque. where half of the
kretschmer delegation have signed a
statement that they will refuse to be
delivered bodily to Ed. Hunter and j.
W. Blythe.
The accepted opinion among republi-
cans here is that the deal was made
without the knowledge of Allison, or
at least that he die not understand the
full import of the deal in the first
place, that the negotiations in chief
We're conducted thru Shaw and others.
and that the small group of politicians
who assume to speak for Allison on all
occasions at Dubuque went entirely too
far in taking it for granted Allison
would endorse and approve any deal
they might make no matter how ne
farious
1t seems strange that these plotters
could have imagined that they could
make such a deal involving so many
interests and runring to federal APP
pontment. and the transfer of a large
sum of money. without the public
knowing COOL deal about it.
AS matter of fact. the writer
knew definitely and positively OF
the offer being made involving fed
eral appointin and the return of
campaign expense money and knew
positively that negotiations We're pro-
ceeding from the office of Ed Hunter,
several days before the sale was an
nounced More or less of the inform
alton got out at various places and
came from a number of sources
AS to just the extent to which Alli-
son and Shaw We're concerned in the
preliminaries, there has all along been
some question. Republicans who are
of excellent repute. men who generally
speak advisedly. have declared their
belief. and in some cases their posi-
tive knowledge hat Senator Allison
was not only consulted about the mat
ter, but that he read or knew the con-
tents of the letter announcing the
deal and making the excuse of Allison's
interests. This view is not credited.
however. by the leading progressives
here. They prefer to believe that Alli-
son had no guilty knowledge of the
deal.
The information has been all along
also, that the delegates who were
named to go to the state convention
under the terms of the Kretschmer-
Hunter contract, with the exception of
possibly three or four, were not aware
Of the existence of the agreement
nor did they know that there had been
a price paid for the betrayal Of those
who controlled the Dubuque delega-
ton.
In this connection 1t might be we'll
to recall that there has never been any
denial by Hunter or by kretschaner of
the terms of the deal as they have
been stated in almost every newspaper
of the state.
The signing Of an apparent agree
ment to divide by half of the Dubuque
delegation is a confession of the truth
of all that has been charged against
Kretschmer and Hunter. 1t is also
confession that the Kretschmer- Hunt
err excuse of "Allison's interests"
proved failure. and that the deal Sc
riously endangered Allisons future and
clouded his record.