Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-18
How the Standpatters May Lose
Representation in the State
Conventions
CUTTING REPUBLICAN VOTE
A Vote Against cummins Means RE
duced Representation in the Councils
of the Party-Reservation Likely to
Have Fewer Delegates if the Ticket
Is BoIted.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines, Aug. 1S.-Politicians
who hail from the southern part of the
state are giving more than passing
thought to the continuous stream of
reports that the reservation is going
to cut the head of the ticket. Politi-
cislns are selfish as a rule, and whilS
they may have little regard to whether
if the matter ended there, they are ever
looking to the future. If the reserva-
ton counties cut the head of the tick
ct at the election next November, the
representation from the counties in the
reservation will be decreased, and ii
will be increasingly harder for any
candidate from that section of the state
for state office to make a showing
at the next state convention. The
situation is one that comes straight
home to every aspiring politician, from
the reservation.
In the state convention, on the NOM
iilation Of Governor, Cummins received
993 votes out of 1910 delegates, and
Perkins and Rathbun together re-
ceived 707. Perkins got the delegates
from Woodbury., Chickasaw and half
of Dubuque, which are legitimately
progressive counties, while Wapello,
which went for Cummins, is in the res
ervation. Adding woodbury., Chicka-
saw and half of Dubuque to the Cum
roi yofo nd fol In
gives 991 as the progressive represen-
tation and $50 as the reservation rep
resentation. These figures fairly show
the strength of the reservation and the
progressive northern counties at the
present time in a republican state con-
vention.
The representation in the state con-
vention is one delegate-at-large for
each county and one delegate for each
200 votes cast for the head of the, tick
ct at the last election and one dele-
gate for each fraction of 100 votes or
over There were about 10000 votes
cast in the reservation counties for
Cummins at the last election. The
progressive courties in the northern
part Of the state have already about
1000 out of the 1,640 delegates in the
state convention, and if Cummins is
scratched at the coming election to any
great extent, this representation for the
reservations still further be cut
down. A DETECTION of four or five
hundred votes in each Of the thirty
counties in the reservation means a
loss Of two or three delegates from
each of these counties. ! There could
thus easily be loss of 100 delegates
there. The vote in the northern part
of the state promises to be correspond
ingly increased and the northern coln-
ties would thus gain
1t can be put down as surety that
the leading politicians in the northern
part of the state are prepared to work
tooth and nail to increase the vote in
their counties. They are perfectly
aware Of all sides of the situation and
are prepared to, make the most of it,
Being members of that class of politi-
clans who think that the passage of
a primary election law, the control of
the corporations and other reforms are
akin to a moral duty they feel that
it is an obligation resting with them
to increase the republican vote if they
can and they believe they can.
There are other things that will en-
ter into the situation at the coming
election. The fact that the circle is
off the ballot will have considerable
influence and politicians are speculat-
ing on the ultimate results. With
the circle off the ballot it becomes
necessary for every person who votes
to make a cross in the square in front
of the name of every candidate for
whom he wishes to vote. Being ac-
customed to vote by making one mark
in the circle at the head of the ticket
which they wish to vote, it is feared
that many voters will go to the booth,
make one mark in the square in front
of the first name on the ballot which
will be the candidate for governor,
and let it go at that. This, of course,
will mean one vote for the candidate
for governor and none for any of the
other candidates on the ballot. This
fact may tend to further help out the
head of the ticket and keep up the
representation in the northern coun-
ties.
That the bolting in the southern
part of the state among the leading
newspapers Is re2iFty lS 1uFtnef dt-
tested by the action of the Burlington
uaawkeye of Thursday in printing on
the front page an interview with
George Ganarno that was first print
ed in the Galesburg, ILL.,, Republican
[Register. In his interview in the Re-
publican Register in Galesburg, Mr..
Gallarno names the Hawkeye as being
one of the leading republican papers
Of Iowa that is openly boiling the re-
publican ticket. The Hawkeye by
printing the interview seems to give
acquiesence to the statement. Galfar-
no is the newspaper man who came
from Waterloo some years ago as a
democrat and was while working in
this city converted to the republican
party by Governor Cummil1s. In an