Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-23
.CUNN|N& CARRIES
CARROLL COUNTY
Attempt of Salinger and His
Crowd to Exclude Delegates
Fails Ignobly
FAKE CONTEST TRuMPED UP
With Only Ten Uncontested Delegates
for Perkins the Hunter Crowd At
tempted to Carry the Convention, But
Delegates Would Not Stand for It
Strenuous Times in Carroll.
Special to Times Republican.

! Special to Times Republican.
! Carroll. June 23-Carroll county re-
( publicaus today rose in anger
! and rebuke and repudiated Ben Sailing
works. One after another the decisive
caucuses swung into line for Garst and
Cummins. 1t was a landslide, the
united voices of the decent voters of
Carroll raised in protest against an at
! tempt to introduce the Pennsylvania
plan of gag rule into Carroll county
politics. Ben Salinger and his hench-
man, Chairman Korte are today the
worse whipped men that ever faced
friends in Carroll, men who believed
in him and who looked upon third
/ term with disfavor. but these friends
staid at home, unwilling to be led by
the Ed Hunter lieutenants, or went to
vote against him In kortes' own ward
in the city of Carroll, he was able to
muster but 20 votes.
This ward was one of the centers
of desperate effort on the part of the
Salinger outfit. No one will ever know
how much the attempt to carry it cost
them but it went for Cummins four to
one. Glidden gave Perkins votes
and Cummins 1913. There were 100
more Cummins votes iii the pre-
cinct had they been needed
Hnwavar thiS o,nf I,a
home Of the Glidden Graphic and
avoided by the automobiles sent out
from Des Moines and given over to
Cumminism by Salinger gang Grant,
a country precinct, gave Cummins "a
and Perkins 4. The four Perkins
votes were rushed to the polls by the
Des Moines automobiles This is the
township reported as carried by Per
kins by the Capital. The "a either
walked or drove. Coon Rapids,
where Sam HenryS paper has assidu-
ously cultivated anti-Cummins senti-
ment, went unanimously for Cummins.
Ralston, Glidden No. 2. was unani-
nous. Jasper, where the fiercest fight
was waged and money and the Des
Moines automobiles We're kept busiest,
gave Cummins II to "a for Perkins.
Newton, including the town of Dedham
and Warren, in which township the
town of Manning is located came in
two to one for Cummins. About this
time Chairman Korte and Mr.. Salinger
went home to enjoy the solitude they
had created In today's convention the
Perkins people are not entitled to more
than Is delegates out of the 1877. The
county is simply sealed and delivered
to Cummins.
These figures are deceiving in one
way They do not convey the facts
of the desperate and dirty political
fight put UP by the Blythe gang. There
has been no lack of money and it has
been freely used where it would do the
most good. Automobiles have secured
the country Nothing was left undone
that belongs to an Ed. Hunter cam
'paign. Mails have been crowded with
free copies of the Des Moines Capita.
Sioux City Journal, Cedar Rapids Re-
publican, and. Council Bluffs Nonpar-
ell At Breda the caucus called for
eight p. m. was attended by the Per-
kins minority who held a caucus a
two o'clock simply for the purpose of
sending contested delegation.
Every move of the Blythe workers
was noted. From Glidden private
wire kept Orchard Potter and the band
of Cummins enthusiasts familiar with
every move. Was trip to Boone exc
cuted in the hope of fixing things"
The private wire told the news and the
checkmate was made to the astonish-
ment of the conspirators. Did an au-
tomobile start on secret mission, the
private wire got in it's work and be-
fore the autoists arrived, their coming
and its purpose was known. In Car
roll J. R. Whitney, w. A. McLagan, w
K. Lee, E. M. Parsons, S. II. Johnson
and others did yeonlan service. In the
battle of wits Salinger was thoroughly
worsted The CumminsGarst cam
paign was conducted on the principle |
of the square deal and handled Salin- /
ger and his lieutenants as if they were
schoolboys. Hungerford. of the Her. |
Henry, of the Coon Rapids Enterprise,
hiked. Salinger and Korte took the |
burden of the storm. If there !
was ever political gang
utterly beaten, discredited and dead |
TO Ilo WOrlO, II Is Lue odlliSSI-hOIle-
Perkins, Ed Hunter gang in Carroll /
county. 1t was an uprising such as !
Carroll county never saw before. The /
people rose up in disgust and angry !
contempt to crush a peanut politician .
and disown the Pennsylvania system !
Of party organization.
The Convention.
The boldest and rottenest piece t
Of work ever attempted in Iowa poll !
ties was that of the Salinger coterie
of politicians. which with only ten un-
delegates attempted to con-
troll the convention here today So
lopelessly were they beaten and so
overwhelming was the sentiment
against them that in the end they We're
to give up in utter defeat,
which they did after Korte. Ben SAL
nger's mouthpiece, had made a state !