Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-09
Railroad Corruption Fund the
Largest Ever Known In
the State
70 DENIAL is ATTEMPTED
standpatters Practically Admit They
Intend to Buy Every Delegate orr
Voter Who is for Sale-Blythe Pre-
pairing to Call for a New Deal as
Soon as Perkins Is Defeated.
[By Ora williamsl

Special to Times Republican.
| Des Moines. June s,-There has never
been anything like it in the state OF
Iowa. Such unblushing corruption has
never been known before
| Iowa has little occasion to make
faces at the southern states where ku-
klux methods have been in vogue
The Kretschmer deal is not the
worst. bad as 1t is. In the case of the
attempted sale of Senator Allison's S
home delegation for a price, it can be
said fairly that the goods have not yet
been delivered. 1t may be that Senu-
tor Allison will not permit the de-
! livery OF the goods His acquiescenee
in the sale or bargain has never yet
been obtained, at least publicly. and
there are rumors that in order to avoid
the inevitable disgrace which Will fol-
low the full consummation of the deal
the senior senator will stick to his
original demand for an even division
of the delegation. And as for the DEL
egates themselves it is said that they
do not generally approve of the deal
But the sale and purchase of a body
of delegates is small matter compar-
ed with the attempt to purchase a
whole body of voters. An illustrations:
Ten days ago a man stepped into the
Perkins headquarters and made known
that he was from Carroll county. He
is man of influence in his commun-
ity. He was supposed to be for Per-
kfns because of some local complica-
tions. He conversed with the smooth
tongued and dark moustached man in
charge. Already arrangements had
! been made to gel for Perkins the thrae
townships near which the caller lived.
The deal had just been consummat-
ed. Two men had been engaged to
deliver the townships and the whole
county. Their names were given to
the caller. The price was named. They
were to get certain sum of money
each on condition the three townships
were carried against Cummins; if the
whole county Went against Cummins
they We're to name their own price for
the work done. Thus far. good. An
other township was wanted.
"What'H you take to get a town
| Sill luG lildlldSGI aShGQ
| The visitor demurred. He was not
for sale. And besides, the township
referred to could not be bartered away
| in that manner.
"This is a plain business PROPOSE
tion," said the man, "and we are doing
I,business on a cash basis
! But the visitor could not be bought.
| He left the office with the smooth
tongued manager waving his one arm
at him.
| Is the picture overdrawn? Is the
story fairy tale? Oh, no; the visitor
came from Carroll county. The names
Of the townships which are to be de-
livered for price can be given. The
names of the two men who have en-
gagged for price to deliver the coun-
ty can be furnished to anyone who has
right to know.
The two men started out the middle
of this week to drive over the partic-
ular townships which they have agreed
to deliver. They are out trying to earn
their contingent fees. They will ap-
proach every man in the south part
of Carroll county.
And this is but sample of what is
being done all over Iowa. 1t is the
most deliberate attempt at wholesale
debauchery of the voters ever made in
Iowa.
Down in Poweshiek county the mon
ey is showing up. The past week men
with teams have been going all over
the county, and the money is. being
supplied from headquarters. The same
situation prevails in Jasper and every
other county where the railroad man
agement expects to do business
A telegraph operator in Des Moines
who has handed out a great many dis
patches from the railroad political
headquarters declared to the writer
that what is publicly known of the
methods of the corruptionists is not a
marker to what is really taking place
behind the curtains. "The penitentiary
is full of men who have done things
not half as bad as are being done today
in the name of the republican party
and ostensibly for party harmony, but
particularly for the benefit of the anti
Cummins campaign" said the opera
tor.
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