Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-17
HOPE
FROM FACTIONS
Believe'Anti-Cummins Men Will
Help Elect Democratic
Legislature
HARD TO FIGURE OUT
AItho. Some Radical Enemies May
Help Put Democrats Into Office in
Order to Defeat cumnns for sena
tor, 1t Is Not Probable That Much
Can Be Accomplished.
Special 10 Times-Republlcan.

Special TO Times Republican.
Des Moines. July 17.-Anti-Cummins
men are predicting that the next leg
isature will be democratic. This is
easily demonstrated theoretically. For
instance, there We're thirty democrats
elected to the last house and the cleo
teen democrats in the senate. Now in
, each county the fight will be on the
question OF United States senator.
These anti -Cummins men admit now
that their entire efforts to defeat Cum
Minis at the last election was for the
purpose of discrediting him before the
state and nation so that he could be
defeated and> prevented from going to
the United States senate. All of them
admit that he is a good governor.
Since the aim and ambition is to
keep Cumnlins from the senate the
fight will be continued during the next
campaign on the senatorship. In each
county following the primaries the
anti -Cumnlins men will demand Of the
member nominated on the republican
ticket that he declare himself ON the
matter of United States senator. Re-
gardleSS. of how the primaries go, If
the representative proposes to vote for
Cummins. they will knife him at the
polls in the interests of the democrat
just as they elected Miller of Bremer
last time and several other demo-
Gratis.
These same men believe that If the
primaries result favorably for Allison
that the Cummins men will knife the
republican legislative nominees if they
do not promise not to vote for Allison,
and that in every county in the state
there will be that division, the Allison
men knitting every legislator who will
not promise to vote for Allison, and
the Cummins men knitting every legis-
lator who will not promise to vote for
Culnmins. In that way they estimate
that it will be easy for the democrats
to elect enough members of the legls-
lature to elect General Weaver or
Claude r. Porter to the United States
senate. 1t is understood that General
Weaver is thinking over the matter
very seriously and is contemplating on
the advice Of his friends. announcing
his candidacy for the senate with the
intention Of making thorough cam
paign for the place. The fight for the
place on the part of the democrats
would be hinged on the same hypoth-
esis as was the candidacy of Porter
for the governorship last campaign,
the hypothesis that the republicans
will be so split up that they will Kill
each other off, and thus leave the
democrats the only forces in command
Of the field
However reasonable this looks there
are some things on the other side that
must cause a second thought. nhe
first is that the anti-Cummins men
about expended their force and
strength last time in turning the state
over to the democratic. party. About
every county that there is any hkellhooo
of going democratic under any circum-
stances and conditions went demo-
cratic last time, and the best that the
democrats could do was A on joint
ballot. and one of those voted for Dol
liver for the senate.
The democrats have one advantage
in this respect, If it is an advantage,
and that is that in the senate the terms
of but four of their men expire In 1913.
These are Lambert in the Jackson dis
trict. Stirton in the Cedar-Jones dis-
trict. Taylor in the Appanoose- Davis
district. Wade in the Bremen Butler
district.
There are a total of twenty-nine
places in the senate to be filled by
election next year which is more than
half by four. The other districts were
the term expires, with the republican
senator now representing the district,
are: Bleakley in the Cherokee-Ida-
Plymouth district Crossley in the
Adair- Madison district, Dunham in
Buchanan-Delaware Eckles in Mar
shall. Ericsson in Boone-Story, Gale in
Cerro Gordo- Franklin Hancock. Gillil-
land in Mills-M ont tgomery, Hopkins in
Audubon -GuthrieDallas. Hughes in
Iowa johnson, Jackson in Woodbury..
Janaison in Clarke Warren, Jones IN
Maha ska, Kimmel in Lyons-O' Brien-
Osceola-Sio Kline in Cliay-Dickin-
SON -Emm ct Kossuth-P -Palo Alto, NC
Klveen in Lucas Wayne. Newberry In
Clayton, Saunders in Pottawattamie,
Smith in Mitchell Winnebago- Worth,
Stookey in Decatur-Ringgold-U Union,
Stuckslager in Linn, Turner in Adams
Taylor Warren in Marion Monroe,
Wilson in Allamakee-F -Fayette, Young In
Calhoun Webster, and Elerick in Jef-
ferson-Van Buren,.
So far as the senate is concerned.
there are not very many districts IN
which senators are to be elected which
might normally be considered demo-
cratic Senator Hughes in the Iowa
johnson district may be succeeded by
democrat. There are one or two
other districts In which the same might
be said but for the most part the dis
tricts are naturally republican and 1t
will be difficult to make them demo-
cratic.