Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-14
Standpat Leaders Garbling Elec-
tion Figures in Attempt to
Show Cummins in Disfavor
WHAT THE VOTE ACTUALLY is
cummins' Support Was Only Slightly
Less Than That Received by Shaw
Only BoIting Was Among standpat-
ters-Another Attempt to Disrupt
Party in Iowa.
upport Was Only Slightly
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican
Des Moines. Aug. 1.-THE Buring-
ton Hawkeye of August contains an
article, probably prepared by Julian
Richards, disappointed seeker after
the republican nomination of secretary
of state last year, in which is outlined
the plan of campaign which is to be
followed in the months to come by the
Blythe corporation crowd in their at
tempts to disrupt the republican party
of Iowa Evidence that the plan as
outlined is authentic is had in the col
umns of the Sioux City Journal. edited
by George D. Perkins, also disap-
pointed office seeker.
The article In the Hawkeye was dat
ed at Des Moines (where Richards has
been for several days), and says that
facts and figures are being compiled
here with the specific purpose In view
of placing in the hands OF republican
voters an exact analysis OF the pOliti-
cal situation now existing in Iowa 1t
is determined that Iowa republicans
shall know just what the factional dis
turbances of the past seven years have
cost the party in the way of votes and
of prestige. :" Several pages
| of election figures are then ripped from
volume of the Iowa Official Register,
which cost the state of Iowa about IS
70 int ind in off
twist the facts and show that the
small remnant of the Blythe corpora
ton politicians who are left in the
state are the real republican party of
Iowa, Notwithstanding the fact that
| they have been discredited in every
campaign and every election in the
seven last years.
| Because Roosevelt received 3o7, ,907
votes in 1904, and Cummins 216,99o in
! 1906, 1t is argued that the governor has
lost 10000 votes to the party The en-
| tire blame is attached to Governor
|; CumminS.
In 1896, Mckinley got 2S9,293. Shaw,
for governor, got 224,729 in 1897, and
239,464 in 1899 Mckinley got 307,S0S
lin 1900 and Cummins got 226,902 in
| 1901. and 23S,S04 in 1903. Roosevelt got
307,907 in 1904, and Cummins got 216,-
| 995 in 1906 In other words, Cummins
| last year got about 5000 less than
Shaw got in his first campaign, and
about 10000 less than he himself got
| his first campaign. Shaw run 10000 to
$4,000 behind the vote on president.
Cummins for his first two terms got
practically the same vote that Shaw
got for his first two terms. For his
third term he ran about 10000 behind
his first term, and about 10000 behind
the presidential candidate in presiden-
tial years Yet Julian Richards out
lines to the republicans of the state
that Cummins has cost the republicans
of Iowa 100000 votes.
| In outlining the policy and plan OF
campaign by which they propose to
disrupt the republican party and turn
| it over to the management of the cor
porati as it was when j. w. Blythe
was in the saddle Mr.. Richards takes
| no account of the fact that the normal
democratic vote in Iowa is about $780,
900 in all years except presidential
years and that last year the democratic
candidates for secretary of state and
while the democratic candidate for
governor received 1se,123. showing con-
clusively that about 10000 republicans,
I led by Blythe and Perkins and others,
bolted and voted the democratic tick
et McLuen for secretary Of state on
the democratic ticket got 156,747, while
Porter received 196.123. Hayward, the
republican candidate for secretary Of
state. got 235,422. which was about the
normal republican vote, since other
state officers received about the same
with the exception Of Cummins, who
received 216.995.
The Hawkeye's article then contains
a column Of figures ripped from ;i.e
Official Register, tho for what purpose
they are printed cannot be seen f,r
they have nothing to do with the argu-
ment contained in the article, which
claims that all the bolting was done in
the Cummins counties and little or
none in the standpat counties Of ..!!e
reservation. Relative to the charge OF
boltlng, the article says that "standpat
counties made a better record at the
polls than the so-called progressive
counties
This is the first time that anybody
ever charged the progressive republic
cans of boiling their own ticket and is
puerle nonsense to all politicians who
have got past the nursing stage. That
it was in the northern counties that the
standpatters did their worse boiling it
is freely admitted. The progressives in
the progressive counties had both the
county and state ticket and they voted
it "straight.' while the standpatters
bolted In the reservation counties the
Blythe corporation crowd nominated
the county tickets and candidates to
the legislature. When ever they advo-
Gated boiling the state ticket they were
confronted with the fear that in re-
| ;aliation the Cummins people would
scratch their local ticket. The state
| ment of Richards that there was less
scratching In the standpat counties is