Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-06
Great Majority for Entire Tick
ct and Cummins Prevents
Trickery
NEwsERRY DEFEAT REGRETTED
Senator Was Popular Among LegisIa-
tors, as Was Also Senator Hughes,
Also Defeated-some Veteran Law
Makers Come Back to Legislature
Several Candidates fer Speaker
Special to Times-Republican

Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines, Nov. 6.--That prepara-
tions had been made and the founda-
ton we'll laid for further display of
extreme factionalism is the belief of
the leading republicans here. That
which has checkmated the game is the
great majority for the entire ticket and
the overwhelming victory of Governor
Cummins. But it can now be seen why
the circulars were prepared and sent
out making pretense of deal between
the proSressives and the democrats,
followed by the pretended indignant
kilograms accusing Cummins' friends
cf preparing to vote the democrats. The
mornin., after the election the Burling-
ton paper admitted the success of Gov
ernor Cummins and then disclosed
what had been in the mind of the op-
position.
1.-The republican candidates for the
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understanding" said this organ of fac
tionalism, "to abide by the decision OF
the republicans at the primaries. If the
primary has been fairly conducted it
will be their duty to conform to the
result of the primary election. A dis
patch from Des Moines is rather dis
quieting in its statement that many
democrats in that city were voting for
Cummins. If that practice obtained
there, and to any considerable extent
turnout the state, the purpose of the
primary will be vitiated and the con-
sequences hard to foresee."
There you have it in cold type. A
great many republicans all over the
state were writing in during the clos
ing hours OF the campaign to know
about those alleged pledges 1t was
freely asserted that many who were
supposed to be pledged were not in
fact pledged in any way that would
hold them. According to the Burling-
ton view they were pledged only by "a
mutual understanding" 1t was given
out that they were pledged in writing.
Who knows?
of course the dispatch went out that
the democrats were voting for Cum
Minis. But thd fact is that in some
wards where the Lacey people were in
full control democrats were voting at
the primary. There was no evidence at
all that any democrats were voting for
Cummins. The returns do not bear
that Interpretation.
But that which has served as
complete checklnate of the whole
scheme is the fact that the republican
majority is very large and that Cum
MINIS not only carried Des Moines but
all the rest of the state by an over
whelming majority. In the fact Of this
1t will not be possible to make trouble
for the party and in truth there will
no harm come to the party.
Members Of the senate were regret
ting more than anything else yesterday
the defeat of Senator Newberry, OF
Clayton The senator was very popu-
lar. He had a little hard shedding
with some of the purity bills which he
pushed thru the legislature, but he did
a good job and held the respect of
every one. 1t was realized all along
that he had a hard district to hold, but
it was expected he would get thru.
There was also regret that the per-
sistent Senator Hughes, Of Iowa coun-
ty. is to be succeeded by a democrat.
However, the new member used to
20 to school to John Cownie and may
not be so bad. A new man in the
senate who stands very high here, is
George Cosson, Of Audubon. He is one
of the assistants in the attorney gen.
erals office and hard worker. The
return Of Captain j. d. Brown. OF
Leon, to public life, will be welcome.
He used to be in Des Moines great
deal when he was connected with the
state agricultural society. Fred Lar
rabee and J. U. Samnlis, 1t is expected,
will be strong young members Of the
state senate.
A veteran who comes back to the
state house after years Of absence, Is
George w. Schee, of O'Brien county.
He was a useful member in the times
when A. B. Cummins, James A. Smith
and others were sitting in the house.
William Larrabee, Jr., returns after
short interval to again be active in the
house. There was regret expressed
yesterday over the defeat Of L. W.
Teter, of Marion, who probably would
have been candidate for speaker, and
is said also to have his eye on jul
dicial position in the future. Mere
dith. Of Cass who was supposed to
he almost certain Of defeat, pulled thru
nicely, and he will be strong man
in the house.
There will be several candidates for
speaker among them George G. White,
Guy A. Feely. W. L. Harding, Nels j.
Lee and Paul Stillman. John Sulli-
van of Des Moines, may also be can
didate They are all among the ac-
tive young men Of the house.
The defeat OF Brant as senator from