Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-20
ALLISON CAMPAIGN
WANTS NEW HERD
Dissatisfaction With Present
Management May Result in
Change in Bosses
HUNTER MAY BE TAKEN ON
Conditions Similar to Those in the
Perkins Campaign Of Two Years Ago
Corporation Crowd DispIeased With
Manner of Conducting Campaign
Harding and the Iowa Speakership.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Mones, April 20.--Whether or
not Allison is hunting for new man
ager for his campaign, the standpat-
| ters over the state are discussing the
proposition and are seeking to force
another manager upon him, and Ed
III. Hunter, legislative lobbiest of Iowa
| (out of a job. is being considered as
a possible appointment. In fact, 1t is
learned that the same thing is being
repeated In Allison's campaign that
took place when Perkins was the
standpat-corporaton candidate for
governor, and Senator John Fl. jack
son, of Sioux City, tried to manage
!! things, but proved too light for the
i job and Hunter had to be called in.
| When Julian Richards, who was the
standpat candidate for secretary Of
state two years ago. and after being
defeated for the nomination accepted
| employment with the democratic
Chicago Tribune a few days ago and
told of an impending split in the AL
llson ranks, it was talked around that
Mr.. Richards was simply sore" be-
cause the Allison people refused to en-
gage him at a fat salary to write for
the literary bureau. Whether this Is
true or not, standpatters in this city
are corroborating what Richards said
They say "the Allison management
ought to be roasted" One standpat-
ter said the other day: They are Il
,, bunch of incompetents. They are
making the same blunder they did
when they brought Senator Jackson
down here from Sioux City to man
age Perkins campaign" Just by way
of chatting, he was reminded that Ad-
ans of Dubuque promises now to have
speakers out here by some time in
May. IF they wait till then, 1t will all
be over," was his response.
Early in the year, when the charac-
ter of the campaign then about to
open was being discussed, there was
considerable talk as to what would be
Sdlu DIS W AlIlSOII anu IllS tiilliiotiOiis'
and record. Leading progressives of
the state made it very plain then that
the character of the campaign would
depend very much on the character OF
the campaign Allison conducted and
the character of the men he selected
for his managers They made it plain
that if Allison placed Ed. II. Hunter in
charge of the campaign, he would
have to be prepared to accept all the
odium that would come with Hunters
connection That if he had Julian
Richards do his writing for him, he
must do it with his eyes open to the
fact that members of the democratic
state central committee are on record
as saying that Richards was in their
employ following the state convention
of August 1, 1906.
When Perkins was a candidate for
the republican nomination of governor
in 1906 he strenuously denied any
connection with the corporations and
all the time had perfect knowledge of
the fact that Ed H. Hunter, lobbiest
for the Burlington railroad was in ac-
tive management of his campaign; that
Hunter sat in his PerkinsD head
quarters in the Savery all during the
day and slept there at night in easy
reach of the long distance telephones;
that he directed the work of the cam
pagn. The visible presence of Ed
Hunter in the headquarters spoke
much louder than the denials of George
d. Perkins The Allison people are con-
scious of these mistakes on the part
of the Perkins corporation manage
ment two years ago and 1t is under
stood that they are determined not to
make that mistake this campaign Ed
Hunter and Julian Richards as we'll
have, so it is said made an effort to
get official connection with the Allf-
son campaign, but thus far have not
been taken on
Now. however. a new tact lis being
tried If the railroad element of the
standpat faction can make Allison be-
lieve that his campaign is not being
managed we'll there may still be a
chance for Ed Hunter. Hunter is a
past master. as conducting campaigns
where large sums Of money are
handled and it is only such campaigns
that he really gets interested in. Every
effort is to be made by these standpat-
ters to induce Allison to believe that
there is no life to his campaign and
that it needs Ed Hunter to ginger
things up. OF course they might con-
sent to Will Parrott taking nominal
charge as he did the Perkins cam
paign. but Hunter would be the active
manager lust as he was for Perkins.
According 10 the members of the
house. W. T.. Harding, Of Woodbury.
county. has Weakened his chances for
speaker of the next house by his re-
f,,sal to pledge himself to stand by the
primary vote on United States sena-
tor Harding was elected to the house
two years ago by the standpatters of
Woodbury. county but all during the
session was recognized as being, fair"
and he won the admiration of many of
the progressives. 1t is now recognized
from the discussion In the standpat