Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-07
No Apparent Reason Now for
Continuance Of Organized
Opposition to Governor
PAYNE ACCEPTS THE VERDICT
Admits That Republican Vote Was
Sufficient to Nominate cummins in
the Recent Primary-Lacey Personal
Organ Also Admits cummins Was
Fairly Chosen.
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Cummins organization now disband
Will the celebrated Richards Johnston
committee dissolve itself or continue
in business? These are questions not
yet answered. No official acceptance
of the decree of the people has yet
been given out and it is stated on good
'authority that the committee is still
at work and apparently getting ready
for something else.
1t was supposed that the recent up
the committee, but there are some
signs that the committee doesn't yet
While the Oskaloosa Herald does
not directly quote Lacey as accepting
the result it states editorially that the
major "has no stones to throw at those
who worked for Governor Cummins," !"
and further that at was fails and
open fight This would indicate that
Oskaloosa will accept the result and
go no further in the fight.
Payne, of Nevada, who was an orig
inal Lacey man, who attended the
Convention" and voted for Lacey ana
who insisted all along that Lacey
could get the full standpat vote of
the state, accepts the situation COM
Iietely and declares that Cummins is
now entitled to the victory. He states
that the accusation has long been
that Cumm:ns was getting too many
democrats to vote for him, but it is
pevident now that too many republi-
cans were for him.
Representative Teter, Of Marion, will
probably contest the seat in the house.
He was beaten on the face of the
returns by the throwing out of votes
which seemed to be improperly marked
as to other candidates. He will prob
ably secure a recount and get his seat
in the legislature. Had he been elected
by a fair majority he would have been
a candidate for speaker.
Attorney General Byers tells OF a
Dane out in his county who in his quiet
way has worked earnestly for Cum
Minis for years. The man once sat on a
jury in federal court in Council Bluffs
when Mr.. Cummins defended a man
in court, and from that day to this
the Dane has been an ardent admirer
of Cummins. Election night he tele-
v,ho,,oI in, +n Pvoro m
"Sorry I can't make a better report
on our township" he said.
"Well, tell us what happened there"
"There We're 104 votes for senator.
We don't understand it, but in some
way they slipped in four votes for
Lacey on u.s.
That was equal to the report from
Roland, in Story county. The COM
mitteeman wrote to the governor a re-
port. It was 396 votes for Cummins
and six votes for Lacey. eve did the
best we could" he added.
There has been assumption all along
in the recent campaign that the selec-
tion of Major Lacey as a candidate
for the senate came as an unsought
compliment to him. Readers Of the
Iowa papers recall an interesting dis
patch from Washington printed on
Dec. 4, 1906, being an interview with
Lacey in which he announced his in
tention to be a candidate for the SEN
ate and also his intention of beating
Cummins. He was quoted as saying
that Allison would not be a candidate
for the senate but Iowa would have
primary law and under that law he
would >run for the senate and win.
Lacey had then been defeated for con-
gress and was back in Washington for
his last session. 1t is true he had op-
posed the primary system and law but
he then knew that primary would
certainly be adopted.
That the voting machines used in
the general election Tuesday saved
the taxpayers of Polk county from
$4,000 to $4,000 is the estimate made
by County Auditor Burnett.
1t is only an estimate because all
the bills incurred in the election have
not been sent in as yet, and it will,
therefore, be impossible to determine
the exact amount saved until the total
amount is known.
The saving the the next election will
be even greater than it was in the
one just passed. as a. considerable
amount of money was expended in
moving the machines from one part
of the county to another for the pur-
pose of instructing the voters and
election officials Other expenses
were made necessary with the ma
chimes that will not be in subsequent
elections. all of which will add 10 the
saving by their use.
RICH ROCKWELL FARMER DEAD.
Wealth of TebasIean Bath. Aged 76,
Estimated at S15OOOO.