Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-01
.ED HUNTER GETS IN
POLITICAL GAME
Succeeds in Getting One Foot
in Management of Allison
Campaign
WORKS THRU HIS MAN GARRISON
Latter Selected Secretary Of tho Ali
SON Club = standpatters Seeking to
Have Wilson Withdraw from Race
for Lieutenant Governor = Allison
Poll Shows Cummins a Winner.
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Des Moines. May Ed Hunter has
succeeded in getting one foot into the
Allison campaign.
The secretary of the Allison club
which was formed in this city on the
night Dolliver delivered an address
here is Wilbur j. Garrison, of Des
Moines. Over the state of Iowa Mr..
Garrison is probably not greatly known.
Some few politicians may recall the
name or recall having heard it in some
connection. To say that MIR. Garrison
is breeder Of bull dogs in Des Moines
will not materially assist anyone in re-
membering in just what connection
they have heard his name. Mr.. Garri-
son is an attorney and looks after the
interests of the local branch of the
Church-'Snow collection agency. His
legal business Is confined entirely to
looking after this work. The Church.
Snow collection agency in Des Moines
means N. T. Guernsey and Edward II.
Hunter, the man who managed Per-
kins' campaign two years ago in the
interests of the Burlington railroad.
after Senator Jackson, of Woodbury.
county. had made failure of It,
The suggestion of the name of Ed
ward H. Hunter may assist some In
recalling who Wilbur j. Garrison Is,
but not all will remember till it is told
that Mr. Garrison is the man thru
whom Ed Hunter worked to induce
Iowa newspapers to work against the
passage Of the interstate commerce
rate law in Washington. 1t may be re-
called now that this explanation has
been made, that Garrison sent out let
ters to the country newspapers of the
state asking them to publish material
sent them which was against the
passage of the rate bill and offered to
pay them for such publications. He
also gave them as references the bank
in Des Moines with which Ed Hun
ter is connected.
Garrison merely served as the wes-
tern branch of the bureau which was
maintained in the east for the purpose
of moulding" public opinion against
the rate bill. 1t was this bureau that
Senator Dolliver denounced in fam
Gus speech and declared that 1t had
raised a fund of $2,000,000 for the pur-
pose of defeating rate legislation At
Senator Delivers meeting in this city
last Tuesday night, when he spoke for
Allison, Mr.. Garrison, working for Ed
II %ha fo{ five nf
that bureau, was elected secretary Of
the Allison club that was formed just
before Dolliver began to speak.
1T was Furthermore thru this same
source, the Ed Hunter crowd that
5000, 900 was later raised and spent in
Iowa in the interests of the candidacy
of George D. Perkins in an effort to
put the railroads again on top in Iowa
politics, and as j. W. Blythe told Web
Byers in the lobby of the Savery hotel.
to pound Cummins into the earth"
So Ed H. Hunter, working thru his
menial Of the nice sounding and aris-
tocratic name of Wilbur j. Garrison, is
into the Allison campaign. Possibly
not with both feet-yet.
An effort is being made to get
James H. Wilson, of Adair county, to
pull out of the race as a candidate for
the republican nomination for lieuten-
ant governor. Ed. Hunter is in the
move and has been to see Mr. Will
son. The friends of Mr. Murphy, of
Vinton, feel that Mr.. Wilson is in the
road, and that if he stays in the race
it will divide the standpat vote in the
state and result unquestionably in the
VII 0E Arl0
lieutenant governor. 1t is reported
that Mr.. Murphy took the matter up
Tuesday when he was in the city to
hear Senator Dolliver speak. 1t is not
believed that Mr.. Wilson will with
draw.
A man close to the fountain of in
formation in the Allison headquarters,
and who had no motive whatever to
give out misinformation, told here to-
day that a township poll of the state
of Iowa, made by the Allison manage
ment, gave Cummins $4,000 majority.
This poll has scared the Allison man
agement. 1t is in perfect keeping with
other information of the troubles in
the ranks of Allison's friends as to
the management of the campaign and
the friction in the Third congressional
district where neither candidate for
congress will line UP with the Allison
people.
Hon. John Cownie. of the state board
of control, said here today that if the
state of Iowa wished to get rid of any
of the 100000 worth of farm land
which it has acquired in recent years.
he will give the state $50,00O more for
the land than the state paid. There
has been some discussion over the
state that would lead to the SUPPOSE
ton that state money has been extrav-
agaptly spent by the state legislature
Mr.. Cownie, of the three members of
the board, gives closer attention to
farm matters. In recent years the
state has spent over 100000 for adj