Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-23
IUNAN ATTENDS
RED SHIRT REUNION
FIERY SOUTH cARoLlNiAN
SPEAKS AT GATHERING OF
OLD CLAN
w. P. KENT, OF VIRGINIA,
TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR
If Defeated, 1t Is Said, That Fat
Federal Job Will Be Awarded to
Him - Tawney Stirring UP Trouble
In Minnesota - Other Gossip of
Washington.
Especial Correspondence

Washington, Aug. Ex-senator Till
reunion down in South Carolina. Not
every one knows just who the Red
Shirts We're but Senator Tillman IS
familiar enough with them. They were
organized back in the days of recon-
struction in the '7O's, at time when
the colored republicans held all the
offices.
Senator Tillnan and Governor
shepard of South Carolina were lead
ers IN the movement In their state and
advance notices of the reunion indicate
that Tillman and Shepard will be
speakers and tell some "reminiscences Of
the old days.
The Red Shirts We're made up largely
OF farmers. If for any reason a negro,
especially an offceholder got to be OBJ
1ectionable in their eyes. there was
sudden mobilizing of force of fifty to
loo men and. the necessary steps,
prompt, vigorous and relentless. were
taken to obviate the difficulty. 1t is
not generally known to his friends in
the north that Senator Tillman was a
leader in this movement.
Gossip about Washington is. that
| William P. Kent, Of Virginia, who is
running for governor of that state on
the republican ticket, Is slated for a
good federal job. The contest between
him and Judge Mann. the democratic
candidate, will be exciting, and many
predictions are heard that Kent will
be elected. Many of the anti-organ-
| ization democrats are dissatisfied with
| the nomination of Mann and would like
to down the machine. For that reason,
many of them will not go to the polls
| In the last fight on the governorship,
between Swanson and Lewis, Swanson,
| the democratic candidate, was elected
| by about 10000. There is not much
reason to believe that the republicans
can overcome this lead. About all they
are likely to do Is to cut down the
democratic majority. Mann will doubt
less be elected and the regime of the
organization of which Senator Martin
is the head will continue
Z. Kent gave up the $4,000. post of con-
sui at Guatemala City to run for gov
ernor in an uphill fight and d good
many people have marveled at It, But
if he makes a good showing. 1t is whis-
pered about that he will not be per-
mitted long to go about in the cold and
will be given fat federal office that
will soothe him for any regrets he may
have over being defeated.
Representative Jim" Tawney of
Minnesota, Is stirring up trouble for his
republican colleagues in the Gopher
State. 1t appears that Captain Fl. A.
Castle former auditor for the post
| office department. now back at his
home in Minnesota, devised a plan for
reception at the state fair in honor
of all the members of the Minnesota
delegation who voted against the tar
| iff mill. including Representative Ham
mond, the democratic member of the
| delegation.
The idea took. 1T left Tawney out In
the cold. He proceeded to seek re-
venge by writing letter to F. S.
Warner, prominent politician of the
state. raising the question htw many
of the delegation had promised the
president they would vote for the bill
if it was necessary to pass it. The
effect has been to overwhelm the dele
| SaLlOn WlIU lHteTTOGdtOTleS from ex-
cited folks. 1t Is needless to say. all
who voted against the bill are vigor-
ously denying the imputation.
One OF the picturesque characters
Of the house is Gen. Isaac r. Sher-
wood. who represents the Ninth Ohio
district. He has had career chuck
| full of stirring incidents. His army
record alone would be worth volume
| IL told in detail His grandfather and
his great grandfather fought in the
revolution and he had the liking for
lIbattle in his blood. He went into the
army in the civil war at the very out
set of 1t as private and stayed to the
last, when he was brigadier general
by brevet for long and faithful serv-
ice and conspicuous gallantry.
| AS commander of the One Hundred
and Eleventh Oi1io ne fought in over
thirty battles and engagements. A
shell at Campbells Station ruined the
hearing of one ear and he had many
narrow escapes. Tho "a years old, he Is
as vigorous as IL half that age.