Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-19
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nom, but a careful canvass was per-
fected that night on the question of
adopting the old rules: and it was
found beyond peradventure that they
could not command the needed votes
from the republican side.
There was mighty little sleep for
anybody on Saturday night, following
the republican caucus. The &c. @. d.
was sent out from the Cannon head
quarters. All day Sunday the work
was pushed. There was plenty of trad
ing stock with which to pull over dem
ocratic votes, for a whole tariff full of
possible rewards or punishments was
in sight. The ways and means commit
tee had finished its work. but holding
that back was an easy matter 1t was
duly suppressed. pending developments
which should indicate whether changes
must be made as political rewards, and
What Ones
! McCarren had gone to Washington,
looking after Standard Oil and perhaps
Sugar Trust interests. They are reg
ular business and political affiliations
-of his. They wanted Cannon to win,
and so McCCarren's advice was at the
disposal of the Cannon forces.
Cannon Camp is Scared.
McCarren had talk with the speak,
er, In the latters room at the capitol
| Whether they talked of this deal is
only a matter of conjecture. Certain it
is at any rate, that the details were
worked out by the lieutenants of Can
non on the outside. McCarren, past
master of the art of feeling out situa-
lions, was one of the first men to scent
real danger for Cannon and to sound
warning. When the whole Cannon
camp was aroused by the midnight call
of that Hateful caucus evening" McCar-
rem proposed his plan. Personally, he
was utterly powerless to engineer the
deal. for the votes must come from
Murphy andTammany, and McCarren
was the last man on earth to negotiate
for them. He could turn in just two,
Lindsay and Fitzgerald of Brooklyn
/ But he knew an argument that would
be potent with Murphy
Tammany, foresighted always. was
looking forward to the municipal cam
palgn now in full tide. The outlook was
bad for Tammany The removal of two
borough presidents by Governor
Hughes for gross negligence in connec-
ton with the expenditure of millions
was deadly anti Tammany campaign
material. There was danger of a real
fusion movement. Murphy was at his
ltxrit S' ~< hi
matters worse Parsons was pushing a,
Albany legislation which if passed
would block registration frauds and
make it perhaps impossible for Tam
many to use the floaters and repeaters
with whom it has been accustomed to
win when conditions were desperate
McCarren Gives Warning.
These conditions were calculated by
McCarren to those wise old New York
veterans. Dittauer, of glove schedule
flame: George Malby, for many years
one of the republican bosses in the
senate at Albany and just elected t.
the national house: and one or two
others. They We're on hand to help save
the day for Cannon. McCarren showed
them that Murphy would be willine
!. |
turn in favors that would improve his
New York City situation.
At first, so the story. goes, the Can.
, non crowd chung to the hope that the
bottom>>would fall out of insurgency
and the trick could be turned withou
| democratic aid. To win by reason of
; Tammany deal they knew was a des
t perate move. Let nobody dream tina
the men who now are boldly proclaim
, ing their pride in the deal. and thei
| satisfaction that some democrats hat
l sense enough to vote for the Cannon
rules. We're pleased with the idea of :
Tammany tie-up. They knew in tina
way lay ruin. But at last they saw
imminent and unavoidable defeat i'm
: mediately ahead; and they reluctant,
. consented to try for the trade. Victor,
8 for Cannon. without saving the rules
would be hollow mockery. The,
! must save the rules.
. So McCarren's advice was taken, ac
4 cording to the story in this town
] most confidential political circles, an,
Tammany was approached.
!, Tammany is Approached.
l Just who opened UP the matter wit
Tammany, can not now be told. 1t |
y one of the mysteries that investigation
$ will solve, provided eminent gentlemen
: don't become afflicted with lapse O
g memory. At any rate, somebody ap
pears to have opened an approach t
the great Murphy. by the way of Dal
Cohalan, Tammany sachem and init
a mate adviser of Murphy
" Cohalan has some business interest
i and affiliations, too, which at times ar
interested in legislation. He saw posi-
/, bilities of advantage in such trade
= but the story avouches that when h
laid the proposal before Murphy, tina
8 luminary SHE'D violently. Regularity
at least, the vigorously maintaine
pretense of party loyalty on the sur
face of things; the kind of loyalty tina
/, can be sworn to with confidence tina
. nobody will induct you for perjury
. that has always been the conversion
v of Tammany strength. Murphy fore
e saw that for Tammany, never to
n strong in the confidence of the ma
n tional democracy, to desert. openly an
v might be rlinous.
a 1t looked like failure, with Murph
!. standing by the old traditions of regu
larity.
- Get Murphy to understand that yo
= can make 1t decidedly easier for hi,
70 in the mayoralty fight" urged McCal
e rem. HE wants regularity, but first {