Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09
HOW iT ALL HAPPENED!

votes. A progressive plays politics
once in five years or more and the rest
of the time he stays in the corn field or
in the store. That is the lesson or the
primary which has nominated medic
ere man like Carroll over very able
man like Garst who had behind him
the combined influence of the two SEN
ators and a majority of the congress
men.
Allison, tho dying and in an uncon-
scious condition on primary day two
years ago, carried the state by 1885
over Cumnins. The republicans of
iowa nominated a dead man for COVER
nor then because the standpatters
stood pat and the progressives staid at
home The dead man was discovered
to be dead in a few days and the pri-
mary was held over again in the fall
Then the progressives came out of the
corn fields and Cummins received A.
CAT majority over Lacey.
This year fealty to second term
fetish took the place of sentiment for
Allison and again the standpatters
stood pat. They voted. The First
district and the Eighth district and
the Sixth district in 90 reservation
territory gave Carroll majorities even
greater than Allison received while the
Tenth, Eleventh. Fourti, and Seventh
districts, nominalv progressive, still
gave Garst smaller majorities than
Cummins received simply because the
vote cast was from one-ffth TO one
third lighter than in the primary OF
two years ago and almost half that
cast at the general election.
In the so-called doubtful districts,
the Third. turned an Allison majority
into a Garst majority and in the Sec
ond, Fifth and Ninth Allison MAORI
ties Of several thousand were cut down
to almost nothing This would indi-
cate that the county delegations may
show up at the state convention with
progressive majority but a progressive
state will run standpat candidate for
governor by decision of two or three
thousand votes which could have been
overcome in any one of the progressive
districts had the progressives voted.
The First district always dominated
by J. w Blythe of the Burlington rail-
road when he was living, may be con-
sidered the stronghold of stand
patism. Here with returns from two
out of seven counties missing all the
standpatters voted and only part of
the progressives The five counties
give Carroll a majority Of 3,405 to Alli-
sons majority Of 2,4S0.
Likewise in the Eighth, where a pro-
Rressive congressman thought he could
win, the result in the ten out of the
eleven counties reporting shows that
almost all Of the standpatters voted
while 1900 progressives staid at home
and Carroll received a majority of 4.1o1
while Allisons majority was only 1858
in these same counties.
The vote in the Sixth was slightly
better for Carroll than for Allison be-
got % $50 over Garst, and Allison re-
ceived 2.306 over Cummins.
The Seventh district is one Of the
distinct surprises. With Dallas and
Marion missing from the six counties,
a Cummins majority in the other four
of. 2,476 over Allison was cut down TO
626 for Garst over Carroll. Polk coun-
ty alone did it, having given Cummins
q majority of 3,1s9 and Garst only 7S4
thanks to LATE Young's newspaper.
While the vote in the Eleventh this
year was one-fourth lighter, the Garst
majority remains about the same as
the Cummins majority. And in the
Tenth with ten out of fourteen coun-
ties reporting lighter vote than in
June two years ago Garst gets a ma
jority of 1858 whereas Cummins had
3,94s Could these two districts have
polled the vote they had at the general
election Garst would have had 10000
more majority and would have been
nominated.
The Fourth, too, is to blame along
with the rest of northern Iowa. A ma
jority for Garst of 1,2i5 when Cuinfnins
received 1884 and a vote Is per cent
lighter did the business.
The democratic Second district cast
nearly third less votes in five of it's
six counties than two years ago but
gave Carroll only 726 majority whereas
Allison received 5000. in the same
counties.
The Third and Fifth districts, sport
ING progressive congressman. came in
with almost enough to overcome the
former Allison majority In the whole
state II the progressives Of northern
iowa had voted. The Fifth, for in
stance, with every county reported cut
ChSrolYs majority to 34s from Allisous