Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-25
JACKSON RAILROAD COMMITTEE
TO ATTEMPT TO DEFEAT
CLIFFORD THoRNE.
THREATEN BOLT TO DEMOCRAT
so AS TO BEAT PROGRESSIVE
Old Machine soreIy Disappointed Be-
cause of Thornes Nomination - As
Attorney For Farmers and Shippers
He Has Carried Burden Of Rate
Fiqht in lowa-RaiIroads Have Rea-
son to Fear Him.
pecial to Times-Republicar.

special 10
Des Moines, June 25.-It is not i'm
probable that the fight which has been
waged unrelentingly for the control OF
the state railroad commission the past
few months will be kept up. There are
indications that the Organization which
was formed for that purpose is stu
very much alive and doing things.
There was some suspicious maneuver-
ing about the count or canvass OF the
votes on railroad. commission. A vast
amount Of literature Is still going TO
the newspapers from the newly organ
lied corporation press bureau which
indicates that the fight is not over.
There were two surprises in this
matter. One was that the vote 1or
Colonel Palmer was not nearly as large
as had been expected by his managers.
There has not been for years any such
energetic campaign waged for any cam
didate as for him. It was a very ex-
pensfve campaign, costing many times
what the salary of the position will be
in four years. But his vote was only
$4,000. Clifford Thorne, who was per-
haps more an object of attack than
otherwise, got $4,000 votes. The fight
for Palmer was far more fight
against Thorne than anything else. Ev-
erything was done that could be done
to prejudice the voters against Thorne,
but he carried big vote. Thorne had
been attorney for the Iowa farmers and
shippers and had stirred UP lot OF
trouble for the rate 1hanipulators. They
did not want him on the board. Be
r;l h. to nd TINA tried
progressive. For years he has been
carrying the burden Of the fight in a
county overwhelmingly standpat. Not
only did he carry the county but he
got a much larger vote than his fellow
townsman; in fact, had 70 more in
Washington than Palmer and 302 more
majority in the county.
The democratic opponents of Thorne
and Palmer are Walter Dewey, Of
Charlton, and Nixon Jones, Of Des
Moines. The next play will be, Of
course, to say that no two persons
should be elected from the same coun-
ty to one board, and then start a boom
for Mr.. Dewey in place Of Mr.. Thorne.
1t would be said that this would still
leave lawyer on the board. But while
this plan Is being worked out, it Is seen
that the real reason for such scheming
is that Mr.. Thorne is feared by the
railroads as much as he is loved by the
shippers and farmers who have backed
him for the place.
Senator Claude Porter Of Centerville,
attended the state bar association this
week and participated in the delibera-
tions. Senator Porter intends to make
quite campaign in the state next fall
for governor.
There is great deal to talk about,
a great deal that is Of interest to the
people, and I shall do my part to let
the voters understand exactly what is
going. on in this country. 1t is too
early to make any estimate Of the stu
alton, but you may be sure that the
democrats Of Iowa are alive and naean
to make a showing"
Attention was called to peculiar
situation in regard to the attitude Of
the standpat organization on the pri-
mary ballots. In Cerro Gordo county,
Judge Clark, who attended the state bar
association, was confronted with a
was just the reverse Of that In Lucas
equity ldhCu DClO10 JuO6O <alIuCl SUI.
In northern Iowa the standpatters COM
plain because the board Of supervisors
refused to aid in clean steal of dele
cations.
Ed II. Hunter writes from out west
somewhere to the effect that he is not
taking over the management of the
campaign in which jackson failed. The
information that Hunter was In the
game in southern Iowa originally came
from one who is a very close political
friend of Gov. Carroll, and who COM
planned because Of the tactics being
used. Certain 1t is that things are
being done which are just like those
which Hunter used in trying to get
Perkins boosted into the gubernatorial
chair.
Some of the standpatters on the state
ticket took a second look at the latest
epistle Of the Jackson committee laying
plans for getting the state convention
away from the republicans, in which
Jackson deliberately laid down the
dictum that
'Tt is vastly more important that
the national administration shall be in
dorsed, that the real principles Of re-
publicanism shall be maintained, and
upheld, than is any state or local inter-
est
Some of the republicans are wonder
ing if this means that the jackson
committee is preparing to also de-
nounce the Carroll administration as
well as the work Of Iowa's two repul,-
lican United States senators.
For First Degree Murder.
Des Moines, June 25.-Henry Thomas