Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-14
MILLIONAIRE BERRYHlLL
AS AGENT OF M'kINLEY
Now Developed That Street Car Mag
nate Had Political Designs Careful
ly Framed Up in Des Moines Fran
chise He Failed to Secure-BerryhiIi
Was to Write Standpat Platform.
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sibility of calling the standpat political
conference. 1t develops that the mat
ter was arranged largely thru J. G..
Berryhiql, the millionaire lumberman
and gold mine promoter of this city,
and he really directed what should be
done. In SO doing he acted as the
agent of W. B. Mckinley, the street
car magnate of Illinois
1t is recalled that when Mckinley
bought the Des Moines street car sys-
tenn and arranged for what he thought
was sufficient newspaper influence to
back up his demand for an unlimited
and wide open franchise, he had such
a franchise framed up. There was a
hitch somewhere and the people got
onto the fact that the franchise wanted
would enable Mckinley to water the
stock and add from a half million to a
million to the nominal value of his
property. In the emergency, Mr.. Berry
hill turned UP as one deeply interest
| ed, and he spentctwo months trying to
! get thru the kind of a franchise Nc
kinley wanted. Then the scheme was
I
and Berryhill was Inundated.
Now followed the conference at
Washington, with Col. Pete Hepburn as
| the spokesman for the republicans Of
Iowa. and the same Mckinley having
control of the purse strings and liter
allure for the 1910 campaign, and word
was sent out that as for Iowa it must
go standpat or be abandoned to the
democrats. Within few days, Mr..
Berryhill, agent for Mckinley in fran
chise matters, already engaged in writ
ing TO the papers advocating repeal OF
the Iowa law to forbid stock watering
and other frauds and gratis, turns up
in the standpat conference to write the
platform on which the standpat cam
paign to capture Iowa is to be made.
The sequence of events is so plain
that their connection is we'll estab-
lished. The inspiration and the back
ing for the campaign to take Iowa
come largely from the bitter disap-
pointment over the failure to make a
| fortune out of exploiting the rights OF
the people in a street car franchise.
The campaign is to follow the same
lines as that directed by the same
crowd, with Ed Hunter as manager, in
1906, when the railroads spent $4,000
/
| only a part of the ticket To add to
the similarity efforts are being made to
secure the same rooms for headquar-
tiers. Much the same force will be en-
| ployed.
1t also transpires that the desire of
the managers to avoid too large con-
ference and the-secrecy they maintain
! ed,resulted IN some of those who came
to attend not finding out about it until
too late. Senator COPYRIGHT, for in
stance, who was nominally on the res
! olutions committee, stated Immediately
after the conference that he had not at
| tended and knew nothing of what was
| done. Another prominent man who
was listed as a committeeman from
| the standpat organization, stated after
the meeting that he had been unable
to find the place of meeting.
Members Of the republican state
committee deny emphatically that there
was any agreement or understanding,
directly or indirectly, that in case it is
found that Iowa is no longer progress
sive, as shown by the result of the pri-
mary, the chairman of the August con-
VeDtion is to be a standpatter. All
that was done was to defer action as to
q S1iai1 LiaIi diSSiS because The mat
ter Of selecting a chairman had not
been canvassed and they felt it to be
| unnecessary at this time to make the
selection. A second meeting will be
necessary anyway. There was sug-
gestion as to having Dolliver as chair
man but nobody knew whether he
would accept. Neither was it known
whether Senator Funk would care to
preside.
The success of Charles W. Lyon, SeV-
enth district committeeman, in landing
the convention for Des Moines when it
was known that q number of those who
pose as boosters" for the city were
not doing anything to help, for politi-
cal reasons, has started a boom for
him for chairman of the state COM
mittee in case Chairman FRANKIE re-
tires. No resident of Des Moines has
been chairman OF the state committee
for many years. Mr.. Lyon has been
very active and devoted to the work.
Hon. T. w. McCurdy, of Hazelton,
attended the good roads convention.
II have been road supervisor myself"
he said. "and can show some good
| roads. After what was said here. Of
course l feel that j am under indict-
ment along with other road officers,
but my conscience is clear" McCurdy
made a hasty trip to the capital. If he
had arrived week sooner he would
have climbed the steps past great heaps
of the accumulated dirt and filth Of
three winter months lying on the stone
steps and walks, something that never
happened in the. seven years he had
charge of the state property. Nc
Curdy says he is enjoying quiet life
after a strenuous service for the
state.
Prof. Curtiss states that the COM
| ing Of the Americas Berkshire con-
gress to the state fair and the increase
Of premium offers for Berkshires above
anything ever offered at any state fair,
will make Of the show OF Berkshires in
August the finest s-e- There will be
exhibits OF the greatest herds in the
country, coming from eastern and
middle states, by exhibitors who never
before attended fair In Iowa The
breeders Of Berkshire hogs are pur-
suing a plan much like that Of the
breeders Of Holstein cattle and the