The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12
DEMOCRACY IS
NOT ALL SERENE
Jerry Sullivan, Of Des Moines, is chal-
lenged to Show His Heart Is
In the Right Loca.
tion.
BAsHoR is AssAILED
Candidate For Governor Is Being
Fought BY Des Moines Ring
Which Works With
Cummins.
BAsHoR is AssA1LED
Especial to The Gate City. !

lSpeclal TO The Gate City,
WATERLOO, Iowa, May 1.-THE
democrats of this section, all Of whom
are supporting Honorable S. H. Bash
or, for the democratic nomination for
governor, are considerably aroused
over recent developments in their
campaign.
For some time past the democratic
opponents of Mr.. Bashor led by what
is called the Des Moines ring, have
been putting forth every effort to be-
little the candidacy of the Waterloo
man. They have said he was
preacher, prohibitionist, populist,
and, in fact, that he did not line up
with the democratic doctrines as In
terpreted by the ring gsters. Now, the
fact is. that Mr.. Bashor is not a
preacher, having resigned from that
calling a number of years ago; he is
not prohibitionist. but strong ad-
herent and able exponent of the doc
trine of local option, which is one of
the cardinal tenets of tie democratic
faith, it being the application of the
theory of home rule to the liquor
problem. He is not in any way tine
tured of populism, but is one of the
staunchest of old line democrats.
These being the facts in the case,
his friends are much elated over the
fact that a recent inspection of the
primary poll books in Des Moines
show Jerry Sullivan and other mem
bers of the Des Moines ring voted
and acted with the republicans at the
last primary. This, they say, is body
blow to the attempt of Sullivan ct al
to dominate democratic politics in
Iowa this year.
One of the leading democrats Of
northwestern Iowa, man who has RI
ways had high place in the councils Of
the party. said today in speaking Of
this discovery "It is all as plain as day
now. The Des Moines ring are dem
ocrats only in name and. in fact, are
nothing but assistants to the pro-
gressives-Cummins republican crowd
We have discovered that tie poll
books show that Jerry Sullivan and
1
all listed as republicans. They pre-
tended to be democratic leaders, while
voting the Cummins ticket; they were
openly democrats but secretly Cum
Minis republicans. The same crowd
sold the democrats out years ago,
defeating Porter and electing Cum
Minis. Two years ago. there being no
contest among democrats for u S.
senator, they voted for Cummins and
defeated Lacey This fact the poll
books also will show
This year they have a new scheme.
/ They have got Porter out as candi-
date for the democratic nomination
for governor, Working jointly with
the Cummins crowd, they saw to it
that the word went out that Garst
would defeat Carroll and that Porter
would defeat Bashor Then the story
was that Porter would line up the
standpatters. 1t was believed that
this would stampede the Bryanites to
Garst just before the close Of the cam.
paign, thus defeating the democrats
again, putting Garst in as governor
and again establishing the Cummins
regime in Iowa While doing this,
they. the Des Moines democratic ring,
would continue the dominant force in
the democratic party controlling it for
future usefulness to Cunlmins. This
was their scheme and in furtherance
4 of it, the Register and Leader ridi.
! culed Bashor as prohibitionist anu
ordained preached and populist
! They knew these stories were false
but they promulgated them for the
purpose of killing off Bashor with tic
/ liberal and old line democrats, making
room for more vulnerable man who
could be more easily defeated at the
polls. They knew that Bashor, il
nominated, would make such telling
campaign that would leave small op
portunity for any democrat to bolt his
ticket at the dictation of the De:
Moines ring
4 Another detail OF their scheme wa!
to bring out Senator Moon of OF
tumwa with the expectation that hi
might draw away some of the liberia
votes from Bashor. Now. Senate
Moon has recently visited Waterloo
Dubuque. Davenport, Burlington AM
other cities ostensibly in his own in
terest. but in fact in the interest o
Porter His line of talk was tha