Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-08
CAMPAIGN MANAoERs SAY CUM.
MINIS WILL CONTROL STATE
CONVENTION.
MARSHALL AND cHE NokEG
TO GIVE NEEDED MAJORITY
Uninstruc%sd and Roossvslt osissateo
Depended Upon 70 9~,eil presrsssive
Majority - Saturdays Conventions
Largely Controlled BY cummins Sup.
portsrs.
;pecia, to Times-Rspubl.ean.

Special 70 IlmoS-N0puDllc3h.
Des Moincs. April s.-Ths week
starts out with the republican state
convention still In doubt as TO who con-
trois. The progressives have now been
assured of 697 delegates. or forty-four
short Of enough to control: and the
standpatters have 7is. or within twen-
ty mine OF enough TO swing the convene
tion away from the Iowa senator. The
fact that Chickasaw and Allmakea d.
cided for the progrcssves was OF in.
portance TO them. while the standpa9-
ters have reason TO rejoice over THAR
taking PaIo Alto.
II begins to look ali the moro certain
that not until the convention has roll
call will 1t be known who really con.
trolls.
Cummins Headquarters Optimistic.
At Cumming headquarters 1t ls still
claimed that the progressives will con-
troll the state convention and elect the
four delegates-at large by a small NM
jority. This claim IL based upon get
ting the support OF Roosevelt delegates
and OF a larger number Of uninstructed
delegates thun the standpat ncwspa-
pers concede. John Briar. manager OF
the Cummins campaign, claims that
the progressivcs will control the state
convention II they carry Marshall and
Cherokee counties.
To control the convention by tha
| barest majority Senator Cummlns will
have IL win Cherokee. Jackson, Mar
| shall and Muscatine counties solid rep
resentation of votes and poll the R0os-
| evelt strength OF twenty -four delc-
gates in Page and Mills counties. In
that situation the Cummins column
would read 743 delegates.
There are 1.4sl delegates TO the con-
vention. a total OF rae governs the
selection Of a delegate at large.
Tho fact that there are 1e0 unir-
structed Taft delegates elected anA
seventy uninstructed Cummiils dcie-
gates elected must be taken into con.
sideration.
| The four counties missing are In
progressive territory and the Cummirs
men expect to carry all OF them.
John Briar. who has managed Sem
ator cummins' campaign in Iowa for
delegates. does not concedc the control
OF the convention TO the administra.
! ton.
The Present Division.
| Forty seven counties have chosen
Taft delegates. fortyfour Cummins
delegates. Audubon and Dallas divided
between the two. Page instructed for
Roosevelt and the president and the
former president divided tho Mills
delegation. with The former president
having majority Of seveI to four. ae-
cording to report, -2
| Stardpat newspapers that claimed
| the convention cinched for Taft carly
| in the week. put the entire Pottawat-
tamic delegation in the Taft column.
| and acquired the whole OF Mills, put
| Washington over I'm the neager Roosc-
welt list and leave Osceola. Franklin.
| Webster and Wright In the uninstruct-
| ed column,
| Senator Cummins now has two dele
gates from the Third and TWO from tho
Seventh districts Results III sas
Fourth. Tenth and Eleventh insure
, him of six more dclgutes making his
strength from the state in the national
convention without regard TO the dele
gates n, large ten votes.
I President Taft has Won delegates ID
the First. sixth. Eighth ari" Ninth dis.
trlcts He is assured of the two dele
gates from the Firth district and two
from the Second. making twelve dis
trict delegates. IF the president wins
the four dclcgates-at-larG he Will
have sixteen votes from Iowa on the
first ballot.
There Is no chance OF senator CUM
minis winning the Second district now.
No STSu
forces have sixty-two votes. while the
l,arycst possihie strength the Cummins
men can muster. II they carry Jackson
and Muscatine. with Clinton already
lin their list Is fifty eight votes.