Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-05-07
|I IS MERELY A BLUFF
Talk About a Contestine Deleea.
ton From Polk Meant
for Effect.
Several County Conventions
Booked..Machine Counties
to Be Called Soon.
More Army Appointments for
Iowa to Come--Many Fail
to Qualify.
j to Times Republican.

to Vuallfy.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. May There is much
4 aboisterous boasting that contest from
this county will be carried to the repub-
liican state convention at Cedar Rapids.
Such contest would hardly deceive
even the most unlearned in politics in
Iowa. The basis of the contest would
/ be that the minority of delegates in the
county convention we're disregarded and
denied representation on the state dele
tgation and that the customs of the re-
publicans of Polk county in choosing
delegates by supervisor districts instead
lof by the county az unit We're
lchanged. Inasmuch as the call for the
Estate convention does not provide for
! ldividing the counties up into supervisor
districts or townships or wards or road
1 districts or school districts or in any
| other manner. n handful Of republicans
would Gu, a sorry figure before the ere
ldeGtials committee asking TO be seated
las from some of these minor county di-
should go to Cedar Rapids it would re-
4 ceive and deserve the contempt OF every
lone. This is not sayingsth the pre-
4 cedents of the county We're followed
for distinctly and emphatically they
We're not. But that is not a matter for
1.-The republicans of the state TO deter
4 mine. If there is a row ON hand it is
4 among Polk county republicans. Ii here
ID
the delegation and got it, then it is en-
'ltire,y within this county Ii the pre-
lcedent set last Saturday rises up TO
trouble those who made il then it is
II thei, lookout and no, that of the rcpub-
llcan party o. the state. The republicans
lof the state ought 70 be informed that
sl there is not one thing in the talk Of a
Icqntesting delegation from Polk county
other than the desire Of q very small
a minority of the .epublcans to make an
4 lappeasanee of dissensions in Cummins'
a own county to the end that prsjudice
may pc excited asai,,st MIN anu tilat mis-
opponents may catch fen band -wa gor
lppiiticans who ait. Wandering about in
the darkness
Among the county conventions that
have already been called are those in
4 sac. Henry Cherokee. Guthrie Dickin-
son, Rinsgold, Montgomery Poweshie
fand Woodbury. counties The Woodbury.
\ comfy contest is to be "pulled off at
an carly date. The Indications are that
i II viii be Interesting but that cummins
viii wiz hands down. a numbersof other
conventions are expected 10 BE- called al
an esrly date. Wherever a convention
can lie handled easily it will be called.
. More Of the otne- conventions nave
been called in the seventh distric. but
il is proba BILE that the conventions in
ii Dallas and Madison counties win be
called before many days. In Dallas
1 county a warm contest ascertain That
ljs Major conger's old county but the
Iipepple there do not feel that he is one
bof them. since he has been away these
A many years Madison county is regard
led as more certainly for Conger than
Dallas; but III Madison i. has beer de-
termined that The names OF all the can-
ldidates for govefnor shall be printed on
fthe tickets sefore the primary and the
Republicans wil be permitted TO vote on
iall of them. PoWeshieS is regarded as
certainly for Gninmins
4 In the meantime the women returning
from the CONVENTION OF the Federation
lpf Women's Clubs al Council Bluffs
seem TO be trying tostake a place ii, the
\ center Of the stage and 10 attract atten-
ton by the peculiar brand of harmony
4 which they used in the town where Mrs.
Bloomer livea and died. Ii appears from
1.-The many and varied reports which
leone over the divide that the women
Ihad some slight differences and that
lthese pertained largely to whether Mrs.
Bailey of Des Moines should be presi-
.tdent OF the federation, or whether she
flwould have TO content herself the next
4 year with simply being president cf the
4 greatest club Of women In the state here
lin Des Moines. II appears further that
There WAS serious opposition to Mrs
lBailey here in Des Moines and in the
4 Women's Club over which she is to pre-
side. and the leader OF the movement
lsagainst her was the present president of
the Women's Club. who is soon 10 retire.
In the frs. place Mrs. Bailey was
brought out as candidate by certain
4 Des Moines women. The Des Moines
4 delegation went back on her. This
laroused the sympathy of the women
from other towns and Mrs. Bailey won
She also had the merit of being entirely
worthy of the place and enjoyed the
Iconfidence of all the club women of the
state But the significant thing about Il
all ia that 1t was IA case of a Dess NIoines
candidate going to a state convention
Iopposed by the Des Moines delegation
land Winning out. The attention of the
/ Hon. Sidney Foster has been called 10
4 this incident that he may take comfort.
| provided he doesn't reflect that In wom-
Ion hi,