Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-27
70 WORK FOR HARMONY
Other Important Matters to Be
Considered by Democratic
State Central Committee
THE JEFFERSON DAY BANQUET
Democrats coneede That Much De-
ponds on This and With Tendency
to Harmonize the Different Wings of
the Party it Will be Easy to Get To-
qether in the State Convention.

qether in the State Convention.
/ Des Moines, Feb. 27.-The demo
cratic state central committee will hole
a meeting in the club rooms of The
/ Slavery at o'clock this afternoon fol
the purpose of considering number
of important topics. Chief of these
will be undoubtedly the coming JEFF
ferson day banquet in this city and the
question whether the committee car
not do something in the direction OF
harmonizng the different wings of the
party The time and place of the next
state convention will also be considered
and probably will be fixed upon.
The meeting was called by Chairman
A. Z. jackson Of Tama. Mr. jackson
arrived in the city yesterday. L. f.
Springer of independence, member
from the Third district, arrived last
evening. These are the only two MEM
bers who are here from outside the
city, but it is expected there will be
nearly a full attendance of the COM
mittee. The committee is now COM
posed of the following members:
First dstrict-N. c. Roberts, Of Fort
Madison.
Second Districts. w. Mercer, of
Iowa City.
Third district. F. Springer. Of In
dependence.
Fourth district-D. A. Lyons. of
Creston.
Fifth district-A. E. Jackson, of
Tama.
Sixth districts. F. Mcconnell, of
Bloomfield.
Seventh district. c. Likes, Of Des
Mo'nes.
Eighth district-A. w. Maxwell. of
Seymour.
Ninth districts. B. Morrisey, of
Harlan.
Tenth district. B. Romans. of
Denison.
Eleventh district. II. Quick. of
Sioux City.
All the indications are that Des
Moines will get the convention. altho
Cedar Rapids wants it and will eS-
tend an invitation to the committee to
hold the gathering there.
AS to the date of the convention, 1t
was decided last year by the commit
tee to hold an early convention this
year. 1t is probable the latter par:
of June will be fixed upon. There
is disposition among members OF the
committee to break away from the pol
icy of holding conventions after the
and to hold them at time
best suited to the democratic party.
The object of an early convention is
to allow longer time for organization.
Last year the time allotted for organ
ization was too short and the dem
ocratic campaign was crippled in some
degree in consequence.
Chairman jackson says the organiZa
ton of the party is on good footing
thru the state and that 1t is in shape SO
that it can be made strong and COM
pact. A great deal of work was done
from state headquarters last fall in the
way of perfecting the organization of
the party in the different counties, and
Mr.. jackson believes the results of this
work will be seen in the next cam
paign.
1t is conceded by democrats that
much depends on the coming Jefferson
day banquet and that If a tendency
is shown to harmonic things there
1t will not be difficult to get together
in the state convention. If. however,
the Kansas City platform supporters
<ha< rn1
there will be no hope Of adopting a
platform without a repetition Of the
of last years convention. The
fact that the Jefferson day banquet has
national notice is another
reason why it Is considered important
that there be something like peace at
the coming event. Chairman Jackson,
when asked about these things, re-
framed from discussing them, but there
is no doubt this is the situation.
incidentally, 1t is likely the commit
tee will cast it's eyes ahead to next year
and informally discuss a good deal of
politics today. This will be the
first meeting since last fall, and nation
al events have moved forwards a good
deal since that time Chairman Jack
son was asked whether he discovered
any sentiment in Iowa for Judge Park
er for the presidential nominee. He
said he found considerable OF it, es-
pecially in eastern Iowa. AS to w. r.
Hearst, Mr.. Jackson said he looked
to see him develop great strength pro-
viding he proved to be sufficiently well
ballasted as the time for the nomina-
ton of president approached.
Mr.. Jackson is one of the members
of the committee whose turn will end
this year. He is not a candidate for
another term either as a member of the
committee or as chairman, tho there
is little question his district will again
return him to the committee, and that
his friends will urge him to again
take the craftsmanship. Others whose
terms will end this year are Messrs.
Mercer, Mcconnell and Morrisey.