Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-10
Democrats Preparing For I'm
usually Hot Time at Second
State Convention
THE GUARDIANSHIP CONTEST
Fight Just Now is Turning on orsani-
zation Of the State Committee =
Foundation for Pending Trouble Laid
at the Last State Convention Pop
uIar Sentiment With Jackson.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines,j June 10.-Preparations
are being quietly made by the demo-
Gratis of Iowa for one of the hottest
that they have ever experienced in THIS
state. and that is saying a good deal,
for with such fire-eaters as General
Weaver and Colonel Mackeye and Cato
Sells and Judge Wade in the party
some interesting debates have taken
place at their state meetings. The fight
Just now turns ON organization OF the
state committee. and nobody cares who
is to be nominated at the convention
for state offices or for presidential
electors. 1t was the last state conyen-
tion that laid the foundation for the
pending trouble. AT the close of the
convention, after most of the delegates
had left and few routine details were
to be finished, the Hearst organization,
which had triumphed for the day,
pushed thru a resolution enlarging the
state committee by electing, contrary TO
all precedent, the member of the ma
tional committee for Iowa and making
him a member at large Of the commit
tee, then also electing a chairman Of the
committee in the person of A. w. Max
well, the manager for the Hearst boom
in this state.
The call for the second state conyen-
ton was issued by Chairman jackson
under authority Of the old organization,
the committee refusing TO recognize
Maxwell as chairman. Then Maxwell
issued call for convention. NOW
they are threatening to go into court
and have the courts settle 1t and
threatening to carrya+it 10 the second
state convention.
The attitude Of the party press indi-
Gates that popular sentiment is with
jackson and against Maxwell. Only one
or two democratic daily papers in the
state recognize Maxwell as chairman,
and practically every weekly democrat
ic paper prints the call with Jackson =
name appended. The state organ Of the
party, which has all along tried to re-
main neutral as between factions,
comes out and denounces Maxwell in
unmeasured terms. 1t is denounced as
an effort to foist himself upon the COM
mittee as it's chairman when he is not
wanted and of a piece with the brazen
effrontery of the whole Hearst move-
ment in the state.
An illustration of the fierceness OF
the contest and the extent to which the
factions have become embittered came
to light this week, when ii became evl-
dent that majority of the delegation
to the st. Louis convention had deter>
mined upon repudiating the arrange>
ments for headquarters made by the
state committee some time ago. |,
looks like there will be two Iowa head
quarters at the national convention and
two hostile camps
When the state committee met in
April a committee was appointed 10 Sc
cure headquarters at st. Louis for the
state committee. the state delegation
and Iowa democrats who usually go 70
conventions 1t has always been Gus
tonary to do this. SO that the Iowa
democrats who attend can all be located
at one hotel. This committee, headed
by S. w. Mercer, of Iowa City, the Sec
ond district member, secured rooms at
the Jefferson hotel to accommodate A
hundred or more persons. AT the t'Ine
Of the state convention he reported on
what was done. and there was no OBJ
lection anywhere. In order to pay Tor
the parlors for the Iowa democrats
committee and delegation--thls COM
mittee has called for funds from the
delegates and alternates and members
of the committee.
No sooner had these letters appeared
than A. r. McCook, who was selected
as secretary of the state delegation,
mailed a letter TO each of the delegates
and alternates asking them not to sent.
any money to Mercer. but to wait until
the officers of the delegation should Sc
lect headquarters, and stating that e.
NJ. Carr. of Manchester, had been dele
gated to look after this.
II develops also that at the meeting of
the state delegation after the state
convention, the anti-Hearst members
were not invited and did not know OF
the meeting being called. They have
announced that they will stand by the
arrangements made by the state COM
mittee. no matter where the rest of the
delegation goes.
Unless there is some sort of settle
ment Iowa will appear at st. Louis very
much divided.
The reason for the fierce contest over
the position of chairman of the COM
mittee has not been easy to under
stand: but the Dubuque Telegraph.
chief among the papers supporting
Maxwell in his position. hints that it
may be because of belief that in GER
tain contingencies there will be large
campaign fund available for the use of
the democrats. This is something about
which all the democrats profess ignor-
ance.
1t is now stated that last year the