Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13
"HEARsTIsMD RECEIVES A BODY
BLOW AT MEETING YEsTER.
DAY IN DIES MONIES.
CULLISON WAS CHAIRMAN
Harlan Man, Member OF the Recon.
struction Forces, Chosen for Tempo.
rary Presiding Officer in State Con-
vention.

Hearstlsm received a body blow
yesterday in the meeting of the state
central committee, and the power
Charles A. Walsh has had in Iowa
democratic politics and national poll
tics as well is trembling in an insecure
balance. William r. Hearsts candi-
dacy for the nomination for president
has become an issue in the party in
Iowa and promises to disrupt it more
than has the silver question, or
greenbackism. Free silver is official
ly and literally a dead issue but its
former champions are lining up to
support Hearst and Walsh, and in the
first round. which took place at the
meeting yesterday, they were defeat
ed. The selection of G. w. Cullison
OF Harlan, an anti-Hearst man, for
temporary chairman of the state con-
vention which will elect delegates to
the national convention, was hard
blow to the Hearst and Walsh wing
and the convention, which will be held
May 4, promises another rupture in
the democratic organization. Iowa
democratic leaders of the old line de-
scription bitterly resent the holiness
VI lhC IlSoI lllPdSlOl dilu GSSu uS'
clare they will fight Hearst instruc-
lions without regard to the availability
OF the New York congressman.
By a vote of to 5 the democratic
state committee, assembled yesterday
at the Slavery house,refused to fix the
date of the state convention for June
l or June and by q vote of 8 to
decided on May as the date for the
convention to select delegates to the
national convention at st. Louis.
Deny Hearst Men Gained Victory.
Hearst men advocated the early date
and therefore claim victory Howev-
es, they also backed L.. e. Murphy of
Dubuque for temporary chairman of
the convention, but were defeated by
the regulars, who elected G. w. Gull
lison of Harlan, an anti-Hearst man.
In order to secure Cullisons election
H. B. Morrissey Of Harlan voted with
the Hearst men for May as the con-
vention date, National Committeeman
Charles A. Walsh voted with the
Hearst faction as an ex-officio mem
Der of the state committee.
Although Hearst managers are adj
vertising their success in fixing the
convention date as Hearst victory,
there is little basis for the boast. as
many strong anti Hearst democrats
favor an early convention and some
Hears men oppose it. Moreover, if
Hearst managers were in absolute
control of the committee they would
have been able to land Murphy for
temporary chairman.
The May convention will be held in
Des Moines and second convention
to nominated candidates for state Of
ficers will be called for September and
probably will be held either at Des
Moines or Iowa City.
c. A Walsh Fears Overthrow.
The Hearst roundup was engineered
by Charles A. Walsh. of Ottumwa, sec
rotary of the democratic national COM
mittee, with the aid of A. M. Lawrence
and G. F. Russell, manager of the
Hearst publications in Chicago. Gen
eral James B. Weaver, of Colfax, N. G.
Roberts of Fort Madison, Walter H,
Butler and Harry Evans, of Des
Moines, the latter being son-in-law of
General Weaver, E. H. Rothwell, of
Pennington, G. F. Rinehart, of New.
ton, and nearly all the old Bryan and
greenback leaders are in the van OF
the Hearst movement. Secretary
Walsh, whose defeat for reelection as
national committeeman from Iowa is
part of the program of the reconstruc.
ton forces, has seized the Hearst boom
as a life rope, and is claiming an in.
structed delegation for the New York.
er. Mr.. Walsh, in company with
Hearst representatives, has been
securing the state for six weeks and
openly committing his party to Hearst
This has angered the conservatives
who now demand to know on what au
thority their national committeeman
seeks to deliver Iowa to Hearst.
SuIlivan's Preoicament.
Jeremith Sullivan, of Creston, demo
cratic candidate for governor in 1903
is tired of the Hearst crowd, and he is
said to oppose instructions and Mr.
Hearst's government ownership
schemes. 1t is pretty well authenti
Gated, however. that Mr.. Hearst made
donation of $4,000 last year to the
democratic state committee, and this
may explain the Hearst leaning of Mr.
Sullivan and A. E. Jackson, of Tama
chairman of the democratic state com
mittee.
Gives Lineup by Districts.
A canvass of leading Iowa democrats
indicates that the Hearst movement
has been vigorously proselyted in the
sixth, seventh and eighth districts