Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-16
HEARsT's DEFEAT HAS NOT SIM.
PLlFlED DEMocRAcYs TAN
GLE IN IOWA.
JUDGE WADE In DANGER
Democratic consressman's Predlca.
ment Is Not An Enviable One and
May Result in Defeat-RepubIican
Convention Will Be Quiet Affair.
[BY LEON BRowN.1
Des Moines Bureau of the Courier.

[BY LEON BROWN
Des Moines Bureau OF the Courier.
Des Moines, July ID.
A. w. Maxwell still is in a defiant
attitude and the democrats who have
been hoping for harmony at the demo-
cratic state convention at Iowa City
next Tuesday are growing less hope.
full every day.
1t may be necessary for them to fight
for peace
prominent democrats are bringing
every influence to bear on the eighth
district member of the state commit.
tee to induce him to withdraw his
claims to the craftsmanship.
Judge Carr of Manchester and Cato
Sells of Vinton are the men who are
backing Maxwell in his determined po-
sltion to continue to claim the chair
manship because the state convention
of May passed resolution making
him chairman.
1t is well understood among the dem
ocrats that he is the only member of
the state committee eligible to the
Craftsmanship whom they can control.
He was so intimately associated with
Judge Carr and with Sells in the man
agement of the Hearst affairs in this
state prior to the state convention,
that necessarily he is hand in glove
with them.
| Wade's Future in Danger.
The conservative democrats are en-
barrassed by Judge Wade's situation.
They have less nerve about 1t than
have the Hearst men. The latter pro.
pose to make Maxwell chairman even
If it defeats Wade; but the Wade men
hesitate about being SO Independent
about things.
No conferences have been called by
the democrats relative to this situa-
ton and nothing will be done about it
before Monday, in the opinion of in
formed men.
Most of the democrats from this Sec
ton who are going to the state con-
vention will not go to Iowa City before
Monday. They expect that there will
be no excitement until that time. They
also expect that the convention will be
finished before Tuesday night so that
they can return to Des Moines in time
for the republican convention of We'd
lnesday.
Republican Convention Quiet.
The republican state convention of
next Wednesday is going to be the
lquietest affair of the sort that ever as.
sembled in Iowa.
There will be no fight on the plat.
form to be adopted. 1t will be re
affirmation of the national platform
Nothing will be added to it, 1t is not
for Iowa republicans, some of whom
helped to write it, to add to the de.
!, clarations of the national party.
T Railroad Commissionershp.
There will be one fight over nomina
, tions-that over railroad commissioner
, This gives promise of several ballots
] 1t is up in the air. Ketchum plainly
J has the lead Porterfleld has made a
; very vigorous campaign. Mowry de
Ponds on sense of Justice which he
: hopes is inherent among politicians
{ There is possibility of dark horse
This continues to grow. If the fight
among the other candidates were to be
long drawn out such choice would be
likely.
There are no candidates for electors
: and no fight on this Is likely to be had
III tltC COllYcullOu. IL Is d LuduklGSS
job, and the honor is the sole compen
!, sation except the mileage incident tc
coming to Des Moines and casting
the ballot for Roosevelt
And SO the convention promises tc
pass off like a summer morning fol
there will be no effort on either side
of the factional quarrel in Iowa to try
to rub it into the other
Cummins Will Speak.
There will be some fireworks previ
,, GUS to the convention, however. Gov
ernor Cummins will make a speech be
fore the Polk county republican clut
, the night before the convention which
,, will be the keynote of the campaign
: 1t will follow the line of thought which
the governor has expressed heretofore
relative to the platforms He regards
, them as similar in that both Warrant
: tariff revision, but the democratic i.
.. revision without reference to the pol
:, icy of protection while the republican
keeps that in view
: The Central Committee,
There will be another fight or tw,
the morning before the convention
: when the districts try to select stat,
central committeem There will b.
:. hot fight in the third and one in tn
, fourth. 1t is said that one is likely t.
develop in the second, also.
Strikes At Their Root