Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17
DUBUQUE MAN, 1T is SAID, ERRs
IN STATEMENT REGARDING
SILVER.
Leon Brown Declares General Weav-
err, Charles A. Walsh and Other
Hearst Men Compelled Committee
to Omit Reaffirmation Plank.
(BY LEON BROWN.)
Des Moines Bureau of Courier.
DeS Moines. Nav 16.

1T is rather an extraordinary fact
that the high priest of the radical
bryan democrats of the state, Louis
Murphy, OF Dubuque, continued to rep
resent to his party that the recent
state convention reaffirmed the last ma
tlonal PATRON, when. as matter of
TACT, the reaffirmation clause was
stricken out Of it by the suggestion
and insistence of the very men whom
Mr.. Murphy was following.
Ii he does not know it he should and
A. Mathews Of Dubuque, can tell him
exactly the process by which the re-
animation declaration was stricken
out Of the platform.
Fact is that General Weaver and
other democrats do not deny that they
compelled the Hearst and Bryan men
on the committee on resolutions to re-
convene the committee after it had de-
cided in favor of reaffirmation and to
strike out of the report that clause af-
fecting reaffirmation.
Objections OverruIed.
This was a specific matter, not a gen
eral proposition. The Bryan men on
the committee had insisted on putting
into the resolutions an endorsement of
the historical principles Of the demo
cratic party as enunciated in "our
last national platform" The conserva-
tives on the committee objected in
vain. The report was made I'D with
1t in and the conservatives made up
their report as a minority urging its
omission. Then the committee, when
it reached the convention hall, with the
majority and minority reports, told the
Hearst and Bryan men what it had
done only to be ordered by them to 20
back to their room and strike out the
expression our national platform. ;
General Weaver, Charles Walsh and
other men of that kind were the fel
lows who issued the orders or repeat
ed them, rather, when the Hearst man
ayers from out of the state had uttered
them.
Judge CANDLES Decision.
Much interest is taken in the deci
sion which has been rendered in Guth
RE county relative to the liability of in
surance agents who wrote policies fol
companies which are not authorized tt
do business in this state.
Judge Gamble has decided tina
1SOlIo All ILLS GLASS VI COlu pdulSS dE'
responsible, personally for the policie
which they write and when the com
panies do not liquidate the agents ma.
be sued and the face of the policie
received from them.
The decision, of course, has no beal
ing whatever on agents for authorize,
companies. They are responsible an,
if action is necessary it must be begun
against the authorized company. TIL
fact that company is authorized re
lieves the agent for it from any respon
sibility on account of the policie
which he writes for it.
1t is said that majority of the busi
ness written for unauthorized or will,
cat companies is written by agents liy
ing in border towns, or doing bushes
there, at least. The insurance depart
ment at the Office of the auditor be
lieves that the decision by Judge Gan
BILE will put stop to most of the bus
ness in this state for the agents Nigh
run the risk Of prosecution for doin
an unauthorized insurance bushes
but they cannot afford to run the ris
Of having judgments piled up agains
them for the losses incurred by tn
companies for which they write til
unauthorized business.