Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-06
IOWA INsTRUCTs FOR HEARST!
The Reorganizers Beaten by the De.
cisive Vote Of SIS to 37I.

The Iowa state convention on
Wednesday instructed their delega-
tion of 26 to the national convention
to vote for Hearst, the instructions
carrying by vote of Sis to 37l.
The Hearst men by the action of
state chairman Jackson gained control
of the state committee and were there
by assured fair show in the organi-
zation. The contests resulted in the
seating of So Hearst delegates out of
the 10 contested cases, giving the
Hearst supporters clear majority of
142.
The Hearst forces controlled every
congressional district with the excep-
tion of the first, second and third dis
tricts, and in the last, each side
secured one delegate.
The delegates who will represent
Iowa in the National convention are
as follows:
Delegates-at-Large: General j. B.
Weaver, Colfax; j. M. Parsons, Rock
Rapids; E. M. Carr, Manchester; S. B.
Wadsworth, Council Bluffs.
First District-W. W. Baldwin, Des
Moines, and e. G. McManus, Lee.
Second District William Desmond,
Clinton, and ]. B. murphy, Iowa.
Third District-A. j. O'Brien, Bu-
chanan, and II. J. Fowler, Blackhawk.
Fourth District-James KERN, Fay
cite, and A. r. McCook, Howard.
Fifth District-Sam S. Wright,
Cedar, and @. D. Huston, Linn.
Sixth District-John Doner, Monroe,
and George F. Reinhart, Jasper.
Seventh District-H. q. Evans, Polk,
and S. N. Hamilton, Madison.
Eighth District-M. B. Maring, Ap-
panoose, and A. V. Penn, Fremont.
Ninth District-E. j. Slider, Adair,
and r. B. Hoffman, Guthrie.
| Tenth District Charles d. Reynolds.
Carroll, and W. 1. Branagan, Palo
Alto.
Eleventh District-C. A. Cook, Osce-
ola, and w. @. Whiting, Monona.
Q. A. Walsh is reelected as nation
al committeeman from Iowa, in spite
of the efforts uf the Parkerites to de-
feat him.
The "reorganizers'. who had by
courtesy of the Democrats of the state
found places Of preferment in the
party and used their position to defeat
the will of the people, were turned
down hard every time au opportunity
offered itself, the convention evident
ly being Of the same opinion as Cato
Sells who in one of his speeches said
that he advocated the grabbing OF
The opposition by the seat of the
breeches and hurling them by means
OF this advantage into dim and dark
obscurity."
The result in the 4th district was a
surprise to both factions. 1t had been
conceded to the anti-Hearst side, but
unexpected Hearst strength develop
ed which placed them in control of
the caucus and they proceeded to
adopt Cato Sells advice. They evil
IDENTIFY hadn't seen Tor didn't care to
see) the Howard county resolutions,
as A. r. McCook, of Elma, was placed
in nomination against D. A. Lyons,
who was endorsed by resolution for
national delegate from this district,
and in a clean cut fight McCook won
by vote of 40a to 3ea. The Howard
county delegation, who at the con-
vention were so anxious to prevent
any instructions, Except such as they
wanted) evidently forgot their tune,
for they insisted that the resolutions
endorsing Lyons instructed the dele
CATION for him and so cast the entire
vote of the county for Lyons. The
chairman ruled that McCook could
vote separately If his wished, but he
didn't ne ed it aid SO voted against
himself.
McCook received the snlid vote of
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