Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-22
Citizens Meeting Breaks Up
After Long Session, Without
Accomplishing Anything
DAILY MOVE WAS sIDETRAcKED
Prohibitionists and Esermayer Men
Refuse to Permit Sutton and 9th
ers to Steer the Meeting to DAILY =
Then Those Two Factions Fail to
Agree.


in city affairs came to a close Tues
day night without having accomplish
ed anything whatever in the way of the
desired result An attempt was made
to swing the support of the meeting
to Anthony G. DAILY. but it was voted
down. A similar movement was made
to get the meeting to endorse Eyer
mayer, but the Home Protectionists
blocked this. The result is the pollt-
ical situation as it regards the number
of candidates in the field, is the same
as it was a few weeks ago. 1t took al
most two and one half hours Tuesday
night to discuss" the situation, ana
when it was all over "a solution was no
nearer in sight than it was before the
meeting began.
Chairman j. G. Weatherby called the
meeting to order promptly at o'clock.
DR.. w. S. Devine was made secretary,
and read the report of the committee.
The report went over the ground, as
outlined in these columns, and admitted
that the committee had accomplished
mourning. ne ISpOll was tAaoi'sSN 49,"
the committee discharged.
Addresses of the most stirring Kind
were then the order of the evening.
Chaplain Cole was called for and made
another one of his characteristic adj
dresses. He expressed disappointment
at the outcome of the committees et-
forts, and said that any candidate who
did not possess the spirit of patriotism,
in sacrificing his own personal inter-
ests for the good of the city as
whole, is not good enough to be may
or. "A man shorn of patriotism is a
shadow" he said, land has not the
semblance of II man. We are out with
a lantern, like Diogones of old he add
ed, Cooking for man" He urged
uniting on one good man. In closing ne
suggested Il nominating committee OF
five from the five wards of the city.
that would nominate Il candidate for
mayor.
Daily Scheme Sprung.
+. M. Sutton was the next speaker,
and said that it was plain to see that
the plan of a week ago was imprac-
ticable. He urged the meeting to unite
on some one candidate, but he thought
going outside the present candidates.
A fourth man would only make matters
worse. 1--WE don't want to withdraw
our votes from Mr.. Egermayer, Mr..
Dickson or Mr.. DAILY he added, but
from our opponent
The crowd assumed that Mr.. Sutton
was arguing for Mr.. Daily as being the
strongest of the three, as he followed
his remarks with a resolution. which
in effect called for the appointment of
a committee to act as head in man
aging the campaign. This committee
should have all power and on the eve
of election should advise the voters as
to which candidate was most likely to
be elected, in order that the people
might center on him. This committee.
to be known as a steering committee,
was to consist of five members APP
pointed by the chair Merritt Greene
seconded Mr.. Sutton's motion and said
that nothing could be accomplished
without organization.
Plan Meets Opposition.
The Sutton plan Immediately met
with opposition. w. H. Calhoun was
the first to talk against it, as he could
foresee danger confronting the propo-
sition. He proposed that each ward
select five men, the twenty-five to act
as nominating convention, to place
a candidate outside of the three men
under discussion, and that that cam
didate be supported by the mass meet
ing, The committee would not only
nominate mayor but a candidate for
the council from each ward, and no.
man interested in the candidacy of any
of the present candidates should be
eligible to the committee.
DR.. Jones saw danger in the Sutton
resolutions and was next to speak. DR..
Jones said that two candidates had
made their positions known; the third
had not. He had helped elect reform
candidates who, in six months time,
needed reforming themselves. Mr..
DAILY had never said what he would do,
and it was not the question of turning
out the present administration alone
that confronted the citizens, but that
of centering on a man who would
stand pat for something.
The names of several were then call
ed for, but Sutton insisted on hear
ing from j. e. Stanton. Mr.. Stanton
spoke briefly, endorsing Sutton's DAILY
resolution. He denied that two men
of his committee We're DAILY men.
Egermayer Not Party.
J. H. Egermayer followed Mr.. Stan
ton and said he would not be a party
to the Sutton resolutions. He pro-
claimed them unfair, and said that he
would not work during the campaign,
secure the pledges of his friends, and
then give up to some other candidate
who might be considered by the com
mittee as the stronger. He urged set
thing upon a candidate at once.
Mr. Dickson was not so much OPP
posed to the resolutions, but he pre-
ferred agreeing at once as to who the
meeting would endorse.
I)r. Jones declared that 1.-The reso-
luton invites defeat What
will the third man do?' he ask
ed. I'VE do not know where he stands.
He is not here, and was not here last
week" Mr.. Daily was then called for,
and did not respond. Any one repre-
senting him was asked to come for
ward, but no one came.
Decide to Take the Vote.
DR.. Jones suggested that the meet
ing take a secret ballot, to see where
the members stood. DAILY should be
eliminated, and Dickson and Eeermay-
capJi1atac ha voted for