Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-30
STATE COMMITTEE
in SESSION TODAY
Continued from Page one.)

there. But a majority We're merel.
railroad attorneys or as Il distinguish
ed Iowa politician has called then
the sycophantic beneficiaries OF tn
free pass
Rule or Ruin Leaders.
The rule or ruin faction of the stand
patters was dominated by men Xix,
these: James e. Blythe. w. p. Hep
burn Thos. Hedge G. b. Stewart, f
NJ. Molesberry, Ernest Hart, l.. b
Raymond, George S. Wright, Franz
Simmons, Ed Knott w. .. Payne, Jas
G.. Berryhill, Dave Brant. Julian Rich.
ards, C. W. Johnston, LATE Young
Palmer, w. c. Macarthur. w ID. Eaton
Tom Bevington, Phil Boland, c. j
Wilson, j. a. Dewitt. Lewis Miles
Joe Toulouse, j. F. Offil V. p. Twom-
bly,, John Y. Stone, j. G. Berry
hill, O. b. Talley, Carl Kuehnle and
w. w. McElrath.
They brought into their caucus q
number of the defeated and disgrunt-
led men from the counties where the
prosressives won. Here was ex-
Speaker Bowen, who failed to get a
chance to go to his own county con-
vention in Allamakee: Sam Henry, OF
Carroll county who is sore because
he could not break into his county
convention: James Downey, of Dexter
4 who was relied on to start a bolt in
the Dallas convention and miserably
| failed; j. Scott Stevens. of Black
Hawk, whose narne doesn't appear in
the list Of delegates; George Hanna,
who claims to represent the republic
cans of Kossuth county, but has no
credentials: w. C. Elliott who lost out
in the Audubon scrap; S. III. Finger.
of Davenport, who didn't swing Scott
county according to contract-and so
on thru long list of men who wanted
| to he delegates but are not
Hunters Purpose.
The purpose of Hunter in bringing
| these people here in advance of the
convention to organize and name the
steering committee for the standpat-
ters was to make sure that none of
the conservative standpatters would
have voice in the preliminaries. To
have waited until today would have
meant lack of harmony at the eau
Gus, for men are here today who
would have counseled harmony and
have insisted that the plan to Dust
the convention" be abandoned at the
outset Now they will have no voice In
naming the steering committee. They
will be whipped into line by the rad
icals if possible.
When the Boone delegates arrived
here today. or a few of them they eX-
pressed establishment that they were
to be denied admission to the conven-
ton hall in order to effect the steal of
the convention. 1--WE have not been
served with any notice of contest by
anybody in our county claiming to be
rghtfully elected as delegates to the
convention" one Of them said. 1--WE
held harmonious convention. We had
fierce fight at the primary, and we
fought out our troubles to a satisfac
tory termination. Nobody appeared at
our convention claiming there was 4
single delegate who did not fairly rep
resent his constituents. Nobody bolted
or protested or kicked or grumbled. So
far as we know. there is not repub-
lican in Boone county who claims that
he should have a seat in the state con-
vention representing our county. and
we do not believe there is a respecta-
BILE person in the county who can be
got to come here and ask to have our
seats"
Some duplicity has been apparent
among those who come here to make
trouble by encourag ing the rule or ruin
faction For instance there is big
"Ji,n'' Downev. of Dallas county. He
lives at Baxter and he was saying to
some persons Saturday that he didn't
know anything about a contest. but
to others he was saying that there was
contest. Ex-Speaker Bowen, of ALA
nakee. who is very sore because he
was left off the delegation. stood
around and was declaring that there
would be no contesting delegation from
Allamakee. but he went into confer
ence with the other railroad men and
boosted for contest. j. B. Hunger
ford and Sam Henry We're here from
Carroll co1mseli1hg with the rule or ruin
people. all the time admitting there
was no contest in Carroll.
The persistence with which the Dol
liver-for governor rumor is kept alive
suggests source from which this ru-
NOR comes with design and authority
For some time there has been talk Of
making the Junior senator the candi-
date for governor Someone talked
about it first in Washington, then it
bobbed up in isolated places in Iowa,
now it is heard in the Hobbies occa-
ionally 1t is stated, with a knowing
wink, that the Doliver boom is being
got ready to take the convention by
storm that at the psychological mo-
ment it is to be sprung. and then ev-
erybody is going to say, Lets have
Dolliver and harmony" One story the
standpatters are circulating is that this
is really progressive movement, that
nor, with the understanding that Cum
Minis is to be made senator and then
in due time the Blythe people are to
have the Allison succession perhaps
placing Perkins in that place. But
wherever the Dollver-for governor
rumor hobs up it may be set down as
certain tina there is also a group intent
on anything -beat-C ummins. 1t is
pointed out that no matter how Cum
Minis is beaten. if such is to be done
even by Doliver, 1t is defeat for the
progressives, consequently victory
for the men who have lost out in the
recent campaign Nomination of Dol
liver would be hailed from one end OF
the country to the other as the an
Inhalation of Cummins and the down.
fall of independence in Iowa. The Elk
l.