Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-07-05
STATEMENT BYw. G. ELLIOTT.
Making a Reply to Article by Chas
Van Gorder in the Republican
Last Week.

| The Republican last week contains
a statement signed by Mr.. Chas. Var
| Gorder, ISSUED to the Republicans
of Audubon county" attempting tc
explain where to lay the blame fol
the present condition of Audubon
county politics.
Ordinarily l pay no attention to
| street talk, rumor or even newspaper
| report, but when signed article
| like Mr.. VanGorder's appears, to be
| circulated and read by hundreds,
containing gross Misrepresentation
| think | would lose self respect
| if did not reply to his rather
| insinuating article. | feel that it is
| due not only to those who were in
! attendance upon the convention but
| to other Audubon county citizens who
| are readers of the Republican and
| Journal that such statements as he
has made should not pass by unan-
swered
There is evidently something rad-
| cally wrong about the treatment that
| the Perkins men of the recent conven-
| ton received ut the hands of the Cum
Minis crowd or the latter would not be
| rushing into the newspapers to explain.
Since this manifesto ISSUED" is
largely personal in its character
will reply in the same manner.
quote here his first paragraph.
"In the first place the Cummins wing
| of the party was DESTROYS of avoiding
all strife and bad feeling: and al
though it had a majority as the votes
proved, an offer was made first To Mr..
| BRENNAN and then to Mr.. Elliott to
divide the delegation.
You say that your wing, "the Cum
| Minis wing was DESTROYS of avoiding
strife and feeling. What a statement
to make! Why everyone knows that
it was continual strife, not only in
Audubon but all over the county.
am sure that the facts warrant me in
| saying that the Cummins crowd were
doing everything in their power to
carry the county. 1t does seem puer-
| lie to say that your wing wanted no
strife. 1t may be that you were under
the impression that thinking, self
respecting men would permit you and
your crowd to run over them without
protest. If you had such impression,
how mistaken you were in it. Both
sides were striving to win. Impossi-
BILE to have such a contest without
| strife.
Your next statement referring to me
| is that an offer was made to me to di-
vide the delegation. No such offer
was made to me at any time either be-
| fore or on convention day.
Who had any authority to offer to
| divide the delegation2 No such au-
thority was assumed by any one that
| ! know of in the Cummins wing, and |
am sure that | did not even presume
upon my part to accept any division.
| There had not been any indication In
the different townships of any divis,
| ion whatever But in order to have
the impression 60 out over the county
that the Cummins wing were unusu-
ally magnanimous on convention day
you have used some stuff that is moi
true. think you have done this ig-
norantly. | could hardly credit il
being done any other way.
The next two paragraphs of your
article refer to Scott county and to
statements made by the Nonpareil
and other papers concerning the stu
alton. This has no particular bearing
| on our case in Audubon. | may add
that would expect Scott county to go
| for Cummins the same as the state of
! Carroll. These counties have been
| open and noted ViOlaters of the liquor
| laws OF Iowa for years. They haven't
| forgotten their obligation To Cummins
| who encouraged them in their open def
ance several years ago. The statement
that ! was In conference with the
Cedar Rapids man is absolutely false
| ! know nothing about any Cedar Rap
| ids man. No such man called upon me.
| Now as to the workmanship, this is
the third assumption that has no
truth in il. ! did not intend to be
the chairman Of the convention and
since this seems to have been the bug
bear that you offer as q pretext for
| your high-handed methods, will say
that the only man of the Cummins
wing that said anything to me about
Craftsmanship was Judge green, to
whom ] stated that / was quite sure
that a Cummins crowd would not per-
nit me to act as chairman and that ]
did not expect to be sat on. This was
before convention day and | thought
this was notice, we'll knew that !
would have been deposed by the Har-
mOny Wing committee on permanent
| organization just as soon as they
could have gotten Together and
hence ] did not intend to be chair
man. 1t occurs to me that if you had
been up on parliamentary rules the
Harmonious Cummins Wing would
have known that you could have de.
posed any Chairman that Mr.. Brent.
man and the county central committee
might have named.
Your next climatic assumption is
that was not member of the conven-
ton. have never taken part in a
convention or assembly when | had
no right to do so. | was a member
of the convention and add my author
ity for my part in the convention.
| Audubon, Iowa. June, %. 1906
! j. G.. Rose a duly elected delegate
from Audubon township to attend the
Audubon county Republican conven-
ton to be held in Audubon June 23rd
1906 do hereby appoint w. G. Ell
lott as my proxy to act in my place
and stead without any reservation
whatever, the same as II were there
in person myself.
j. G. ROSE.
| You insinuate that the Perkins men
had some trick or scheme. Such as.
sumption was not true. There is NO
evidence to indicate that you had any
grounds to believe such Imagination.
1t was certainly plain there was no
| plan on the part of the Perkins men.
| You remember that some of the town
ships gave up their credentials before
they we're fully aware of what your
| crowd was dealing out to them. AS