Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31

ed. There is no contest in Chickasaw
county. While I believe that carried
the county in the caucuses. Mr.. Per-
kins carried 1t in the county conven-
ton. have not attempted in any case
to question the work of regularly
held convention. Mr.. Perkins has the
delegates from Chickasaw county. He
knows 1t. There is no dispute with re.
gard to their right to sit in the conveu-
ton, and the county is inserted in the
notice simply to deceive the republi
cans of Iowa and the fair minded dele
gates In the convention.
I'm Jasper and Wapello counties
there are real contests. They were not
inspired by me. They were not direct
ed in my behalf from Des Moines.
They arose out of differences between
the republicans of those counties, and
Mr.. Perkins managers know that from
the beginning l have taken the posi-
ton that these counties, together with
Jefferson should. under long continued
practice of the party, be excluded from
the temporary organization, and that
their controversies should be heard
anu uSlCi SuSli SohtloN Cl olS'o
have been for many years adjudicated.
Il now come to the sham contests. =
On Scott. Delaware. Allanaakee, Dali
las, Audubon, Carroll, Lyons.) "I am
not passing upon them from the stand
point of my interest in the outcome.
All observing people know that they
are shams. All who have cared to ex-
anime their origin and their progress
know that they have been instituted
simply to control the convention and
because a majority of the members of
the state central committee are allied
with the faction that is opposing my
denomination. The railway manage
ment of Mr.. Perkins campaign decreed
that must be defeated, and this is the
way in which the result is to be ac-
complished.
Perkins Makes Statement.
Des Moines, July o0.-Last night
George D. Perkins handed to the edi-
tors of the Des Moines Register and
Leader the following card for publica.
ton in that paper:
"Des Moines, Ia, July 20, 1906
&C the Editor
"You have no right to say that
have asked the republican state cen.
trail committee to deprive certain
delegates of their seats in the conven-
ton.
Il think the central committee should
determine who in it's best judgment
are entitled to sit as delegates In the
convention under the temporary orga-
nization. In dealing with this matter
the committee, as the governing pow
er of the party, owes responsibility to
the whole party. do not assume that
am authorized to determine the mer-
its of these contests. But l do insist
that republicans from any county in
the state have a right to appeal to the
agencies Of the party for a respectful
hearing and an honest adjudication of
differences. In the present situation
stand only for the protection of that
right. l do not say that any contest
shall be decided temporarily or perma-
nently in my behalf.
| Permit me to say that 1t is my de-
sire that the state committee, the COM
mittee on credentials and the conven-
ton shall act with good discretion
guided by sincere purposes, for the
integrity Of the republican party. be.
lieve that the delegates chosen by "a
majority of the republican voters
should be seated On the third of July
| Governor Cummins stood for that. He
also declared for the time-honored
practice of the party for the dispatch
of the business of the convention. Both
he and l should continue to advise our
| friends and followers against the ex-
pediency of riot.
"My own contention has been and
still is that the fair fame of the party
and the preservation of it's opportunity
for usefulness are of more consequence
than the nomination of Gov. Cummins
myself or any man. | should be glad
if the Register and Leader, understood
to voice the sentiments of the govern
or, might assert this in all frankness
and with all sincerity.
The party is not bound to support
my personal ambitions. am bound to
support the ambitions of the national
republican party. l ask nothing from
one committee or another or from
the convention itself, that is not in
harmony with the good reputation OF
Iowa republicanism and defensible in
the open day. If this shall be treated
as fresh proof of my simplicity must
still stand pat.
:" Yours,
George D. Perkins"
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