Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-06
Believes Duty of Committee Is
to Help Elect, Not to
Name Ticket
WOULD JEoPARDIzE PARTY
Proposed Action of the Committee
Would 30 Usurpation of tho Rights
of tho Delegates and Would Result in
Confusion and Harm Which Would
Be irreparabIe.
,pecial 10 Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, July s. - $. X. Way,
member of the state committee for the
Tenth district, Is opposed to the pro-
posed meeting of the committee on the
10th of July. lie has written his an
swer to Chairman Spence and has also
given his letter to the press for pub
LEGATION. He takes an emphatic stand
against the committee usurping the
duties of the delegates and declares
the committee is the creature of the
convention and not the convention the
creature of the committee, After stat
ing that he Is not certain he could at
tend the meeting IL called, and saying
he could state his position In letter
as well as at the meeting, Mr.. Way
says:
II believe it is the duty Of the state
central committee to help In electing
the ticket; that 1t is the business of
the delegates to the convention to
nominate the ticket, and that the state
central committee is entirely outside
its rights and duties when II under
takes to say who constitutes the mem
bership of the convention. In fact the
process would be entirely reversing the
natural and proper order of things. AS
understand the matter 1t II, the duty
of the convention to say who shall con-
stitute the state central committee and
not the duty OF the state central COM
mittee to say who shall constitute the
state convention.
The delegates are the direct repre-
sentatives of the people and for the
committee, whose duties are clearly to
promote harmony and to assist In the
election of the nominees or conven-
lions, for such committee to undertake
to make the nominations and to set
aside duly elected delegates. would
throw the party into confusion from
which it would not recover in years.
I'm addition, 1t would jeopardize the
election of several members OF con-
gress from Iowa and lose us many
members of the legislature. Both OF
which Is much to be depfored.
Besides | am opposed to any fac
ton undertaking to gain control of the
convention Of stealing, and If the tone
of some Of the radical standr'at papers
is any Indication Of their intentions.
that Is what they are planning to do II
possible. II IS hard for me to believe
that a majority of the members OF
the state central committee would so
far forget the true interests of the par
ty as to aid Of countenance such pratt
cal methods.
'Frhe conventions in years past have
had sufficient intelligence to complete
their own organizations and to trans
act their own business without aid or
interference from the state central
committee, and believe the delegates
elected to the coming convention will
have the necessary qualifications and
intelligence to transact their business.
Il believe that any committee or any
member of the committee that would
undertake to override the expressed
will of the people as represented by
fairly elected delegates, would bring
on himself stigma that he would not
outlive during his political lifetime"