Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-14
Members of the State Commit
tee Opposed to Considering
Imaginary Contests
AND WILL DISPOSE OF MANY
Chairman Spence is Known to Favor
Forcing the Fake Contest Artists to
Abandon Fimsy Objections and Con-
slider Only Valid Claims at State
convention-other News.
Special TO Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, July 14.--While the re-
publican state committee will not go
into the business of issuing credentials
to delegates ard deciding who's who
in a republican state convention, and
the advertised meeting which Ed Hun
ter arranged for before consulting any
members Of the committee, will not
take place. yet it is a fact that mem
bers of the committee are actively at
work to secure conditions which will
vention and to this end they are con-
sidering the fake contests. Members
| have been actively at work securing
| reliable information in regard to these
fake contests. They want to know
facts, and they are not disposed to
accept the statements sent out by
Richards, Parrott, Weaver, ct al, and
passed off for The truth
Already some of these contests have
been practically disposed of. The first
contest of the campaign, it will be re-
early in April. and for two or three
weeks the railroad organs featured the
alleged atrocities of the Dickinson pri-
mary and convention and offered over
whelming evidence" such as they
deemed sufficient to prove that Dick
inson was carried by the democrats.
But Dickinson has now been eliminated
as fake contest. So also the Emmett
fake contest has been put out of bus
mess.
A number OF other contests having
about the same substance as those of
Dickinson and Emmett are still being
featured by the railroad press bureau.
But it is stated to be the intention
of the state committee to eliminate
them as fast as it is discovered they
are entirely without foundation, and
that long before tl.e convention meets
an official announcement will be made
as to what counties are really contest
ed and what are not
The demand for this comes largely
from the candidates for congress and
their friends. The congressman are
much embarrassed by the continuance
OF the plotting for control of the state
convention by the defeated faction.
This talk of drastic measures in the
state convention is said to breed talk
of scratching the ticket, and in every
case the congressman suffer. For in
stance in Major Lacey's district the
standpatters threaten to bolt the state
ticket and some of the more radical
ones say they will never support the
ticket if the majority is permitted to
have it's way; and the progressives
naturally retaliate by pointing to the
danger Of the congressional ticket. In
the Eleventh district where the con-
tinual talk of fake contests being suf-
ficient to rule the convention is heard,
Congressman Hubbard lis suffering
and until the contest matter is dispos-
ed of it cannot be known whether he
will be renominated. And so it goes
all round.
But it is known that Chairman
Spence is favorable to the state COM
mittee forcing the contest artists to
abandon all the fake contests and rely
alone upon those which are recognize
ed in the home counties as having mer-
it. Other members Of the state COM
mittee are of like mind Mr.. Epps,
the Sixth district member, who would
prefer to do all he could to aid Major
Lacey, is disposed to not recognize the
big bunch of fake contests already
prepared or yet to be prepared in the
office of Ed Hunter in this city. The
Fourth district member, Mr.. Wood
ward, is said also to be reluctant to
join in the scheme for recognizing the
fakes.
1t is understood a meeting is to be
held in Davenport today OF prominent
republicans of Scott county to consid-
err the fake contest which was institute
ed there onA orders from Des Moines
and Burlington. The republicans there
supposed it had been dropped, but more
recently the Burlington organ OF Mr..
Blythe has returned to an accusation
against the Associated Press for having
sent out the facts about the Scott
county convention, and in Davenport
lit is now feared that the fake contest
from there will be dignified by refer
ence to the credentials committee.