Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-01
COMMITTEES DECISION.
Continued from Page one.)

While Polk county was being pre-
sented the members of the committee
plainly showed their impatience with
the whole matter. The effort of Attor-
ney Bennington to butt into the game
without acknowledging in fact that
the Polk county contest was all in the
interest of Perkins, was so much re-
scented by the committee that Bevng-
ton was not permitted to make a
speech even in explanation. In fact the
committee had hardly the patience for
Judge Parrish to get thru with what
purported to be a presentation of the
case. AS Parrish could not cite any
statute supporting his f1msy conten-
ton the members of the committee
were not much impressed with the
case.
Joe Lane gave the contesting people
from Scott some hot shot and made it
very plain that the contest was with
out foundation When Lane had con-
Guided his speech the notorious Bob"
Haines, who went about the state for
the railroad machine melting contests
and procuring riots in caucuses, asked
Lane question Lane said he would
prefer to have such question come
to him from the committee and not
from one with the repute of Haines.
No member of the committee cared to
father the impertinent question Of
Haines.
Attorney W. r. Lee, of Carroll, made
a most eloquent presentation of the
Carroll case and showed that the regu-
lar delegation was selected in proper
way. He reviewed the action of the
standpatters in attempting to deprive
twice elected delegates from attend
ing the convention, and in holding
rump convention after the regular con-
vention and pretending to put up a
delegation. Ben Salinger of ill repute
among lawyers and the courts de-
Tended the Carroll CT nty fakes and
undertook to show that his delegation
was the genuine thing. In the course
of his remarks he abused Lee and
Garst and almost everybody else and
called Hungerford coward. He de-
nounced the regular convention as an
attempt to steal the rights of the real
republicans of that county.
The Audubon presentation was
tame, as it hinged upon questions OF
procedure.
The chief argument for recognizing
all the fakes was made by Attorney
Bevington, who presented, the argu-
ments which are more or less familiar
to all readers of Iowa newspapers. He
claimed in regard to Boone county
that as a matter of law and also as a
matter of justice the county should not
be represented at all, in other words
he claimed that Boone is a Perkins
county. In regard to Polk his attitude
was that morally the convention did
all right but technically had no right
to do it that way Bennington admitted
he appeared for Perkins in the mat
ter of all contests and they were all
brought in the interest of Perkins. He
presented exhaustive arguments to
show that the state committee has the
right and the duty of deciding con-
tests.
The hearings before the committee
were all informal and the manner of
presentation was left largely to chance.
Chairman Spence presided and he
made an effort to get the whole mat
ter expedited and presented in man
ner satisfactorily to ALL The general
DuDllc Was GhCluucu llOill lllG ilcdl-
ings.
The fact was shown in the hearings
before the state committee that the
minority have a very lively represent
tation on the committee. Especially
is this true as to Scott, Way and
Kirkpatrick Mr.. Scott presented
matters whenever a legal question
came up. He was a. match for the
lawyers who appeared before the COM
mittee with specious arguments, and
he always held his own. There is
general regret that MIR. IS. x. Way, OF
Kossuth county, is to retire from the
committee. He has shown himself to
lbe resourceful and of fighting mate
rial But for the fact that he is now
devoting himself to business outside
of the state he probably would have
been reelected. with a view to his be-
coming chairman of the committee.
Once during the hearing in regard to