Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-24
Veteran Tippecanoe Club Issues
a Letter to Iowa Republi-
can Voters
STAND BY THE NOMINEES
President of tho Club Points Out Fact
That Close Contests in Conventions
Should Not be Followed by Boiling
Previous Contests in Iowa Are
cited-other News.
Special to Tines Republican.

Lies MONIES, Ocl. Zi-1He veteran
Tippecanoe Club has just issued, thru
its president, the venerable Isaac
Brandt, an earnest appeal to the re-
publican voters of Iowa to vote the
straight republican ticket The ap-
peal of President Brandt is approved
by Vice President j. W. Orvis, Secre-
tary John L. Crawford, and others Of
the officers, and is official. Mr.. Brandt
says:
In reading the remarks and COM
ments of some of our republican pa
pers and friends regarding the nomin-
alton Of our candidates for state Of
fee and congress, l am led to think
that they have not considered the
matter as carefully as they should, or
they would talk differently We can
not always get just what we want in
q convention. We must expect to be
disappointed. 1t sometimes happens
that We get seriously disappointed,
But when nominations are made be-
lieve it is the duty of all republicans
to stand by the ticket and to vote
1t straight. I admit it Is very natural
for one when he gets left in con-
Vention to feel sore and go granting
around and to claim that he was
cheated out Of the nomination. know
how it is because have been there
myself. But the manly thing to do
and the right thing to do is to stand by
the ticket 1t gives you a better stand
ing in the next convention. Nobody
likes a grunter.
i have attended forty-sx regular
republican state conventions, and
have attended many caucuses. and /
have noticed that the best thing for
republican to do. no odds how badly
he or his friends may be disappointed.
is to stand by the ticket nominated
and vote 1t straight. 1t is an old, old
chestnut for fellow to bawl about
being swindled out of nomination.
When we organized the republican
party at Iowa City on February %,
1855. we found it hard task to make
a platform that could be agreed upon
1t could not be made to suit every
member Of the committee on resolu-
tons. The platform presented was
adopted, however, by the convention,
not because it just suited them, but
because 1t was SO much better than
any democratic platform.
1.-THE same thing occurred on June
II. 1856, at Philadelphia, at the organ
ization Of the national republican
party.
CLOSE contests in republican, state
conventions are very natural, because
we have so many able and competent
any official position in the State or ma
have spirited contests.
"In 1874 at the nineteenth republican
state convention we had very sharp
contest over the nomination of a can
didate for supreme court reporter.
The Hon. John S. Runnells was, after
a long contest nominated by only a half
vote. AS soon as he was declared
the nominee of the convention by
Theodore Guelich, the permanent
chairman, the other fellows all fell
into line and made the nomination
unanimous.
'.The fortieth annual. republican state
convention held July 10, 1895, witness
ed one Of the most glazing errors in
counting made by the secretary and
clerks Of the convention in the ballots
cast for the Hon James Harlan for
governor. A storm arose in the con-
vention. and lasted until the chair
man of the convention, the Hon. La
10 pnrronto6 Gnn.
eral F. M. Drake was declared the
nominee of the convention. Hon.
James Harlan laastened to General
brakes room and was the first man
to congratulate him upon his nomin-
alton and wish him success. James
Harlan voted. the straight republican
ticket.
vote the straight republican ticket
from top to bottom, for it is the right
thing to do"