Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-22
CANDIDATES Will
AL Be PRESENT
Republican Conference at Des
Moines Thursday Expected
to Be Notable One
RECALLS THE MEETING OF 1902
Following That Famous Party Council
Speaker Henderson Withdrew From
Congressional Race = Tomorrow's
Meeting to Arrange for Speaking
Campaign and Other Matters.
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Special to Times Republican.
that all the republican candidates for
congress will be present at the con-
ference for the party good with the re-
publican state committee on Thursday.
Senator Allison, 1T is certain, will not
| be present but Senator Dolliver whose
political fortunes are at stake this
I year, will be on hand. Not all the can
| didates for state office will be here.
Auditor Carroll will have to be in
Minneapolis attending a meeting.
Messrs. Cummins. Garst, Palmer, Nor
| row, Byers, Riggs, Crockett, Eaton and
others will be on hand 1t will probab-
ly be as well attended as the famous
conference of 1902 just after the state
| convention had adopted the, tariff
plank which Governor Cummins wrote
and which embodied his personal idea
| of the then tariff issue It is recalled
that that conference was attended by
the candidates for congress, and it was
following this that Colonel Henderson
| made his sensational withdrawal from
the race and retirement from public
| life 1t has been enormously reported
| or stated recently that Walter Well
man was the only newspaper man
present and that he was there by spec
ial invitation. Neither statement is
true. Walter Wellman forced himself
into the meeting with little ceremony,
and since he was permitted to be there
other newspaper men were also invited
to be present and were there. Wellman,
however, was the only one who under
took to violate the condolences of the
occasion by printing information re-
garding what was said there in
strictest confidence.
There has also been some misinfor-
Htat1on circulated in regard to- what
was said on the tariff This much is
true, that there was no quarrel nor
rupture in regard to the tariff at the
meeting. On the surface the meeting
was reasonably harmonious. But
Speaker Henderson really created the
sensation of the meeting by reading
from a little note book in which he
had pasted the then recently adopted
Iowa platform, the tariff revision
plank, and declaring in his most en-
phatic and dramatic manner that he
was going to carry that plank to the
uttermost parts Of the country and
would defend it and advocate it every
where. Already at that time arrange
ments had been made for him to have
a special train to tour the country. So
far as could be ascertained by any
thing said at that conference Colonel
Henderson was in perfect accord with
the Iowa republicans. He did not, as
some have undertaken to make it ap-
pear, set himself over and above his
party.
not very we'll be the occasion for any
outbreak of factionalism. 1t will be
fully as harmonious and agreeable
as the one Of four years ago. 1t is be-
lieved that every candidate for office
in the state will express himself as
satisfied with the platform and willing
to defend 1t to the utmost Of his abil-
ity, and that no one will undertake to
differentiate by calling himself a ma
tional" republican or attaching to him
self any special brand indicating that
he repudiates his associates in Iowa.
The chief purpose of the conference
is to plan for speaking and for the
work in the various districts, the man
ner of reaching the voters and getting
the issues fairly before thenn9 and the
organization work which is necessary
to the maintenance of the republican
party in the state. Chairman Woods
is here and is fitting up his roms in
the Observatory block. Other members
of the committee and the candidates
will arrive tonight.
Governor Cummins expects to do
some more resting at the lakeside be-
fore actively entering upon the cam
paign.
The democratic state committee also
holds it's conference here tomorrow
with candidates. This was announced
several days ago and preparations are
being made for a big meeting. The
democratic candidates for congress so
far as they have been nominated, will
be on hand, and also some OF the 9TH
er leaders of the party In the state.
Chairman, Miller is here and he and
Walt Butler have had democratic
headquarters opened and things ado
ing for some time. They have the
nucleus of an organization formed and
are ready for what they say is going to
be the hottest campaign in the inter-
est of the simon-pure democracy ever
known in Iowa They regret that not
all Of the democratic candidates for
congress have been named as yet. In
the Second district the expectation is
that Ex-Mayor George Baker, of Dav-
export, will be nominated. In the
Eighth the prospect is that Mr.. Estes,
young lawyer of Clarinda, will be
nominated. He is active and wants
the place. In the Eleventh Chas.
Dickson. Of Sioux City, is slated for
nomination, so 1t is stated here: and