Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-05
REJECTS PLAN OF ARBITRATION
SUGGESTED BY SIOUX CITY
CANDIDATE
SAYS DELEGATES
SHOULD DECIDEd
Re1terates That Chief Aim Is to Pre.l
mote Welfare Of People Of State
Says Plan Suggested Would be FuIb
Of Discord-Wants Convention CONF
Quoted In Time Honored Way.

nes Moines, July 4.-Gov. Cummins
has replied to the letter Of George d.
Perkins to the effect that the bitter
contest for the gubernatorial nomina-
ton virtually has been decided against
the executive and that, in order to pro-
mote party welfare, the governor
should not persist in policy that
threatens to bring dishonor. Governor
Cummins persists strongly that he has
safe majority of the delegates and Is
willing to leave the matter in their
hands.
Declines Mediation Plan.
The governor declines to submit the
controversy over contests to the ma
tional committee on the ground that
the matter is one for the delegates to
determine. He says the practice IL
adopted would be full of discord. The
| governor says:
"My Dear Mr.. Perkins: I have read
and most carefully considered your
letter of the 2sth ultimo, and I take
the first opportunity at my command
to give you fully and frankly my views
upon the subject of your communica-
| ton.
Il not only desire, with you, that the,
convention shall be orderly and above
suspicion of intentional wrong Vt
confidently believe that tt will.be guilt.
less of either intentional or nnintefts-
tional injustice cannot share your
apprehension that the party name ID
in danger Of dishonor, or that the con-
vention will nominate ticket which
the members of the party will refuse
to loyalty and unitedly support
! Faith in Republicans.
You and l. at least, should discour-
age with all the influence we have the
suggestion that a republican conven-
ton, however .earnest, will, either in
its nominations or in it's platform,
give any republican good reason for
the reputation of his ticket. I have
too much faith in the wisdom and fair
ness of my fellow republicans to al
low little feeling, developed here and
there In the campaign, to shake my be-
lief in the sober second thought of our
people. | know that the campaign
has been intense, but reason has not
been driven from the seat of judg-
ment and the convention will be
prompt to recognize the principle that
1t Is the privilege of the majority to
decide, and the duty of the minority TO
acquiesce.
Claims Safe Majority.
4 II cannot concur in your staten&
that the preconvention struggle has not
! resulted in a clear statement of the
controversy, so far as the nomination
for governor is concerned. would not
be candid were | not to say to you
that, from my point Of view, excluding
every contest for which there is even
the semblance Of foundation, and with
out reckoning the two counties yet to
hold conventions, have more than
fifty votes above majority of the
whole number of delegates in the con-
vention. refuse utterly to believe
that the republicans Of this state will
tolerate, or that you will approve, the
appearance in the convention Of con-
testants from such counties as Scott.
Delaware, Carroll, and Audubon, or
that you will give any support to the
extraordinary proposal that Polk coun-
ty should be disfranchised because it's
convention conferred upon me the right
to select its delegates: or that other
counties should be rejected because
they happened to hold their conven-
tions prior to the issuance Of the call
for the state convention
II feel that you are sincere when you
say that you do not want nomination
i involving doubtful title. Is 1t possi-
BILE, then, that you would accept the
votes of the counties have named, or
take nomination from convention
J, that had refused Polk county the right
!, of representation, or that had expelled
the delegates from other counties on
account of the time at which their del.
egates were chosen.
Sees No Room For Doubt
: 81 know the high standards which
, you recognize, and | ask you, as fell
low man and fellow republican, could
you in good faith assert before any
board of arbitration or before the state
convention that there is any honest,
fair dispute concerning the title of the
delegates instructed for me from the
counties to which have referred?
Disputes that call for arbitration
must grow out Of circumstances which
admit fair differences of opinion. If /
should enter your newspaper estab.
lishment, demand its possession, and
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