Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-23
WILL BOLT CONVENTION
Predictions Made That the
Blythe Men Will Bolt State
Convention
ARE PLANNING AN EXCUSE
Believed That tho Action of the Stand
patters in WapeIlo is Part of
Scheme They Have for BoIting the
Convention Which Will Nominate
Cur,rns fer Governor.
ARE PLANNING AN EXCUSE
Special to Tines Republican

Special to Tines Republican
Des Moines, May 23.-Prediction'
are being freely made that there viii
: be bolt of the Blythe forces at the
state convention OF the republican
: party August /. The predictions are
/ made by conservative leaders who ars
action of the Blythe leaders at Ottum-
wa in refusing to recognize motions
and in attempting to ride rough shod
! over the progressive majority is not
: the only evidence along this line to
which they point. They point to the
declarations in numerous standpat-
part of the state that they will not
support Cummns If he is nominated
and the declarations of politicians in
that section to the same purport. The
predictions of bolt are made by a
dozen or more in the last day or two
4 Blythe followers are still arguing
that the Wapelo convention was regu-
lar and that the action of Chairman
Dickens in ruling as out of order the
motion of T. P. Spillman to name
Emery as temporary chairman was
correct. They argue that the county
central committee had the right to
name the temporary officers and go to
the length to argue that the convention
1 then has no voice or right to select any
! other temporary officers. Precedent
for the action inaugurated by Spill
man is had in the national republican
| convention in Chicago in 1854, when
the convention named Its own itempor-
airy officers and in scores of county,
conventions in Iowa where majority
has taken the same action. At the con-
vention in Chicago in 1884 the chair
man of the national central committee.
Hon. Dwight NJ. ;Sabin, called the con-
vcntion to order June g. 1884, and after
prayer by the secretary of the ma
tonal central committee read the call
Then Sabin made short speech Of
welcome to Chicago and then named
Powell Clayton as temporary chair
man. Henry Cabot Lodge secured the
floor and moved to substitute the name
of John r. Lynch of Mississippi. His
motion was recognized as in order
and was put and carried by vote of
424 to 1854. There was no question
of the regularity of the proceeding or
of the right of the convention to take
the action. William W. Morrow, a
delegate from California called atten-
ton to the fact that for over forty
years it had been the custom in all
political parties to allow the central
committee to name the temporary
officers. He claimed it had grown to
be the common law of all political par
ties. but he admitted that the conven-
ton could if it wished abrogate the |
precedent. George William Curtis
spoke on the motion to substitute and |
declared that there was no question
but that the convention had the right
to substitute another for the temper
airy chairman selected by the commit
tee. Others spoke to the same point.
Politicians of experience say that
there are scores of presidents in the
county conventions of Iowa. The ac-
ton has been rarely taken in state and
national conventions, but much more
frequently taken in county conven-
lions and caucuses. The Ottumwa
Courier, Hstandpat newspaper. and a
which is supporting the
Blythe people in Ottumwa and Wa
pello county. states that Dickens ruled
Spillman's motion to substitute the
name of Emery as temporary chairman
as out of order. The only criticism that
is just against the action of the pro-
gressives in the opinion Of the pro-
gressives is that he did not at once
put the motion to substitute Emery
himself when Dickens refused to pu.
the motion.
There Is considerable criticism of the
action of Senator C. G. Saunders, of {
Council Bluffs. opposing the governor
In Pottawattamie county, while still :
retaining his position as a member of
the governors military staff. an ap- {
pointment that is always given as 8
personal one. Saunders is judge adj t
tocate general on the governors staff. t
He is one Of the strongest opponents to /
he governor in the fight in Pottawat- r
annie county, and the criticism is that G
ia should resign his position on the Q
staff ii he proposes to continue his .
light against the governor The action 2
IT Saunders revfves the story of his '
selling out to Hart to secure the NOM {
he special election in tina: county to A
iii the vacancy. a
Washington township in Johnson +
county has selected a Blythe delegation G
o the county convention in that coun- a
v. A snap caucus was called in the i,
ounty and the progressives knew lit s
lie or nothing of the affair till it was e
YER 1t was in this same township
hat snap caucus was called five c
ears ago by the Blythe people. The
Blythe followers sent boy out into the '
ounty with the notice of the call of
he caucus. and he climbed tree s
bout 100 feet from the highway and
acked up the notice eighteen or twenty "
aet from the ground. The notice was Y
acked UP in the forenoon and the eau h
us held in the afternoon. This year h
nap caucus was again held but the j.
rogressives are thoroughly awake in Al
hat county now. and it is asserted by j.
hem that Washington township is the g
My one that will select Perkins dele
ates.
Congressional conventions are being s
cid today in the Sixth district at Os-
aloosa and in the Fifth district at Ce- S
ar Rapids. In each OF these the pres
1T congressman, Lacey and Cousins eli
i'll be nominated. 1t was given out 81
advance by the standpatters that tie