Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-18
Party Organization Turned
Over to One Man in Effort
to Beat Culnmins
THE VOTERS ARE INDIGNANT
Ben saIinser Undertakes to Deliver
Carroll County to Blythe by the
Most Disreputabie Game Of Politics
Ever Played in the county-Prosres-
sives Are Confident.
Special to Times -lRep,tblican.

management of the Perkins campaign
is that carried thru in this county
under the supervision of B. l. SAL
| niger, who is acting. under the direc-
Des Moines. Under the leadership of
Salinger at the meeting of the coun-
ty central committee Saturday the
committee virtually was leglslated out
of office and the entire control vested
| in one man, George w. korle Sailing
lers law partner. Nothing that has
/ ever happened in a political way in
! the county has aroused the indignation
OF the voters who have learned of the
| trick as this has done. BY vote of
eleven to nine, under the dictatorship
OIL Sallnger. korle is given the absp-
lutte power to control each of the pre-
ctncts in the county as to the time
and place and manner of holding their
several caucuses. A substitute motion
was lost on vote of 10 to 10. w.
r. Orchard, of Glidden, submitted a
proposition to submit the contest on
| o. IVA fAtP w q III NOle lHEu-
out the county, giving ten days or two
weeks notice, but the proposition was
ignored under Salinger's orders.
Several members of the committee
did not know what they were vot:ng
for. They Were gathered into Sailing
er's law office and advised that such
action was absolutely necessary in ord
er to insure a square deal. They were
not allowed on the street sf.cr the
deal was coasummated but were care
fully chaper )ned into different room
where tho ether members had assem-
bled, and as soon as Chairman Korle
had called the assembly together the
deal was sprung.
The votes to confirm the deal were
secured by methods that would have
made Richard Croker blush. AT least
one member of the committee is said
to have travelled extensively on mile
age that wasn't paid for in cash.
After voting down motion to fix a
date for the convention and after the
committee had adjourned, Korle is
sued call for convention on June
IS, and sent copies to precinct commit
teeman Saturday night In order to
comply with the rule adopted, it was
necessary to have this work done that
night. Men We're securing the county
until Sunday forenoon for this pur-
pose. The notice is as follows:
To the Members of the Republican
County Central Committee: You are
hereby notified that the republican
county convention to select delegates
to the republican state convention,
which viii be held in Des Moines, Ia,
August l, 1906, Will be held at Carroll,
Ia, at o'clock in the afternoon Of
Saturday, June %, 1906, at the knights
of Columbus hall in Carroll, Carroll
county, Ia. Your precinct will be en-
titled to the same number of delegates
in said county convention that it had
in the last republican county conven-
ton held in Carroll, Ia, which was the
one that selected representatives to the
judicial and congressional conven-
tons GEORGE N KROLE,
Chairman of Republican County
Central Committee
1t was intended to, change the repre-
sentation in such way as to cut down
the delegations from the large repub-
lican precincts but Salinger himself
accidentally gave the deal away and
hence this plan has been abandoned.
But for twenty years no convention Of
any party has been held outside of the
court. house. 1t will be noted that this
is made for an obscure hall in Carroll.
The progressives have no information
of the purposes behind these moves.
They realize however, that all sem
lblance of fairness has been abandoned.
After ignoring an appeal for a fair.
open and above board primary, a snap
convention is called in an obscure hall
for two days after it's first appearance
in the publican papers of the county
is possible. No greater travesty on po-
litical decency has been perpetrated in
this campaign. The plot is so bold
and the injustice so apparent that it
is believed the voters Of Carroll county
will revolt against such high-handed
methods and give Salinger and his
henchmen the rebuke they deserve.
The resolution which places the ma
chinery of the party in the hands of
one man and gives him absolute con-
troll of all caucuses, is an interesting
document. Nothing like such action
was ever attempted here before. 1t
follows:
1--WE move that George w. Korle,
county chairman of said central COM
mittee and county, be empowered to
call a republican county convention for
Carroll county, Iowa, to select dele
gates to the republican state conven-
ton to be held Aug. 1, 1906, to call
county convention to select delegates
to the republican senatorial convention
to be held hereafter for this republican
senatorial district, and to call coun-
ty convention to nominate republican
candidates for representative and 9TH
er county officers of said county. He
shall be and is hereby empowered to
determine whether he will call single
county convention or two such conven-
tions or three conventions for the pur-
pose Of selecting state delegates and
making said nominations. He is to be
and is hereby empowered to fix the
time and place at which such conven-
ton or conventions shall be held and
under what ratio the various precincts
of the county shall select delegates to
hereby empowered to determine when |
and at which of said conventions, or |
either of them. the precincts shall Sc
lect their members of said county CEN |
trail committee for the next two years. !
He is to be and is hereby empow-
cred to prescribe in the calls he shall |
issue the length Of time during which |
notice of caucuses shall be given and |