Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-21

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| George w. Schee, Primghar: j. w.
Carr, Montezuma; A Funk, Spirit
! Lake; n. j. Lee, Is' .rville; b. r..
:, Robinson, Armstrong :. III. Struble.
Tan,a; L. p. Spilmo Ottumwa; be-
sides a score of v an republican
workers from DESC ines. Many OF
| these men, and otM who might De
, named in the dS tons attacked.
! were veterans i'm + ,ervice of the re-
publican party. WS Ed. Hunter was
lust gaining a fe old in politics by
bossing the demo lie party. But even
if all these good republicans and 400
others who's are threatened with expul-
sion by Ed. Hunter could be chloro-
formed on The day of the convention,
there would Still be left to reckon with
delegations on which such names as
these appear: Senator Ericsson. Boone;
Senator Newberry, Strawberry Point;
Senator Wilson. Oelwein; Senator
Hopkins. Guthrie Center: Senator
Winnie. Humboldt; Senator Smith.
Usage: ex-senator Fitchpatrick, Neva-
da; ex-senator Craig. Allison: Con-
gressaman Haugen, Northwood; ex-
Congressman updegraff, McGregor;
Representatives Cheney, Spencer;
Shaffer E,lgin; Weeks, Guthrie Gem
ter: Lister. Conrad; Darrah, Charlton:
Chasseu, LeMars; Mates. Sac;9' also +.
f.. t'aville. Storm Lake; Duncan Rule,
Mason City: j. G. Hempel, Elkador; C.
H. Talmage, West Union; NJ. M. Head,
Jefferson Tom w. Purcell, Hampton;
p. A. Smith. Scranton: w. f. Hunter,
Webster City; j. d. Morrison. Rein.
beck: ex-Gov. S. B. Packard, Marshall-
town: A. D. Clarke, Algona; j. II. AL
len, Pocahontas; Thomas ID. Healy,
Fort Dodge: j. r. Whitney, Carroll; j.
w. Hospers. Orange City. What would
these veteran delegates to republican
state conventions be doing while
renegade democrat was marshaling MS
forces to effect the throwing out of the
hall OF the other time tried warriors of
the republican party? 1t is probable
that there has not been for many years
a state convention to which such a
large number of the veteran republi>
cans of the state have been sent as dell
egates as to the one which is soon to
meet here. A glance at the list shows
that the republicans in the respective
counties have picked for delegates
their representative men. They are
men whose republicanism has never
been questioned at home, and could not
now be questioned by anyone respon-
sible to any constituency of the state
anywhere.
Will there be clean sweep at the
state convention? Will the majority.
when it reach hes the convention, insist
on a ticket chat represents the senti-
ments of that majority from A to q?
For some time it has been the general
understanding that the fight was to be
confined to the head Of the ticket, and
that other places on the ticket should
be filled without regard to factional-
ism and by the selection of men on
their merits. With this understanding
it has been assumed that candidates
like Palmer, Morrow, Crockett, Riggs.
Carroll and others would be nominated
tho some men might feel that they
were not all in accord with the major
ity sentiment of the republicans of the
state on all live issues. This is the
harmony program. But 1t has within
the past ten days become evident that
the Ed Hunter program is one especl-
ally designed to prevent harmony and
to provoke a split in the convention
Republicans from all over the state are
saying that If the talk of contests" is
to continue, if the threat of disrupting
the party is kept up, If the Hunter
program for unseating delegates to re-
verse the will Of the republican voters
of the state is to be the program on
the day of the convention-then 1t Is
inevitable that a "slate" will have to
be made and the convention nominate
only men who are in harmony wt'H
the majority Of the delegates. This talk
does not come from persons who have
nothing to do but talk. but it comes
from the most conservative and cool
headed of the delegates. They are
saying that while they do not like to
be driven to the point of making
clean sweep of the state ticket, they
will have to do SO if the factional lines
are so tightly drawn on convention
day that organization will be necessary
to save the convention from falling in
to the hands of adventurers. 1t is
claimed that personal pledges have
been made to standpat candidates suf-
ficient so that no matter what out
RACES are attempted in the convention
they are assured of nomination-but
this can hardly be true. 1t is easy
enough to see that if the factional feel
ing aroused over the threat of THEFT
of the convention is sufficiently intense
on the day of the convention there will
be little regard paid to personal or other
pledges. In short. unless the revolu-
tionists withdraw and give up and
make it plain that they are going to
abandon their scheme. the ticket will
be so made up that there will not be
any candidates who are fighting the
narty