Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-28

An cNOft mas Deen Hnaue w uttNC ~
appear that Governor Cummins has
been doing a lot of talking and boast
ing and saying things. ana the railroad
organs insist that what Is printed IN
some of the papers is direct from MIN.
They have tried to make it appear thht
Governor Cummins has decided that
Judge Towncr will not be permitted to
preside at the state convention. NOW
the governor has decided nothing
REPRESENTATIVES, Of the progressives.
have decided. however that III the pro-
gram OF the Hunter Gro, to steal the
convention Is sanctioned by the state
committee and its willing SER
want Judge Towner. and therefore
there is no assurance OF n square DEAL
then the convention must In sel1 pro-
lection proceed TO organize Itself. Ana
never in the history Of the state mas
there been greater or firn1er deterfhlH-
alton on the part Of the majority fac
tion OF the party to insist upon
course in the convention that Will be
Just to every interest.
No New Developments.
There Is absolutely nothing new IN
tho situation. There have been con-
ferences. of more or less Importance
during the week, the progressves on
the one side. and their opponents on
the other, and some slight approaches
toward an agreement as between them.
II can he said fairly that nothing has
heen accomplished unless 1t Is to dis
cover that If the men who are at pres
ent debating the attitude OF the
standpat faction are to continue to De
k,ny M "a
about ANYTHING. All propositions have
been of tentative nature. Nopooy
has had authority to bind the deeeates
or to guarantee what the state COM
mittee or the temporary chairman VIII
do.
On Monday the state commi'.ee
will meet 1t has been customary ~or
the state committee to meet on Moh-
day. but generally the meeting ms
been called for the evening. 1He
state committee will first take up the
troublesome question of how TO pro-
,, vide places in the convention nail LOT
five times as many as the hall VIII
seat This will not be problem to
compare with the one forced upon the
committee by the chief engineers OF
the fake factory.
The Fake Contests.
The problem of the fake contests re-
mains right where 1t has been ever
since the first suggestion of contestins
Dickinson county in April. If they are
ners.sted In, the Cummins delegates
from counties like Polk, Scott Dallas,
Audubon, Carroll, Black Hawk, Ala
makee and others will be kept out OF
the convention while q standpat ma
, iority remainging will pass upon their
credentials. In this event the progress
sives will insist upon the convention
naming it's officers right from the
start.
Manager Hunter. or some one OF his
agents, will present to the state COM
mittee the list of fake contests, IN
yolying counties like Scott. Dallas,
Carroll, Dickinson, Lyons, Black
Hawk, Allamakee, Audubon and 9TH
ers.
The committee will be presented
with elaborate arguments and care
fully prepared documents purportins
10 be "evidence" to support the con-
tests.
The committee will be- asked to de-
clare regular the delegates claimed to
represent IIcSS SouieASo
contests are made.
Failing in this the committee Will pc
| asked to make up temporary roll by
declaring what counties are legitl-
mately contested and what are not.
Counties like Polk are to be excluded
from voting.
1t will then be up to the commi-.ee
to decide. That committee will. In all
probability, end the game of contests,
by refusing to give recognition to the
fakes from these various counties
where all the complaint comes from
the Hunter headquarters and where the
evidence is chiefly manufactured there.
| Right there it is anticipated that the
majority of the committee will UNDER
take a neat turn by declaring that the
| fake contests are genuine but that In
/, the interests of harmony they should
not be recognized; attempting to put
the standpat fake manufacturers In the
light Of martyrs to the party cause:
and issuing statement to the public
which will have only the effect of fur
ther inf1aming many republicans to the
point of boiling their ticket.
But the state committee will not do
what Hunter has desired it should do,
and in support Of which there has been
much expenditure Of literary effort.
namely: call for the credentials of the
delegates and undertake to decide as
between the delegates and the fake
contestants and professors.
Chairman Spence has received sew
eral hundred coupon "petitions" which
were circulated in the railroad organs,
asking him to champion the scheme to
steal the state convention. II opened
! about one in ten of these" said Mr..
Spence. II could tell them as soon as
I saw the envelopes, ard have large
waste basket" Presumably other mem
bers of the committee have been i'm
portuned to join the movement. All
the members of the committee will be
here Monday. Asmus Boysen has writ
ten he will come, and if he does it will
be a bitter disappointment to George
| Wright, who holds his proxy and who
has been telling what the committee
has decided upon doing.
STRICKEN AT WASHTUB.
Lightning Kills Phoebe Livermore at
PaIo Tod:av