Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-09-27
A Democratic View.

DES MONIES, Sept. 22.-Editor Daily
News: In the campaign keynote of Sem
ator Claude Porter, democratic standard
bearer, as ii has been printed and cir
culated in the state. find that he under
takes TO make strong point for the
democracy by illusions to what happened
at the late republican state convention,
He intimates that republican members of
congress and the senators prevailed upon
the state committee to manipulate the
temporary roll CALI and a friendly
committee on credentials added to this,
so that, in fact, by conference at least,
the convention was fraudulent and every
republican who accepts the results of the
convention is condoning a frgud.
1t seems to me, as a democrat, that
this is small basis for a campaign in
Iowa In behalf of the time-honored
principles of the democratic party, and If
the men newly placed in charge of the
democratic craft in this state are hoping
to make a record by this kind of chaff
that will commend them to the national
leaders of democracy in the east, they
hardly deserve to win.
If am able to undeI stand the work of
the late republican state convention, it
did what every democrat believes a con-
vention should do, it carried out in fair
ly orderly way the will of the majority
of the representatives of the party APP
parently what the state committee did
was done reluctantly and the part played
by the senators and congressman was in
accord with their honest conviction of
the right, and 1t is a notorious fact that
the committee on credentials made but
one report which was adopted by the
convention without division. With such
show of regularity and right procedure
and acceptance of the will of the ma
jority, in democratic convention, there
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found casting doubt on the right of his
ticket to support. Neither do 4 find it
true, on study of the roll calls of the
convention, and they are a matter of
public record, that the nomination of q
single person on the ticket depended on
the vote of any one or two or three
counties. Cummins received If the tally
was kept correctly, 1i2 votes more than
a ajority, or 800 more than his nearest
opponent. Garst received SO and frac-
ton more than a majority, or 1874 more
than his opponent. Hayward received
"a more than a majority, and 37S more
than his nearest opponent and as the
opposition was divided he would have got
many more on second ballot. The vote
on Palmer was the only other one that
was close and he won apparently because
of the opposition being divided
1t is petty politics for any democrat to
complain of the results of republican
convention, and II men are honest with
themselves they must conclude that every
nominee on the republican ticket repre-
sents the desires of a majority of the
delegates. II has been circulated that
Garst and Hayward were nominated be-
cause OF the votes of two counties that
came to the convention with contests
but the records disprove the claim.
IL the democratic candidate for COVER
nor ha sno stronger claim than that upon
which he is going about the state appeal
ing for republican votes because the re-
publican state convention failed to satisfy
everybody, he had best stay at home.
Demo. ID.