Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-23
THEY WILL DARE Do /
How the Hunter Campaign Man
ayers Propose to Disfranchise
Iowa Republicans
WILL BRING FAKE CONTESTS
WILL BRING FAKE CONTESTS
AS Many Contested Delegations as
May Become Necessary to Defeat tho
Will of the Majority Will Be Brought
and by Arbitrary Action of State
Committee Seated.
[By Ora willians.l
Special TO Times-Republicah.

Des Mones, June 23.-'T don't be-
| lieve that all the ingenuity of Ed Hun
| ter backed by the sophistries of Lafe
Young and the pleadings of George ID
Perkins will be sufficient to enable the
| standpatters to consummate their pro-
posed larceny of the republican party
| declared an enthusiastic republican In
the lobby of the Slavery last evening,
Like many others he refused to be-
lieve it possible that minority can
manipulate a state convention and do
| all the business despite the majority
1t WAS never done in Iowa 1t never
could be done He was relying on the
jority rule.
! Don't be deceived about IT," ans
wered a shrewd old politician who
keeps close tab on events as they are.
But If we've got a clear majority of the
entire convention uncontested they
never can get 1t away from u.s." insist
ed the republican.
Just take your pencil out and make
a few figures while tell you about
it." said the standpatter with pass
in his pocket.
THE figures show that Cummins
now has IT'S votes which are or ought
TO be regarded as uncontested. This
includes those in divided counties with
10 from Crawford and IA from Du-
buque, and it includes Scott, Black
Hawk and Delaware, in no one OF
which there is any real contest. There
are legitimate contests in Wapello, Jes-
per and Jefferson we will all admit,
and the Cummins men claim contest
in Des Moines. If the Cummins men
could seat all these they would add
So more Suppose, however,; that be-
fore that point is reached they get
Marion, Carroll, Howard, Dallas, Win
neshek. Shelby, Allamakee and Audu-
bon. all without contests. The III
minis 500 uncontested. That ought TO
be enough so that If they wanted to
they could add the SO and make 1t 97S.
so that the governor would have more
than 300 clear majority over all. 1T
would like big job to convert that
300 into minority: but it is easy
enough If you know how.
.sThe state campaign committee
would make up a temporary roll and
give every one of the SO to Ed Hunter
for his use Then the same commit
tee would seat Ed Hunter delegations
from Scott, Black Hawk and Delaware.
Behold the progressive vote of 976
would be Immediately reduced to 816,
which is not half of the convention.
There would be seated in the conven-
ton S24 anti-Cummins delegates"
But unless all contested delegations
are to vote on all contests, even then
the progressives would have the most
votes. The smallest contesting dele
cation would have Is votes and unless
these We're permitted to vote on their
own contest, the Hunter people would
have only 500 to go against 816."
That's easy On the day of the
one of Ed. Hunters men
from Hartley would appear on the
scene with eleven other pass holders,
and claim to represent O'Brien county.
LATE Young, you know, has already
this. The state committee
would admit O'Brien as a contested
deIegatio and the standpatters would
vote the twelve from that county. Then
by having Delaware decided first in ia
vor of the standpatters, followed by
Jefferson, it would be possible by
working the chain right to seat every
one of the standpat contesting delega-
lions. This is the way it can be and
will be worked. It's so easy that 1t
seems strange anyone could doubt that
it will be tried II the people once sane
ton the idea that the state commit
tee has a right to decide contests"
t'But there are no real contests in
some Of these counties named. They
are fakes pure and simple like that in
Scott and Delaware"
'sWho is to decide whether contest
Is a contest or fake? Who can say
that these are not all real contests? If
the state committee or any other body
takes jurisdiction and assumes the
right to decide who Is who in the state
the convention itself is
If a committee has the
right to decide at all, 1T can decide
wrong just as easily as 1t can decide
right"
The scheme as outlined is predicted
upon the assumption that the whole
body of delegates other than those
which are for Governor Cummins will
stay tied, and that Hunter can man
,ge them at will. OF course this is
lot true. In the delegations which are
marked on the map as i-Cummins
here are many who will never consent
o become a party to any such nefar-
Gus scheme for stealing the state con-
yention. 1t is certain. that the Rath-
pun delegates will not go into any such
scheme. 1t is supposed that every
delegate from territory dominated by
he Blythe influence will be easily ham
lied save and alone the Cummins
delegations which We're slipped in.
The carrying out of the plot also
assumes that every member of the
tate central committee will put his O.
(. on Ed Hunters program for get |
ing the convention away from the |
epublicans who have gained control
While the committee is decidedly an
i-Cummins 1t is not at all certain
hat every anti-Cummins member will
DIN in the larceny.
II is to be observed that as yet the
abroad organs have not developed the
ull details of the plot as it relates,
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