Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31
THERE MUST BE, BUT
WHO MOVES FIRST?
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will be. Scott county's Cummins dele.
cation, however, which undoubtedly
has strong case, is making fight be-
fore the committee and has been as
sured a fair and impartial hearing.
This leaves only one way to com.
promise-the distribution of the candi
dates below governor. The Cummins
people will talk of this, the Perkins
people will not. The Cummins forces
say Morrow can be nominated for
treasurer and Palmer for railroad com.
missioner but that all the other Offices
for which there Is contest must and
will go to Cummins men.
Monster Perkins Meeting.
Des Moines, July 30.-(Special-A
monster Perkins mass meeting will be
held tonight at the Y. M. G. A. building
in this city. Great preparations are
being made at Perkins headquarters
for this meeting and a big attendance
is anticipated.
Governor Cummins was about the
hotel Hobbies this morning and ate din
ner at the Slavery cafe. During the
meal George D. Perkins entered the
cafe and he and the governor greeted
each other cordially.
Governor Cummins looks almost i'll.
His eye lacks the usual lustre and he
shows the effect of the strain of the
campaign.
The Wapello county Cummins dele
cation is strongly represented here to.
day. Major Spilman and F. A. Nj
mocks have been here since Saturday.
This morning the new arrivals in.
cluded ]. K. Dysart, G. W. Whitmore,
Sumner Siberell H. F. Michael, E. o.
Hedrick, R. P. Dana and w. H. H. AS
bury.
State Committee Meets.
Des Moines, July 3O.-The republi.
can state central committee met this
morning to arrange the preliminaries
for the state convention, which will be
held here Wednesday. The counties
are entitled to 1,640 delegates and
about 200 seats are contested. The
committee will consider the contests
this afternoon.
Fight For Control.
The control of the temporary organ
ization of the convention will depend
upon the action of the committee re-
garding these contests. Governor Cum
Minis, who is candidate for renomi-
nation, claims to have majority of
the delegates, The adherents of Geo.
D. Perkins. who is also a candidate
for governor, maintain that there
were Irregularities in quite a number
Of county conventions and have con-
tested and protested the delegations
selected by the majority in such con-
ventions. If the central committee de-
cides to take up the matter of contest
ed seats, and to prepare preliminary
roll of the delegates for the convention
to take part in the temporary organi-
cation, it is asserted by the friends of
Perkins that they will control the pre-
liminary organization. The friends of
Cummins are insisting that they have
a majority and intend, it is said, to
assert their rights to take charge Of
the convention themselves.
The feeling on both sides is appar-
emily very bitter and, if the central
committee makes up preliminary roll
which gives Perkins men control, it
is not unlikely that the proceedings Of
the convention, from the beginning,
will be characterized by the liveliest
kind of verbal warfare and bolt is
among the possibilities.
The committee is understood to
stand seven "standpat" and four pro
gressive," the former being the war
cry of the Perkins men and the latter
slogan of the Cummins followers. The
outcome is uncertain since. with the
contested delegates eliminated, the
two factions will be about equally di.
vided, the majority either way not ex-
ceeding perhaps twenty-five.