Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-09
Black Hawk Members of the
Party Disguised With Treat
ment of Bert Boies
CALL PORTER PRoHlBlTloNlsT
standpat Republicans Said to Have
Been Back of the Movement to Name
BalI-Porter Did Not Expect Nomi-
nation-cato Sells and His Big Del
egation.
necial to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Aug. 9.-It wouldn't be
possible today to satisfy all Iowa dem
ocrats on ticket and platform. Har-
mony in the democratic party, as else
where, is sometimes with mental res
ervation.
The reporter strolled into the corner
drug store at / a. m., after the days
work at Waterloo was done. The man
was suspicious but appeared relieved
when soda was called for. He was
yoluble. He represented certain ele-
ment.
.;sSome of the boys have been in here
tonight asking for BOOZE" he volun-
teeredl Il told them to go down to
Centerville and get it. I'm thru with
the whole bunch-been democrat for
years-worked for the gang in every
election-lbut this is too much"
whats the matter?"
Matter enough. Why, who's this
man Porter they put at the head of the
ticket? Who ever heard of him around
here? The idea of going to little
town like Centerville to pick up pro-
hibitionist for governor. III bet they
haven't got saloon In Centervilie.
Maybe Porter is good enough man
and can talk tariff; but the idea of the
democratic party turning down Bert
Boies for him is ridiculous. Bert would
have swept everything here. He's
game fellow. He's one OF the boys.
And he was thrown down by Black
hawk county, too. o, we're done with
the whole gang"
And so the dispenser of soft drinks
by day and hard ones by gaslight ram
bled on, using many words not print
able and expressing in general way
the disgust of those of his way of
thinking at the turn of affairs at the
democratic state convention.
1t is certainly true that a large num-
ber of the young friends of Bert Boies.
at Waterloo are very sore over the
way he was treated. Aside from the
fact that he is their ideal of a leader.
they felt that he was treated shame
fully by the convention. They believe
that if BIackhawk county had started
out to nominate the son of his father,
the nomination would have been made.
They had great hopes that the deliber-
ately planned movement to stampede
the convention and to carry it for the
junior Boies on wave of enthusiasm.
helped by beautiful Oil portrait of the
elder Boies, would succeed; and they
do not understand how it could have
failed. And in their rage they are say
ing that Claude Porter is prohipl-
zionist, that he has helped in llQuOr
prosecutions, that he is more or less
closely associated with ex-Attorney
General Baker and other strong prohibi-
tionists in securing law enforcement,
that as county attorney he has been
unduly severe on law breakers, and
that in the legislature he never did
anything to help improve the liquor
laws.
Delegates to the democratic state
convention lost to pickpockets not less
than two or three thousand dollars.
This fact was annoying to the Water
loo police, for they did not have sim
gle clue to the perpetrators. One sher-
iff lost $3.50 in the crowd. An old man
reported that his pocket was touched
for 5000. A dozen persons made re-
ports on losses. But to the credit Of
those who attend conventions there
was no quarreling or rowdyism.
Haven't had to run in single DEL
egate, nor to take care of one all day."
said a policeman of Waterloo at mid
&l,1 A
cratic state convention does not mean,
as it has at other times. a general
carOuSal.
Whether there were any assurances
made to leading democrats by those
who had been the past six months
backing the standpat campaign of
Iowa, does not appear on the surface;
but there was much feeling among the
delegates to the Waterloo convention
that there had been assurances and
that the democrats will this year find
it easy to get nice campaign fund to
carry on their work. 1t may come
from mysterious or unknown sources,
but it will show up. There is no ques-
ton that Senator Ball was picked to
be the candidate because of the claim
that he would get certain standpat
support; but it was found his record
in the senate would not do for the kind
Of a campaign planned and another
was taken up. Porter went to Water
loo without thought of being nomin-
ated for governor and expecting to
run against Hepburn. Two things
were accomplished by his selection
defeat of Dennison and pleasure for
those who are most concerned for the
success of Hepburn.
Cato Sells, Of Benton county, never
sought nomination nor wanted an
office, but he remains conspicuous in
his party. He received while at Wa
terloo an invitation to be one of the
speakers for the reception and BAN
quet of the Iroauois and Jefferson
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