Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-07

al CenterVille. This Wa5 like poison
TO the minds of many delegates and
Porter was on the defensive. :he
Dennison men looked on compacently
and intimated that as bofn the othe:
candidates are tainted with corpora
tion connections Dennis)n is the logl-
cal man for the place. 1t is also charS-
ed that good part of the movement
for Porter comes from the desire OF
Hepourn's friends to keep Porter from
runrting for congress.
Old Wheel Horses There.
The personnel of the convention does
not differ greatly from that of many
prev ious democratic state conventions.
All the old time democratic leaders
are here and many new ones. Here
is Col Mackey, of Sigourney. who has
been attending democratic conventions
since before the war, who thinks he
knows a democratic principle. Here,
also is one whom he hates-Gen. James
b. Weaver. of Colfax, who is slated
for congress against Lacey. Weaver 1s
as bright and clipper as in the old
days when he was the admired of
thousands He thoroughly enjoys the
situation. Here is the veteran Judge
Wolfe, of Clinton. unchanged by time.
Representative Springer, of Buchanan
Is on hand as usual and Senator Lam
bert does not lose the chance to be
a democrat Others on hand are Will
liam Theophilus Of Davenport; Sam
Wri ght of Upton: Judge Carr of
Manchester; j. b. Romans, of Denison;
Cato Sells, of Vinton; Mr.. Bilderback,
of Hampton; Tim Clary, of New
Halnpton Judge Wade, of Iowa City;
Thos f. Duncombe, of Fort Dodge;
Charles Dickson, of Sioux City; j. M.
Parsons. Jerry Sullivan, Dan Bringolf,
Walt Butler and others, of Des MoiLes.
Col. Eiboeck, Des Moines, appeared on
the scene as usual. Charles A. Walsh,
of the national committee has been on
hand looking after his fences at all
times The conservative element rath-
er predominates, or seems to have the
best of the lineup; but to less ex-
tent than usual the factional differences
are observable.
Balls Record.
An interesting phase of the prelimin-
aries came up last night when the story
was started that Senator Balls legiS-
lative record would not bear investi-
gazing. 1t was said he had manifested
corporation sympathies in the senate,
that he had voted for the infamous
Molsberry bill in the senate four years
ago, after the governor had vetoed it,,
ana that he had favored some sort of
a committee substitute for the bill to
change the method of assessing rail-
roads All these things, it was said,
,hNx RI
favor the corporations at times. The
Second district men were at a loss how
to meet these accusations. None of
the members could say off-hand just
what Senator Ball had done or not
done in the senate four years ago. Ball
was not present, as he had been detain-
&c. in Iowa City to attend the funeral
of his partners wife. But it was re-
called by others that there was sort
of general charge made against Ball
four years ago to the effect that he,
as; the representative of the State Uni
versity interests, had made a loose
coalition with the railroad lobby for
mutual advantage of the university and
tie railroads. To what extent this
agreement went nobody could say. The
Iowa City friends of Ball. however
declared that of one thing they were
certain, the senator had never had any
corporation business in his law prac-
tice and personally had never been
close to any corporations. But the
fight went on around this question of
record rand it was only this morning
when Ball appeared on the scene that
an effort was made to clear up the rec
ord with Martial success
Standpat Republicans.
There was more talk among the
delegates about the attitude Of the
standpat republicans than on almost
any other subject. What are the
s,tandpatters going to do?" was the
question asked of almost every delega-
iion. Some of them reported frankly
that they had little to hope for from
standnnt aisa ffeo +'on With the republi-
can ticket, but 1t was not uncommon
in the convention preliminaries to hea:
The boast that in this or that section
of the state there was sure to be a
great deal of boiling by the standpat-
.ers. Incidentally it was evident that
many of the delegates had come to the
convention with their ideas Of what
should be done, framed by the stand
patters.
There has been determined effort to
make an issue out of the liquor ques-
ton. A number of delegates are in
sisting that local conditions demand
some change in the mulct law or they
favor a declaration to that effect. 9th
ers have with some force argued that
the question is a dangerous one and
should not be touched. They say that
while a declaration on the liquor ques-
tion would do good in few counties 1t