Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-02
in Dallas Refused
to Stand For a Bolt in
That County
BELIEVE in MAJORITY RULE
Hunters Political Advisers Wanted to
Tell Them How to Run Their Con.
vention, But They Preferred to Run
II Observation-Disclosures Carefully
Considered and Decided on Merit.
snecial 10 Times Republican,

Des Moinas. July BY reason Of
the fairness and decency of leading
standpatters in Dallas county one more
failure must be scored up against the
and purpose of this committee to have
at least one county convention try Oh
the scheme which is proposed for steal
ing the state convention. Dallas coun-
ty was selected for trying it on the
dog" but Dallas county republicans
would not stand for the part OF the
dog.
The fact that when these Dallas
county republicans got together in con-
vention they were confronted by a Sc
lect committee representing Hunter
and Blythe in the interest of Perkins,
and this committee prepared TO tell
these supposedly unsophisticated coun-
trymen how to run their convention,
was sufficient to set even the most
stupid of the standpatters to thinking.
The committee was carefully selected,
1t consisted OF Hon. Charley Johnston,
of Des Moines; Hon. Ben Sainger, of
Carroll; and Hon. Tom Bevington, OF
Sioux City. The Hon. tom" as at
torney for the Northwestern and as
special counsel for the Sioux City cam
didate, was spokesman for the commit
tee.
What was asked was that the ma
jority in the republican county con-
vention should be subjected to the
minority because 1t was alleged on evil
dence of the flinsiest character that
some persons supposed to be democrats
actually voted and there was a bare
possibility that some Of them had voted
for Cummins delegates. The county
committee was invited to set itself up
as dictatorial body and do the bus
mess just like 1t has been planned for
the state committee to do The COM
mittee declined to be caught In any
such trap.
The convention was orderly Every
man in it was republican. No evil
dence was produced at any time that in
any of the caucuses was there unfair
ness. The standpatters themselves de-
clared that the caucuses were well con-
Quoted and proper.
Yet this trio of eminent political adj
visers, representing Blythe and Hunter,
who have undertaken to manage IT,
affairs of the republican party, are
said to be preparing to bring a con-
test" into the state convention. 1t will
be against the will of every honest,
standpatter in Dallas county 1t wiz
be farce on an exact basis with all
others upon which Hunter and Blythe
rely to give them control.
The fact is that the Indignation of all
republicans i'm Abel on last Saturday
afternoon was so thoroughly aroused
that had this trio of political mounte-
banks made one raw break they would
have been politely escorted out off town
and told to skedaddle. This was not
the sentiment of a few nor of progress
sives, but of all decent republicans.
The fact that the county committee
i'm Dallas was standpat and had a
chairman earnestly for Perkins, and
that the leading republican news papers
of the county are standpat and the
railroad influence in the county is
strong, probably led Hunter to expect
that the county could be manipulated
and thus an example would be made
for the state committee and state con-
vention to follow. 1t is supposed that
had the county committee taken "e-
sponsibility as desired by Hunter and
thus laid the foundation for clean
steal of the county convention, The
matter could have been got into court
in a way so that decision might be
reached from the courts before the
meeting of the state convention and
this decision would have been valuable
FOR the Hunter cause in backing up the
standpat membership of the state COM
mittee.
But Dallas county republicans unan-
imously refused to become party to
the schemes of the tricksters.