Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-24
CUMk|NS MEN
ARE DETERMINED
Threatened Steal of Convention
Thru Fake Contests Causes
Conference
DECIDE TO TAKE ORGANIZATION
Unless All Fake Contests Are Officially
Dropped and Square Deal Guaran
teed the cummins Majority viii
Take Bit in Its Teeth-steerins Com
mittee to Lead Fight Is Appointed.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. July 24.-"We will not
be euchred out of our victory Fake
contests and all attempts to steal the
convention from the majority of the
delegates as selected in the county
convention must be dropped or we will
organize the convention with our own
chairman and temporary OFFICERS.
Such constituted the keynote and final
decision of large gathering of Cum
Minis leaders at the Savery Hotel Mon
day evening and a steering committee
of seven was appointed to organize the
fight which the Cummns men expect
to have to make for their rights in the
state convention next Wednesday.
Ed Hunters fake contests and the
persistent threat of Editor Perkins
in the Sioux City Journal and of the
newspapers controlled by Mr.. Blythe
that these contests and protests will
be pushed was the occasion for a
SdUHeTIuS VI d lew AASi.
Such prominent republicans as eX-
Senators Healy, of Ft. Dodge, and
Cheshire of Des Moines, Senators
Funk. of Spirit Lake. Garst of Coon
Rapids; Maytag, of Newton: Repre-
sentatives Chassel of LIE Mars; Eng
lish, now of Mason City; Cummings.
of Marshalltown; Judges Prouty and
Carr of Des Moines: N. e. Coffin,
Howard Clark and Ex-Mayor Mac
Vicar, of Des Moines; d. G. Chase and
Pharmacy Commissioner Keltz, of
Webster City; Ex-Speaker Byers, Of
Harlan: Treasurer Gilbertson, of For
est City: Editors Ingham, of Des
Moines, and Norris, of Marshalltown;
Major r. P. Spellman and F. A. MINI
ocks. OF Ottumwa: w. II. Wilson, of
Davenport; State Committeeman Scott
of Sioux City; IS. w Brookhart, of
Washington, and several others were
present.
Every man present stated that 1t
had been his hope that the threat of
innumerable fake contests for the pur-
pose of robbing the Cummins majority
Of their rightful control of the conven-
ton would prove nothing more than
the very eve of the convention the
threats were persisted In with even
greater vehemence and that it be-
hooved the Cummins men to meet
Hunters proposed rape of the conven-
ton face to face. All deplored a split
in the party or the possibility of two
tickets. Caution and conservatism
were counseled, but every time any
speaker declared that 1--WE will have
our rights If we have to take them"
the applause was unanimous. To this
end ex-senator Thos. ID. Healy
Senators A. B. Funk and j. A.
Smith, Judge Prouty, Representatives
e. d. Chassell and B. F. Cummings
and Harvey Ingham were appointed as
an executive or steering committee to
lead the Cummins men in the conven-
ton. This means that Catamouns
Healy will be crouched in this conven-
ton as he was at Cedar Rapids five
years ago, ready for a spring at the
very first attempt Of arbitrary or un-
fair advantage.
The Cummins men realized that the
state central committee was against
them, that a temporary chairman in
the person Of Judge Towner had been
selected, who was bitter partisan OF
their opposition. They feared ths Gre
dentials committee might be organized
against them. They could see that the
numerous fake contests proposed
would not be persisted in unless the
proposed temporary chairman had giv-
en- assurances that he would encourage
their purpose. They realized that fake
contests and protests" could be
brought against enough Cummins DEL
egations to leave an antf-Cummins ma
jority Of unprotected delegates in the
convention whereby, on partisan
vote, the spurious anti-Cummins deie-
gates could be seated simply by rul-
ing from the chair that all protested
counties must refrain from voting on
the contests. The only way to prevent
such a program of what Tom Hea'y
calls grand larceny would be for the
Cummins majority to elect temporary
officers known to be for a square deal
in the convention. and this will be the
contests Is officially abandoned in ad-
vance of the convention.
Only Three Contests.
BY common consent lu6 SulHlll4llo
men and honest standpatters there are
only three counties open to reasonable
doubt as to contesting delegations.
These are Wapello. Jasper and Jeffer-
son counties, where the county con-
vention line-up was so close in each
as to permit of reasonable doubt as
to who won, altho every man present,
firmly believed that the CummlnS del
egations in every one OF these counties
We're rightfully and regularly selected
They were willing, however, that such
contests be permitted to go before the
convention III all the other counties
the anti-Cummins newspapers and
even the standpat leaders had ad-
mitte1 that there was not the slight
est ground for contests; hence the
cummins men did not purpose to per-
init Hunter to bring. s'eh contests
before a convention for the sole pur-