Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-30
.CUMMINS ASKS
FOR SQUARE DEAL
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been for many years adjudicated

/ they are ShamS. All who have cared to
examine their origin and their pro-
! gress know that they have been insti-
tuted simply to control the convention
and because a majority of the menu
bers of the state central committee
/ are allied with the action that is OPP
posing my denomination. The railway
management of Mr.. Perkins campaign
decreed that 1 must he defeated, and
this is the way in. which the result is
to be accomplished.
The whole state knows that l car
ried Scott county by very large ma
jority. The county convention mel
peacefully and orderly. A motion was
made to appoint u committee of five
on credentials. A Perkins delegate
moved to amend the motion so that
| the committee on credentials should
consist of six persons-three of whom
should be my friends and three OF
whom should be friends of Mr.. Per-
klns. The motioS as amended was
carried without any opposition. The
icommittee retired, made unanimous
report, the report was adopted, and
| the convention as so organized pro-
/ ceeded to select the delegates to the
state convention and to instruct them
| to vote for my nomination. There
was no other convention nor the pre-
/ tense of it, A little coterie of men,
under the direction of Perkins head
4 quarters, are said to have gathered
| together for a moment and to have
adopted typewriter report of the
proceedings of county convention
which had been prepared in Des
Moines, and which was in fact pub
lished in Des Moines before the coun-
ty convention in Davenport convened
Under such circumstances to say that
the delegates from the regular county
!. convention of Scott county shall not
sit in the organization of the republi-
can state convention is simply to de-
clare the dissolution Of the party.
| In Delaware county / carried
| large majority of the delegates and
also a majority of the popular vote.
The convention was without disorder,
and regular to the last point of tech
nicality. 1t is said that after the regu-
lar convention adjourned a few disap-
pointed persons met and pretended to
accredit delegates to the state conven-
ton. The man who insists that such
a farce should result in disqualifying
the regular delegates to take part in
| the organization of the convention is
unworthy to be called a republican.
| I'm Allamakee county there is no
contest and never has been, either
sham or real. If there be any person
here who is contesting the delegates
| from Allamakee county, he must have
selected the opposing delegation since
he reached Des Moines, for such a
proceeding has never been made
known in the county.
Dallas, Audubon, and Carroll.
| In Dallas county there was a fair
| fight. won it and I have but to re-
fer to the history of the convention as
reported at the time it was held to put
| the proper stamp upon the effort that
| is now being made to present rival
| delegation. There was but one conven-
| ton. 1t certified single list of dele
gates and there are no contestants who
hold credentials signed by the officers
| of any convention, regular or other
| wise.
| In Audubon county I had a majority
| Of seventeen delegates in the county
| convention. The county chairman re-
| fused to call the convention to order at
| the appointed time, and thereupon an
| accredited delegate made the ordinary
| motion, the convention was organized.
and everything proceeded in the we'll
reorganized way. MIR. Perkins and his
managers could just as well assail the
title of every delegate to the state con-
vention as to attack the delegates from
Audubon county.
In Carroll county Mr.. Perkins sue
ceeded in securing eight delegates out
of the whole number Of which the
county convention was made up; and
from these eight delegates to the coun-
ty convention, simply because they had
the physical power to write out re-
port Of proceedings of an imaginary
convention, the alleged contest comes.
1t is too absurd to warrant considera-
ton for a single moment
In Lyons county, have never heard
of any contest or suggestion of con-
test If there be even the form of a
contest, it sprang into existence long
after the adjournment of the conven-
ton, and has been manufactured SOLE
ly to further the unlawful design.
The proposal to disfranchise the re-
publicans of Boone and Polk counties
does not rise even to the dignity of
pretense.
In Boone county there was no oppo-
sition to the selection of the delegates
at the time and in the manner in which
they were selected; there was no con-
troversy; the selection has received
the assent Of the party for months
without a single objection, and the sug-
gestion that the delegate from that
county be now excluded is the highest
evidence of the desperate purpose
which underlies this proceeding.
In Polk county, there is not flaw in
the title of it's delegates, and the OBJ
jections which have seen in the news
papers illustrate the extremity which
Mr. Perkins and his managers have
reached in their effort to subvert the
will of a majority of the republican
voters of the state.
Conventions Rights.
I have passed hastily over these |
things. not for the purpose of submit |
ting these alleged contests to the COM
mittee, for l again assert with all the
emphasis I can command that the
committee has no power to |
deal with the right of these
delegates to sit in the convention, but
to indicate how baseless they are. The
convention when organized has the
power to exclude any delegate, for it is
the sole judge of it's own membership;
but no other tribunal can be invoked |
to destroy his title.