Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-12
Refused to Wait For a Test Of
Strength in the Conven-
tion Today
RuMP CONVENTION is HELD
cummins Men Had Control of the
Regular Convention and Perkins
Men, Knowing They Were Beaten,
Chose Separate Delesation-cum-
minis Had Majority Of Delegates.
Special to ri.nes-Repulhican

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Newton. June 12.--Without waiting
for a test OF strength In the county
convention today the standpatters
withdrew TO another part Of the hall
and named contesting delegation to
the state convention, instructing them
to vote against Cummins. The Cum
Minis men who had the delegates and
the organization held their convention
in the regular way and named dele
cation instructed TO vote for the re-
nomination OF Governor Cummins.
The convention was called to order
by County Chairman Hunter at the
Lister opera house at IL o'clock. The
delegates had already assembled and
had come prepared for trouble. The
Cummins men took seats on the east
side Of the hall and the Perkins men
on the west. Chairman Hunter read
the call for the convention and named
z. II. Gragan, Cummins man, as tenn
porary chairman of the convention.
Pandemonium Immediately broke loose.
The Perkins crowd began to yell and
hiss and the meeting got into ter
rible uproar. Without waiting for
further procedure they withdrew and
formed rump convention
The Cummins chairman ignored the
uproar made by the Perkins delegates
ular convention. Ernest l.. Early was
~; ;,t. alar ~ ~ LSxl.
and NJ. A. Carrier, secretaries. The
convention then seated all the Cum
minis delegates and adopted resolu-
tions prafsing the national and state
administrations, the work of the iowa
delegation IN behalf of rate legisla-
tion and the record of Senator May
tag and Representative Offil in the
Iowa legislature. The delegation to
the state convention was instructed to
vote for the denomination Of Governor
Cummins.
Following are the names of the dele
gates selected: +. l.. Maytag, c. o.
McLain, Frank Morgan, E. Il. Dotson,
Walter Brannon, James Studham,
William Mcdonald. George Clark.
Harry Hazlett Robert Thompson, John
w. Burk, John De Goey, John c. Heis-
leigh, o. M. Wilson. L. c. Watt, Charles
Resser, Phillip Hill, L. A. Wells, f. j.
Salmon, Carl Hill, and A. A. Pen
quite.
Senator--.Fred L. Maytag.
Representative-John offill.
Auditors. r. Sharp.
County Clerks. w. Akers.
Treasurer-A. d. Kipp.
RecOrdar-1nmaSC Camnhel
Sheriff.. j. Agnew.
County Superintendent. e. Rob
erts.
County Attorney-Ross Mowry.
County Surveyors. w Beyers.
Coroner-S. NJ Robinson.
observation-disclosures Long, George
Edge, Herbert Skinner.
The Rump Convention.
The rump convention was led by
Postmaster McCord the man who has
been so active in pressing the fight
against Cummins and who succeeded
in getting Shaw to come to Newton
for speech in an effort to stem the
Perkins tide
Invited Maytag.
When the rump convention had Sc
lected delegates and instructed them
against Cummins they proceeded to
name a county ticket. They endorsed
Maytag for senator and invited him to
come to the convention, but Maytag
refused to have anything to do with
the McCord convention and did not
recognize it in any way. Postmaster
McCord heads the rump delegation.