Omaha daily bee., 1908-03-03
FIGHT CROWS WARM IN IOWA
Second, Third and Fifth Districts
Will Tell the Story.
STAND PAT FACTION MOST ACTIVE
Every Possible Effort Being Made to
Recover Ground PrOgressives
Secured IN Past-shaw
stiIl Hopeful.
tFrom a staff correspondent)


Second. Third and Fifth congressional dis
| tricts largely hangs the question Of who
will have the majority of the delegates
| from the congressional districts to the ma
| tional convention. II the progressives
| carry the counties to which they are legit-
| mately entitled, they will have a working
majority Of the delegates to the state con-
| vention and they will then select the dele
| gates-at-larRe to the national convention.
But the various congressional districts So
| lect their own delegates two from each
congressional district. There is no doubt
but the standpatters will control the selec-
tion Of the delegates from the Eighth
| Ninth, First and Sixth. There 10 equally
| no doubt but that the pTogressives will Sc
lect the delegates from the Fourth, Sew
| enth, Tenth and Eleventh. The Second,
Third and Fifth are debatable ground, with
| chances about evenly divided In the Sec
| ond where there is considerable anxiety 10
| have Congressman Dawson go back to con-
gress for another term, 1t Is more than
likely that things will work out for an
| agreement and division whereby one dele
gate will be a progressive and the other
| standpatter.
| In the Fifth district Linn county, as usual,
! is somewhat the key to the situation. II
has done in the past, the progressives in
the district convention will have trifle
of the advantage IL the other counties line
up as they have in the past, and there is
every reason to believe that they Will.
In the Third district, II the progressives
carry Wright Franklin, Hardin, Butler and
Black Hawk they win have sixty-four
delegates, and IL the standpatters carry all
the other counties they will have fifty
three. Two years ago the progressives car
ried those named and also Delaware, with
ten more delegates, and that district named
a progressive for state committeeman.
Many Conventions Called.
County conventions will come fast and
furious during the next ten days. The state
convention will be held two weeks from
Wednesday The control of the state con-
vention is the real thing that is being
worked for, because the state convention
selects the four delegates-at-iarge and
passes the resolutions, and Il will probably
not be known till the convention meets
and gets down to business who really con-
trolls It, Both sides have their minds
pretty we'll made up as to who they would
like to have for delegates at-large, and
both wish to control that convention for
the prestige that it will carry during the
state campaign that follows preceding the
June primaries.
Recent indications that some OF tine
standpatters are not for Taft for presi-
dent is not causing much alarm with
the Taft supporters. James G. Berryhill.
one of the most pronounced standpatters
in the state. in an interview recently SAID
he was for Hughes. Lafe Young In
signed statement in his paper recently
said that his second choice was Hughes.
There have been other indications that
prominent standpatters were not en-
| thusiastic for Taft or else are openly
against Taft, but this statement is not
widespread enough to cause the Taft peo-
pie any alarm. They believe that the
rank and file over the state will sup
port Taft as their first choice and are
confident the majority of the state con-
vention will be Of that mind.
shaw Hopes for Lightning.
In spite of all adverse Developments
friends of Hon. Leslie NJ. Shaw say that
he is still hoping that the lightning VIII
strike in his direction. One prominent
republican who has had considerable per-
sonal correspondence with Mr.. Shaw this
wear said today: 81 have heard 1t sug-
gested that Shaw has given up all hopes
of getting anything himself and SO has
don't believe 1t. Mr.. Shaw is still in
hopes that the lightning will strike him.
He and Lafe Young are hopelessly at
outs since Mr.. Young printed the story
of Shaw's correspondence with rom Healy
and F. p. Woods asking their support
for himself for president. l think Shaw
made a big mistake in writing such let
ters After he had that conference with
Governor Cummins and II. w Byers jan
uary 1 he should have announced himself
/ as candidate whether they promised to
support him or not 1 know personally
that they did not promise him support,
but he should have announced himself
as a candidate for president then and he
would have gotten the Iowa delegation
in spite of everything. He cannot get it
now and he cannot get anything out of
this campaign. He would stand no show
for United States senator even II Allison
didn't run"
This statement is quite characteristic
of the attitude that politicians of both
sides taking in regard to Shaw SC
far as his chances for anything political
! are concerned.
Costs Farmers Millions.
With the samples Of seed corn from the
thirteen state institutions Hon. John Cow
ME of the State Board of Control this year
tested samples of seed corn from one OF
the progressive farmers OF the state The
lowest test for any of the state corn showed
forty eight grains out of fifty spTouted aud
: healthy. That of the farmer showed thirty
seven grains of the fifty sprouted, ou,
many of the stalks were weak and small
) There is the best object lesson to the
farmers of Iowa that 1t would be possible
to secure" said MI Cownie, who has
raised more than fifty crops OF corn N
Iowa. Corn properly selected in the field
: and properly cared for during the winter
; should all grow 1t should be a 100 per
cent stand. / have made some failures OF
corn crops during the half century that
have been raising corn in Iowa 1 have
! made some failures that have cost me
money and l believe now that / have
, learned the business.
= I'm the first place. right now Is the time