Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-11
Failing to Land Seventh Dis
trict Plum, He Will Seek to
be Delegate at Large
FOR CONTROL OF SEVENTH
andpatters Will Attempt to Over
ride Action of Polk County Conven-
ton in Selecting District Delegates
Convention Comes saturday-Pok's
Aid Required TO Carry Out Program.
Special TO r,mes-repuplican.

Des Moines, March 11-When the
Seventh congressional district conven- :
tion meets in this city Saturday for the
purpose of selecting two delegates To
termined whether or not Lafayette
Young of this city will be a delegate
vention from the district. If he loses
out there as he probably WILL he will
still have a chance to go as a delegate
at-large provided the standpatters
control the state convention by large
enough
There will more than likely be a
contest at the congressional convention
Saturday in this city There have
been two sets of delegates selected to
the convention from Polk county and
q contest therefore seems unavoidable.
The standpatters only hope to control
the Seventh district convention is to
get some votes away from Polk coun-
ty The total vote in the Seventh dis
trict convention will be ninety-f four,
requiring forty-eight votes to control
Polk has forty-three and Story thir-
teen ard Dallas eleven. All of these
are progressive at least the progress
sives controlled the county conven-
tons. The others are standpat. This
gives the progressives sixty-seven
votes and the standpatters twenty
seven. The only hope of the stand
patters was to get Polk couny to allow
the delegates to the congressional
convention to be selected by super
visorial districts. The standpatters
controlled two supervisorial districts In
Polk county
So they made the claim that the call
of the county convention did not pro-
vide for selection of delegates to the
congressional convention and had
Nose Cohen, chairman of the Seventh
district central committee call the dell
egates to the county convention to-
gether by supervisorial districts to Sc
lect delegates to the congressional
convention. The progressives ignored
this action and went ahead and Sc
ected the congressional delegates in
tilt county CoilNeIlliOll anu SeleCleu
them all progressive.
The relative strength of the pro-
gressives and the standpatters on the
national delegation is still consider
ably matter of speculation. The
progressives at this time seem sure
to select the delegates from the
Fourth Seventh. Tenth and Eleventh
congressional districts. The standpat-
ters have already or will select the
delegates from the First, Eighth. ninth
and possibly the Fifth. The Second,
Third and Sixth seem likely to divide
their delegations. That would leave
the forces evenly divided on tho Sc
lection of delegates from the congress
sional districts and if the state con-
vention should then divide the four
delegates at large the entire delega-
tion would be evenly divided.
The management of Ingersoll park
in this city has a problem on hand.
Old Tom the four ton elephant has a
rotten tooth and ii has been aching.
The tooth must be pulled out or filled.
1t is believed that it is too far gone to
be filled and so the management has
determined to have it pulled and is
searching for a veterinarian to pull it.
1t is a big undertaking. Estimat
ing the, thing it is figured that il will
take the strength of about ten men to
pull the tooth and it is quite a diff
cult problem to know Just how to get
a pair Of forceps attached to the tooth
in such a way as to get them to hold.
Then there is also the little problem
of getting Old Tom to remain quiet
while the tooth is being pulled.
This perhaps is as difficult a prob
lem as that of pulling the tooth. Old
Tom weighs 5000 pounds and is a
pretty husky proposition. To rope and
throw him is no easy matter, but the
tooth has to be pulled.