Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-11

Are CALLED
REPUBLICANS TO MEET Al DEs
MONIES MARCH Is AND WA
TERLoo JUNE "a.
NOW IT's BEGINNING--vA

LOS MOluSS, jail. IU. - lc y OPuU7
lican state central committee yester-
day, fixed the dates for the two state
conventions of this year March 1S
at Des Moines and June "a at Water
loo. Attorney General Byers will be
temporary chairman of the first con-
vention and Ora Williams secretary
George s.. Wright Of Council Bluffs
proposed the name Of Leslie M. Shaw
for$ temp orarSi chairman, but with
drew the suggestion, and Byers was
then chosen BY unanimous vote.
When the committee met all the
members we're present except Commit.
teeman Mccoy of the Second district,
whose proxy was held by 1" Cal" s.
George Of Clinton, pronounced
standpatter. Committeeman Wright
Of the Ninth district. moved that the
proxy be recognized and Mr. George
admitted to q seat on the committee
Cor the meeting. Objections were
made, and after long discussion,
which at times became heated, Mr..
Wright's motion was lost on tie
vote.
Lineup Of the Committee.
The lineup Of the committee as dis
closed by the vote is as follows:
Standpattera - First district, Le-
mont Cowles; Fifth district, G.. R. Es-
tabrook; Sixth district. w. w Fpps;
Eighth district, H. d. Copeland /;
Ninth district. George s. Wright.
Progressives - Third district, G. F..
FRANKIE: Fourth district. w. l.. Con
verse; Seventh district, D. D. Mccall; !;
Tenth district, Chairman F. B. Woods;
YN1o ia. II fro o1,
The Second district, thus being re-
fused representation on the committee
was tied between the progressives and
standpatters, but the progressives had
a decided advantage in having the
chairman. Committeeman Wright led
the fight. for the standpatters, but
motions made by him were SO regular
ly defeated that at the end of the ses-
sion he asked as a special favor that
he be permitted to make motion to
adjourn explaining that he wanted
the record to show that one motion
he had made had been adopted.
After calling the first state conven-
tion for Des Moines on March Is and
the second convention at Waterloo on
June "a Committeeman Wright offer
ed to name former Secretary Leslie
M. Shaw for temporary chairman of
the first state convention He said
Mr.. Shaw had become figure in ma
stional politics and as such had not
been connected with the factional
contest in the party In Iowa This con
fest had arisen since Shaw had be.
come national figure and In his
opinion would assist in harmonizing
the party by selecting him as tempo
rary chairman. Immediately after he
made the motion the opposition to
Shaw began to show.
It was declared that Shaw was the
most partisan Of any man who could
be suggested and one after another
the progressives expressed themselves
in that mann or until Mr. Wright, find
ing that the nomination Of Shaw would
be defeated if he pressed it to vote,
withdrew the name Of the former
secretary.
Byers Temporary Chairman.
Attorney General Byers was then
selected as temporary chairman with
out opposition. The object in pro.
posing Shaw for chairman of the first
convention which will select delegates
to the national convention was be-
cause his friends believed if made
chairman it would be greatly to his
advantage in case he should decide to
ask the Iowa delegation to support
him in the national convention. The
progressives apparently saw the point,
for they took NO pains in Disguise their
opposition to him. The action also
indicated that the talk of a compro-
mise delegation which should support
either Shaw or Cummins in the nation
al convention is entirely without