Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-14
Delegates to Allison Meeting in
Des Moines Made Up OF For
mer Office Holders
TAFT RESOLUTION OPPOSED
Announcement Made That Allison Will
Take Active Part in the Campaign
Captain Adams to Take Charge OF
Campagn-Is Goo Organizer
Political Gossip.
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Des Moines. Feb 1.-THE organi2a
| ton of the standpatters of Iowa was
perfected yesterday and from this time
on the campaign will be under the di-
rection of j. l.. Adams of Dubuque,
who is vouched for as an able organ
izer and ideal leader. The headquarters
for the present will be in Dubuque,
but later an office will be opened
| in Des Moines. The organization Will
be for the Allison fight and that
alone but it will include the entire
| standpat program.
! There was much enthusiasm at the
| meeting and about 100 We're either
present or had signed the rolls, indl-
eating they would work with the ma
chine. Principal speakers were Lafe
Young. George d. Perkins and Major
Lacey.
1t was a great aggregation of "exes'
and postmasters with a number OF
newspaper men who expect that the
organization will do a great deal OF
business thru the press. There were
ex-governors. x-congressmen, ex-leg-
isators. ex-federal office holders and
all sorts of former office holders who
would like to get back next to the pub
lie crib again. 1t was evident from
their talk that they felt great inJus-
/ tice had been done the state in de-
/, priving the state of their valuable ser
vices, and they would like to devise
some way to become available as pub
! lie servants again.
, A TAFT resolution got thru with
and all morning the leaders had been
talking loudly for Taft. When they
were asked to pass a Taft resolution
they SHE'D Finally it was got before
the meeting. BILLY" Payne took shot
at it and pointed out the inconsistency
of the situation from standpoint
view But the resolution was passed
about two to one, the opposition be-
ing strong and demonstrative. 1t
showed very plainly that the standpat-
ters are having great difficulty in
keeping their men in line for the
Roosevelt policies.
State Auditor Carroll was the only
state officer who appeared at the
meeting and he remained but a short
time. He spent the entire day in the
hotel lobby. B. Murphy and ]. II.
Wilson were both present for part
Of the time, tho not participating.
1t was stated during the day that
assurances had been given that Sem
ator Allison would take an active part
the members of congress would stump
the state also. 1t was announced that
Cousins would go upon the stump and
talk against Cummins in all parts of
the state and that there would be 9TH
er speakers brought into the state
from other states to take part in the
local contest. Assurances were given
of sufficient money to carry on the or
ganization work and make it effective
in every county of the state.
II watched the vote on the Taft
resolution" stated ]. H. Wilson. II
was not interested but it was plain
there was opposition. In fact the
men who opposed that resolution were
the working republicans among their
forces, while those who pushed it were
the politicians. Just about one-third
of those present voted against the res
olution, and this was remarkable when
all the pressure came for it. But it
shows that the standpatters are not
for Taft by any means"
Attorney General Byers gave an IL
lustration of how things are going. A
newspaper in Shelby county got vote
of subscribers on senator, and of the
first thirty votes received twenty were
for Cummins, four for Allison and the
rest scattering. 1t was a standpat
newspaper, too But a representative
from that county reported to the meet
ing that Allison would sweep every
thing out in Shelby. Upon such re-
ports much enthusiasm was aroused.
Representative Moore of Linn coun-
ty was called to the conference. He
intimated that there was more hot air
than anything else visible and doubted
whether the men who gathered here
could swing state in any direction.
Captain Adams. of Dubuque, who has
been placed in charge of the reorgan-
ization of the standpat machine for
Iowa, is said by the Dubuque people to
be most capable organizer and he
has had great experience in state pol
tiles. He will devote his entire time
to the work and will be ably assisted
by others. In Des Moines Lafe Young
will look after matters. The success
of Young in getting the convention
to ndorse Taft was looked upon as
making it certain that Young would
go to the national convention as a
delegate, provided his county will back
him up as he thinks it will.
Capt A. J. Lyons. of Dallas county,
an eN-county treasurer. also an eX-
democrat who two years ago intro
duced Perkins to the Dallas county re-
publicans. attended the conference. He
states that in his section the stand