Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-16
Democrats OF the State DO Not
Warm Up to the "Commoner'
As of Yore
BANQUET TICKETS SELL SLOWLY
Bryan jefferson Gathering Likely to
Be Patronized by Republicans as
Well as Party Followers-controI of
Democratic Machinery in State in
Doubt.
s-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. March 16.-Republicans
are responding much more "sad'ly 10
the purchase of tickets to the big Bry-
I an Jefferson day banquet to be held IN
/ this city April . Than are The demo-
Gratis The woods seem to be full OF
republicans who wish to hear the great
! Commoner from Nebraska. Every time
he has come to Des Moines there has
been a considerable sprinkling of re-
publcans in the audience. Democrats
are loath to admit that the republi-
cans are more anxious to buy the
tickets than are the democrats, but the
fact is that it is causing them some
alarm.
1t was planned to have the occasion
all over the state would gather to
show their enthusiasm in the cause of
democracy as we'll as to hear the man
who has been the leader of the party
for twelve years without holding po-
litical office incidentally it was in
tended that the gathering should serve
the purpose of putting new enthusiasm
into the party followers. But the party
followers have been somewhat slow to
buy the tickets. Republicans who are
ever ready to listen to Mr.. Bryan as i
great orator anxiously buy tickets to
the banquet. The tickets have been
put on sale under the rule of first
come first served.
Not till the democratic convention
meets in Cedar Rapids on March 26
will it be possible to tell which wing
of the party is in control of the state
convention. Resolutions passed in the
democratic county conventions ad-
mittedly mean. nothing in most cases
so far as control of the state conven-
tion is concerned. Bryan Volunteers
are active everywhere stirring up en-
thusiasm and endeavoring to get the
Bryan enthusiasts into the field to con-
troll the state convention, but much Of
the work amounts to cropping in the
dark.
When a republican county conven-
tion meets and passes resolutions they
are either for Allison or Cummins,
standpat or progressive and it is thus
possible to tell within few votes who
will control the state convention. With
the democrats every democrat profess
es to be, for Bryan. The Bryan men are
conducting the most difficult political
fight they ever had on their hands.
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resolutions and then select delegates
who would vote for any nominee for
president that the corporations sug-
gested in opposition to Bryan.
"The fact is we don't know and
won't know who will control the
democratic state. convention till after
it meets" said Bryan man here to-
day. "In many cases thru our friends
in county we are able to tell from
the delegates selected to the state con-
vention who they are. But there are
other counties in which delegates of
unknown affiliations slip in here and
there. We suspect that in most cases
these delegates are in fact anti-Bry
an. The real Bryan men are very vigil
liant and endeavor to see that only
Bryan men go as delegates but in
many counties this is impossible All
profess to be for Bryan and the con- ,
venton gets together and selects dele
gates and adopts Bryan resolutions.
The contest for positions as delegates
to the state convention is mostly
friendly and no one knows who the
delegates stand for
1--WE believe that we will control the
state convention and we intend to
make the fight of our lives to see that
the delegates selected from the state
convention to attend the national con-
vention at Denver are dyed in the wool
BRYAN men, We mean to tie them up
with iron clad resolutions but in addi-
tion we propose to see that all the del /,
egates are such as will stand by Bry-
an till nominated or defeated"
When the next legislature meets 1T I?
is proposed to have introduced a bill
to license accountants. 1t is proposed
to create another state board to ex-
anime accountants and give them GER
tificates. Merchants and cities and
boards of supervisors want the law.
They say that many people who claim
to be accountants can't figure the SIM
pile sums in Rays arithmetic. When
they hire an accountant to make an
examination OF their books they don't
know whether he is real bona fide
accountant or not.
1t is therefore proposed to provide !
for state examination. Such board
would not have to be in session ex-
cept when making the examinations.
The expense would be nothing to the
state as the fees from the eXamina-
tions would pay for the work. EN-
pert accountants are much more in
demand lately than in former years.
Now that the state has come to be
settled up and public business has be-
come more complicated counties and
cities in addition to big business con-
Germs quite frequently want experts to