Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-07
High Handed Tactics in Union
County Primaries Causes De
cision to Appeal to Voters
BETRAYED BY FALSE PROMISES
standpatters Plead for Harmony and
Then Carry Proceedings to Extremes
of FactionaIism = Many County
Conventions Held Today and Re-
suits Will Be Decisive.
Special to Times Republican.

DeS MCineS, March Tissues ar
fairly joined in Union county. which
are typical of the conditions elsewhere
in the state. and the progressive!
there, led by Senator j. b. Harsh, have
let 1t be known in no uncertain term;
that they will light out in the pri-
maries June the treachery of the
istandpatters who showed Il greater
and fair dealing.
Union county in 1906 went progress
sive and sent delegates to the state
convention that We're for Cummins
This year the convention endorsed AL
! lison and Carroll. The true story oi
that Union county convention has just
reached Des Moines.
Accepting the declarations of the
| standpatters that they were for har-
mony and were all for Taft for Dresi-
dent, the progressves. led by Senator
! Harsh agreed to make no fight. They
agreed that the county convention
should do nothing but select delegates
to the state convention, contining the
| convention to the purposes for which
| it was called. The Inconsistency OF
the standpat claim of favoring har-
mony and tabooing factionalism soon
showed itself here as in other coun-
ties of the state.
AS soon as the county convention
was called it developed that the stand
patters had paid no attention to their
promises. had gone actively into the
field to carry the caucuses. had Sc
cured najorit. of the delegates to
the county convention and refused the
progressives even voice in the delib-
erations. Furthermore the convention
insisted on making a declaration on
United States senator which had not
been an issue in the caucuses and was
not in the call for the convention.
When resolutions We're offered en-
dorsing Roosevelt. Taft. Allison and
Carroll and Morrow, Senator j. b.
Harsh secured the floor and insisted
that the resolutions be voted on sep"
arately He declared that the progress
sives would readily join in endorsing
Roosevelt and Taft, as it was con-
ceded Union county was for them and
the convention was called for the pres
idential campaign. He declared that
the progressives would join in en-
dorsing Mr. Morrow for reelection as
state treasurer, tho he is Standpatter
because he comes from Union county,
but he declared tnat after promising
not to bring state issues into the cam
paign, it was unfair to insist on the
endorsement of Allison and Carroll for
office, and still more unfair to not di-
vide the resolutions and thus force the
progressives to vote against all the
resolutions because of those for Alli-
son and Carroll.
Senator Harsh was given scant con-
sideration. The standpatters defeated
his motion to separate the resolutions.
adopted all the resolutions, including
those favoring Allison and Carroll.
At this point Senator Harsh arose
and said: "Mr. President, we will see
YOU at the primaries. Aside from the
progressive delegates to the convention
there was considerable following OF
progressives present and Senator
Harsh was vigorously cheered. On that
declaration the issues arc joined i'll
Union county. There will be a primary
June 2, when the people will vote and
the progressives Of Union propose to
show the standpatters that they can
not carry Union county for Allison and
Carroll by ramming resolutions down
their throats. They propose to show
them on June 9 that the old caucus.
so easily manipulated by the corpora
ton tricksters is a thing of the past
There is not a bit of doubt but that
a majority of the republicans of Un-
ion county are for Cummins for United
States senator.
Conventions are being held in nearly
twenty counties in the state today
There will still be about twenty coun-
ties to hold conventions next week. 1t
is believed that the action of Des
Moines county. Scott Blackhawk and
a. few others will practically decide the
of the first state conven-
ton.
1t was given out here yesterday that
the plans for the big standpat meeting
for the day before the state convention
when a number Of big senators We're
to be imported with the intention of
the state convention into
endorsing Allison, has been pulled off.
1t is now said that Senator Dolliver
will appear in Des Moines some time
the last week in March to make an ad
dress 1t is also limited that the stand
patters Of the better class are calling
a halt They doubt the expediency Of I
adopting resolutions endorsing Alli- !
sons candidacy at a convention called
FOR the purpose of selecting delegates
to a national convention only. Stand |
patters have for years been claiming
that Cummins is a factionalist. They |
are beginning to see the point that
The caucuses and conventions now be-
Ing held We're not called to consider
state issues and to endorse Allison