Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-29
Republican Factions in Jasper
County Get Together and
Declare Peace
NEW MANAGERS ARE IN POWER
County in Which Factionalism Has
Been Most Bitter to Be Harmonious
Fractional Chairmen Resign ana
Mutually Agree Upon New Officers
-old Fight at An End. >.
Special to T,mes.Repuplican.

Newton, jan 29.--Harmony again
prevails among the republican ranks
of Jasper county. In this county the
most bitter strife for control has been
wared for several years, and during
the last campaign the struggle grew
intense, the county being one OF the
nivots on which political control IN
the state convention swung Ihere
has been maintained two organizations
one allied with the standpatters ana
the other with the progressives. Now
the pipe of peace has been smoked ana
all will work for the general welfare
Of the republican party.
For many days past there, has been
something doing in the rank of repub-
iican politicians in Jasper county.
The idea was to get the progressive ana
standpat factions together. There We're
several consultations, many anxious
moments, many secret conferences or
twos and threes and the OBJECT was
finally accomplished.
A committee from the standpat
faction and one from the progressive
faction finally agreed upon the follow
ing. the conditions Of which have been
ratified by both committees and all
proxies secured and everything is in
the hands of Joe Horn, chairman, who
will undoubtedly issue the caucus calls
very soon.
The following is the preamble and
proposition as signed up by the COM
mittees:
For the purpose Of promoting har-
mony and good will in the ranks of the
republican party of Jasper county,
Iowa, the two republican organiza-
tions, one headed by j. w. Hunter. as
chairman, the other by E. M. $. Nc
I.aughlin, as chairman, do, by the re-
spective committees selected by GER
lin members of each organization,
gree to submit the following propo-
sition to our respective organizations
and recommend that said proposition
be adopted by the precinct committee
men of each organization.
Said proposition is as follows, to-
wit:
That ]. w. Hunter and e. NJ. S. Nc
Laughln, as chairman of their re-
spective organizations, execute and
deliver to Joe Horn, separate proxies
authorizing said Joe Horn to act in
..itheir stead as chairman of the repub-
i9lican county central committee of Jas
per county, Iowa, delegating to him
full authority to act as said chairman
and with the following express powers.
Eto-wit: To issue the call for the re-
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selection OF delegates to the state
convention to be held in Des Moines,
Iowa, on the 18th day of March, A. D.,
1908. That in said call for the said
republican county convention the said
Joe Horn issue a call for a caucus in
each voting precinct in the county, for
) the selection Of delegates to the said
county convention.
That H. e. Allfree and H. G. McCar-
4 dell as secretaries of said organiza-
tions shall each file his resignation in
writing with the chairman of his or
ganization.
That said ]. w. Hunter and E. M. S.
Mclaughlin shall file said designations
with said Joe Horn on the delivery to
in of the said proxies.
That all precinct committeeman Of
the respective organizations represent
ed by ]. W. Hunter and e. NJ. S. Nc
Laughlin, allow the said Joe Horn as
chairman as aforesaid to call the sew
eral precinct caucuses as hereinbefore
referred to.
That no precinct committeeman Of
either organization shall assume to act
In calling said precinct caucuses to or
der but said caucus shall be organized
as voluntary meeting"
In compliance with the agreement,
the proxies were turned over to Chair
man Horn last night, and the condi-
lions being complied with, the compact
is now III force. This is the first time
the republicans have worked in har-
mony since the notable convention of
June, 1905.