Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-06-13
turned to the vice presidential ques-

In this they lad no better luck.
| The only new feature was that Cor
telyou stock went up thro. III the
slump in Dolliver and Fairbanks senti-
ment. With Fairbanks slated for
return trip to Indiana to lock horns
with Senator Beveridge and with Sen
ator Delivers friends doing their ut.
most to drown the noise of the Dolli-
yer boom, the men east of the Ale
ghanies were given more consideration
and Secretary Cortelyou began to
loom up as the leading candidate.
| So the Iowans who plan to attend
the convention have not missed a
great deal by being absent during the
preliminary skirnishes. The thous-
and or more natives of the Hawkeye
state who are expected to attend will
! find excitement plenty any time from
now until the conventions close.
Convention Notes.
Hiram G. Wheeler who was the Re-
publican candidate for governor in
1890 against Horace Boies was chat
ting with the Iowans in the hotel lob
bies yesterday. Mr.. Wheeler owned
6,400 acre farm in Sac county where
the town Of Odebolt county is now sit
uated He was credited then with
raising annually the largest crop of
corn of any single man in the world.
For time he was president of the
Iowa State Fair association Mr..
Wheeler was not prohibitionist, but
he was defeated by Boies because his
candidacy was weakened by the pro-
hibition question. He sold his big
property interests in Iowa years ago
and is now making his home in Chi
cago.
Hon LATE Young is the only mem
Der of the Iowa delegation on the
ground. Mr. Young's arrival was co.
incident with the appearance of signs
that efforts were being made to head
off the Dolliver vice presidential boom.
This move was not undertaken by
Mr.. Young because he is in any way
opposed to Senator Dolliver. On the
contrary the Des Noines editor Is one
of the junior senator's strongest sup
porters. But as MI. Young stated in
an extensive interview to the report
ers for the Chicago afternoon papers,
the nomination Of Senator Dolliver as
vice president would reopen the fac
tional struggles in Iowa and prolong
them indefinitely Before submitting
to the interview, which was displayed
with prominence, Mr.. Young worked
with telling effect among the dele
gates already here, and the Dolliver
boom as a consequence is not making
so much noise today.
Frank B. Clark is one of the busiest
men in Chicago. He has been en-
gagged with corps Of decorators in
fitting up the Iowa headquarters, and
in addition, as sergeant at arms Of
the Iowa delegation, has been made a
sort of committee on arrangements for
all the Iowans now here and expecting
to come here during the convention.
Mr.. Clark stops occasionally to let out
a few whoops Tor Tart.
j. G. Welliver, the Washington cor.
respondent for the Lee syndicate pa
pers, is at the convention as the rep
resentative of the Washington Times
and several eastern papers. Mr.. We'll
liver was the first to see the trend
of sentiment toward Dolliver as a vice
presidential possibility, but he spent
several hours yesterday arguing with
Col. LATE Young that the Dolltver
boom was not altogether of Welliver
manufacture. Mr.. Welliver cited that
Walter Wellman, Raymond Patterson
Of the Chicago Tribune and several
other correspondents subsequently
took the matter up, which he thought
should dissipate the theory that he
originated the boom. The fact that
he gave the story first to the Lee
syndicate papers he held to be an
evidence not that he manufactured it,
but that he saw it first.
For the members of the Iowa dele
cation a distinctive badge has been
secured. A bar at the top with the
word delegate" or alternate" sup
ports a ribbon which carries metal
disk Of gold on which In relief is the
picture of the Iowa capitol. On the
ribbon are the words, Republican
National Convention, Chicago, 1905"
This badge is ABOUT four inches long
and is beautiful but not too conspicu-
Gus.
Souvenir badges especially for the
Iowans have been secured by COM
mittee CT the delegation which will be
much sought for as reminder Of the
visit here this year. These badges,
which will be sold at cost, bear at the
top an ear of corn to which is attach
ed a seal Of Iowa supported from the
bar by short blue ribbon. This
badge is appropriately lettered.
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