Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-01
MINORITY REPORT PROBABLE
TO SHOW LACK OF HARMONY
Major Lacey and Other Back Numbers
Will Be on Committee From Stand
nat Districts Nc Special Mention
For Carroll Probabie-Jackson Aban-
dons Governor to His Fate.
Special to Tisnes-Repub.ican,


statement OF principles which fairy
! represents what the party il Iowa
stands for now and what Il mas oesa
standing for in the past decade, curing
which time Il has made the record on
: which il must stand or fail as gov
erning force in the state?
The convention is in fun control OF
those who have dominated ana oFe1'-
ed its legislative and executive ccnduc'
the past dozen years Il IS ,Ae1 .o1
in the fullest sense regular ne
convention majority represents me
ideas which have prevailed for m4Ay
years ii the parry
There has not been, SO far as can De
! discovered. any slate or trarne-up ior
the platform writing Il IS possiple
that Henry Wallace, the veteran editor
and friend of Roosevelt, VIII 60 on me
resolutions committee from ms aus
trtct: or ii may be that some one me
". B. Cooper, Of Madison, or NJ l.:
Curtis, OF Marion. or 'Ad Nils OF
story VIII 20 on the committee. IL
matters little: any one OF them knows
what principles the people believe N.
! u is understood that George Curtis, OF
Clinton, Will go on FOR the Second. he
is veteran n republican work IN
the Tenth IL is possible that Ne!s Lee
OF Emmett, may be on Inc comallitee.
In the Eleventh a. .. tunh Wod-u
know how 10 frame up good pat
form In the Fourth James A smith
would stand firm for the right; or Gov
er7lor Larrabee would do the proper
thing II he is here. The Third VIII
have 20 trouble finding man VINO
will aid In preparing a platform on
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Tho District Situations.
AS there are FIVE districts controlled
by the minority 1t is pretty certain
there will be a minority report, As that
is the only way lack OF harmony can
be demonstrated OF course Major
Lacey will head this report he was
! picked al Washington 10 Write the res
olutions in case Iowa was induced TO
reverse herself and go back on her own
chosen leaders. He it was who wrote
! the resolutions adopted IN a score Of
| Iowa standpat counties, the canned
| platform OF Linn, Bremen, Mahaska,
| Adair, jefferson, Des Moines, Wapello,
| Decatur, Crawford Johnson and other
! counties The minority report will be
| that Major Lacey decides upon and il
/ will bee lairel what II represents The
wishes Of the political Gictators az
| Washington.
The First district viii name mem
Der OF the committee 70 prepare the
minority report. Editor Junkhl, OF
Fairfield, IS hardly eligible because he
is on record as denounc!ns the TAFT
srarifs as measure for the benefits Of
| the manufacturer rather than the a8rt-
culturis," Editor Waite. OF Buring-
ton, may go on the committee despite
that he has all along taken the tacl.
that there was no promise OF down
ward revision. hence an upward revis-
ION vas ali right; which view doesn't
fit in well with the revised defense
that the Taft tariff really revised the
tariff 10 more nearly a free trade basis
than did the Wilson Dill.
If Il would be permissible 70 go into
the Seventh district 20 find genuine
standpatter, Jim" Anderson % the
progressive county Of Warren. might be
selected as platform writer. He glanced
over the Taft tariff law and declared II
will Tot De as good for the country as
the Dingley law" and then shouted
Senator Aldrich is & true friend of
the farn1er." That ought 10 qualify
him for the platform writer IN Iowa
From the Fifth dtstric- may come as
writer os the minority report, either &
Murphy or Major Rathoun. The Eighth
may choose Robert Spence and the
Ninth is likely 20 select Charles T.
Chase.
Jackson Abandons Carroll.
The plan OF the Jackson committee
TO complete abandon the Carroll ad
iTninistration 10 !rs fate may not meet
with the approval Of all even Of the
lstandpat delegates. On June IS ii IS
recalled, Jackson sent out word to the
county delegates. accompanying the
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titude to AXE. In this he said:
1T is vastly more important that me
irrational administration should be IN
dorsed than is any state or local
Interest"
The managers for the Carroll branch
of the standpat rnoveu ent resented this
statement because It seemed TO dis
close a willingness on the part of the
Taft branch 70 throw the state admin
sdstration Il there was any chance Of
securing an Endorsement Of the Taft
administration that would cover the
Ballinger and Wickersha-n policies.
There has been some talk of permit
ting LATE Young 10 write the Taft in
dorsernent but this is opposed by
number. He is on record as sizing
Taft UP as collier and declaring that
che has never been right or the tariff
question" and calling attention to the
fact that he has never had any prac-
.fical business experience which is 50
valuable in giving man right view
of the tariff" This and similar ex-
presgions of lack OF confidence in Taft
may bar him from the list Of eligibies
to write the Taft Endorsement which is
TO be prepared in expectation that il
will be turned down
Perkins Wants TO Bolt.
Interest in the possibility Of gen.
eral bolt from the convention on the
part of the minority was stirred up the
past week because of publication in
weekly paper Of a letter from a well
known and well informed Dies Moines
imam VINO makes the positive assertion
that George D. Perkins will come TO the
convention prepared to lead walk-out
and to split the convention. He writes
Is II he has inside information, and he
lis q man who is very close to the
.standpak leaders here and In a position
=, k.epv what they are talking about IN
iprivate conferences. There Is sus-
lpicion that his prediction is nearly In