Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-20

the discard later by the primary law
! He would have succeeded then in TAX
ing over q part Of the state conven-
| ton" and lea ding an open bolt but for
I the determination of others that the
i party should not then be split. He has
started out on the same game again.
| It came. to- the knowledge Of repub-
lican leaders last week that emissaries
We're being sent into various counties
to plan for getting here and there a
standpat delegate in progressive coun-
ties, or to capture county conventions
on one plea or another. Where coaxing
will not do, and trickery is Of no avail
/ threats will be used.
! For instance, it found that in Scott
county, the home of Charles Grilk, who
is the regular republican nominee for
congress, the demand is being made
that Mr.. Grilk's friends turn the state
delegation over to Jackson to be used
| as he directs, under threat that if this
is not done Mr.. Grilk will be defeated
at the polls by democrat Upon the
belief that this threat will make good
claim is soon to be set up that Scott
county is. solidly standpat and has re-
pudiated the progressives.
| It is learned that the same. tactics
4
home. of Nate Kendall, who Of course
is in q close district and needs every
svote to win Kendall kept his hands
off, the game and while his county
went strong. for Carroll, the standpat
| candidate. it selected progressive del
| egates to the county convention. In
| another county of the Sixth district a
similar club is being held over the local
leaders who are all friends of their
stalWart and eloquent congressman.y
In the Sixth district, however, still
another element has been brought into
the game and that is the power Of fed
eral patronage; for it is now disclosed
that Major Lacey is in Washington di-
recting how the patronage question can
be used not alone to discipline Kendall
but to compel his friends in the district
to abandon their principles and get in
line, to help Jackson and Hunter under
the guise ofShelping Taft personally.
In other counties a sly game is be-
ing played, In Montgomery, for in
stance, where the Red Oak Express
last week stated positively that the
returns showed the standpatters had
lost the county conventions to the
progressive republicans, it is learned
that plea is being put up to the pro-
gressives that inasmuch as there is
nothing very much to be decided in the
convention a harmony delegation"
ought to be selected which would Of
course include some standpatters. This
is the county into which Fred Myers,
postmaster at Denison, was sent to
manipulate things so that by the use
Of a large amount of outside money the
county could be carried for the stand
pats.
Another plea being made in some
counties is that inasmuch as the state
went for Carroll it follows that the
standpats are in the majority in the
state. The Burlington Hawkeye, how
ever, has claimed that q great many
good progressives in the First district
voted for Carroll and 1t is known that
in northern Iowa thousands of pro-
gressives did so. Whatever may be the
reason for this, it is pointed out that
such being the case the primary really
disclosed that Iowa is reliably pro-
gressive.
A part of this plea, being made by
the Jackson committee, now re-en-
forced by the political agent of the
railroads, is that an agreement was en- 4
tered into by the progressive members
of the republican state committee at
the March meeting under which it was
decided that If the standpatters carried
the state they should name the chair
man of the state convention. No such
agreement was entered into, but even
IL it had been there would be no obli-
CATION to have Lacey or Jackson as
chairman since the progressives con-
troll the convention, at least up to the
present hour.
There is not word of truth in the
statement which has been printed that
the state committee entered into an
agreement to pick standpat chair
man In case the standpatters carried
the state" said CHARLES w: Lyon, the
Seventh district member. THAT matter
= =; mentioned in the committee meet
ing in March and in that meeting 1t
was distinctly and emDhatically stated
that nothing .sf the sort was to be
DONE"
Not only was Mr.. Lyon quoted to
that effect at the time, but Chairman
FRANKIE and others stated the same
thing, and there never was any ques-
!. ton GA about H., &c sege. pro-
gressive members of the committee at
the present time and they will all. with
one exception be retained on the COM
mittee for the next two years, and not
one OF them has ever had the slightest