Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-28
PROGRESSIYES CALL
SENATORIAL, CAUCUS
WANT EIGHTY TO SIGN UP, su1
At NOON ONLY HAD FIFTY.
NINE, THE sTANDPATTERs CON.
TiNUiNG TO STAND PAT.
[By W. II Pnwell 81

wv. 8. Kenyon again took slight lead
among the republican candidates in the
senatorial race by drawing three
votes from the other progressive can
didate, A. B. Funk, who also lost one
vote to Senator Young.
There We're a number Of absentces
today, but $50 voting.
The vote on the ninth joint ballot
resulted as follors:
Porter CD ................ 4S
Young (R) .................. go
Kenyon (R) 81
Funk (R) 81
Garst (R)
The changes this morning were:
From Funk to Kenyon, Cousins,
Kulp, Pickford
From Funk to Young, Fourt.
Absent or not voting Balluff. Chan.
man, Cow]es. Crow, Dunlap, Griges
Krebile and Webber. &
At noon today there were fifty-nine
s1gners OF the caucus call OF the pro.
:gressiyes, but instead of holding the
caucus this afternoon as had been
planned the time was extended until
Tuesday It is understood no stand.
patters have as yet signed the call.
Crisis Near In Senatorship.
This senatorship squabble is rapidly
approaching a crisis. The standpat-
ters are determined to force the
special primary issue, while some OF
the progressiyes are equally anxious
to bring about caucus of the repub-
leans Although there are several
among the latter who claim that they
will have the requisite eighty names
signed to the caucus call before night,
It doesn't seem hardly possible that
they can do 1t. Up to date they have
not secured single standpatter's
signature and there are still some
eight or ten progressives who have
not signed. Should all the latter
agree to the caucus 1t would still be
necessary to get ten or twelve stand.
patters In order to make the eighty.
Thus far none Of the standpatters has
shown any desire to go into caucus.
The Kenyon men are not as anxious
for a caucus as their signing OF the
call would indicate. They want delay,
for they believe that they can win
some of Young's following over to
their side. The Young supporters are
Just as confident that they can get
some of Kenyon's strength and SEN
ator Young himself said last night
that he is practically assured eight, or
nine of the votes now being cast for
Kenyon.
The Caucus Proposition.
The Funk men started the caucus
agitation and issued call which the
Kenyon men refused to sign because
it did not provide that a majority OF
the membership of the legislature
must participate in order to make the
caucus valid and binding. Then the
Kenyon following wrote another call,
which provides that If eighty names
are signed to 1t, caucus shall be
held and the eighty or moro repub-
licans participating shall vote in the
Joint session for the choice OF the ma
jority of those in the caucus.
Funk and his follower evidently p0.
lieve that they can win In this kind OF
a three cornered caucus. The Ken
yon men have apparently as much
chance as the Funk men, bnt they
want to delay the caucus as much as
possible in order to gain strength for
their candidate.
Still Agitate Primary.
Meanwhile Senator Young and his
friends are agitating the special pri.
mary with all their strength. Repre-
sentative Harding made speech for
his primary bill when 1t came before
the house committee on elections yes
terday, but he was forced to accept q
postponement when the matter was re-
ferred to subcommittee which con-
sists of tWo progressives and demo-
crat. 1t is evident that the committee
will make nothing but an adverse re-
port on the bill If it makes any, and it
is equally certain that Mr.. Harding
will make a minority report for the
bills adoption, no matter what the !,
majority Of the committees action
may be.
The real fireworks will come when
Harding gets upon the
floor with his minority report. That
is when the progressives Of the house
must either go on record against the
primary or permit Senator Young to
enter the field for the popular vote
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