Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-25
Stevens Heads Delegates-at-
Large to Roosevelt Party
Meeting; D. H. Emery is
One OF State Delegation.
NAMED AS
ELECTOR IN DISTRICT
Full Electoral Ticket Pre-
sented to Convention Aft
er Caucuses Meet and Or.
ganize New Committee,

! The WapelIo county delegation
OF thirteen voters, selected At the
Roosevelt mass convention here
last Saturday, 10 represented at
Des Moines BY the following OF
tumWans: D. n. Emery, C. a.
Sparks, e. s. Fist, c. w. Schwartz
and J. n. Cremer.
Des Moines, July 24-Iowa Roose-
velt supporters are this afternoon
holding their first state convention.
the purpose Of which is to name dele
gates at large and by districts to the
national convention at Chicago.
The convention hall was crowded Mt
o'clock when Provisional National
committeeman John 4. Stevens OF
Boone ascended the platform to intro-I
duce the temporary chairman, Frank
Randall Of Cedar Rapids.
Practically every county in the state
was represented by delegations and
the galleries contained many specta-
tors.
| Most of the work Of the convention
had already been done by committees
when the convention opened, and tho
main business of the delegates waS
simply to approve the reports present.
ed to them. The remainder OF the
afternoon was given up to speech max.
ing.
The Delegates al Large.
A conference committee, named IN
the district caucuses, reported the fol.
lowing list of delegates at large and
alternates to the convention:
Delegates-at-large-I. L. Stevens,
Boone; Carl Johnson, Des Moines:
James A. Smith, Mitchell; Carl FRANKIE
Butler.
Alternates-atlarge-John c. Kelly,
Woodbury.: J. P. Tyler Iowa; H. 3.
Parslow, Page; w. ]. Jones. Monroe.
Electors-at-large III. r. Orchard.
Pottawattamie and J. P. Steele Of
Madison.
When the convention opened this
afternoon the caucuses among dele
gates from the eleven districts OF the
state had completed their reports.
which were presented Immediately
following the speech OF Temporary
Chairman Randall.
Electors.
Following are the lists:
First district-Sol Stevenson, Henry
county.
Second district. Richmond, Mus.
catine county.
Third district-Emil Johnson, Black
hawk county.
Fourth district Robert Thompson,
Howard county.
Fifth distcirt-H M. Rickle, Linn
county.
Sixth district-C Calvin Manning, Wa.
pello county.
Seventh district-W. A. Graham.
Polk county.
Eighth district T. C. Fee, Ap-
panoose county.
Ninth district-W. II. Killpack, Pot
tawattamie county.
Tenth district-J M Blake, tamil.
ton county.
Eleventh district Simon Fisher.
Lyon county.
New State Comm lttee.
The state central committee was
named as follows:
First district c. E. Hampton.
Henry county.
Second district--Theodore o. Love
land. Iowa county.
Third district--L. H. Palzer, Black
hawk county.
Fourth district-Wyley s. Rankin.
Cerro Gordo county.
Fifth district H. ]. Lamb, Linn
county
sixth district-w H. wylie. Keokuk
county.
Seventh district-John Macvicar,
Polk county.
Eighth district Jerome Smith,
Adams county.
Ninth district-N. Nelson, Shelby
county.
Tenth district - S. d. Quarton,
Poweshiek county.
Eleventh district-John E. Wurtz,
Clay county.
The Chicago Delegates.
The district delegates to the ma
tional convention were named as fol-
lows:
First. S. Bauman, Des Moines;
! s. C. Westcott, Lee. A1ternates-Sol
Stevenson, Louisa; l.. Gormly. Wash
ington.
second-L. P. Allen, Clinton; Her.
man J. Zeuch, Scott. Alternates-F.
B. Steen, Muscatine; A. ]. Kegler,