Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-30
DIVIDED DELEGATION
At CHICAGO CERTAIN
caucusss and Conventions Of Week
Make Little Change, AItho Delaware
Goes to Taft administrative Of Sit.
uation in Iowa to Dats-Ths Demo-
cratic Contest.
Special to Times-Republican.

ty-seven counties yet to decide on
| which SIDE they are going to play, it
can not be said to be definitely settled
| who is to control. Thus far the prob
! abilities lie with the progressives, but
standpatters are making strong claims
as to what they can and will do in
breaking into progressive territory and
| if they succeed to any great degree
! they will have a convention that will
do what was planned two years ago
and failed.
| II some twenty-five counties where
caucuses have not been held will be as
loyal to Iowa as they were at the last
scoring the convention will not con-
denim nor repudiate the party record in
| Iowa ana the party leaders from Iowa.
| 1t will be divided delegation that
will go from Iowa to Chicago, that
has been evident from the very day
that orders came from Washington
that a fight must be made on Senator
Cummins and if possible that he and
| Senator Kenyon should be turned
down at home. But just how the d.
vision is to be made is not yet clear.
! There is no doubt whatever that
| SIX Ol Tie ulSII1Ct uSlcSdISS ycI " NC
selected will be regular and loyal to
| !ow: Presumably two others will be
stardpat and opposed to an Iowa
candidate for president The other two
district delegates are in doubt, tho the
doubt may be disposed of today.
| The caucuses and conventions of the
past week have made but little change
in the situation, save as the caucuses
| ;o " Iofk that in
doubt AS the county two years ago
divided this is not surprising If it, in
the convention today, goes all standpat
it will carry the district; but if di-
vided it will give the progressives the
best of the bargain for the district
delegates.
| The four reservation districts of
southern iowa were disposed of some
time ago, and also the capital district
of the state. Out of the 4S5 dele
gates in the four districts carried by
tho standpatters by the usual methods
the progressives were permitted to get
only sixty-eight delegates. In north
ern and eastern Iowa thirty other
counties have practically decided and
| Of these the progressives got twenty
The five districts complete. with the
thirty other counties decided, give
this:
standpat delegates, ga; progressive
delegates, AS.
Leaving Scott county out of the
count, the remaining counties of the
state, where caucuses have not been
held, would If they divided as at the
last time. give this:
Standpat delegates, AZ; progressive
delegates. 325.
This would leave the standpatters
with 672, the progressives< with 773, and
the 50 Of Scott to be counted.
This is the situation as it actually
| exists today. A deliberate effort has
been made to advertise the situation to
the state as, If the standpatters had
! already walked away with the state
convention, but a careful analysis Of
the figures show this is not true.
The counties that had not, at least
up till last evening, decided either by
caucus or convention, with their align
ment, are:
Progressive--Clinton Jackson, Grun-
dy, Butler, Marshall. Clayton, Winnie
shiek. Fayette, Chickasaw, Mitchell.
Worth, Cerro Gordo, Hancock, Kossuth,
Humboldt. Hamilton, Palo Alto, Car
roll. Ida, Clay, Cherokee, O'Brien and
Dickinson; 81 votes.
Standpat-1owa, Allamakee, Monona;
81 votes.
Scott with IS: also Muscatine, stand
pat s, progressive IA.
The counties Of northern Iowa that
have gone progressive are Blackhawk,
Boone, Buchanan. Buena Vista, Emmett,
Franklin, Floyd, Greene. Howard, Han
Lyon, Tama, Sac, Webster, Winne-
bago, Wright.
Those that are counted as having de-
Cedar, Dubuque, Crawford Jones,
Johnson. Bremen, Linn and Woodbury..
Some Of these counties have! their
conventions today but all have held
their caucuses.
There are several counties about
whose delegations there is some doubt.
In the above. computation Mills county
Is given divided, as 1t has been report
ed, with seven progressives. The stand
patters deny that this is correct. Pot
tawattamie county is given its 80 votes
against the progressives. tho the dele
cation is not instructed and will prob
ably be divided. especially on any
question involving the honor and credit
Of the party in Iowa. The Bremen coun-
ty delegation Is all given standpat, tho
it is certain 1t will not be a unit on all
questions that may come up. The
Franklin delegation Is not instructed
nor Is that from Osceola, Dallas nor
Webster. In the list Of counties de-
cided is Floyd tho not all the caucuses
had been held, but enough to indicate
how it will go.
Standpatters have started the story