Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-04-05
E. r. MooRE's VIEWS
10 The Democrats 81 Iowa

i :
AS a forme. newspaper man Of con
siderable experience and one who Is
la thorough believer in publicity and
i fair play, address you on the impor-
lance OF every democrat voting at the
presidential primary to be held on
April 10th.
Last June, our National Committee
man, w. w. Marsh, called meeting
at Des Moines for all Iowa democrats
Public notice was given and all Iowa
democrats were urged to attend. 1t
Was get-to-gether meeting for the
purpose Of wiping out all differences
and for the purpose of starting a
statewide democratic club which was
intended to include all democrats Of
Iowa. Many democrats attended from
all parts OF the state It was a
wonderful meeting and promised great
things for the party in Iowa, under
the able leadership OF Wilbur Marsh,
who used the same energy to make
the meeting q success that he used
in his own business and in making
the Iowa exhibit, such great sue
cess at San Francisco.
In the past few months district
meetings were held in the eleven
districts Of Iowa. In all OF the dis
tricts except the Third district
where there was no commit 5JS5inan
each meeting was called b, the eom-
mitteeman from that~Aistrict notify
in~ all democratic ';orkers and putin
notices in all democratic papers, in
,yiting all seniocrats to attend. Who
shonl call such meetings II not the
committe emen, who are elected by
your delegates In state convention
nearly two years ago? Upwards Of
1000 representative democrats at
tended these meetings from all the
counties of Iowa. AT nearly all of
the meetings. Maurice Connolly of Du
buque, E. IT,. Meredith of Des Moines,
j. J. Hughes Of Council Bluffs and
George Stivers of Burlington were
unanimously endorsed as delegates
at.large. Ali democrats present
were for Wilbur Marsh for national
committeeman. There were never be-
fore such enthusiastic meetings hel6.
in Iowa.
A few weeks ago a little bunch Of
disgruntled democrats held secret
meeting in Des Moines to put up a
ticket Of their own for the whole stat
of Iowa. Were you invited dear
reader,as You were to the other meet
ings? No indeed: neither were any
of your friends. II you will look over
the list of those who attended, you
will find that practically all Of them
are men who are sore because they Or
some of their friends failed to get Of
flee. Their whole effort is to gett
even with those who failed do tas
they wished to have them do, in the
matter of recommendations Do you
wish to turn the organization of the
party over to sore-heads, when the
present organization is the best We
ever had in the state. administered
by men who devote their time and
money to the cause without hope OF
reward.
After the meeting at Des Moines,
lit was announced that delegates woul
be named from all districts in Iowa.
Yet only three of the twenty-five dis
trict delegates were named, Doubt
less they found the same trouble in
! getting men to stay on as district
delegates that they found in getting
such men as T. H. Duffy, Joe Meyer,
w. L. Etter, ]. j.. Doty, Senator
Farr and others to allow the use OF
their names.
The Fourth district is the only
district In the state that has full
list Of delegates and alternates. This
district also has the candidate, E. G..
Dunn, for national committeeman and
one of the candidates for delegate-at-
large. This condition would bear
out Ed. Dunn's threat that he would
fight Wilbur Marsh for national COM
mitteeman, If Marsh did not name the
man for postmaster Of Mason City
that Dunn wanted, man who had lit
tie home support. The Sixth dis
ltrict comes in for two delegates-at-
large. both men who failed to get
what they wanted. Sioux City has
the other delegate-at-large In a man
who could not get the state organiza-
TONS endorsement for him or his
partner. From the above showing
one must Judge that there Is not
much demand for the Reputation OF
the present state organization by
democrats over the state. J. j. Red
dy, who is in charge Of the head
quarters, is peeved because he did no
get the Shenandoah post office.
/ attended the Fourth district meet
ing at New Hampton. Over 200 demo.
Gratis were present from all OF the
counties In the district. / never at.
tended a more enthusiastic and har-
monious meeting. Ed. Dunn was
conspicuous by his absence. Why
was he not at public meeting In his
own district instead Of a secret meet
ling at Des Moines.
/ From all that / can gather, demo
Gratis all over the state are for VIII
bur Marsh for national committeeman
and for sustaining the present organ
ization. AS one who served on the
state committee for eight years, |
cc.. !, kIa rr0C.