Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1920-07-22
KENDALL WINS
THE NOMINATION
AUDUBON COUNTY WAS FIRST IN
THE ROLL CALL TO BREAK
AT STATE CONVENTION

Abba for governor, and former Sen
ator John Hammill of Britt for lieu
tenant governor.
Lieut.. Gov. e. r. Moore, Kendall's
only rival in the race, for neither
Havner nor Deems stood any chance
of nomination, fell by the wayside
and went down to defeat on the third
roll call. Moore was actually beat
en- when Scott county was called,
following Sac. At that time Ken
dali had sos votes, and with ~
from Scott, Kendall had $50 votes,
or eight more than was necessary,
From then on it was "hop on the
bandwagon" for the remaining coun-
ties.
Hammill defeated w. F. Moore OF
Guthrie for the lieutenant governor,
ship, after the pair of them had dis.
tanced Senator Arney of Marshall
moose.
Major Glenn C. Haynes of Mason
City. was nominated for auditor of
state by reclamation, after F. j. AL
Der of Des Moines, E. 7. Gose of
Jefferson and W. McLeland, his riv-
ais, had withdrawn from the race.
Capt. Ben Gibson of Corning was
nominated for attorney general on
the second ballot, defeating his OPP
ponents, Senator w. C. Evans of
Parkersburg and Herbert Hadley of
Nevada.
Capt. Frank p. Woodruff of
Knoxville was nominated by accla-
nation for state railroad commits
sioner.
The convention that ended its lab
ors after naming its state ticket can
didates was truly an old fashioned
convention where politics ran riot
and candidates none too certain of
victory. The scholarly effort of H.
w. Byers, temporary chairman, was
followed by smashing and fire eat
ing political address given by Robert
Healy of Fort Dodge who was select
ed permanent chairman.
1t was after Healy's bitter attack
upon the democratic administration
and party, that the balloting on can
didates began. The delegates did
not wait to hear the resolutions COM
mittee report, where in the commit
tee demanded the repeal of the pres
emit primary law, before balloting on
brought his short address to a close
by ordering the convention to pro-
coed to balloting for a gnbernatorial
nominee.
A roll call gave Lieut.. Gov. Moore
and Havner 90.
On the second roll call Audubon
county made the first break to Moore
&rfI s,, kxr OH
Hawk, Boone, Butler, Carroll. Craw-
ford, Delaware and Dubuque. Ere
mont, Greene, Harrison, Ida, john
son, Madison, o'Brien and several
other counties broke from Havner or
Deems and split their votes between
Moore and Kendall.
1t was on the second roll call that
Kendall received the benefit OF the
breaks from Buena Vista, Clinton,
Floyd. Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson,
Marion, Osceola, Sac, Shelby, Tama,
Taylor and Woodbury..
The Kendall force, when the sec
ond roll call was announced, showing
Kendall with sol and Moore with
437, staged a demonstration which
helped the band wagon idea get
across in the minds of the delegates.
With the bulk Of the Havner dele
gates now in line with him, many of
the Deems delegates, and the farmer
delegates in his wagon, Kendall was
riding to a certain victory.
On the third roll call the band
wagon idea struck forcibly in Dallas,
Des Moines, Floyd. Guthrie, Hancock,
Jackson, Pottawattamie and then
came Scott with its 81 votes, putting
Kendall across a winner. From then
on it was a question of how fast the
delegates could cast their votes for
the Abba man.
With the downfall of Lieutant
Governor Moore and the roll call or
dered for lieutenant governor, w. F.
Moore, a banker of Guthrie Center,
came up for political slaughter. The
same farmer minority which had
made it known that 1t was against
what ii termed a banker" ticket,
stood harder against w. F. Moore
than against Lieutenant Governor X.
R. Moore. The Guthrie man was
loser from the moment half the
counties had cast their ballot on the
first roll call.
The first ballot on the lieutenant
governorship gave Hammill of Britt
353A votes against 27S ga votes
for w. F. Moore of Guthrie Center
and Arney 201 ga votes and Wilson
there was an immediate switch from
Moore to Hammill, with Arney and
Wilson receiving but few votes.
Hammill on second roll call had
636A votes and Moore 212A votes.
Hammill was declared the nominee.
The roll call ON the state auditor
ship was hardly started when the
other three candidates withdrew for
mally and Maj. Glenn c. Haynes of
Mason City was declared the conven-
ton nominee. Haynes had by far
the easiest sailing and the best posi-
ton throughout the convention of
any of the candidates.
IT. the attorney general race, Sem
ator Evans Of Parkersburg was de-
feated on the second ballot by Capt.
Ben Gibson of Corning. Gibson was
put across when Sac and Scott were
reached on the second ballot, follow
ing practically In Kendalrs foot
steps.
When the office Of state railroad
commissioner was reached, the dele
gates began to yell and call for Capt.
Fred P. Woodruff of Knoxville, His
three rivals, Wand, Doak and Brad
ley, having no support on the floor.
Woodruff, like Haynes, was nominal
ed by reclamation.
The working of the convention
from viewpoint of politics was a
ffty-fifty break for the present
state administration forces so far as