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THE REGISTER AND LEADER: WEDNESDAY MORN ING, JULY 25. 1006. THE INTERVIEWER. fflp s0zr and fkdet POWERS OF THE COMMITTEE Ora Williams, In Marshalltown Times-Republican. through the work of conspirators, was accused of treason, and sentenced to be shot.

But President Lincoln, through mercy, declined to carry out the death sentence. Through the efforts of President Grant and Hon. Joseph Choate ha was granted a hearing after twenty years and fully vindicated, with the additional verdict that he had saved the army of the day, instead of Imperilling it. Through the action of the French government tho reparation made to Captain Dreyfus has been complete and practical In every way. But In the acquittal of General Porter by the American government It was expressly stipulated that the Injured party should have no compensation for twenty years of lost service, and should not he promoted.

Now the bereaved widow has nothing to console her but tho contemplation of the Imperishable memorial Just creetert-a statue which prpetuates her husband In the act of saluting the colors for which he bled and suffered for years an ignominy worse than death. The case of General Porter, compiired with that of Captain Dreyfus, stands thus: A veteran against a young man; a major-general against a captain; twenty years of suffering against twelve; and vindication without compensation agalnBt vindication with promotion and probably compensation. liestowlng the cross of the Legion of Honor upon Captain Dreyfus is but poor atonement for the years be suffered on Devil's Island, yet by this act France has done what It could to atone for the wrong. The erection of a monument to the memory of General Porter, while his widow suffers for the actual necessities of life, is even more of a mockery of atoning Justice. A good deal of consideration, has been given the past two months to various new questions arising out of the peculiar conditions confronting the republican party because of the bringing of scores of fake contests for the purpose of making It possible for a minority to control the state convention.

In response to a letter written Juno L'l your correspondent has obtained the views of a number of representative republicans upon the manner of properly organizing a state convention, the rights and duties of the committee which Is organized to conduct campaigns, the rights of the chairman In calling the convention to order, tho time fur holding caucuses to select new committee members, etc. Some of these expressed opinions will be of general Interest. Hon. Thomas t'pdegraff, one of the party veterans, said: I know of no standard by which to make answer to your queries A general treatise will not always solve a particular case; and 1 do not feel competent to write one. About all 1 ought to say Is that a wrong generally "comes home to roost," and Involves a loss of morals.

I know of no snap-shot rule or principle by which to test a spurious contest; nor of any source whence a campulgn committee or chairman obtains power or authority to make or apply a test; or to decide whether a delegation may or may not vote on temporary organization. 1 Incline to the opinion that no such power exists In either eommittee or chairman. I think I may add that if there has been a prior usage any departure therefrom by any tribunal which would be likely favor its views or wishes or the views or wishes of its majority, would be regarded certainly, and I think justly, as unrighteous." Hon. J. H.

Darrah of Lucas county writes: I am In favor of a square deal and that means thst the man who has the most votes should win. 1 am thoroughly opposed to any departure from the ordinary methods of conducting conventions. I think that all matters pertaining to the convention should be settled by the bona tido delegates to that convention. If the contests are to be settled by the state campaign committee it will he unnecessary to hold a convention as they can decide the contests and announce the results in advance. Hon.

A. Reiley of Louisa county wrote among other things: In my judgment the authority of the central committee ends when they have been called to order in convention. The duties of tho committee precede this particular act, and are limited to the issuance of a call for the convention, the selection of a place for holding the same, and providing for its deliberations, possibly with the added service of preparing a rosier of all delegates selected both contested and uncontested, to be delivered to the temporary officer selected to preside over the convention. Neither the central committee nor the temporary chairman has been, or should be, vested with authority to determine the membership of the convention. As well might the chairman of the national committee determine the right of members of congress to sit In the senate or house of representatives.

The duly accredited members of the convention should determine the right of the contested members to sit In the convention and take part In Its deliberations. This custom, so long followed, should not be ignored or abandoned until a better method shall he deemed advisable. All rontests f'r seals In the convention should be heard und determined before district caucuses shall be held, and the membership of the state central committee be made up after the convention shall have determined who are to constitute Its membership. Hon. J.

B. Marsh of Union county, wrote: The authority of the state central committee ends with making provision for housing the delegates, preparing a roll of the counties having unquestioned and uncontested delegations and calling the convention to order. The convention in first instance is the body of unquestioned or uncontested delegates. As thus constituted it has the authority to organize by selection of temporary chairman and appointment of committee on credentials and usual officers, such as secretary, sergeant at arms, etc. The custom of providing temporary officers for the convention and suitable quarters for district caucuses is permissible onlv In cases where the number of contestants is relatively small and decision as to them will not materially affect the proceedings of the gathering.

As it now appears (June 21) the. convention about to assemble will he at variance with the known views of the majority of the mem. hers of the. state central committee. In other words, the views of the rank and file of the party as expressed in selection of delegates are not In accord with those of the state committee.

Therefore it would be, impolitic for the committee to forestall the action of the convention by selection of temporary chairman, who by custom is expected to voice the prevailing belief of the party on public questions. It follows from the shove that the delegates who are unquestioned and uncontested have the sole right after providing themselves with the necessary temporary officers and eommittee to pro-reed to form the permanent organiza tion. As an Incident to this end they alone can pass on the eligibility of those seesing aunussion as delegates whose right to seats are contested. It follows, also, that there can be no assembly of delegates In district caucuses until the general caucus of convention has decided who the. lawful delegates really- are, also that the convention lias the right at all stages of the proceedings fo select its own officers free even from nomination or suggestion from state central committee.

Trusting and believing that the political skies will clear before convention day and that by common acclaim one fac tion or the other will be accorded control and unseemly and uurepublican squabble 'he averted, i am, yours very truly. ring up needless controversy, is prepared to come before any committee) on credentials and present the evidence that leads him to believe that the standpatters did not secure a fair majority of the delegates. Senator Maytag is a republican who Is entitled to be heard. He may be right, and he may be wrong, hut In either event he cannot be turned away from the doors of a republlcun convention. Would the Representative demand that he be set down to counterbalance such a contest as that in Allamakee, where a man of local standing will appear to say that the progressive delegation was not legally selected? To make such a trade as the Representative suggests would be merely to put a premium on trickery In republican politics.

It would be to allow the manipulators of fake contests to accomplish the very thing the fake contests were inaugurated to accomplish. It would be to allow finessu to overthrow honest majorities, and shrewd manipulation to defeat the popular will. There Is only one way to peace anl harmony, and that Is in submission to tho will of the majority. The standpatters insisted on the caucus and convention, and they must abide by their election. There is no way by which a majority can compromise away Its rights without becoming contemptible.

The Representative knows that It would be heralded from one end of the land to the other that tho progressives had the votes and did not know how to use them If they should consent to any scheme by which the minority was put in control of the convention. Let the fake contests be dropped. Let them be burled in the contempt of the honest republican sentiment of the state. Let the contests that repv rest-nt real differences he heard and considered, or their differences pacified by reasonable compromise. Then let the will of the majority be recorded.

That la the way of the fathers, and it is the way to peace in Iowa. There is no other way. POPULAR CAMPAIGN FUND. Omaha Bee: The Initial appeal of the republican national congressional committee for financial support directly to tho Individual party voters harmony with the spirit of President leadership, and it should Weomed and responded to by loyal as a genuine sign of better daj of party management and government The demand has gone forth that tU management of all political parties shall be representative of the popular will. This demand Implies the correlative duty of popular support of the party organization.

To maintain an educational campaign through press and stump in all the debatable congressional districts of the country and to organize the means of getting the party strength nut to register and to vote is a heavy burden, requiring In the aggregate no small outlay of money, even when the expense is restricted t-tlie legitimate minimum. There has been a memorable revulsion of popular sentiment against the undue influence of corporate wealth In all the party organizations, poth as regards national and local government, because of their claims to special consideration In return for contribution to campaign funds. It is, therefore, necessarily Incumbent upon the mass of republicans to show at least some fraction of the interest In the public good that great corporations have shown in Influencing government to their own selfish concerns, and certainly to supply the means of maintaining the policy, illustrated by the president, which they profess to approve. The movement for party management, untrammeled by corporation dictation, will have been largely in vain if. when it comes to the pinch, the voters as individuals relapse Into Indifference and withhold the resources Indispensable to campaigns.

The republican campaign committee, in its appeal for a popular subscription of Jl each from the rank and file, pertinently says: "The congressional campaign must be based on the administrative and legislative record of the party, and, that being so. Theodore Roosevelt's personality must be the central figure and his achievements a. central thought In the campaign." The Issue is direct and tho individual response to the appeal for support of the party organization on this basis will in a measure test populur sincerity. A Suspicious Silence. Chicago News: Judging from the silence we have been hearing from Iowa of late, the politician have used up all their campaign thunder.

Not So Far as It Looks. Lincoln Star: The railroad maps show that it isn't near so far to Des Moines as it seems when we look up from the bottom of the baseball pile. HER SUMMER STUNT. His has got her trunk all packed Ker a season at the beach; Her suit cases all are stacked There with piles o' stuff In each. She allows she'll get a catch if pa's purse strings ain't too tight; Pa says If she'll make a match, The expense will be all right.

She has got six ba.thin' suits, That she bought fer just a song; I have seen 'em-gee! they're beauts, Though they don't look none too long. An' her dresses well, I know Pa kicked when the bill wis sent; But If she ran land a beau He will think It's cash well spent. Then elje had to go an' git Twelve or fifteen swell shirt waists, 'Cuz If she's to make a hit She must suit all kinds o' tastes. An' what might strike some young chap Maybe wouldn't please the next; An' she don't want no mishap When she starts to git annexed. Then she got all kinds o' stuff Ker sunburn an' freckles, too; If her hands git tanned an' rough, Gee! I wonder what she'll do? Says she's got to look real swell.

An' you bet that ain't no dream! '('us If some guy she'd corral. Gosh! how funny It would seem, She will board at a hotel, Where it costs five plunks a day; If she lands a husband 'well, She says it's the only way. It will make pa's purse look sick. Tore she breaks some feller's heart, But he says he'll muke no kick If she'll only do her part. So she's ready now to go To that swell place at the beach; If she comes back with beau This fall, she won't haf to -each.

Pa says he ll stay home an' grind. Whilo she's down there spendin' cash; Me an' ma. too, stay behind Sister's gone to make a niah. K. A.

Brlnlnstool In Lo IN THE ELEVENTH. Cherokee Times: There Is said to grow In the desert a stately tree with wide spreading branches covered with luxuriant foliage. The unwarned, wesry traveler seeing the grateful shade rushes beneath it and the rustling leaves soon Boothe him to slumber, and then one by one the branches bend and twine around the sleeper until he Is completely enmesh, ed. Escape is Impossible, tentacles pro trude and enter the of the victim und slowly his blood Is absorbed by the tree which tilled with blood releases the now lifeless corpse. And the tree made even more beautiful by Its banquet of blood with rustling leaves Invites the next victim to rest beneath Its shade.

In Sioux City there is a man who may be likened politically to this tree of the desert. He Is attractive, suave, sweet voiced and alluring to the bright young men who come within the radius of his Influence. Once within his grasp there Is little more hope politically for them than for the sleeping man beneath the attractive tree of the desert. This man Is A. F.

Call, the would-be Warwick of the Eleventh congressional district. E. H. Hubbard came within the Influence of this man and became congressman only In name. He had scarcely been elected to his high office than dominated by Call there was a meeting In Sioux City and a machine was attempted to be builded, under Call's dictation, in the Eleventh district which was to eliminate the wishes of the people and be all powerful In political manipulation.

Hubbard was completely enmeshed by the wiley Call, but the people refused to enter the shade of this political cannibal tree and Hubbard became the chief spoil, hjs only chance for renomlnatlon lying In doing all he can to give the people a "square deal" in the republican state convention which convenes Aug. 1 at Pes Moines. Then there are E. A. Burgess, Fred Sargeant and Kd Corhett, all bright young men of whom the people of this states, especially of this congressional district, had a right to expect much, but they were lured to rest under the shade of this cannibal political tree and they are now about as useless politically as Is the remains of the victim of the desert tree.

Corhett, who on his own merit deserved well, was repudiated by his county chiefly because Call advocated his cause and employed the Call methods to further It. In a meeting of the Woodbury county delegates to the Judicial convention, the press reports, both the Sioux City Journal and Tribune, show these bright young men at Call's dictation opposing leaving to the Woodbury county bar the recommendation of a successor to Judge Kennedy, and attempting to gag opposition to Call's candidate by envok-Ing the unit rule. The scheme failed and In all probability the wishes of the Woodbury county bar will be observed In naming Kennedy's successor. If not the other counties of the district will take a hand In the matter and help Sioux City In naming a man who will have the qualities and independent spirit which should go with this office, and a man will be selected who will de district Judge and not Call's henchman. To warn unwary travelers against the deadly desert tree signs are erected by those posted as to the danger.

And ail around the political cannibal tree are be-ing erected warning signs and being thus warned it is to 'be hoped that fresh victims will not be lured and the tree will die from lack of nutriment. SENATOR DOLLIVER ON THE NEW RATE LAW. Topeka Capital: This week's Independent has a terse statement by Senator Dolliver of "The Battle over the Railway Rate Bill." Nebody is better qualified to give such a summary. Starting with the proposition that since the Civil war the ration had been Intent on "rebuilding the waste places and restoring the losses Incident to civil strife" and that "the universal motto has been 'Make and the tendency has grown to add to it the watchword of greed In all Hges. "honestly.

If you can-tuit make the Iowa senator remarks that "th9 American people by a spontaneous movement, which Illustrates the moral health of the community as a whole, have summoned the entire market place to the bar of public opinion, to answer whatever questions may be asked as to the methods and practices of the business world nor will the Investigation he ended until every form of fictitious and fraudulent dealing has been driven Into the light of day." The new rate bill is only one of many illustrations, Senator Dolllvr adds, of the coining ordeal through which our great corporations must pass in order to make their operations acceptable to tho eighty millions of people who are at once their customers and their judges. One-sixth cf the national wealth is represented In the American railway system, "a system no longer divided In Interest, hut Joined together by innumerable legal devices Into a compact organisation. This gradual amalgamation of the transportation lines. much of it accomplished in violation of law and often accomplished by arbitrary additions to the sum total of tho stocks and bonds upon which the public Is expected to pay dividends and Interest," was first exposed by President Roosevelt In the Northern Securities suit. By this introduction Senator Dolliver connects the rate agitation and legislation with the times, showing how they relate to American history since the Civil war.

This legislation Is In the course of evolution, part and parcel of the general forward march of history. Any petty explanation of it, as due to demagogy or political ambitions or temporary ebullition of feeling misses the point entirely. UPTON SINCLAIR'S MODEL COLONY. Rochester Post-Express: Upton Sinclair, who achieved reputation through his Zolaeequs novel. The Jungle, which purports to he a faithful portrait of Chicago's I'ackinglown, is much In the public eye at present.

lie is dramatizing his story of the sharrihles. Is a candidate for congress on a socialistic, ticket, and is promoter In chief of what might be called an L'topla, IJniited. He proposes to organize an Ideal colony in wheh the paramount problems of the day such as the domestic problem, the servant girl problem, the baby-rearing problem, the pure food problem and a dozen others will be solved by co-operation of Interests. His Idea Is that congenial people shall form themselves Into groups for co-operative housekeeping; that a common table shall be maintained, thus concentrating the cost of cooking materials and their preparation; that the children of the colony shall be herded together and cared for by nurses appointed by the colonists; that the Utopians shall grow their own vegetables, and so far as practicable provide the necessaries of life from their own land. One feature of the scheme Is an Utopian slaughter house In which only healthy and wholesome animals shall be converted Into sirloins, chops, roasts and sausage.

The general plan Is to tbny a large tract of land not many miles from New York and build cottages and various large 'buildings. We do not believe that Mr. Sinclair's dream of a domestlo l'topla will 'be realized In the present conditions of society. He Is a very young man who has very much to learn. It Is a task more difficult than writing books to persuade a sufficient number of people to put their money Into a oo-operatlve scheme and to submerge their own tastes and predilections for the common good.

These schemes always start off brilliantly enough, with blare of drums and fanfare of trumpets; but because men are men and women are women, the Invariable end Is failure. In time differences arise, and once there Is ft breach such a colony Is doomed. The plans look well on paper but do not work out well In practice. Another Crisis Coming, Atlanta Journal: That is a novel campaign Winston Churchill Is conducting In New Hampshire, but It has not reached the crisis, "Fortunately, or unfortunately. It has been my lot In life as an old newspaper man to attend and often report and sometimes take part In political conventions." remarked Will Porter yesterday.

luirlng a period of some fifty years and more there have come under my observation many funny things and some not to funny. Hut one of the funniest Is to see you younger and some older men solemnly debating over the powers of a state committee. "So far as 1 know, and It has been my business as a newspaper man to know something, the same rules apply to the democratic as to the republican party. The state committee of cither party has certuin duties to perform when the stats convention Is not In session. When the convention assembles they are out of business for Ihe time being, a member of the committee, unless he Is a delegate, bus no right upon the rionr; he can neither speak nor vote, und If he does either he doeii it not as a member bf the committee but simply ns a delegate.

"How a state committee can assume to itself the power to decide lio are and who are not members of a state conven tion knocks us out. That committee has not the power of even selecting the temporary chairman of Ihe convention. It Is true they have In both parties been In the habit, for convenience and to give Ihe temporary chairman a chance to prepare his speech, of doing this, but no convention, republican or democratic, ever gave the committee this power as a right. The committee may mime a man for temporary chairman, but If the conven tion wnts to it can elect another man. The chairman of the committee can call Ihe convention to order, read the call.

mid then say 'What Is the further pleas ure of the convention? The convention can let him go further, or stop him right there, lie Is down and out, legally and otherwise, when he has simply called the convention to order and given them this start In their work. 'The idea that a state committee can pass upon the credentials and decide contested cases, hear testimony, ap pears to me a novel proceeding, even In republican convention. Republicans might allow this, but wouldn't the unlerrlfled democracy howl If any such game was attempted to he played upon them? it would perhaps be very kind and considerate for the state committee relieve the convention from Ihe neces sity of appointing a commute on credentials and waiting for hours perhaps for the report, of that committee, but this kindness and consideration would be all thrown away. The probability is the curses would be a thousand to one of the thanks. "The convention, when assembled.

Is a law unto Itself. It Is not bound In anv way by the action of any previous stale convention. It can do whatever it deems fit and proper In platforms, nominations, etc. It can abolish, if it wants to, entire state committee wipe the niemleis thereof entirely off the political slate. It can make a new committee of one, or fifty, or of one hundred, if a majority of the delegates think this Is the proper thing to do.

It Is in theory the republican party of Iowa assembled together In a delegate convention and Its acta are binding upon the members of the party. It, and not any committee or man or set of men. Is the supreme republican party power In Iowa." "Today I was looking over Ihe list of all the men who were In ties Moines in June, 1MH, when Judge Casady came," snld I F. Andrews yesterday, "and he is the only one living. Kd Clapp being the last to go at the call which will come to all of us.

"There was the judge. Ed Clapp, Tom Baker, Major McKay, A. D. Jones. Martin Tucker, W.

Ayers, Fete Myers, Tom Mc.Mullen. Addison Cave. George Michael, Addison Michael, J. M. Thrift.

Rill Deford, William Busick, William Buslck, Walt Clapp, Jim Campbell. Burrell Campbell, Dr. T. K. Brooks, B.

T. Hoxle, Hub Hoxle, Ahner Rsthbun, Ezra Rathbun, Jonathan Rathbun, W. H. Meacham, J. H.

Scott. Alex Scott, lr. P. B. Fagau.

W. J. Krazce, Major McKenzle. Corporal Hill, R. W.

Sypher, Alexander N. Hayes, all of whom were prominently Identified with the business enterprises of the iwn for many years and mude their Impression upon It. "While It must be a source of gratification to the Judge that he Is the only connecting link between the present and that month of June, that he is spared to enjoy the fruition of Ihe hope and expectations of that day, there surely must come deep shadows as he reads this roster and views the pictures which hang on the walls of memory. It Is not given to many to so span the sixty years' life of a city from Its -r -r "North Dakota has had an unusual amount of rain this season." remarked L. A.

Jester, who has Just returned from a trip through the Dakotas. "We drove through many ponds and sloughs In a drive of several miles across country and 1 was surprised. They have had much more rain thsn we have had here and as a rule, you know, that section is not so wet as thlB. "Their crops are looking fine and prices good. The prices on land continue to advance.

There Is more railroad development through the Dakotas this vear than through sny other section of the country and this Is helping to iboost the prices of land, of course. Train loads of land seekers are going in there. They will not only have a big wheat crop, but a big gra-s crop ss well." -i- "Waterloo will entertain the democraflc state convention right," said W. W. Marsh, emphatically, yesterday when iri Des Moines.

"We would like to have tho delegates come early and stay late, two or three days for thst matter. We have tents which we can put up along the Cedar river, If necessary, and make a regular outing of It. The hotels will be In fine shape for entertaining the delegates, however." Mr. Marsh refused to be quoted on any polltcal views, but he is optimistic. In his political outlook as In everything else.

H- -r -t- "We will be at the republican state eon. ventlon all right," said P. Spill-man of Ottumwa, In Des Moines yester-day. dlscuislng the contest which the standpatters have organized Wapello county against the regularly elected Cummins delegation. "We have no doubt but what we will be seated in the convention.

Our cause is right and the right will prevail in a republican gathering. The sentiment In, Wapello county Is with us. The people there realize that the standpatters had not sufficient grounds for their st-tempt to overthrow in the victory we won and many of those who would naturally line up with that side, In an brdinary contest, sympathize with us on the principle of a square deal. That la all we ssk, and that we demand. The republicans of Iowa will see that we get it." -S- 'There Is ut one thing for the majority of the republican state convention to do," said E.

D. Chassell of Imars, In Des Moines yesterday, speak of the situation as It exists. The fact ihat the management of the standpst campaign persists In tho fake contests instituted by Mr. Hunter Is sufficiently significant of what they expect to do with tho organisation of the convention; and there Is nothing Tor the majority to do, of course, under those clrrunistiinoes, but to organise the convention. "The courtesy which has ibeen extended to the stnte committee to recommend a temiwirnry chairman hns not been abused in former years and those who favor the organization of the convention by the majority of the delegates only propose It because of the fact that the opposition Insists on keeping up the fake contest progrnmme.

With such a programme ss that in view, the majority of the conven-ton should Insist on effeetng Its own organization. There no reason which iii.il'.cF. it obligatory on the majority to sl-low the minority to substitute Itself for the majority under the guise of fake contests, for. if the policy of fake contests were practiced by both sides Instead of one, thers could be no convention at (The Iowa State. Register, established (The Die Moines Leader, established 1849.) BY THE REGISTER AND LEADER CO.

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WHERE POWER LIES. Ptirlng the coming few days there will be discussion of the powers ana duties of the state central committee. This will be a valuable and timely discussion. For It will disclose that In fact the central committee has little real power, and that in so far as handicapping a convention by preliminary regulations it has no power whatever. There has an assumption grown up around the state central committee, not without reason.

The interests which have their own purposes in wanting to direct the public will always prefer a small and compact body to deal with. The more the power of a political organization can be concentrated In the hands of a few men the easier to deal with any situation. Therefore, every assumption of authority is sanctioned. In the end a dozen men are frequently persuaded to take the reins in their own hands and decide what the representatives of the people shall and hall not do. It Is well occasionally to be brought back to the starting point.

It is well to recognize that it is the people who are the seat of power, and that they have no representatives excepting those who are delegated by them. A Ktate central committee Is the creature of the state convention, not the state convention the creature of the state central committee. The state convention can abolish the state central committee, it can make it over, It can prescribe the limits of Its authority, in fact it can do anything with it It pleases. The state central committee is like any other committee, permitted to act at the pleattstire of the convention that, commissions it. The Impression has been studiously conveyed that the state central committee can seat or unseat delegates In the coming convention by passing in advance on the credentials.

This would make the state central committee for all practical purposes the source of political authority. This is what certain Interests In Iowa would like. This is what certain Influences in Iowa have attempted to establish. It was when James E. Blythe was chairman of the committee that tho custom was inaugurated of having the permanent chairman of the state convention as well as the temporary chairman named In advance.

The convention arose in rebellion at this usurpation of authority. It is not too early to be from Missouri as to some other things. The people are fortunately still the source of political power In this state, and next to them stand the men who have been specifically delegated to speak for them. The delegate Is the unit of authority, and the delegate makes and unmakes state central committees. No one can unseat the delegate, And no one can pass on the right of the delegate to act but the convention itself.

This is a fundamental matter In all representative government, the rule of congress, the rule of the state legislature, the rule of common sense. There has been altogether too much of government from the top down In the political management of the state, it is time that we revert to the old rule of government from the bottom up. The people, are supreme, and the pop. ular will is the law of conventions. If the people have delegated a majority, then the majority cannot be unseated by all the committees that can be appointed.

And to determine whether the people have delegated this majority the convention Itself Is the judge. AN AMERICAN DREYFUS. A conespondent of the New YorU Evening Post calls attention to the fact that the restoration to service and promotion of Captain Dreyfus comes at the same time that America has made sentimental vindication of a man injured even more than Captain Dreyfus. The correspondent refers to Major General Fltz John Porter, to whom a monument was unveiled at Portsmouth, N. July first.

Fleading for the bestowal of a pension upon General Porter's widow, the Post's correspondent compares the Porter and Dreyfus cases: Dreyfus whs a young officer who was suspected, tried, and convicted, and severely punished, General Porter was a veteran of distinction who had been wounded In the service of his country, and by his genius had added to Its laurel's. Yet in the hour of his triumph, he. Hon. A. J.

Baker of Appanoose county, wrote: i When the campaign committee has determined upon the time and place of holding the stats convention and upon the ratio of representation and made putim the rail. Its functions and authority over the mutter ceases. It can legally nave no voice through Its members or officers In the organization of the convention after it has assembled, or In naming or choosing any of the ofth era of the convention, temporary or permanent; for the reason thill as an orgiinizucmi me is not a member of the convention, nor are its oftlceta members of the. convention by reason, cf the fact that they are fuch officers, 'iiist the convention when assembled has the si lo rlshi to determine what officers it wt.l have, snd to nominate and elect them In tno manner It may choose, Is axiomatic, as Is also the fact that the convention Is the sole Judge of the election Bed qualification of Its members. On the assembling of the convention It has become a custom for the chairman of the campaign committee to cal it to order and announce or read lie cull; and then ask who they will have for their temporary chairman, and it nomination Is made, put the question to the invention.

This, however. Is not a mutter ot right of the committee or chnircian. but of rourteev and sufferance on the. part of the convention. Sometimes the chairman suggests the name of some prominent republican for temporary chairman, as having been recommended by the committee.

It has never been claimed, however, that a committee could mime and seat a temporary chairman for the convention as a matter of right. Instances have occurred in state conventions of which I have been a member when the recommendation so made was rejected by the convention and the body proceeded to nominate and elect different person as temporary chairman. When a delegate convention Is assembled it Is always necessary to know who are the legal members und entitled to a voice and a vote. To determine this, a temporary organization is proper. Any one claiming to he a member can name and move the appointment of a temporary chairman, and the chairman of tho campaign committee, having called tho convention to order, would be a proper person to put the question to vote.

lie has. however, no right to decide any questions of onler that may arise, tor he is not the presiding officer of the convention. If there Is reason to apprehend that there are persons present claiming to be delegates who are not entitled to so recognized a proper motion would be to have a call of the counties for tho purpose of ascertaining how many are represented bv accrediled delegates. As this call proceeds il will develop whether or not there are contesting or rival delegations from anv of the counties, certified credentials from a county convention, regular upon their face and signed by the proper officers of the convention. Is prima facia evidence of I he right, of delegates named therein to participate In the deliberations of the convention; but If Wiere are two sets of delegates from the same county, each holding credentials so apparently regular upon their face, then It Is clear that one of them Is not entitled to he seated, and as there is no authority to determine that question until after the temporary organization has been completed and a committee on credentials appointed, to whom the question will be referred, it must be that both those delegations stand aside until the convention has determined the question between them.

If there Is but one dele-gallon from a county holding credentials it goes without saying that the members of that delegation have a right to vote in the temporary organization. A protest or notice of contest by persons not themselves holding some kind of accredited credentials mid claiming to be the legal delegation would not affect the right to the prima facia delegation to participation. Hon. Z. A.

Church of Greene county wrote: The proper test by which It may be known whether a contest is genuine or spurious can not be given by me. The cases In conventions tor Individual counties differ so much that no rnle can be given except to treat all contests as genuine and submit, them to the committee on credentials, and if they do not give satisfactory report let the convention approve or reject it. I go upon Ihe supposition that the voice of the majority Is the voice to be followed. I know of no other rule to take Its place. The contests should be settled by the vote of the uncontested delegations.

This Is the rule thst has been followed at all times in the past in this state and 1 know of no reason for changing It now. Hon. Marsh W. Bailey of Washington county In an extended lelter declares for having the state committee make up a temporary roll of delegates to the convention and suggesting that the district caucuses should not select the new committee until after the contests had been decided In the convention. As to whether a contest Is genuine or spurious, "I would suggest that certainly," he wrote, "a contest Is not a genuine one where the friends or forces of the contesting delega-tlon do not have, after conceding to them nil they claim, a majority of the delegates to the county convention which selected the delegation." Hon.

C. G. Saunders of Pottawattamie also, In a long letter discussing various phases of the question, declared for a temporary roll to be made by the committee, and stating his belief thst the temporary organization thus made up win nave tno rtgnt to vote upon all contests except that no delegation will have the right to vote in ihe contest that involves Its own seat." A number of other letters from republicans of the state, not written for puhll-cation, discuss various points of the controversy which has become state wide since the original query was written. The news oi republicans of widely different factional preferences was sought so as to develop ail phases of the question. ten miles from my destination, I dlscov ered to my Intense horror that I whs ing followed by a pack of wolves.

I fired uoimiy mio me pack, killing one of the brutes, and to iieliwi. slop to devour It. After doing this, how- i-vci, tuey suit came on. I kept on repeating the dose, with the same result, and each occasion gave me an opportunity to whip up my horses. Finally there was only one wolf left, yet on It rame, with its fierce eyes glaring In anticipation not supper.

Hern the man who h.H hAn the corner burst forth Into a fit of laugh- n'l "Why. man." reckoning, that last wolf must have 'had oi me pacg inside of him!" "Ah!" Slid tbS red-fnnAH a tremor, "now I remember It did wobble a. on. Jimmy' mother was surprised to see him heading toward the flower yard with a garden rake. "Why, Jimmy!" she exclaimed, "what on esrtn are you going to do with that rage "I am going to rake your flower pot, answered the youngster.

"What for?" demanded the mother. "Why, for money." was the "I heard papa tell Uncle Harry thar he ragea a pot Isst night and got $50." AS THEY LIKE IT, Topeka Capital: One great tronbl Is inn rain mat saves tile corn also renders the baseball grounds for ilay. crop unfit Toledo Blade; It will not greatly bother me nevii to tmnk that he has been ellm mated from the billboards. It was never ansouiteiy necessary for him to advertise, anyway. Kansas City Journal: In Venice recently hnllstones fell go large that I hey killed the cats on the roofs of the houses.

If there Is any way of coaxing those Venetian hailstones across the Atlantic, let's have 'em. Ios Angeles Times: When a candidate for congress displHVS the Knircrvelt brand it might be well for the discerning voter to examine the spot snd see hether the brand was burned In or Just painted thr for special purposes and the time being. HIGHLAND PARK COLLEGE. To have taken a tract of prairie and erecting thereon seven substantial buildings announce to the world that a new college was opened and solicited patronage, and then to continue for sixteen years, meeting all the thousand and one vexatious problems that beset such an institution looking after the mental, moral and physical welfare of hundreds of young people, with ever increasing success, and without a single cent of endowment, either from state, organization or Individual, is an achievement of which any man may well be proud. This is the record of success of President O.

H. Longwell, of Highland Tark college, which inaugurates Its annual commencement season tomorrow. There is really no good reason why a collego or university cannot be run on purely business principles, the same as a factory or department store, yet it has remained for the past few years to prove this. There may as well be brain factories as boot and shoe factories. A college president occupies virtually the same position as factory superintendent or a department store manager.

The successful collepe presidents of today are those who combine business acumen with erudition, an ability to look after the financial welfare of their institution as well as mental welfare of their students. A church or millionaire willing to stand behind a school and see that it Is kept alive whether there is need of it or not cannot, be located every day. Are the ambitious youth of the land to be denied the means of education because of this? At Highland Park college sixteen years of existence and some 25.000 students have proved that education can be made to pay. A new field of activity has been opened. A small, select school with some twenty to one hundred students has been found profitable; why not a great college or university; to compare favorably with those endowed by churches and millionaires or supported by the state? It Is a matter of satisfaction to both the school and the city In which It Is located that President Longwell's views have been vindicated.

Highland Park college has appealed to the boys and girls of the farms of the midwest; It has educated those who have had to pay their own way, to count the cost of everything and thote are the ones who value their education and get the most out of It. Its students have gone forth to do the actual, practical work of the busy world; its Influence has been felt throughout the entire mid-west. THE ONLY WAY. The Nevada Representative, which is entitled to be taken seriously, hints at what has been for some days believed to be the final play of the Hunter committee. It Is that the progressive leaders shall agree to abandon their claims In Wapello, Jasper and Jefferson counties in consideration of the abandonment of tho fake contest programme on the part pt, their opponents.

In other words, the Representative is willing to establish a precedent by which a faction In the party foreseeing defeat can institute fraudulent contests and then In the Interests of harmony Insist on being given a large share of what It has lost, as the price of being good. Or, to state it in the parlance of business, one man is to be allowed to steal half of what the other owns and then on an agreement to return the property secure half of what Is left by way of reward. In Wapello county Major Spillman Is ready to appear before any committee and present his claim that tho county wag not carried for the stand patters. Major Spillman Is a republican of character and ftanding. He has been a wheel horse for twenty-five years.

He may be right, and he may be wrong. But he is certainly entitled to a fair Bearing. Shall he be turned out of the convention without a hearing to pacify a situation ere. ated by such a contest as that In Carroll, where not a single local citizen whose word is entitled to credence dare show his head in defense of the fr.mil thai, is contemplated? In Jasper county Senator Maytag, who is a candidate for re-election, and who has no person! interest In stir STORIES PICKED UP. She's awfully sweet.

Her cheeks are like peaches. She hag cherry lips. Her breath is nectar. Her hair is like yellow corn. Her eyes are like blackberries.

She Is perfectly delicious In French dressing. Her complexion is a delicate cream. I love to toast her. She's a honey. 1 sometimes feel as though I would like to press her to Jelly.

But If I did, would she be cordial? Life. At an employment bureau, an Irish girl was asked regarding her past record. She gave satisfactory replies to all the questions, but had no reason for leaving the place she had last held. Finally she was asked pointblank: "Now tell me did you have any words with your mistress that led to your giving up the position?" "NIver a wor'rd, sor," she was quick to respond "nivir a wor'rd, shttre; OI Jlst quietly locked the dure In the bathroom whin she was Insolde, tuk me things, sor, and lift the place." Old Joe, a farmer, was noted for the many ways he had of skimping and saving. One day he hired a big country noy to help him with his work.

The boy reported for duty at 8:30 o'clock In the morning, and Old Joe sat him down to breakfast. After the lad had finished the meal, the sharp old farmer said, "What do you say If we eat dinner while we are at It?" As the boy agreed they fell to and ate a little more. Then seeing that the youngster could ent no more Old Joe suggested, "Suppose we finish up and eat supper, too." 'All right," assented the lad, and he managed to swallow another crust of bread. "Now, let's get to work." shouted the gleeful farmer, thinking of the saving In meals he had made. "No," returned the boy, "I never work after supper.

A mans time is his own then." A red-faced man was holding the atten-tlon of a little group with some wonderful recitals. "The most exciting chase I vr had." he said, "happened few years ago In Rutsia. Ons night, when sleighing- about.