Show llAN LAN AfOOT T TO DITCH CUMMINS owa Governor Likely to Get Short End of Delegates to x State Convention CONTESTS IN TEN COUNTIES STATE COMMITTEE ASSUMES JURISDICTION Des Moines Joines Ia la July SO The Republican can state central committee met today and decided by a vote of or 6 to 3 to sus sustain sustaIn tain tam the action of the chairman of oC the committee in notifying Governor Cum Cummins Cummins Cummins mins that the tho seats of a number of dele delegates delegates gates to the Republican state convention was as contested By the sam same vote the ac action action action tion orf at Chairman Spence In tn calling the present meeting of the state central committee was ratified In both cases It appears app the chairman acted upon his Si 1 wn n responsibility He received a peti 14 lion Hon from adherents of George D Per Pcr kins Iris a candidate for governor giving no notice notice notice tice that the seats of a large lar e number of Cummins delegates would be contested The chairman thereupon sent notice of this fact to Governor Cummins who seeks a Beyond Its Authority The governor replied In a letter deny ing the authority of the state central committee to take up the matter of con contests contests contests tests asserting that it had no jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdiction tion The chairman however sent nol noi no notices tices to several newspapers calling the central committee to meet m et In Des Moines today to consider the contests His ex eZ explanation explanation to the committee was that two or three of the members were in Des DesMoines DesMoines DesMoines Moines at the time and after consulting them and receiving their approval he felt Justified in taking the action he did in order that the delegates whose hose seats were t might ml ht have two or three more moreda Clays da days s notice than they would have had bad If Ife V he e had called the committee together and A submitted Ml to it the petition and the ques question question tion Lien of a call for meeting The i lot Vote ote of 6 to 3 was regarded regard d as an atlon that the committee intended to assume jurisdiction of the contests and to lo hear the contestants and the Cummins f V delegates In case case the latter entered an anS anI S I appearance Nearly Seats Involved There are 1610 delegates entitled to seats eats in the state convention from the ninetynine counties In the state When the committee met today toda there were ten of the tho eleven members present Chairman Spence of course did not vote on the mo me motion motion tion to sustainS sustain his s own action Thomas F an attorney rep the friends rl of ot George Geor e D Per Perkins Perkins kins gave notice of contests in ten coun counties counties counties ties which have ha delegates making Objected b In Boone Boon count coun county with twentY delegates 1 it was claimed that the call for tor the county count convention fi stated that delegates delegate to the judicIal and congressional conventions were to be elected no mention being made mad nad to the state convention though tho the Cummins people assert that tIlls this allega allegation allegation allegation tion Is not founded on the facts As Aa to i Polk county count with delegates It was claimed that It ft as well as Boone had no 10 o legally elected delegation s I f Polk Comity Cou ty Technicality In the Polk county convention a mo me motion motion tion was made that Governor Cummins be ho authorized to name the delegates An amendment was vas as offered looking to a division of the delegation d be between between between tween Cummins and Perkins based on the votes cast when the delegates to the county convention were elected This amendment was Tas laid on the table but the orl motion was carried It was ur ed th that t the tabling of the amendment car cir carried carr r P ned ried with It the original motion and there therefore therefore therefore fore the delegates selected by b Governor Cummins to represent Polk county in the state convention were rot not entitled to scats seats The committee took look up uj and heard a number of cases but reached no conclusion don sion Although Governor Cummins had given notice that he would not be represented represented represented before the committee the chair chairmen chairmen chairmen men of three Cummins delegations dele whose scats are questioned appeared They stat stated stated ed d however that they denied the juris jurisdiction jurisdiction diction of ot the state committee which they contended conten ed bad had no authority to go gob behind b the tho returns simply coming be before fore coIE f re It for the purpose of furnishing such information as may be desired Two Tickets Probable Such a situation as that now existing in ill Iowa lowa is new to the Republicans of this state stale They have never known anything like it before The party Is apparently divided Into two factions one known as the progressives represented by the friends of Governor Cummins and the theother theother 4 other called the who are A adherents of George D Perkins The T feeling on both sides Is very bitter and It h Is not unlikely that there may be twp Republican tickets In the field In Iowa after next Wednesday Although the state central committee has as yet et taken no action looking to the making up of a temporary roll the Cummins adherents say bay If It the contesting Perkins delegates delegate are arc authorized to participate in the tem temm m organization or of the convention the thenon non ui on of the state central committee will b ignored and the legally legall elected Cum ri delegates who claim to have the them majority m will organize the convention as a 5 on as Chairman Spence calls caUs the dele delegates delegates gates to order Wednesday morning Committee Hesitates The talk late tonight indicated that the committee would decide not to let in all nIl of the Perkins contesting delegates It Itis Itis Itis is quite cuite possible it was said that some may be put on the temporary roll but not enough to give the con control control trot of the temporary organization While the majority of ot the committee are un understood understood Understood to be b It was as asserted asserted that there are not Inclined to take any action which may result In two Re Republican publican state tickets and possibly en endanger endanger endanger danger not only on I both tickets but probably probably ably bly two dr three close congressional dis districts distrIcts The friends of Perkins however are still seemingly seeming confident that they be able to control the situation They dUnt on ninety delegates de instructed for Captain Rathburn for governor after the first tji t ballot At a mass meeting of Per PerU Perkins PerkIns kins adherents tonight the th speeches were J I all ll favorable to keeping up the fight to toS Atu A S secure control of the convention and con p I the nominations ns as the con tion was expressed that the opposition F to t Cummins has a majority of the le Ii legally gaily gally elected delegates A large number of the delegates to the convention came in tonight |