The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-11-24
JACKSON TIRED OF OFFICE.
The Governor VIII Not Eea Candidate
N for denomination.

Dies MONIES, Nov. 20. = Governor
Franlt ID. jackson, who has just re-
turned from Il hunting trip in Missis-
sippi with Senator Gear and several
well known politicians, declared i'll an
interview that he would decline a re-
nomination for governor at the hands
of the next republican convention.
upon the grounds of i'll health and calls
FOR his services by the Royal Mutual
Life Insurance company, of which he
Is president.
This announcement will make n Hut
ter mons the republican politician as of
the lIawkeye state who have taken it
for Il %foregoEe conclusion that jackson
would want Il second term. o that
he says ''no," there will be n hustling
utter the job. Governor Jackson says
he doesn't want it. because, his health
has been rnined by the work of the
office and the campaign. 1t will be re-
memhered that during the campaign
he was forced to leave the stump and
go to Hot Springs TO recuperatc. Since
then he has beer anything but u we'll
man, and his friends at times have
feared that he would break down com
pletely.
Now chat he is out of the way, there
will be any amount of candidates for
the Job. Curtis, who beat Congress-
man Hayes in the Second district, will
be backed by his Clinton friends for
the job, and Several politicians in the
northern part of the state have sent
out u feeicr in the Cedar Rapids Re-
publican for Secretary of State William
M. Mcfarland for the job. Mcfarland
has just been reelected, but he will
have the support of the anti-Blythe
wing for the job. just the same. LATE
Young of Des Moines, who was a ca IL
6idate two years ago, doesn't want the
place this year.
In n letter to State Chairman Blythe
the governor says:
With wise, patriotic ana faithful leader
ship, the present victory means twenty
years or more OF uninterrupted republican
supremacy, state and national.
In connection herewith | desire to en-
phasize what | have said to you many
times personally, that the substantial
co~mpensations of a public Office are not
equal to the common demands. ! realized
from personal experience that this sirua-
ton confronted me last year when good
friends were urging me to be n candidate
~ 49, - $500 : "N'
that financially l could not afford ii. L
said so then, and my experience has
confirmed my Judgment as then eN-
pressed. Not unmindfui of what L
owed to my fellow republicans and my
party, the nomination coming 10 me rs sit
aid, l accepted. ldesire now TO turn my
attention to the obligations of my family
and to earn for their comfort and eduea-
ton what the income Of a public office
does not afford.
In saying this am not without appreci-
me, and the still greater honor expressed
by the people of Iowa in my election us
their chief executive. l shall not, there
fore, be a candidate for denomination and
cannot accept the nomination should it DO
rendered me. l am led to make this an
nouncement now, that the republicans OF
the state may be appraised OF my conciu-
sion at this early date that all who desire
to be candidates may have an equally fair
opportunity. Yours very truly,
FRANK ID. JACKSON.