Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-22
SENATORIAL gINOSUR[
Attention Of the Managers Turned
70 the Probable Action Of
Pottawattamie.
Moral Influence Of That County Will
Have Considerable Eject on
Contest.
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Prof. Heron Refuses to Be a Popu-
list Candidate For Governor
Of Iowa.
pecial to rimes-Republican.

generals are giving q SoOu oedl VI III
tention these days to Pottawattamie
county. The managers on neither side
admit it, but the general public has q
notion that Pottawattamie is likely to
prove the pivotal county in the fight.
It's convention has not yet been called.
Two representatives and senator will
be nominated, and the moral influence
Of the result will be even larger than
was that Of Woodbury. county, whose
emphatic declaration for Cummins put
nerve into the hackers of the Des
Moines man. Both sides are working
like beavers to get their organizations
perfected. The Cummins people claim
that the same elements that carried the
county year ago and instructed Its
delegation for Webb Byers for congress-,
will be for Cummins this year. The Gear
men say the second convention will be
a good deal like the first one, which q
few weeks ago met to name delegates
to the state convention and passed Gear
resolutions with only one or two dis
senting votes. At any rate, it will be
the hardest fought battle OF the cam
paign thus far. Charley Saunders,
county attorney, is the Cummins candi-
date. The Gear men do not appear to
have decided whom they will present.
Not much senatorial politics is slated
| for this week. Cerro Gordo county will
hold it's convention on Saturday, to
nominate county ticket, including a
member of the legislature. This county
is likely to present a contest; in fact 1t
lis reported that a very lively one is all
ready in progress Fremont county,
which Is commonly put in the conceded
Gear list, will hold it's convention to-
morrow, and the Cedar-Jones senatorial
| district is slated to hold it's convention
| today. Decatur, another Eighth district
county will meet Saturday. Decatur has
been considered one Of the most closely
divided counties in the Eighth, the
Cummins element being strong there.
But 1t is in the Eighth.
| Something like half the districts have
named their republican candidates for
| the next legislature. The rest will come
along in rapid succession during Sep
1 TENDER.
The Western Passenger Association
i has succeeded in making itself painfully
unpopular with the old soldiers of this
section. Delegates to the Union Veter-
ans Union encampment say the attend
/ ance will not be half so large as ex-
4 pected, because the railroads failed te
give the rates that We're asked. and 1t is
claimed, promised The G. A. r. of al
the western states is uniting In pro-
/ test to the association against the rate
announced for the Philadelphia en-
campment. 1t has been customary t.
i give rate of one fare for the ROUND
trip. This was granted by the roads
east Of Chicago, but western lines added
an arbitrary 81 to the one-fare rate
which occasions the protest.
4
The members of the U. " U. who are
in the city for their contemporaries
opening today are not squeamish. They
say their organization is strictly for po-
litical purposes; that 1t is intended t.
draw the old soldiers together to use
4 their ballots for their greatest advan-
| tage Congressman Yoderof Ohio will bt
here to help do some organizing in favor
of the per diem service pension bill, OF
which he is the promoter. and which hi
proposes to pay to every soldier a mini
mum pension. monthly of 1 cent pei
day for the time he was in service. A
four-years man would thus receive s14.
so month, and one-yeer man 1855.
Il
Prof George D. Heron, of Iowa Col
lege, will not be candidate for COVER
nor this year. This may be classified
II - or,, 10 +t,a OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES that y.
true il important" II will be recalled
that Chairman "A. w. c. Weeks, of tn,
middle of-the-road populists, some tim,
ago declared in an Interview that he re
garded Professor Heron as the idea
man to lead the party ticket this year
Then he would have platform declar
ing for the naturalization of the trusts
Instead Of denouncing the trust as ,
creature Of evil he would accept it. ad
NIT that 1T is good thing if handled Il
the right way, and have the government
run it for the common good instead o
having the capitalist run 1t Tor his owl
profit. In short, he proposed q commu
nistic regime.
Full Of enthusiasm occasioned by tn
fine line of press comment attracted t,
this novel pronouncement, Mr.. Week
went off to Grinnell and interviewed
Professor Heron. He showed the pro
lessor that the time was come for hin
to offer himself on the political altar
He showed that Mr.. Heron has been s.
we'll advertised that to become candi
date for governor of great state Xix
Iowa, on any old ticket. would Instant.
mark him as the national socialisti
leader. With socialistic sentimen
growing as Mr.. Weeks believes it nov
is, this might mean almost anything
man might want in politics before man.
. years.
But Mr.. Weeks promising enterpris
was nipped by an August frost, accord
ing to reports. Professor Heron wa
not yearning for political distinction
He didn't just see how he could con
tinue his classroom lambastings of tn
wicked politician, and at the same tim
run for Office as the nominee of vii
and degenerate political party. TIL
professor, unlike the patriots who "als
ran" for the gubernatorial nomination
in the late democratic convention
didn't care TO be a sacrifice.
Mr.. Weeks says his party will dray
back into line most of those member
who have fused in recent years. Their