The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-08-06
JOHN 4. GEARS SUCCESSOR
DIFFICULT FOR IOWA GOVERNOR
TO MAKE SELECTION.
IL an Extra Session of the Legisla-
ture Il Called the Candidates
VIII BE Cummins, DoIIiver, Per-
kins, Lacey, Cousins and Hepburn

DIES MONIES, Ia. Aug. 5.-Gov. Shaw is
not much nearer a solution of the sena-
torlal problem brought about by the death
OF Senator Gear than he was a week ago,
though he has been in constant receipt
OF Information and advice Some OF
the latter has come from postmasters in
favor or their creators, the congressman.
The governors. chief desire is to make
such an appointment or other solution of
the question az will be creditable to the
state and satisfactory TO the people He
has put his own personal ambition behind
him in this business. and II may be said
with authority that Gov. Shaw does not
consider this to be his time to run for
the senate. He occupies semi-Judicial
position, where great and varied interests
are submitted to him for a sort Of arbi-
tration.
The governors appointments in the past
including the board OF control. have been
made without any view to building up his
personal strength. and have been with the
single purpose of helping the party and
securing the best public service II there
is any chance for Leslie NJ. Shaw to go
to the senate, It will be because the Re-
publicans of the state. having had the
opportunity, are unable TO agree upon any
other man. Some politicians think the
situation is such that this might be the
result.
Should an extra session be called In No
vember the avowed candidates will be
Messrs. Cummins. Dolliver. Perkins,
though 1t is said the latter ..oes not a.
sire to be candidate, Others mentioned
are Congressman Hull and former Cows.
his friends insist that he has a perrecr
right TO do so IL he wishes. is not likely
to be candidate before a session OF the
Legislature called together by himself.
Mr. Doliiver would have the Tenth dis
-trict and Mr.. Perkins the Eleventh, with
the possibility Of an exception In either
This would come out Of the Cummins
expected to have votes in the Ninth and
Fourth which he did not have then.
The members Of this legislature were
chosen when only Messrs. Gear and Cum
minis were candidates, and the fierce
struggle OF that contest finally drove the
Cummins men into compact force, so
that he would have the advantage In an
extra session. The question now upper
most in the minds of politicians IL, how
much of his former strength could he
hold with the new candidates in the field ?
Even his friends will admit that he could
not get. In an open contest with all these
men In O new Legislature as much as he
may be expected to have In the present
| legislature
! The opinion Of the best Judges OF Iowa
politics Is that an extra session in No
vember would be long time electing a
senator. Every candidate would expect
his friends to stand for him as long as
there was the remotest chance Of his sue
cess. This fact is the strongest argument
against an extra session. 1t would have
no business but the senatorshp. AMI II
might easily remain In session for sew
| eral months at cost to the state of at
least 81. 200 day. For this the governor
| would be held responsible. IL would then
be said why didn't the governor cxer-
| else his prerogative and make an ap-
| pointment, so all this expense could have
| been saved%'
The same legislature. made up OF the
same men, must settle the question final
| ly. in any event There Is no doubt of
the ndoption. of the constitutional anne nd