Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-23
Receives Appointment to Gear
Vacancy at Hands of
Gov. Shaw.
NOTIFIED LAST NIGHT
Appointis- Is Satisfactory to All Ex-
cept IT, 1ost Extreme cummins
Men, We E ay They Will Fight Dol
Iiver-sFS SIS unse'fish.

Des Moin, aNug. 23.-Just before
he left the q utive office tonight
Governor Sha Mt the following tel
egram to Hon P. Dolliver, Of Ft.
Dodge, Iowa:
"Have ordered commission made
out appointing you United States SEN
ator. AS soon as prepared it will be
signed and forwarded.
TSignedl Leslie M. Shaw"
This action has been foreshadowed
for several days in these dispatches
and was the most natural solution OF
difficult problem. The appointment
is generally regarded, except by the
extreme personal followers of A. B.
Cummins, as a settlement of the con-
troversy, fair to both the factions in
Iowa republican politics and well cal
culated to restore harmony in the
party.
There is no doubt that the present
intention of the Cummins people is to
fight the appointment in the legisla-
ture and endeavor to elect Mr.. Cum
Minis over Senator Dolliver.
The friends of Governor Shaw and
Mr.. Dolliver have no doubt whatever
of Mr.. Delivers election to the full
term by the legislature. The present
appointment is for the unexpired term
of Senator Gear, which expires next
March.
At that time Governor Shaw will
again appoint Mr.. Dolliver to succeed
himself until the legislature shall
meet to elect his successor. If the
constitutional amendment doing away
with annual elections which is to be
voted upon this fall is carried, tie
present legislature will hold another
session in 1902, and elect the sena-
tor. There is very little doubt of the
adoption of the amendment.
cummins' Chances Would Be Small.
Mr.. Cummins would have a much
smaller chance of success with new
legislature elected under present con-
ditions than he would have with the
members elected when only he and
Senator Gear were candidates. Upon
that issue he secured number of
votes in the tenth district, the home
,f Clou nv nn11iynYs
Some of these men have urged Mr..
Dolliver to stay in the house and let
Mr.. Cummins have the senatorship.
Some of them have even urged the
appointment of Mr.. Cummins against
Mr.. Dolliver. All but one of them,
however, are men who have been in
full harmony and sympathy with Mr..
Dolliver in the past, and have stated
that they have made no pledges that
bound them to oppose the governor S
appointment or that would compel
them to vote to remove Mr.. Dolliver
from the seat to which he had at.
tanned.
The district is unanimously and en-.
Enthusiastically for Mr.. Dolliver, and
had his name been before the people
when the members of the legislature
were elected, they would have been
from the first for him and doubtless
under instructions.
So it is confidently expected by Mr.
Dolliver's friends tfsst he will in the
end have the solid support of his dis
trict.
A Most UnseIfish Appointment.
From the standpoint of Governor
Shaw, the appointment is most un
selfish one made without any consid
GRAFTON for his own person al interests
When he first heard of the death o.
Senator Gear, Governor Shaw wrote
from Colorado to a friend here thai
this eliminated him; that he had hap
pened to be on picket at an unfortu
nate time, but he proposed to do his
duty without trying to make capita
for himself. Since Mr.. Dolliver ant
Governor Shaw live in the same dis
trict, the success of Mr.. Dollive
makes it impossible for the governor
to ever think of going to the senat,
himself, as many people in Iowa hope(
he would
This is not the first time that Shaw
has helped Dolliver. In 1888. in TIN
congressional convention at Webste
City that named Dolliver, Shaw wa
a delegate and prevented the maxim.
of any deals that would defeat DOLL
ver. Judge j. P. Conner, of Denison
was the leading candidate next to Dol
liver, and he will doubtless be can
didate now to succeed Dolliver.
1t has been claimed that the Cum
minis men filed with the governor fifty
six letters from republican member
of the legislature asking the appoint
ment of Cummins. They fled tWer