Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-02-06


We're seen in town last night than had
besn seen for many days, and yet they
were not very numerous The party
managers had come to town to see
what could be done toward having a
campaign this year They had been
slumbering afterthe Titus amendment
had been passed and were hardly
awake when the supreme court got in.
its fine work. Now they say they are
ready for a campaign that will be a
record breaker. The members cf the.
committeA Who were at the, conference
We're Chairman George Huffman.
Seventh District: Secretary a. e. Jack
son. Fifth district; y C. Roberts. First
district: e. NJ. Carr, Fourth district;
| w. r.. Hunt. Eighth district, and j. b
! Romans. Tenth district. Charles a.
4 Walsh, secretary of the democratic
! party. Several conferences We're held
! hins closed doors. They all GAINED
nally talk over the political situation
4
/ talk over the political situation. They
said it was entirely TOO soon 10 talk
| about place ant date for the state
lsconvention. But they did talk about
| tile form of the Gail which Will be
issued and whether or not il was best
! to try to leave the door open for the
| populist party again, In view OF the
fact that the populisss themselves
l3haye started out organizing the state
| on independent lines. have called their
state convention and say they will
never again have anything TO do With
fusion, the opinion of he members Of
The committee MAS that the cali should
be 50 constructed as 10 cali fer con-
servatism in the party and not To coax
populists oyer TO the party. The
llneFnb-ers OF the committee are In favor
of trying tc set back TO the old lines in
iowa Is far rs pnsssb and are hoping
that the tanges into which the epub-
! leans have got on the Titus amend
inent and Win factions will help thenl.
But they wiil not fuse any more. This
much and this alone has been settled.
Il am we'll content 10 he out of con-
lsideration in connection With the gov
einors ship, said Governor Shaw last
llevening 1t Vas not necessary that /
Should say anything about nay position
before the supreme court had. deeiileJ;
lthe Titus amendment case andsI could
not very we'll have spoken With propHi-s
ely until that was out of the way. And
il was going 10 say What have said
the time TO 60 il was. Immediately
have deliberately made my choice.
against the advice of many of my
friends. Even today I Ireceived a num-
Der of letters in references to the mat
ter. l have been urged to become a
candidate and delegations have been
pledged to NE by my friends. But n
have had all the honor there is IN the
office for ln@ ard am ready 70 step out.
| feel that have spent all sae money
can afford to piecing ou5 the nieager
salary given by the state of Iowa to
maintain this Office. | am willing to-
Step aside for others. =
The repeated announcS rasat that the
machine element in the republican par
ty is ready and willing 70 agree upon,
some good man for a compromise and
let bygones be bygonss IS looked upon
as only q part of a StreiwG game TO
throw the other fellows off the
track. Just now both factions
are in a somewhat tsemoral-
ized condition. Neither is pre-
pared TO present. a stiff front 10 the
other, hence talk of compromise Is lis
tened to- But everybody knows that
the men wi,o have been leaders on the
opposition sides in the recent conflict
are not made of the stuff that coinpro-
mises. They never give up Taking
Shaw out of consideration that faction
of the party is driven to a choice
among confessedly weaker candidates.
and it is therefore a good time to talk
compromise With Cummins refusing
absolutely to consent TO stand as a
candidate The other faction is hesitate
ing. Curtis has not been considered a
possibility because 1T is known he will
not make the sacrifice necessary. Lafe
Young has jus taken Byers out of the
list. This narrows down the list con-
siderably 1t is anticipated that the |
list will soon b. so narrowed down that |
only Mr.. Cummins Will be left and that
his friends Will insist that in justice TO
them he must he a candidate for gov |
ernor. 1T will be a sacrifice to him in I
a financial way but they are pre-
pared to say. he must sacrifice as much
for them as they have for him. Thus /
far the pressure has been entirely by /
letter and telegram. but it is expected I
that men will visit the city to personal |
ly discuss the matter. Townsr's name
has been used. but he has no ambition
to- become governor What Dave
Palmer will 90 probably remains to be
considered afterwards.
c.. F. Wennsstrum, commissioner of
labor Statistics, has gone to the north
ern part OF the state to investigate the
tow industry, which has made some
progress in a few of the counties. 1t is
reported to his Office that there are
pa lying tow mills at Cresco and Elma
and possibly some other places. The
flax fiber is used for upholstering chief
ly. The amount of flax seed sold from
Iowa farms. entirely in the northern
part OF the state, last year, was a mill
lion and half bushels The largest i