Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-21
sen. A|L|SON'S LETTER.
Leaves an Open Field to Iowa
Aspirants and Is Short
and Curt.
Rinseold's Pre.convention Con.
test Develops Fight and
Much Feeling.
Penrose's Withdrawal Leaves
Lieutenancy Between Brant
and Thompson.


Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, June 2l-speaklng of
booms for the presidency at a time
when booms are decidedly not in order,
it is sreported today that the letter which
Senator Allison wrote 70 Governor
Shaw in regard to the presidency of
1904 was a very short and curt ono and
that he merely intimated that while he
ethe senatoD is not be considered
a possibility there are others in Iowa
who are of presidential size and
there is no reason why Iowa
should not have candidate for the
presidency. This leaves the e.atter
wide open. A politician suggests that
Iowa is capable of furnishing num-
ber of presidential candidates Major
Gonger, United states minister to Chi
ma, has a fine standing with the .Anler!-
can people and with the Iowa people
especially If ne had been in tht. race
for the governorship this year before
others We're induced to enter he might
have been nominated for governor He
WIN have closed up all matters in China
! within two years. and his record s.ll be
before the people. Their there IS SEN
ator Dolliver who might easily be con-
! sidered a presidential possibility. mas
much as ne MAS considered by the Iowa
\ delegation worthy OF urging upon the
4 republican convention as q candidate
( for vice president. Within the next two
Z years he Viii have an opportunity to
/ make a fire record in the senate. 1t is.
| now given out that Col. D. B. Hender-
son will be reelected speaker of the
| house without opposition He would be
| in line for the presidency three years
| hence, and all the old soldiers would
rally around him If he should be pre-
| sented as Iowa's candidate. The presi-
! dency is not a more exacting position
4 that that Of speaker of the house Then.
! there is A. p. Cummins. who in 1904, will
be just entering upon his second term
as governor of Iowa. BY that time he
will have become national igu, and
will have given Iowa high standing in
the councils of the republican party
| by reason of his eminent ability and his
i great services to his state and the ma
I t!on. In short. Iowa has several presi-
Dental possibilities that might be con-
/ siGered, and Senator Allison has done
Well to open the door for all of them.
One of the hottest contests In the
4 state is going on down in Rlnggold
! county and ii Will come to an .nd next
/ Thursday. The issue is Cummins vs.
| the machine and especially by r. H
| Spence VINO wants TO be chairman of the
state committee The newspa pers have
I been calling each other hard names
/ Tedford is quoted as declaring that
! BY ---, We have the brains and the
money and You can't beat it, and the
/ Mt. Ayr News quotes a passhoiler on
the c., B. e @. as declaring that he
/ will bring in forty men and vote them
! against Cunmins Still there is belief
that Cumnins VIII cary tine county
despite all the opposition. The conven-
ton Will be mass convention, which is
I always favorable 10 the machine
and those who have money 10
/ spend for the campaign. Most of
! the republican voters have re-
ceived circulars from the Hunter
| literary bureau advising them how
to Vote and Lewis Miles, United States
I attorney, has been putting in his time
| in the county. In Ringgold countA the
railroad tax question Is arousine the
/ people. Attic the railroad companies
have greatly improved their property in
/ that county the executive council IN 1900
4 reduced the railroad valuation in that
county from $4,000 a mile to $4,000 and
/ it was left al that figure this year The
reduction in valuation in the county
i amounted To S572S4. In the same time
Z the real estate valuation for taxation
4 purposes has been Increased by s909 III
\ This fact Of itself causes deep interest
4 in the outcome of the convention in
! Ringgaii county this year If the farm
4 ers endorse this kind Of iinancierire for
the state they will choose a Spence DEL
egation neXt week.
With Penrose out of the race for lieu
! tenant governor the fight for that place
| comes squarely between Dave Brant
! and Col. Thompson. There is going to
be good deal OF demand that an old
4 soldier shall go on the ticket some
whore. and but for this fact there is not
| doubt that the editor Of the Clinton
4 Herald would win hands down; and yet
| the "old soldier demand has been Sc
jiluch used by the machine element in a
4 desperate EFFORT TO beat Cummins for
governor that the convention may have
| little patience with that influence when
! II comes TO finishing up the ticket. 1t
| vas the winning cry wren j. C. MILF
! man was nominated. His name went
/ thru With a whoop and there We're not
! wanting many who early this year
/ strongly urged Miullinan to be a cam
A didate for governor, believing that II he
should come out nothing could prevent
| lis nomination. But there is some doub.
whether Col Thompson's name can be
used to stampede a convention
| Governor Stanley, of Kansas is to be
| in Des Moines next week and will adj
dress the students OF the osteopath coll
lege located here. He will be received
by Governor Shaw. after which Shaw
will take trip to the western mount
aims and escape the heat Of Iowa during
q gubernat9rial season. The governor
has made himself a present of a splen-
did new automobile with red wheels and
seats for dozen persons high in the
air. 1t is most aggressive looking
monster and goes rushing thru the