Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-02-13
CUNN|NSSOR| + FOLK
Coming Out Of o.f : ,andidstss
Not Likely to DIVIDE Sew
enth District.
Polk County and the District
Will Be Solid For
Cummins.
Cummins Makes Reply to Foster
--His an Eleventh Hour
Candidacy.

Especial to Tmes-R Republican.
i Des Moincs. Feb. 13.-Thc politicians
are waiting patiently for the next turn.
a The political campaign has been sllfti- /
sIciently interesting as far as it has gone
Ito suit most persons. The announce
ment by a newspaper in Washington
that a cablegram had been received.
from Minister Conger stating that he
i would accept a nomination for governor
j il rendered him, but that he would not
sIenter a contest for the nomination..
lcaused a good deal of discussion. Conn
ing as it did Immediately after the an
4 #nouncement of the avpweds candidacy OF
8 Sidney A. Foster, ii was regarded as
part Of the general play. Minister Gon-
4 ger is justly popular here at Dss
Moines his nominal home, and in Dallas
!, county, HIS former home. and thluout
Il the entire Seventh congressional diS-i
trict. He could have good support If
The was an avowed candidate and sought
Il the nomination.; but it is understood
Il that his cablegra1n was IN reply TO some
friend who had NOT the opportunity by
Icable 10 explain the situation fully to
q hinl When Conger finds out that there
IS the hottest kind of a contest on and
!. that the man who gets the nomination.
4 Will have To fight for II all summer, he
Twin direct his friends 20 not use his
name at all, Certainly he Will not. per-
init the use Of his name 10 einbarass his
i, friends in his home town. AS fer the
lcandidacy OF Foster. there Is, some dis
-.t-.-
cent enough, and is probably we'll
)neanf. but it is sure 10 arouse a hard
fight here III Tea Mones and 10 cause
s1me contentpps8that were better left
, on. The most that he can DO is 10 di-
wide Polk county, but that viii not be
l-permitted again. Col. Palmer Is ii, the
lcity on business but declined yesterday
: to express himself. He Is supposed 10
f be ready TO enter the contest if matters
i, shape themselves to his liking in his
u Own county Inasmuch as, the friends
r of Herriott declared before the Cum
!. Minis conference that hisconduct you'd
: not be influenced by what Others might
!, do, Il iS regarded as entirely possible
4 that he Viii yet be forced into the ring
!. by his Ninth district friends What
i ever the situation When convention time
comes, Gummina - sure 10 hsve Polk
) county. With ito largest vote 81 any
county IN the state, and 10 have the
Seventh congressional district
\. p cummins today sent Sidney
Foster sharp reply to the letter he
. published this morning. Cumlnins says
! ~ is true he did not want TO be a can
fdidate for governor that he would have
:. .bpreferred the duties of his profession.
hut had been strongly urged by men
from all over the state. ard the men
!. who came 10 Des Moines were not in
. vitsd By him. Ee says that he had no
Thought that Foster was considering the
/, subject seriously, that Foster knew as
iwel as a1isbody that Cumnins was be-
ing urged TO bacoRls a candidate. Il
saw YOU. he writes, the Friday everi-
Tfing before finally reached q conclusion
but neither at that time nor at any 9TH
Ter did You ever intimate To me in any
way that you thought of becoming a
Icandidate. Ii you had the outcome
have been different Ii appears 10
Zoe that ycu deliberately waited until /
: had put myself in a posisies from which
8 could not recede ard then made Your.
: announcement, C'ummns says ii the
{ .epublicans of Polk county are tired of
: him they Viii soon have a chance 10
show it. and il they do he will be the
S first to congratulate Foster.
5 The Iowa delegation in congress is la
boring 10 secure the return To Iowa cfs a
ccIlection Of eightyslx letters written
by the territorial governors, mostly by
Governor Lucas who was prominent in
IOhio befores he became governor of iowa
, territory These letters have long lain
! in the files of the interior department..
ard are Worthless there. but would form
!. an interesting addition to the already
(, fine collection of historical documents
Iowa has. The joint resolution author
( izing the donation Of the letters to Iowa
> ;. has passed the senate and is sure to
pass ,he house BY far too little atten-
tion has been given in the past to his
torical matters, and this work is now
being done rather tardily, but we'll
j. R. SAGE. director of the Iowa
{ weather and crop service. is at Mon
/, mouth. in Jackson county. attending a
: farmers institute. and George II. Van
Houten, secretary Of the Iowa agrieul-
tural department. is at Libertyvillas on a
similar sfraDtf. Both have made f,e-
4 squent trips to different towns of the
y state to speak before farmers instf-
: tutes. Mr. Van Houten talks instruct-
$ lively on general farm topics. and Mr..
!. Sage irnpaTts good deal Of valuable
y information ~ the special subject with
$ which he Is most familiar. There are
many of these farmers Institutes being
: held at this time of the year-about as
many as in fprmep years but not more
1t is noteworthy hat there are many
more of them held in the NORTHERN
!, counties Of the state than in the south
J ern counties. Down near the Missouri
J line there seems to be less of enterprise
!, and progressiveness in the farmers
. The people of the towns show less ac-
: tivity. They are not keeping pace with
the northern people of Iowa. One thing
which seems to help the people in the
northern counties is the fact that the
e Scandinavians who are peopling those
t counties take readily to American ways
/ 1t is quite common to have numbers of
e Norwegians and Swedes who can hard
!. ly make themselves understood In Eng
lish take active part in the county In