Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-19
.BO|ES FOR PRESIDENT
The Third District Democrats
Are Dreaming Of Future
Political Power
solEs FOR the PRESIDENCY
Election to Congress in Henderson's
District Would Mean His Nomination
for President in 1so4ARoies Him
self Thinks He Sees vision-Juiian
Richard. May Be Given Treasury
Position.


Des Moines, Sept. 19-Ex- Governor
Roies for congress and for presldeli.
That is to be the watchword in the
/ Third congressional district among tne
/ democrats the next few weeks. Demo
! cratic noliticians familiar with the sit
nation in northeastern Iowa are TO-DAY
talking Of this program. They aami
A that something unusual must be dom
I to carry the Third district even witt
! the decentralization which has come pe-
cause of the Henderson explosion. Bu
4 they say they can see an opportunity
| that has seldom come to them to play
deep political game. And so, no mat
ter what the republicans do, no matter
who is the republican nominee. regard
4 less of the intense desire of the repllb'
| Ilicans to see the Third district carried
4 for a republican candidate. they WI
soon send out their emissartes ana se
| up and down the nine counties ol 'le
Third congressional district and, fut-
/ tonholing every voter, they wilt put j,
i TO him this way:
! ",rhe Third congressional districy has
been the political hub Ut the nation. We
| have had the leader OF the sen:te ans
! the speaker of the noase. For many
4 wears democrats have voted with re-
p.sblicans to see th6t this district Is
4; NY represented In congress. We have
i Icbl;terated party hnrs chat the district
lrlight be we'll represented. But the
speakership has gone from us never te
Ileturn. With it. in all probability, has
gone the republican majority in the
Inext house. A democratic speaker VIII
| WELD the gavel An unknown man sent
/ to congress from this district by the
Republicans would be without influence
lor standing. A democrat would carry
tttf prestige OF representing Speaker
! Ssnderao,Ss d1striot. Such a deutocral
| as Governor Boies would be OF vast III
| fluence in Washington. Governor Boles
twice governor of Iowa. elected in the
speakers district after forcing him out
of the race, once a presidential candi-
date-Governor Boies, In congress
could make three or four of his great
| speeches and be at once recognized as
foremost among the men of his party.
With such a start he would be the Iowa
|candidate for the presidency, would be
nominated and possibly elected. The
Third district has lost the speakership;
let us have the presidency"
Such an argument cleverly put to
men whose party Affiliations are not too
strong, backed by the presence of Boies
on the stump and supported by the ef-
forts of the democratic national con-
gressional committee with men and
money, would have some weight In the
campaign that Is just opening. Demo-
Gratis see this opportunity and are ready
to make the most of 1t. When the
name OF Boies was first suggested for
candidate for congress in the Third dis
trict it is known that the democratic
congressional committee sent word
from the east that If he would only
make the race against Henderson he
would be supported by the committee
with all the money and men needed.
Men were sent to him to talk it over.
This very thing Of the possibility of his
beating Henderson and becoming fac
tor in democratic congress and the
further prospect of being a presidential
candidate was put direct to the ex-
governor. 1t Is known that Boies has
had no desire to re-enter politics In any
small way He would not care to sit in
congress as one of a weak majority. But
as stepping -stone to the presidency,
to which he has aspired before. he
would make the race. Within a few
weeks his friends and admirers will be-
gin work as planned above.
A close political friend of Speaker
Henderson, in this city, speaking today
of the causes which led to the sudden
determination of Henderson to decline
the nomination which came to him,
made this statement:
Il believe that the oyster Bay con-
ference was the direct and immediate
cause of the declination of Henderson.
This much we have known for some
time that Henderson is getting sOme-
what childish and irritable, and much
more easily offended than he used to be.
He does not stand rebuffs like politi-
clans must. At the same time, after
twenty years in congress, he has be-
come impressed with the Importance
and the sovereignty, as it We're, of the
house of representatives, and he has
wholesome contempt for the ivy grown
dignitaries who sit in the other end of
the capitol at Washington. In his eyes
the government is supported by the
house. 1t represents the people. 1t is
the whole thing. And SO when the
president of the United States having
reached crisis in his party history and
in his administration, called a confer
ence to decide what he should say in his
speeches, and especially what he should
say in speeches to be delivered in
Iowa, Speaker Henderson looked over
the list He found that five members of
the senate We're called in as advisers.
The speaker of the house was not con-
suited. No member of the house was
consulted. The house was to be ignored
entirely. Speaker Henderson, having
due regard for the dignity of his posi-
tion and the Importance or the house of
which he is the head, was righteously
Indignant. Now, this would not have
caused him to fly into Scotch rage Of
ITSELF but 1t was added to great many
other things which had come up to-