Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-27
DN[LL [NVES BRUCE
Ninth District Place On State
Committee Sought by
j. S. DeWeIl.
W. D. Blakemore Confers With
Dawson About Running for
Railroad Commissioner.
Smith Firing at Long Range.-
Ketchum in the Lead With
Delegates.
Special to Times-Republican.

4 DeS MoineS, May III. ,. DeWell' OF
Missouri Valley, Yves in the city attend :
ing supreme court yesterday, where he
made an oral argument in another OF
1.-THE many cases of land contests caused
Ly the vagaries of the Missouri river in
refusing to follow the surveyed state
lines. MIR. Dewell is 4 candidate Tor
member of the republican state COM
/ mittee to succeed Senator James r.
Bruce, of Cass county. Dewell was a
member for the Ninth district for one
/ term and in the convention OF two
wears ago there became 4 Ninth district
mix-up involving the candidacy OF Ja-
cob Sims of Council Bluffs, w. B. Mar
| tin of Adair county and the congress
SIGNAL situation, and out of 1t MI
Dewell drew a blank. with James F..
| Bruce a prize winner The friends of
Iewell felt that he was not treated
1 fairly and that he became victim on
! account of the sins of others, hence they
! are going to the state convention this
year to insist that the wrong shall be
! ,ighted by having Dewell placed back
| on the committee. Dewell always had
penchant for politics and he made
good man on the state committee, but
| for that matter Bruce has been active
and energetic and suits his district well.
Mr. DewelI declared that he is not go
ing to make any personal effort to get
the place. but it willing to stand as
candidate. The place is not worth max
ing a fight for, except as party honor.
hut he feels bit hurt at what hap.
pened two years ago. Contests have nor
yet developed in other districts of the
state. There was some talk of Il fight
against Mr.. Spence in the Eighth dis
triet, but this has all blown over, be-
cause his record has been such that no.
tody can take exception to it. In the
Second districr 1t Is assumed that
Charles Phillips, secretary of the COM
mittee and chairman of the executive
committee, will be returned, but the
matter has not yet been canvassed and
none of the delegates have been Sc
lected
There is renewed talk Of the possi-
BILE candidacy of w. D. Blakemore, of
Taylor county, for railroad commits
sioner. When he was In Des Moines
last week attending the G.. a. r. en-
campment and other meetings he had n
conference with e. y. Dawson, the
present member o. the commission, and
The two, who are good friends, consid-
cred the subject at length. 1t was the
Understanding of Dawson's friend that
Blakemore would certainly not stand III
the way of Dawson's return to the COM
mission; but neither one made any
definite statement for publication.
Since Mr.. Blakemore's return home
some of the district papers have COM
menced to insist that ne be a candi-
date. Mr.. Blakemore is understood to
have had an ambition to go to the state I
senate and watched the senatorial re-
d;strcting with that in view. He is {
wealthy retired farmer and business
man and quite popular at home. Mr. {
jumped into prominence in
the house at the last session by intro I
Gucing on the first day of the term
bill to substitute electrocution in Iowa
H. place of hanging as a means of get
ting rid of bad men. 1t was also one I
OF the very first bills reported back
fl ON the committee on judiciary for in
definite postponement. The First dis
trict candidate for railroad commits
ssioner MIR. Smith, of Fort Madison, APP
pears to not be a very good politician
He is flooding the district with circulars
and making his campaign in this long
distance way. Politicians from the
First district report that he will not get
any great support from that quarter
Thus far Mr.. Ketchum has received the
most substantial evidence of earnest
support, as several counties have in
for him or have selected dele
gates favorable to Kim.
If all the members Of the ST. Louis
exposition commission can attend a
meeting in Des Moines about the mid
lle of next month the commission will
be politely invited by the governor to
appear at that time and organize for
business. Some of the members may
lot be able to come until about the first
week in July. and if they so report a
July date will be named. One matter
hat is pressing from the st. Louis end
S that of definitely locating the Iowa
in the group of Louisiana ,
;tates. The unofficial commission
famed by Governor Shaw made trir
o St Louis for the express purpose of
ocating the building and did pick out !
he ground for g building. but the COM t
lisson had no real authority to prom t
Sc anything or to locate the building !
md so it will have to be done over :
gain by the commission which has the $
authority A trip to st Louis for this S
'urpose may not be necessary. Thus |
n not one of those named by the gov j
amor has refused to serve or indicated |
n intention of getting off the commits q
ion, which is compliment to the I
Governors power of selection.
The encampment dates have not yet
een set for the Iowa National Guard
nd General B!..'s is having difficulty
n fixing the date. There are so many S
treet fairs Ellls' festivals and the like
y the cities and towns of Iowa this v
car that it is hard to miss everything. /.
LENDERS of the guard want to en- S
at time when there is a
othing else dong. One or more o. S
he encampments may be set over into a
-ugust e--this account. o