Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-11
P|ROU1Y'S AEN QUIET
Opposition to Hull Made Little
Showing at the Perry Con.
vention.
More Harmony Than Might Have
Been Expected From the
Preliminaries.
Number OF Candidates for State
Office in Attendance...Des
Moines Parks Flooded.
.cial to Times Republican.

Des Moines, July 11.-The congies-
sional convention at Perry did not de-
velop the feeling that had been anti
cipated by some of those who went 1t
was much more harmonious than
might have been anticipated from the
prelminaries of last winter. The ef-
fort to get the convention to indorse
a plan for dividing up Polk county be-
cause POLK county is so big and influ-
entail was more formal than otherwise,
and doubtless there was not one of the
members of the Story county delegation
that was serious in the proposal. 1t
was recognized by every one as a move
in the interest of Judge Prouty. that
land nothing else. AS one of the dele
gates said afterwards it was certain
! that if the convention could have con-
1 trolied in this matter Judge Prouty or
some other Polk county candidate
might stand a show of getting one or
/ two districts of Polk county two years
/ hence. The resolution was presented
t by MIR. Lee. of Ames and on the motion
master of Des Moines, there We're but
two.votes against tablng outside of the
Story county delegation. Thus ended
the scheme to divide Polk county up
for the sole reason that 1t is too big for
the other counties. one of the Polk
county delegation laid it down cold to
the delegates from outside of Polk that
so long as Polk county is as big as it is
q l..
member of congress- and they can ex-
pect nothing in the district outside.
The situation was acquiesced in by
most of the delegates. But on the
whole. the delegates who came thru
Des Moines after the convention at
Perry We're in most excellent humor.
We're we'll pleased with Capt. Hul's
good speech and expressed themselves
as We'll satisfied with what was done.
The convention might easily have been
different.
quite bunch of the state candidates
were at Perry and a number came thru
Des Moines afterwards. Among these
were w. ID. ISlakemore, NJ. A. Buchan.
w. w. Cornwall. John Williams. Ben
Salinger and III. l.. Bousquet. Every
one of them was greatly encouraged by
what he heard at Perry from republic
ans. Mr.. Blakemore, of Taylor county,
at the hotel last evening said he could
give no estimate of his strength in the
convention.
Il will have my district pretty we'll
back of me-. he said. Il have not been
cut over the district much, because I
felt ! would have to trust that to my
friends, but the reports are all right. 1t
seems impossible to tell much about the
outcome. l find men who believe Daw
son will be nominated sure and others
who think ketchum has a cinch. But i
feel that am in the race
Mr.. Blakemore stated that as far as
he could learn Smith. of Lee county. is /
not in the race at all and the people I
from that part of the state know moth +
ing of his candidacy. The Seventh dis
trict candidates for clerk and reporter
claim to be encouraged. The Seventh |
district has four candidates for state
office and is thereby handicapped.
Judge Bishop is sure to be nominated
and then there is John Williams, %,
Story, for reporter, p. Fl. Bousquet or
Marion. for clerk. and Amos Brandt, of
Polk for auditor This is a little more
than the Seventh district can hope to
get. The Third district is also rather
,urdened with candidates, having one
FOR clerk. one for attorney general and
one for railroad commissioner. Besides
the present state auditor and his insur-
al.ce clerk hail from that district.
Senator Crossley. of Madison, takes a
very sensible view of the situation re-
5ultng from the judicial district fight i,
the Fifth district. We have Jared
,ery we'll i'm Madison county, he said
Judge Wilkinson had been on the
ncnch for sixteen years and had had [
our years as district attorney, and the
'cst of the district felt we had had
We We're not entitled to the
domination and did not get it. Nichols
yil make an excellent judge"
Des Moines is going to miss some s
pleasures by reason of the floods. For
Instance, the driving park track west ,
II the city, was flooded and cannot be i
Sed for several weeks and the July /,
ace meet goes off. Then there was u {
ircus scheduled for next Monday and d
he circuses always locate on ground
which was yesterday under ten feet of
Tater. Des Moines people fill the cir
us tents, good and bad. and never miss s
ne but they Will hardly swim To see
tinglings. The camping grounds at
That is known as Camp Douglass have G
cen rendered unusable. This vii. pre- s
ent some from having an outing. There a
fill be precious little good boating for Z
time after subsistence of the flood. s
SUIT on the other hand after al, the {
,sses by reason of the high water there n
ill be some compensation in the fact
hat common labor will be in good de-
land all the rest of the year, repairing
nd cleaning up Another compensa
on will be in the fact that the present
eneration can silence all the story tell
rs except those whose memories run s
ack to the days of 81. There are a Il
wv of the latter class left but not a
lany. The year 1902 is to be known in W
les, Moines as the year OF the big II
ood.
The telephone strike is pretty Well c
lreshed out now. settlement with b
lie Mutual will be made but the Iowa :"