Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-23
KEIHuM'S WINNING GAIT.

KEIHuM'S WINNING GAIT.
The Times Republican has e,ldeavored
not to tire its readers With the claims
of Mr. n. S ketchum for the republi
can nomination for railroad commits
personality should speak for him as he
could make acquaintances in the Nari-
Gus counties. Time has proved our eN-
pectations to have been Well founded,
for of all the candidates that will APP
pear before the coming state conven-
ton. not one has gained strength so
rapidly as Mr.. ketchum. Just a plain,
straightforward business man. With a
| level head and genial good fellowship,
/ would to get business for his wagon
company, to make friends of everybody
and say nothing but what he could
back up. Everywhere he has gone we
have heard reports of the good impress
/ sion he has made, and it has all been
deserved.
/ Mr.. ketchum will enter the conven-
ton with his own congressional district
solid behind him. He is the only cand
a single county instructed for him out
side of his home district, while MIR.
/ ketchum has Story in the Seventh.
| Pocahontas in the Tenth and counties
| enough to make up three or four con-
ssressiona districts have been pledged
TO him. In the Eighth district Mr.
lSeuchums candidacy was strong
that word was whispered around the
Des Moines Hobbies that he was a sure
winner until Mr.. Blakemore was
brought out, which will result in keep
ing many Eighth district votes away
from MIR. Ketclunl, but ii is hardly pos
sible that the Blakemore candidacy can
gain Roadway at this late date. AS the
situation now stands there is but one
thing that can defeat Mr.. ketchum. If
the railway interests should decide to
support the present incumbent, Mr..
Dawson. for third term, Mr.. ketchm
would have a hard fight. for he is with
out an organization and belongs to
none of the old or new machines. How
ever, it is presumed that, with so con-
sentative and careful a man as Mr..
II. &l,n ;irno dc ".
risk further uprisings of the people by
presuming to name the next railroad
commissioner, and with the decision
left to the free choice of the delegates
Ketchum's popularity and marked
ability. combined with the fact that Mr..
Dawson has held theFof1ice seven years,
will carry the day for Ketchum.
This last-named circumstance as
governing factor in the railroad COM
missionership campaign has been most
sharply pointed out by the Glidden
Graphic under editorial caption The
Ten Year Precedent as follows:
",rhe campaign now being waged by
can nomination for railroad commits
sioner involves an interesting; precedent
ii successfully established. The present
commissioner, Mr.. r.. A. Dawson, OF
Waverly, was appointed to I'LL Nac;in-
cy over seven wears ago. He has served
that unexpired term and two full terms
of three wears each besides, and is now
seeking still another term of three
Years. which ii granted would keep him
in the office ten years in all.
MI. N. S. Ketchum, of Marshalltowr
who was prospective candidate
against Mr.. Dawson at Des Moines
three years ago. had this pointed out
10 him by Mr. Dawson himself who then
claimed that it would be out of the
question for him to be a candidate IN
1902. 1t was then proposed in the
presence of Mr. Bowman of WaNerly
that if Mr.. Ketchum would not allow
his name to go before the convention
the coast would be left clear for him
when Mr. Dawson's second term eN-
PRED this year and that he, Dawson.
would do all he could to help ketchun,
in return. To this lNetchum agreed and
Dawson was nominated without OPPOSE
ton.
ketchum is a candidate this year, but
if now appears that Mr. Dawson has
changed his mind and will ask for the
full ten years of office and here is the
interesting precedent involved. Col
Palmer, also commissioner serving his
second term, will be up for re-nomina-
ton next year and he is naturally
whooping it UP for Dawson for third
term. Mr.. Brown. of Sheldon has also
been reported in the Sioux City Tribune
and the Journal as favoring a third
term for Dawson. If the precedent is
established Messrs Ketchum. Blake
more and others must wait three Years
eed Palmer and eight years to succeed
Prown. Such prospect for office seek
ers is not bright. For this reason it is
suspected, much of the talk about a
lawyer on the board being necessary,
has arisen. AS a matter of fact the
railroad commission was organized as
a state jury to try cases in equity be-
tween railroads and the public, to act
as an arbiter and deal out justice where
the law is too rigid to cover the case.
1t is a we'll known axiom that lawyers
always liable to become special adVo- |
Gates, make poor material for jury duty
and it is on the ground that a business
man is needed that M ketchum, a |
manufacturer and wholesale merchant
and Mr. Blakemore, Il large stock raiser, |
are making their canvass for the nomi- |