Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-05
Will Fill VACANCIES
Gilliland and Hanley Must
Resign Places on the Board
of Regents
cUMMINs way NAME MEMBERS
Question Raised Concerning the Re-
publican and Democratic Reprcsen-
tation on the Board of Regents of
Iowa State University-Method Of
Election of the Members.

/ Election of the Members.
Special to es-Republican.
Das Moines. Oct. Sin all probab-
{ility the duty will devolve upon Gov
ernor Cummins about the close Of tn.
year, of appointing two members of
| the board of regents of the Iowa State
University. One member of the board
| is an appointee of the governor now
Joseph Lane, of Davenport He was
appointed for the Second district at the
time of the resignation of r. r. Gable.
Had the latter remained his term would
not have expired for two years yet.
/ The terms of the members of the Fifth.
! Eighth and Ninth districts may expire
May / next. The Eighth district mem
| Der is II. K. Evans, of Corydon, and
the Legislature will select his successor.
Shirley Giiiiland. OF Glenwood, repre-
sents the Ninth, and Thomas b. Han
Hey, of Upton, represents the Fifth
| Their terms expire in May but before
lthey can take their seats in the state
senate the first of the year, to which
/ they viii both be elected, they must re-
! sign their places on the board CT re-
gents, as there is a special statute that
no member of the legislature shall hold
| the position of regent. This will force
two vacancies on the board before the
| legislature meets, and as there is US
ually much to be done about the time of
| the opening of the legislative session
! the governor will proceed to fill the va
cancies. No names have as yet been
suggested. A question has been raised
las 10 whether the four positions on the
! board of regents soon to be filled can
be filed by republicans. The board is
| non partisan and 1t has been the GUS
| som to have at least two democrats
/ on the board. Judge Babb and T. Il.
Holbrook were placed on the board TO
ayresent the democratic party. Since
his election, however. Holbrook mas
ceased to be democrat and last year
| was left off the exposition conmis-
| sion because he now counts himself a
| re publican AS for Judge Babb his
democracy is said to be >f pretty thin
veneer. It would therefore follow that
at least one OF the vacancies should be
filed by a democrat a real for sure
democrat, who would be recognized as
such by all parties and who would be
warranted to stay democrat thruout the
! term. Whether the governor will try
to find such a person Is a problem.
Of
the board of regents is by the legisia-
| ture as whole, but in fact the selec-
| tions are left to district caucuseS OF
republicans. The Second district Will
undoubtedly select Joe Lane for luil
term and the Eighth will probably re-
elect Evans again. The caucus OF the
Fifth district will include the following
members of the legislature, provided all
republicans are elec,rd: Messrs Whip
pie, Hanley, Eckles. Stuckslager, NC
ME- Leech, Lister, Dearborn, Bealer,
McAllister, Cummins, and Baker. Ihey
will choose the successor TO Hanley.
The Ninth district caucus vii selec1
the successor to Gilliland, and the fol-
lowing republicans will have the say:
Messrs, Hopkins, Saunders. Gllliiand'
Prince. Hollenbeck, Mott, Plpher,
Weeks. Killing, Washburn. Jones. Free
man. Martin and Pickard. On the
hoard of trustees of the state college
,here will be four places to flll at
the coming session, successors to >.
II Watkins, First district: c. l. Bar
clay Second district; C. L. Gabrielson,
Fourth district; and w. B. Penick.
Eighth district. 1t is certain that
tf,o .v>rn
for president of the college there viii
be some things a-doing IN conneclloii
with the politics OF the sltuatloh. ne
animosities engendered IN the receh.
fight are most likely to turn up IN we
Legislative caucuses and cause trouois
10 some of these members OF the poaro.
II is pretty certain that some OF thei'i
will not be, candidates Tor fe-slectioii
because Of this very fact. On the poaia
of trustees Of the state normal school
ths members whose terms expire are
W w Montgomery, Red Oak, and ..
u Osbourne, Rippey. These are not
selected by congressional dlssricls'
howayer and the election Will be py
the entire republican caucus
n ,s not anticipated at this time tnat
+here will be any effort TO fofce llc-
tional lines in these caucuses Oh .ns
legislative members. One neea ou'
nave superficial knowledge of the poli-
tics of the state to know that II Would
he comparatively easy TO get up d Als.
class quarrel IN any one OF these ga
cuses provided there are persons peae
an doing so; but all efforts of the lead
arc NAVE been bent to prevent anythlns
or this kind and there is nofhlhs III
SIGHT now to indicate that factlohallslh
win come in to disturb the SITUATION.
rrhe selection of members of these vari-
GUS boards to manage state educittloEai
institutions is one of the most ihlpo.-
tant of the duties of the legislature.
There is general recognition that the
present personnel of the various boards
| is most excellent and these insfitu-
lions have been we'll managed.
The supreme court will open tomor-
row the law class for admission num-
hers Sc which is unusually large fof
this season of the year. The law schools
have not been turning them out re-
| cently. ana the class consists largely
Of persons new to the state, or stu