Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-12
Withdrawal From Candidacy
For Reelection to Republic
can State Committee
PRouTY INFLUENCE SUSPECTED
Circumstances Make it Appear That
the Judges Hold in Polk County Has
Had somthing to Do With the Sud-
den Withdrawal Of Whsenand Who
Has Not Been Very Friendly to Him.
to Times Republican.

| Des Moines. March 12.-The an
nouncement made by j. D. Whisenand,
of this city, that he will not stand for
| re-election to the republican state COM
/ In Des Moines. Mr.. Whisenand was
only placed on the committee two years
| ago, and has not yet served first
| term. 1t is certain that only two or
three days ago he stated that he was
| very confident of election to the commit
ltee. and while he would not talk on
/! the matter much it was also know that
| he would be considered a candidate for
chairman Just why he made a sud-
certain of the endorsement of Polk
county and with this county he could
easily get the dozen votes in other
counties necessary to secure his elec-
tion even if a fight should have been
made on him. The announcement
came yesterday that Senator j. A.
Fitzpatrick, of Story county, would be
a candidate for committeeman and with
this came the announcement of Mr..
the committee. Two years ago, after
the Polk county convention had en-
dorsed Whisenand, an effort was made
to beat him in the district caucus. 1t
was foreseen that A. B. Cummins
would be nominated The former mem
ber of the committee from this district,
S. NJ. Leach, of Adel, was a close
friend of Cummins. 1t was alleged
that Whisenand had not been friend
of Cummins. AS matter of fact he
was personally on the best of terms
with Cummins, but had not been ac-
tive IN politics. But he was elected at
, G..s pitis, ;-4f as aScomnr tteess1lan
he proved a useful member and fair
to all interests There has been the
utmost cordiality between Cummins
and Whisenand. When the governor
was planning to go to Sioux City in a
special car to meet the president he
personally invited Mr.. Whisenand to be
one of the party. Since his return
home the governor has stated he hoped
Mr.. Whisenand would be reelected.
The man who will probably go on the
committee for this district, Senator
Fitzpatrick, was one of the men who
carried Story county for Judge Prouty
last year, and there Is suspicion that
the Prouty influence here in Polk coun-
ty has had something to do with the
sudden withdrawal Of Whisenand, for
while he has played loyal to Cumnlins
y,a IA fr;a, y,,I,
Prouty.
The significance of the sudden trans
formation In this district is that it
assures the election of either S. X. Way,
of Hancock county, or c. w. Phillips,
of Jackson county as chairman for this
year 1t is not known that either one is
an active or avowed candidate for
chairman, but both have been consid-
cred. A few days ago Harry Weaver,
of the First district, state that there
was no doubt that Whisenand would
be elected chairman of the committee
if he was returned. Burton Sweet, for
the Third district, was prepared to vote
for Whisenand. Now that Whisenand
is out of the way, one of the two men
named will be elected chairman. He
will get the votes of the members from
the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Sew
enth, Tenth and Eleventh districts.
The committee will be organized in en-
tire harmony with the wishes of the
candidate for governor and other cam
didates on the ticket.
The incorporation business in Iowa
is steadily on the increase. The clerks
and copyists in the office of the sec
reary of state have no time for idling. |
In the year 1900, the last year of Sec
retary Dobson's term, the number of
papers filed was 719; in |
1901, the first year of Secretary Mar
lin, the number was 797, and last year,
the number increased to 1875. The in
dications are that this year the num-
ber will equal last year. as up to
March 10 the number filed was exactly |
the same as in the previous year-210.
The fees received last year amounted |
to over 100000, but if the law had not
been changed they would have
amounted to about $4,000, which is
S20, 900 more than in the year previous.
The work, however, is being done with
the force the same as in the previous
years.
The exposition committee of the state
association has been given fun
authority to prepare the library eN-
hibit for Iowa at the st. Louis expo
sition. The committee consists of
Johnson Brigham, state librarian; MISS
Freeman, librarian at Davenport: and
Miss McCrory librarian at Cedar Rap
ids Miss McCrory is to get married,
and it is probable that Miss Tyler sec
retary of the state library commission
will act in her place on the committee.
The plan is to have an exhibit snow
ing the various library buildings I'M
the state and models of libraries of
different values. pictures of many of the
best libraries and statistical informa-
tion. The library movement has been
making great progress in recent years
in Iowa and now there are so many
libraries in the state that separate
exhibit will be made of this. Senator
Trewin, chairman of the committee on
educational exhibit, has placed the en-