Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-21

POLITICS IN IOWA FOR 1905
Effort to Secure Iowa Support For
Shaw Sure to Bring On Sharp Con-
test - standpatters Alarmed Over
Their Proportion In Iowa Delegation
Membership-stats News Gossip.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Dec. 21.-The first au-
thentic announcement Of the plans or
the Iowa standpatters with reference
to future politics In Iowa CAME from
Congressman Hull yesterday, and this,
also, was the first announcement that
anybody is being groomed for COVER
nor. IL indicates that the standpat-
ters have resolved upon being fore
handel Il. the matter Of picking out
their candidates. 1t will be recalled
that as early as last June they had
* entered upon their candidate for sec
retary Of state. Now they are ready
to begin talking candidates for COVER
nor and president 1t is said they are
also greatly alarmed for fear that their
proportion of the membership of the
Iowa delegation In congress shall be
reduced by the Iowa republicans. The
announcement that Major e. II. Con-
ger Is sure to be candidate for gov
fernor and that the standpatters are
going to try to put him forward as
their man, leads to O query as to
whether or not he can be made use OF
lin that way He will be much nearer
home at that time and will be able
to decide for himself what he desires.
il is known that he does not entertain
a very kindly feeling toward the men
who dragged his name into the cam
paign three years ago on misrepresen-
tations. But the assertion of Cap
tain Hull that Conger is to be their
candidate may be accepted as indicat-
ing that at least the standpatters are
going to see to it that they have cam
enough SO that there will be no doubt
of his being in the race.
The announcement that Secretary
Shaw has a presidential bee buzzing
is not news to tht, republicans OF Iowa,
for that has been we'll understood these
many months. In fact, Secretary
Shaw was already laying his plans to
get the Iowa delegation in 1904 when
President Mckinley was killed and his
plans were changed Of necessity. Sec
retary Shaw will ask the support OF
Iowa for president on platform OF
making no change in the Dingley tar
iF and in opposition to anything APP
preaching a change in the interstate
commerce laws. The effort to secure
Iowa support for him Is sure to bring
on a sharp contest, the outcome OF
which would be in doubt for time.
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mendment there is some politics in the
state of Iowa for the year 1905.
The holding Of the courts in the Ne
braska- Missouri boundary case de-
cided this week in Washington, con-
forms nicely with the view which has
always prevailed in Iowa courts in re-
gard to state boundary lines. 1t is the
view which has made it Impossible
to rearrange the Iowa-Nebraska boun-
Diary to meet the changing vagaries of
the Missouri river, and 1T is what
renders necessary the suit In court to
decide on the ownership Of certain land
in Omaha which is in the state OF
Iowa. The court at Washington de-
cided that the state boundary line is
change, but that the old boundary con-
tinues in the abandoned channel. This
is the case where the river changed its
route by sudden CUTOFF, though it
the change comes gradually the result
might be different. The Council Bluffs
and Omaha case involving the same
question promises to have a run thru
the Iowa courts.
A good deal Of good natured chatting
is being indulged in at the expense OF
Congressman Hull and his bill to make
a large appropriation for the target
practice of the militia of the states.
The feature Of the bill which was re-
garded as amusing, and which Con-
gressman Hull now says he did not
know was in the bill at all, is a long
argument which was used as pre-
amble, which is filed with such stuff
as the following:
"Our permanent military establish
ment or regular army must from the
nature of circumstances be small, and
in the event Of war with one or more
Of the first class powers of the world,
we must depend very largely upon the
militia ana the NOIQIllSClo VI Jul AA6As7
ing forces. We believe for practical
purposes in battle that the individual
behind the rifle is the military unit.
Great Britain, now that she has many
rifle ranges, established thruout the
country, appropriates 10000 a year
for announcement of rifle practice in
England. This is augmented by many
private donations, the king giving
e 900 and Mr.. w. w. Astor, formerly
a citizen Of the United States, recent
1y donated 10000 for this purpose"
The supreme court OF the United
States disposed Of one case before 1t
recently on basis contrary to the
holding of the Iowa, supreme court in
similar cases. This related to the ap-
plication Of safety brakes and appH-
ances to locomotives and their ten
ders as well as to cars. In an Iowa
case decided the past year It was de-