Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-01

SPENCE TO BE CHAIRMAN AGAIN
No Doubt Entertained as to His Re-
Election to Position He Now Holds
Few Changes on Republican State
Committee Are Likely-smith Not
Railroad Commissioner Candidate.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, June 1.--When the re-
publican state committee gets organ
ized for business this year there will
be one person very much missed in
the headquarters and that is Albert r.
Dawson, Of Jackson county, private
secretary to Senator Allison. Mr..
Dawson will be nominated for con-
gress in the Second district and he
will resign as private secretary to the
senator. This will make it impossible
for him to take charge of the oratori-
cal department of the state committee,
which will this year be more impor-
tant than in the past three years since
a number of speakers will be expected
from outside the state and many of
the Iowa orators will have to spend
much time in other states. Mr.. Daw-
son has had charge of the speakers the
past four campaigns. The committee
had used different persons for this
purpose and w. S. Richards, then par
don secretary but now a department
clerk in Washington, had charge of the
bureau. He allowed matters to get
into an inextricable tangle and the
state committee sent for Dawson. He
is the most methodical man on earth
and soon had introduced system
where there had been none before. He
had books specially prepared for keep
ing the accounts Of the speakers and
fixing up the dates and he adopted a
method of giving notices and securing
acceptances SO that there could be no
possible misunderstanding as between
the speakers and the local committees.
His methods have been found to work
to perfection. He has made 1t possi-
BILE for the speaking bureau to run
along almost without interference
from the state committee and to be
satisfactory. He has had maps pre-
pared showing the republican and
democratic vote in each county and
then he has maps showing at glance
what counties have had big speakers
in the past few campaigns. All this
has taken much work but 1t has per-
fected the system Another will find
it easier to follow UP the work OF
Dawson rather than to start anew as
he was compelled to do. The commit
tee will place the literary work in
charge Of J. w. Richards. of Waterloo,
who has been in fact at work for the
committee some time, and he did the
work last year. much larger force
will be employed all around this year
than last The committee has secured
rooms on the fourth floor of Observa-
tory block which will be ample for all
purposes.
There is no doubt that Chairman
Spence will be elected chairman again
and there will be few changes on the
committee. Messrs. Phillips of the
Second, Hempel of the Fourth. Spence
of the Eight and Scott of the Elev-
enth districts will succeed themselves.
1t is not known whether Mr.. Boysen. Of
the Ninth will be a candidate again.
for he has been out of the state much
of the time the past two years and is
not able to give much OF his time to
politics. In the Third Burton Sweet
will retire. There was some, talk of T.
w. Purcell, of Hampton, seeking the
place, but it is understood he will not
make a fight for it. tho he would be
an ideal man. c. w. Phillips, the sec
retary of the committee, is one OF the
best informed politicians of the state.
He lives in Jackson county but his du-
ties as secretary of the pharmacy
commission and q member OF the state
agricultural board, make it necessary
for him to remain in Des Moines most
of the time. Vice Chairman Scott has
been one of the most attentive of the
members and has seldom missed a
meeting The committee has had for a
number of years six who were allied
with the standpatters and FIVE who are
supporters of the Iowa platforms. II Is
not probable there will be any change,
and that Chairman Spence will con-
tinue to manage the campaigns His
work the past year was largely with
a view to this campaign, as he himself
stated, and the organization was per-
fected last year so that there would
be no hitch in the presidential year.
The campaign could be started any
day now.
1t is now known positively that there
has been nothing but talk about the
supposed candidacy Of A. G. Smith, of
Storm Lake, for state railroad COM
missioner. Mr.. Smith is not candi-
date for the place. His name will not
be presented. He has been urged by
some persons to come out as the cam
d;dota nF porthwaStern Iowa but the
Tenth and Eleventh districts have
three candidates for the place now and
it is believed this will cut up the field
about all that it will stand. The Polk
county delegation to the state conven-
ton will. practically all vote for N. s.
Ketchum, as will most of the delegates
from this district. 1t is learned that
DR.. Porterfield is making a very active
canvass for the place and is claiming
a great deal of strength along the Bur-
Iingt, lines in southern Iowa. He
has s., -ong pull, also. because Of his