Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-18
No HOUCI| Of
SWAPPING PLACES
Mason City Times.Herald's Edi-
torial Seems to Have No
Foundation
cuMM,Ns AND HULL BOTH DENY
Formers Position is That Neither He
Nor Hull Have the Respective Off
ces of Governor and Congressman
From the Seventh District, at Their
Disposal to Trade.
Special to- Times-Repnblican.

Special to- Times Republican.
Des Moines, March lS.-According to
both Congressman j. A. T. Hull and
the friends of Gov C:ummins there is
absolutely no founda ion for the sug-
eestion in the editorial In the Mason
City Times -iHerald tt at the two swap
places for the sake of harmony in Polk
county and the Seventh district. Con-
gressman Hull stated today that he had
seen the editorial bu. there was moth
ing in it. II would be of no use to
Polk county as gov srnor." he said,
"but / believe can he of some service
as congressman. And most assuredly
/ am not going to ru1l for governor. IL
is unlikely that could get the place
even if / were to ask for it.. consider
it would be great honor to any man
to be governor of Iowa. consider the
place second only to the presidency
but l have, arrived at that age IN iife
when / could not well change the
nature of my work SO completely AT
least until the interests have set on
foot are completed ] believe can be
of best service to the people where
am"
AS to there being any real foundation
to the rumor that there might pe
swap between the Two men the aoea
is scoffed at by thu. friends OF Gov
Cummins as we'll a by the governor
himself His position Is simply tnat
he has not the office of governor at MS
disposal for trade any more than mas
Ca ut. Hull the office of a congressman,
and as to there being any overtures
for a swap the idea is flatly denied on
both sides. There were rumors curing
the Ia s congressional campaign to the
effect that Congress man Hull Woulo
withdraw in favor of any one whom the
Cummins men might select for the
sunport of the Cum minis men for MIN
for governor If there ever were any
such suggestions made to the 'Cummins
men they were made. by men VINO acleo
an their own responsibility and with
out authority.
The support which has been given
the governor by his, friends Is OF that
nature that will never be satisfied TILL
the governor is in the United states
senate If not in the presidential chair.
But the situation at the present time IS
not such that any man living can eeii
how political matters will shape tnem-
selves. While the admirers OF Gov
Iernor Cummins here wish to see MIN
step directly into the senate, u is
barely possible that those OUTSIDE OF
Des Moines might demand that ne re-
trieye himself at home by being Sc
1lected for some such position as con-
gressman. because of the recognized
fact that Polk county went against
the governor at the last state conven-
tion. AS a matter Of fact Polk county
never in reality went against the gov
ernor. 1t was understood during the
congressional campaign that the COVER
nor would remain out of the fight, but
that the Hull men would allow the
governor to name the state convention
delegates. When the time came the
Hull men named the delegates and
these delegates voted for Blythe for
delegate t-large instead OF for Funk,
the choice of the governor. However,
it was a seeming defeat to the gov
ernor in his home county. This fact
may make the question Of whether or
not the governor will be a candidate
for congress an open one for some
time to come at least.
All the suggestions that Governor
Cummins should go to the senate have
for the most part been with the idea
that he should succeed Senator w. B.
Allison, who is recognized as nearing
the close of his political career because
of his age. AT the close Of his term
March 4, 1909, he will be eighty years
and two days old. Senator Dolliver, on
March 4, 1907, at the expiration of his
first term in the senate will be but for
ty-nine years and twenty-five days
old. If the governors friends desire
that he make u campaign for Senator
Dolliver's seat, and his friends out
side the Seventh district should insist
that he retrieve himself first in the
Seventh by being elected congressman
his election on Nov. 4. 1906, would
proceed by but two months the con-
vening of the Legislature that would
select Delivers successor and the
election of the senator would take
place before the governor could take
his seat as congressman, on March 4,
1907.
The fact is the only ground for the
rumor that Congressman Hull has his
eye turned toward the governorship
was the action OF some of his minor
lieutenants who some days ago We're
inquiring Of a De.; Moines reporter his
opinion of the possibility Of Capt. Hull
securing the support Of the Seventh
district and the nomination. There
was suspicion that these inquiries
were not so much in the interests of
Congressman Hull for the position of
governor as in the interests of another
Des Mqines man who would like to see
Capt Hull safely landed in some other
position to make the way clear for