Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-19
BLYTHE 5 PROMISE
1O Mr.. RICHARDS
Des Moincs Gossip Says Blythe
Will Support His Candidacy
at Proper Time
COMPLICATIONS ARE IN SIGHT
County Treasurer kretschmor, candi-
date for State Treasurer, is In same
Congressional District With Rich
ards, Machine Candidate for secre-
tary of State.

SdTy VI SSdkOs
Special to Times Republican,.
Des Moines, Jan. 19.--Julian Rich
ards is coming to be quite generally
recognized as the machine candidate
for secretary of state. AT the same
time the frequent mention of him in
that connection is being recognized as
merely the effort to keep him before
the public conspicuously There is no
particular call for a discussion of cam
didates at this time and nothing par
ticulary new on the situation. 1t is
the gossip in Des Moines that Mr..
Richards has the promise of j. w.
Blythe that he will have his support at
the proper time and that all other cam
County Treasurer i. N. Kretschmer of
Dubuque county being a candidate for
state treasurer, may complicate mat
ters to some extent because they are
in the same congressional district. A
gain, it Is being talked that Perrot of
Waterloo is a candidate for state bin
der from the home of Mr.. Richards.
and has a deal on with Ed Chassel,
who is a candidate for state printer.
This may further complicate matters
and it may even develop that Mr. Bly,
the will not be able to deliver his pro-
mise to Mr.. Richards. The announce
ment that Mr.. Richards has confided to
his friends that he is a candidate for
the office of the secretary of state and
the announcement and discussion Of
other candidates for other offices all
from an entirely different section OF
the state would seem to be giving Mr..
Richards the best of the bargain. There
are candidates from Mr.. Richards To-
cality for state positions.
There seems to be little merit In the
supposition that Auditor B. f. Carroll
will be candidate for governor. The
custom has been to give candidates
third terms, and when an office has
been so ably discharged as that OF Mr.
Carroll it is unlikely this rule will be
broken over in his case. For this
reason it seems unlikely that sure or
nearly sure position would be sacrl-
feed for an extremely hazardous nope.
AS to Hon. Joe r. Lane, it develops
that he told close friend recently that
his ambitions were along the line OIL
the legal profession purely. his ma
ture is not one that enjoys publicity
and the limelight, but rather lire OF
the ouiet order. He would much rath-
er be a Judge on the supreme bench
than governor Of Iowa.
Secretary Leslie M. Shaw mas re-
Gently refused to part with his inter-
est in a $500 acre rice plantation IN
Orange county, Texas. He owns a
one-half interest. T. M. Walker OF
Des Moines owned one-fourth inter-
est I. and A. Lang three sixteenths
and Henry G.. Harris Of California,
one-sixteenth Mr.. Walker has pur-
chased the interests Of the Langs
which gives him seven -sixteenths. He
paid $25, 900 for their share, and on the
same basis has endeavored to purchase
the interest Of Secretary Shaw, whose
interest at that rate would be worth
s8b. 900. The plantation has been con-
nected by pipe line with the Oil wells
of Texas and the mills run by machln-
ery This will net a saving Of $1,000
| year.
Judge Kinne, of the board Of control,
has now in sight reports from seventy
per cent of the physicians of the state
of whom reports We're requested on
the presence of tuberculosis in the
state. The tables are being corrected
as the reports come in so that little
will remain at the last to be done.
The FREQUENT announcement Of the
Vinton Eagle of Senator Trewin as the
original suggestor of an enlarged In
terstate commerce commission is fur
ther followed by the announcement
of the Cedar Rapids Republican that
the firm of Grim, Trewin & Moffit Of
that city has been made the local legal
advisors for the Rock Island railroad.
The new appointment took place Jan.
1, but was not announced until late
ly. The announcement has no partic-
ular significance except that the road
has selected a good firm to represent
it. There is not as much politics now
in the management of railroads as for
merly Railroads are learning that it
is better to stay out of politics. There
is said now to be but one railroad in
the state practically that is in poll
tics.
The statement in this column credit
ing the Cedar Rapids Gazette as stat
| ing that board honeycombed the state
house was typographical error The
Cedar Rapids Republican was the pa
per making the statement
There is growing sentiment in fa-
vor of having Professor Charles A.
| Cumming of the capital commission,
| paint the lunettes in the rotunda of
| the state house. Mr.. Cumming has
| established the third really high class
art school west of the Mississippi the
others being at ST. Louis and San