Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-09
SPECULATION AS
IO /. H. C|)NG[R
Politicians AreWonderillgW
Course He Will Pursue When
He Returns to Iowa
WILL HE OPPOSE Mr.. HULL?
WILL HE OPPOSE Mr.. HULL
Some People Profess to Believe he
Will Enter the consressiona naI Con-
test-Not Likely That He viii be in
the Race for Governor-stro;ns Man
in the Congress.
Special to Times Republican.

| Special to Times Republican,.
Des Moines, Aug. 9.-There is fonsld-
| cradle speculation as to what A1npass-
ador Conger will do in a politichl way
| in case the dispatches to the effeft that
he will resign from the diplomatic de-
partment at the end Of his leave lo1 ap-
sence are true. Any uncertainty as TO
the future of Minister Conger always
| is sufficient to cause a great deal Oh
| talk in this CITY and to some extent
ont thu the congressional district. Just
now following the announcement ,of his
retiring from the diplomatic corps
| there Is another spasm of anxiety as
| to his future. Mr.. Conaer's residence
| is now this city as he owns a home
here on the east side and it is lifloef-
! stood has given I'D his Dallas county
| home TODAY II was being talked
around that Conger was in training TO
| be a candidate in opposition against
Hull for congressman from the Sevienth
district. Whether or not the rumor
| had any more foundation than the lIact
that Conger is soon to be out of a Jop
! and it is figured that would be the Hnost
likely spot in which the Lightning
would strike him or whether there was
real foundation for the ,rumor, cPuid
not be ascertained There was, how
ever, considerable talk to that effec
There seemed to be little belief nat
Conger will again make the race lstor
I governor One prominent state hd1 .se
man said today: "Conger Is the o.s!y
! man outside Of the governor who coul'i
run against Captain Hull at this Il me
Y and make a showing. He left congress
! with a good record He was the pm
decessor to Hull and resigned volu un-
/ tarily to accept the position of minis
ter to Brazil. He has served WIN
credit as diplomat and now he ~
coming back here to his home in Ealst
Des Moines popular man with tAie
people. Conger would make bis'
| strong showing as candidate againFe
| Hull. He has been away from honts
long enough that he is not entanglssu
| with any of the factions Of the rel
! nuhlican party, There is no question:
that he is a republican all thru and if
the only man that could line up ally
the counties outside of Polk in the Sevf
enth district. There has been talk, !
know. that plans were on foot to get
the outside counties lined up for Sena,
tor Berry Of Indianola, of JudgeN1chol.
of Dallas, but I doubt seriously If tha(l
could be DONE I believe, however,
that the outside counties would line uY
for Conger and support him to man
Conger. during his candidacy for goviss
| ernor got Madison and warren anGi
made a hard fight in Story against
Governor Cummins. He would make a
much stronger showing against Cap-s
| tain Hull, who has never been extreme
I1v nopular outside Of POLK county
There is Payne in Story county, the
original Conger man, who would give
his strong support for anything.
Whatever the outcome Of the Conger
deal there seems to be little doubt in
this CITY but that Capt. Hull will have
onnosition during the next campaign
hut when it comes to the possible
candidates against Congressman Hull
there is a lull. The fact that he won
out the last campaign after being
practically defeated up to SATURDAY
night before the primaries seems TO
have placed him in the saddle again.
Arrangements have been made for
a meeting of Lyman's Twelfth Signal
Company at the state fair grounds
| Aug. 81. at 2 p. m. About $50 persons
are eligible in this company and 1T is
expected that about thirty will be pre-
sent coming from as far west as Colo
| RADIO. The company saw service dur
ing the Spanish-American war, at
Chickauauga Park, Newport News,
Lexington, KY, Macon, Ca, and in
central Cuba Walter Lee Lane, pub
Usher of the Muscatine Journal is
nresident of the association and John
M. Ellison of Des Moines is secretary
Other signal corps men at Chicago ana
New York have organizations and II
is the intention at the meeting OF the
owa company this year to affiliate
with the other organizations. The
meetings will be held at Old Soldiers
building.
Fearing lest they antagonize the
standpat interests in the membership
of the organization the Des Moines
| Commercial Club has decided not to
appoint a representative to the big re-
ciprocity conference in Chicago for
| August 16 and IT, Today the club
received a letter from Alvin Sanders,
the chairman of the committee having
m charge the arrangements for the
conference. He very numerically
l frs1 TO n{ Il
appoint representative and states
that of the 1000 largest cities In the
! United States Des Moines is the only
city that has refused and failed to re-
spond to the request and appoint
| representative to attend the conference
and vii! be the only large city not rep
resented.