Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-23
WEB bYERS Will RUN
Definitely Announced That He
Will Stand For Attorney
Generalship
is LEADER OF pRoeREsslvENEss
Predicted That standpatters Will Not
Fight Him = Ninth District Will
be Unanimous in Urging His
cIaims-Morrows candidacy-Gen-
eraI News.

Des Moines, Dec 23.-AdVlces from
Harlan state that H. w. Byers, of
Shelby county, will be a candidate for
attorney general before the republican
state convention next year. This is
the first visible result of a conference
ers Of Governor Cummins, presumably
to formulate the policy OF that con-
tingent for the 1906 campaign. Byers
is one of the men who brought about
Governor Cummins nomination in 1901
and has been a political lieutenant of
the governor ever since.
Notwithstanding his affiliations, it
is claimed that he will receive the
support of the entire Ninth district
in the state convention, and that the
standpatters may not fight him.
Credence is given to this surmise
by the fact that w. w. Morrow, a
Union county man and standpatter,
is to become candidate for state
treasurer next year, with the under
standing that he VIII be indorsed gem
orally turnout his congressional dis
trict, the Eighth. and also in the
Ninth. 1t looks like compromise to
secure two places on the state ticket
for southwestern Iowa without fight.
Some 6yers Biography.
Howard Webster Byers was born in
Richland county, Wisconsin, in 1867.
He spent his boyhood on a farm and
got his early education in the little
schoolhouse of the country. He came
to Iowa at the age of is and worked
on a farm in Hancock county, near
Wesley. There he spent three years,
working summers and going to school
in the winters. In 1876 he, with two
companions, started overland for the
Black Hills, but the trip was abandon
ed on account of the wintry weather
and he returned to Nebraska City. In
1878 he came back to Iowa and settled
in Shelby county, where he taught a
country school. The next spring he
secured employment in a store in Har-
Ian and by 1882 had managed to save
enough to engage in business for HIM
self in Earling. Four years later he
entered the law office Of Macy & Cam
mon in Harlan and in 1883 was adj
mitted to the bar. After Judge Macy's
election to the bench the firm was dis
solved and the business was trans
ferred to Mr. Byers.
Mr. Byers' first political venture was
not successful, being defeated for the
Legislature from Shelby county in 1892
the usual democratic majority being
greatly reduced by him, however. Two
years later he had the satisfaction OF
making the race again against the
same opponent and coming out victor
1ous. During the following session OF
the legislature he was speaker pro
tenn and when he was reelected in
1894, was chosen speaker of the Twen-
ty-sixth general assembly. He was de-
feated for nomination for congress In
the Ninth district convention and also
for the nomination for governor at the
state convention in 1897, being prom
inent candidate, but withdrawing early
in the contest, Leslie M. Shaw being
nominated He again served in the
Twenty-eighth general assembly, in the
house in 1909. The following year he
was prominent among the Cummins
leaders and broke the strength OF John
Herriott in the Ninth district, throwing
majority Of it to Mr.. Cummins at
Cedar Rapids