Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-28
PERKINS CANNOT
FORGE HARMONY
One In Close Touch With State
Politics Considers Candidacy
an Impossibility
FIGHT 1T OUT ON PRINCIPLE
Says if Perkins is Ever Elected on
Harmony Platform It Will be After
One Of the Most Intense Political
Fights Iowa Has Ever Known =
Situation Seems Uncertain.

Situation Seems Uncertain.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, July 2S.-One who Is
Is keeping close in touch with the poli--
teal situation in the state, said today:
"The candidacy of Hon George d. Per-
kins of Sioux City, seems to me to be
ward as the harmony candidate. At
least that is the impression over the
state that his desire is for harmony
and compromise. His candidacy. was
suggested, and at once the papers,
some of them of the standpat faction,
began opposing such a proposition and
argued for a fight along the lines OF
principle. Now instead of leaning back
and saying nothing Mr.. Perkins, thru
the columns of the Sioux City Journal
has been waging fight for harmony
and compromise. You can't fight for
harmony. As soon as you fight for 1t
there isn't any harmony. And so it
seems to me that Mr.. Perkins candi-
dacy has come to be an impossibility
II he is ever elected on harmony plat
form it will be after one of the most
intense political fights the state has
ever known. Harmony along those
lines is like forcing religion on peo-
Pile"
In some ways the political situation
at this time is very uncertain and es-
| pecially as to the candidate for gover-
nor Conflicting reports come from
Davenport. A letter was received to-
day by a Des Moines man from poll
| tician who had spent some time in
I Davenport in which he states that Joe
Lane is willing to become a candidate
1 for governor, but doesn't propose to
have the matter announced at this ear
| ly stage. Other Davenport politicians
who have been in the city state that
under no circumstances will Mr.. Lane
enter the field as a candidate. AS to
other possibilities there seem to be no
certainties.
1t is being talked here that w. w.
Morrow of Alton will get the state
treasurer's position only by one method
and that Is to bring his congressional
district unpledged as to other candi-
dates. This 1t is claimed he will be un-
able to do as the railroad interests will
demand that the district line up on
other candidates as well. 1t is claimed
that this will defeat Morrow for the
reason that many of the friends of
(Nnuarnnr frfn n
Morrow for the reason that he acted so
fairly during previous campaigns to-.
ward Gilbertson, but it is pointed out
that if the Eighth district comes to the
state convention solidly for all stand
ers will be forced to support candi-.
date for treasurer other than Morrow.
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DR.. Bailey of Mt. Ayr, who was in
the city yesterday, confirms the report
that there is strong opposition to Col
onel w. p. Hepburn in the Eighth dis
trict, but says he believes that Hep
burn will be reelected. "He is by all
odds the strongest man we have In the
district" said DR.. Bailey today, "and
that fact, If none other, will return
him to congress. There is no one sto
run against him. Yes, there has been
some mention of District Attorney
Miles, but he is out Of it. We expect
the Eighth to be for Morrow, without
doubt, and expect him to be elected"
DIR. Bailey at first said there was no
politics, and that every one was busy
watching the corn grow, but in the
next breath admitted that the people
in his section are discussing the rate
question with good deal of vigor and
were not asleep on the topic.
Anent the recent news of the decline
of the much loved Colonel David B.
Henderson, Ora Williams formerly the
T.-R. correspondent here, recently
wrote friend:
Admission at this time of the fact
that Colonel Henderson's mind is gone,
reminds me of the fact that 1 sent the
Times-Republican the first authentic
news about this two years ago. was
present in the famous conference of
candidates in Des Moines just after
the speaker had been unanimously re-
nominated for another term, when he
held aloft copy of the Iowa platform
of that year and pledged himself to
carry it to the ends Of the country
and everywhere to defend the Iowa
idea plank on the tariff and monop
olies, and his subsequent sensational
action caused me to follow his case
closely I thought it of real interest
deplorable as 1t was-when the fact
became known to his friends that his
memory had failed and he was surely
leading to paresis, and wrote the
story in as conservative manner as
anything l ever wrote, having due re-
gard to the feelings of his relatives
and friends. 1t will be recalled that
newspapers published what purportel
to be indignant denials and expended
their wrath upon me for having given
out the story. Some of the newspa-
pers denounced me with manifest
venom and reflected on my motives
confess that in all my newspaper ca
reer 1 was never SO deeply hurt as by
these criticisms. in some cases in
newspapers that never before ques-