Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-21
FEDERAL SLATE I
MAY Be SMASHED
Prospect That Program For
Appointment For Southern
District Will Be Revised
MAY DROP COL. |. M. TEMPLE
A Le'ns and Loud "HolIer" Said to
Have Gone Up from Clark County
George NJ. Christians Waning Pow
or in Poweshiek May Lose Him the
Marshalship.
Special to Times-Republican.

| Special to Times-Republican
Des Moines, Aug. 21.-There appears
now to be no doubt that the slate"
| for federal jobs in the southern dis
I trict of Iowa will have to be made ;ul
over again before it is passed up to
President Roosevelt. This making
| over process will not take place until
after the election, and it may be SER
,, iously affected thereby. 1t is now an
the respective districts the members
of congress in the Sixth and Eighth
districts would like to have trade as
between marshal and attorney AT
present the agreement is that Hepburn
shall name the attorney while Lacey
! narnes the marshal. George Christian
expects reappointment as marshal, tho
he has been an officeholder these many
years, and it has been demonstrated
that he no longer has any marked po-
litical influence in his district Pow
eshiek county, his home, has got en-
tfrely away from him. Mr.. Hinsdale,
of Jasper, has been hard after the
| place, and Major Lacey finds 1t hard
to decide between the two. In the
Eighth the situation is very embar
raising to Colonel Hepburn Colonel M.
IL. Temple had a definite promise four
years ago of the attorneyship, but at
the last moment he was turned down.
He took the defeat in good part and is
now in position to demand the place,
But there are obstacles. Some persons
in Clark county are interfering. 1t is
stated that protest went to Washing
lstc,n some time ago with the names
OF many Clark county, men signed
thereto asking that Temple be not thus
honored. In addition to this it is stat
ed that evidence in the form Of letters
and correspondence relating to cer-
tain transaction in court wherein it is
alleged Colonel Temple was a little
SLOW in remitting large. collection,
has been made use Of by those oppos-
ing the Temple ambition. AS result
ii: is given out that Temple will not
he the successor to Lewis Miles, who
is now holding over beyond his term
thru failure of the president to appoint
his successor.
Whether the appointment will go
to r. H. Spence, late chairman of the
republican state committee, remains to
be determined. He was supposed to
be a candidate, but some time ago
stated that he had no ambition for any
office.
In this connection it is learned that
during the late unpleasantness there
was some by-play with relation to
minor positions in the federal service.
Bob" Haines, the man who organ
lied the corps of repeaters to carry
Scott county, was in fact playing for
the position of assistant United States
attorney, and is reported as stating
that if he could only get Scott coun-
ty he would have the attorneyship as
his prize. 1t is expected he will now
claim it on the score that he did really
make the promised capture of the
county, but it was stolen away from
I,him by the action of Major Lacey
and his associates when they advised
the square deal.
The coming "get together" conven-
ton of the temperance forces of the
state will not be the beginning of
movement to have the temperance vote
decide as between parties in this state.
Some who will attend this convention
are understood to favor action that will
lead to throwing the temperance vote
solidly in one direction; but others are
known to be very strongly opposed to
this AS an Indication of the attitude
of the anti-saloon league toward state
politics this year the Dial of Progress
discusses freely and without apparent
bias the nominees for governor. L. S.
Coffin, the prohibition nominee, is Civ
en- first place, Of course, and the fact
is dwelt upon that he is now one of the
lecturers for the league. In regard to
the governor, the Dial says:
Governor Cum minis has been before
the public for score of years. Nearly
twenty years ago he led a revolt in the
republican party which resulted in the
election Of Horace Boies as governor
Of the state. One of the factors in the
factional fight which was led by him
was a question Of statewide prohib-
ton. Mr.. Cummins stood for local op-
tion, believing that the county or town
could not be coerced into the enforce
ment Of the liquor law where senti-
ment locally was against such enforce
ment He is man Of clean life and
high ideals. When the first saloon pc
titions were circulated in Des Moines
twelve years ago the name Of Al B.
Cummins was found in the list When
the second petition was circulated a
year later he. refused to sign. He re-
fused also to sign the petition to estab-
lish breweries in Des Moines last year
and expressed himself publicly and
privately as desiring earnestly the en-
forcement Of the liquor laws. He signed
the time limit bill as it was passed by
the last general assembly.
Regarding Claude A. Porter, the
democratic nominee, the Dial has this
10 say:
Mr.. Porter ma<s an envtable rec-