Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-11-17
JUDGE WADE MAY
SUCCEED " ALSH
FORMER CONGRESSMAN is REC
oMMENDED BY THE DEMO.
CRATIC COMMITTEE
Asks Cato Sells Of VInton to With
draw AS candldate-Marsh Has
Left the Race-Commlttee Will
Make Statement Of Expenditures.

Iowa City, Nov. 16.-Wade said this
afternoon he is not candidate for
national committeeman, but will ac-
cept If he can help Iowa democrats
achieve harmony.
>Des Moines. Nov. 16.--Former Con-
Egressman Martin j. Wades of Iowa
CITY, was recommended by the demo-
cratic state central committee yester-
day afternoon for Iowa member of the
democratic national committee to sue
ceed Charles A. Walsh, Of Ottumwa,
who resigned September 1. The state
committee also requested Cato Sells
to withdraw his candidacy for the ma
tional committee in the interest of
party harmony in Iowa. w. w. Marsh
OF Waterloo, has already announced
his withdrawal for that purpose and
it is believed Mr.. Sells will now do
likewise. The state committee has
assurance from the national commit
tee that Judge Wade will be at once
elected as the Iowa member Of that
body.
AS Judge Wade could have had the
democratic nomination for governor
this year by acclamation, it is believed
that his recommendation for the ma
tional committee will be popular
among the majority Of the Iowa dem
ocrats. 1t is understood that William
Jennings Bryan has intruded himself
into Iowa politics by backing the can
didacy Of Cato Sells and declaring his
opposition to W. w. Marsh who was
Palmer and Buckner democrat in
1896. Mr.. Bryan's declaration in his
recent Des Moines speech that any
member of the democratic committee
who had opposed the Presidents rail-
way regulation policy should at once
resign, was directed at Mr., Marsh, who
participated in the trump" railway
regulation policy should at once re-
sign, was directed at Mr.. Marsh who
rate convention at Chicago last year.
Bryan is also said not to have appre-
ciated his Endorsement by the demo-
cratic convention this year, because
that convention was in control of the
conservative wing Of the Iowa democ-
racy.
Judge Wade, however, was loyal
Bryan supporter and at the same time
is identified with the conservatives by
his opposition to the Hearst movement
in Iowa in 1904. Judge Wade repre-
sented the second Iowa district in the
fifty-eighth congress and was defeated
for reelection by Congressman Daw-
son by only 1856 votes II 1904. He re.
fused the offer OF another nomination
this year.
Before going to Congress Judge
Wade served on the bench in the
eighth Iowa judicial district for ten
years. He is now engaged in the prac-
tice Of law at Iowa City, being senior
member of the firm of Wade. Dutch
er & Davis. The latter has been q
member of Colonel Cummins' STAFF fo,
number Of years.
In addition to the recommendation
of Judge Wade for the national COM
mitteeship, the state central commit
tee was occupied yesterday in check
ing over the accounts of it's headouar-
tiers with former Congressman Walt
H. Butler. public statement will be
made of its campaign finances as soon
as the work is completed. All the
members Of the state committee are
here except A. r. Miller of Washing.
ton, representing the first district: s.
w. Mercer of Iowa City, the second
district; j. F, McGinty of Knowlton,
the eighth district; John F. Dalton Of
Manson. the tenth district, and Mayor
w. G. Sears, of Sioux City, tn
enth district, all OF wnom sent their
proxies.