Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-18
He Will Have United Support Of
Progressives and May Not
Be Opposed By Others
MAJOR LACEY HAS AMBITIONS
standpatters May Conclude to Center
Efforts; on senatorship AIone-Talk
Of Governor Packard for Second
Place on Ticket Meets With Favor
Other News.
Special to Times-K-puplican.

Special TO Times Republican.
Des Moines, Dec. 1S.--Now that the
announcement of Lieutenant Governor
Warren Garst as candidate for gov
ernor has been made formally, poll
ticians are asking who will be the
next?"
Politicians generally have been ex-
pecting the announcement of Mr.. Garst
and it has been sort of tacitly expected,
! too, that Garsts announcement would
be the first and that not till he made
This announcement would there be
much doing in the matter of poll
tics for state officers. Now that it is
made it is not altogether positive that
there will be any others.
| A Des Moines politician who was in
| Oskaloosa recently brings the intelli-
gence that ex-Congressman Lacey is
very anxious to run for governor. He
announced in Washington, when he
learned that he was defeated for re-
/ ~
candidate for senator, but no one ev
i-er supposed for minute that he would
| be so rebellious against the reign Of
Blythe that he would run against Sen
ator Allison. He thought then as most
others thought that Allison would not
| enter the contest again.
| Now, however, Lacey is anxious to
~, ba nd t,.1y
| a political office again. 1t is said that
| he has not ceased to smart under the
fact that his own county, Mahaska,
went against him the last time by q
vote of 3,019 to 1850. His enemies in
Mahaska county say that If he runs
| for governor the county will go against
him again.
| Friends of Col. D. ]. Palmer have
been talking in strain recently that
would indicate that he may not be q
candidate after all. 1t is well UNDER
stood that he would like to be can
didate because in the first place he
does not enter upon his fourth term as
railroad commissioner till Jan. 1, 1908,
and could run for governor just as
well as not without losing out as COM
missioner. His term as commissioner
will extend for three years from Jan.
next. If he should by any chance
get the election as governor he could
resign as commissioner, and if he did
MT get the election as governor he
could go on serving as commissioner.
Auditor Carroll is in Louisville, KY,
at the present time. His friends ex-
pect to see him enter the field short
ly as candidate.
With Lieutenant Governor Garst in
the field the situation in the political
arena has shifted slightly and it would
not be a great surprise If he had no
opposition. Garst will have the solid
support Of the progressives Of the
state and during his long service as a
member Of the senate and as lieutenant
governor he has made warm friends
everywhere from the fact that he he's
always been eminently fair with all
sides in every question. Furthermore
there is added reason for no opposition
to Garst. Lack Of opposition from any
source to Garst would result in there
being no fight in the state practically
with the one exception of that for I'm
I tied States senator Morrow, Hay
ward, Byers Ketchum and Riggs, it is
conceded, will all be renominated
without opposition. There is pos
sible field for a contest of some kind
for state auditor but in that field it is
entirely possible that only one Of the
candidates suggested thus far may en-
ter the race.
The contest for United States sena-
tor will be one before the people. 1t
will be a campaign Of education III
which speaking will be the chief fac
tor and the newspapers another factor.
1t will not be campaign wherein a
county can be secured by a few patri-
OTIS meeting with Ed Hunter in back
room of the Savery hotel. With no con-
test against Garst for governor the
campaign therefore may be a compar-
atively simple matter
Politicians are giving some serious
consideration to the idea Of ex-Gover-
nor Packard for lieutenant governor.
All the discussion that has taken place
thus far it is understood, has been
without the knowledge Of Governor
Packard, The governor is a man of
great mental activity and unquestioned
ability. On the state board Of agricul-
ture he has done valuable work that
the farmers of the entire state appre-
ciate He has reached the age of life
where he probably would not care to
take a political position that would tax
his strength but in the position of lieu
tenant governor he would have but
three months work presiding over the
senate during the next session of the
legislature and it is argued that his
standing over the entire state would
strengthen the ticket. If he should al
low the use of his name there are.
many who predict that he would have
probably no opposition.
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