Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-17
Delaware Senator Slated For
Candidate For Governor Be-
fore Next Primary
LOOKED TO AS FACTIONS MOSES
Durham a Strong Man in the Senate
and Able in Many Respects - Has
Had No Affiliations With the Hun,
tor. Corporation Machine - Not An
Orator and Therefore Handicapped.
Special 10 Times Republican.

Des Moines, May 17.-Predictions are
being made from certain political
sources close to the standpatters that
Senator George w. Dunham. OF Man
chester will be candidate for gov
ernor next year and will be given the
standpat vote at the state primaries.
The information comes from q source
that in times past has been considered
authoritative and the intimations are
that 1t is something more than a pre-
diction.
The intimation is that the stand
patters are looking upon Senator Dun
ham as sort Of Moses to lead them
out Of the wilderness. Senator Dun-
ham had the good sense last year to
skip to Europe during the campaign
on tour that he and his family had
for years been planning, and thus he
missed all the acrimony and heated dis
cussion characteristic of the hot cam
paign OF 1906. For this reason 1t is
argued that he will be particularly
available as standpat candidate. Fur
thermore from his long service in the
Iowa senate and his prominence there
as legislator and law maker who
took leading part in the making Of
laws he has been before the public In
sufficiently prominent manner to
have quite a following and list Of
friends on his own account.
It is pointed out by the same au-
thority that Senator Durham As not a
candidate on his own motion. There
Is no gainsaying but thai. Senator Dun-
ham has always been looked upon as
ia strong man In the senate. His coun1
sci aside from partisan measures has
always been sought by all classes OF
politicians when 1t came to framing
measures on which the membership
of the legislature did not divide on
partisan lines. Hef has been looked
upon pretty much as Senator Whipple.
of Benton, Is looked upon as a strong,
able lawyer, thoroughly honest and up
right, and with no affiliations with the
Ed Hunter Corporation lobby. He
was never seen to rise in his seat in
the halls OF legislation, shake his mile
age book in the faces of his colleagues
and display his pride In the possession
and boastlo lof his unbiased mind in spite
OF 1T. Furthermore Senator Dunham
Is not the class of man who would
do that. He is quiet and retiring ana
a man who wins confidence. For that
,reasdn it is pointed out that he rs NOT
seeking the nomination and Is not an
iayowed candidate, but his prominence
fas one OF the men In the inner circles
of the standpatters is such that he does
not need to seek the nomination IN
that way and the authority that says
he .is goingi to be candidate says
that he is, the natural choice OF the
standpatters and their logical candi-
date.
II, f,senator Durham Is candidate Tor
the republican nomination as governor
he will Of course have to be canol-
date for nomination under q primary
election law the enactment OF Whicn ne
vigorously opposed, but which, Wnen
he saw that its passage was inevitable
he helped to frames In Delaware coun-
Nv 1t is claimed, he would draw
strong vote among the people who
know him best. In the senate he was
an able talker and was always able to-
strongly present any. proposition that
he wished to have enacted into law.
AS "a public speaker he does not have
the ability that it might be handy to
have in a campaign where one Is to get.
votes outside his home. county where
he is known, and where something
more than the appeal Of friendship ana
ACQUAINTANCE is necessary.
1t is recognized that in the campaign
that ss to come under the state prl-s
mary election law the man who stands
for something and is able to explain IT
to the people has an advantage Whllei
Senator Dunham is a good speaker, ne
is not an orator. In the campaign to
come an orator will have an advantage.
The appeal under the state primary
law will be to the people and not to the
politicians. There will not be the trad
ing and manipulation, SO it is argued,
that there has been in the past in the
primary and convention, and when the
voter goes into the booth he will pass
upon each candidate on that candi-
dates own fitness. But tho not especi-
ally an orator, Senator Durham prob
ably is as able speaker as any other
man. who has been mentioned as q can
didate or possible candidate.