Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-07
Announcement Of Judge Town
er's Candidacy BY Standpat
Paper Significant
DISTRICT LOST TO COL. PErEa
That is the Way Some Of the Polit-
clans Size Up Situation - Towner
in Greater Disfavor Among Progress
ives Than Hepburn-Election Of
Porter, Democrat, Not Impossible.
Special to Times-Republlcan.

| Special to Times-Republican.
| Des Moines, Oct. What purported
to be authoritative announcement III
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil. a stand
pat newspaper, that Judge ToWner, OIL
Corning, is to be candidate against
| Col w. p. Hepburn for congress, is
taken as evidence that Col Hepburn
| is as good as defeated. Added to this
! is further evidence that is brought
| from Keoguk when Hepburn went with
others to meet the president, to the
effect that there is no more grouchy
person in the state of Iowa than
| Colonel Hepburn and that it is all due
to the fact that on returning from
Europe he has discovered that the po-
litical sentiment in his district is such
that he is as good as defeated.
! Standpat and progressive politicians
alike from the Eighth district have re-
ported many times that the conditions
| in the Eighth depended on breaking the
| ice There are many standpat poll
| ticians down there who wish to see
| Hepburn defeated because they want
| to dispensate the ,atronage that rep
burn now controls 1t has been re-
peatedly stated that If one standpat
/ candidate should enter the race such
| as Judge Towner, there would In all
| oL,l ba
as the ice was broken it meant the de-
feat of Hepburn. If the Nonparells
statement that Towner is a candidate
| is authoritative as it purports to be, II
would indicate that the ice is broAen.
| II is understood that the attitEae
of the progressives Of the district has
ever been against Hepburn because "f
his record They claim that tho an ahle
man he has been aligned with the cor
| porations, and they think that
Towner would be a little worse be-
cause lacking the ability of Hepburn.
| 1t is told here that the progresslves IN
the district are throwing into the teeth
of the standpatters their votes OF last
election They are making no secret
that unless some one free from .he
taint of corporation support is nom
! mated they propose to vote for Claudc
Porter for congress- emphasized with
the statement that If Porter was good
enough for the standpatters to vote for
last election for governor he Is good
enough for them for congress.
| On top Of this information that
Towner will be a candidate in tho
Eighth comes further information with
| all the evidence Of being trustworthy
| that Senator James E. Bruce, of Allan
| tic, is prepared and will enter the race
in the Ninth against Congressman
Smith. of that district. Bruce is
standpatter along with Smith, but dur
ing his term in the senate tried dill
gently. to keep on both sides of the
fence at once. In the Thirty first gen.
eraI assembly, when the primary cleo
tion law was being pushed for the
first time with vigor, Bruce "ducked"
on roll call, that is, on the first roll
call. tho his name was near the first
on the list, he failed to vote. Just as
the vote was completed and 1t was
seen that the bill was lost anyway he
voted for it. He did the same thing
on many other roll calls. Generally ne
was lined up with the standpatters tho
trying 10 COIVlnCe liie Sulliiiiiii7 AiiSiA
that he was with them.
The information that Bruce in the
| Ninth and Towner In the Eighth are
to be candidates against standpat
brothers is thought by most pol1tl-
clans to indicate friction In the ranks
of standpatism and there will be no
surprise if other standpatters In other
districts are announced as candidates.
The state library has added one of
| the rarest Of works to its collection.
It is Picarts Religious Customs and
Ceremonies" and was printed in 173"
| to 1887 There are six volumes. The
first was printed in 1873 and the last
| in 1887. The pages are large and the
work bound in full leather of the Old
style and illustrated with many cop"
per engravings. The books are in Il
| remarkably good state of preservation
and are considered very valuable.
| Written at time when the perse-
cutions under religious orders were
| fresh in the minds of historians the
! work is especially valuable on that
score and the Illustrations are very
largely devoted to picturing in detail
| the tortures to which persons were
put. some being even buried alive. af-
| ter being forced to dig their own
graves.
Miss Della Weeks. the first to en-
| ter the regular army service as a
trained nurse is Des Moines girl
| and was with the Fifty-tirst Iowa reg
/ iment in the Philippine service. 1t
| is learned that she is to be honored
| by being given certificate Of enlist
ment No. /. She has been 50 notified
and expects the certificate In short
| time and is considerably elated over it.
! The state railroad commission has
! approved the plans for the viaduct
! over lhe Illinois Central And u. & st.