Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-20
Indications Are That Progress
ives and Standpatters Will
Have Men i'm Field
sLEAkLEy sPolLs HARMONY
Announcement Of His Candidacy for
State Auditor rPuts Prosrsssives in
Position Whore Bringing Out of
Other Candidates Are Necessary -
Murphy to Have Opposition.
Special to Times-Republican.


Des Moines, Jan. 2O.--Announce-
ment of the candidacy of Senator J.
l.. Bleakley. OF Ida Grove, as a candi-
date for the republican nomination Of
state auditor. probably denotes that
there will be line-up on the state
ticker between the standpatters and
progressives of the party. There
were efforts being made to prevent
such line-up. There have been
claims that Auditor Carroll was not
the candidate of any faction for gov
ernor and his friends have taken that
position quite generally. tho there
are a number of standpat newspapers
that have claimed him as their candi-
date.
When Bernard Murphy announce
his candidacy for lieutenant governor
ii was the hope of his friends that he
would get the position without oppo-
sition. 1t was pointed out that Muir
ply, while a standpatter, had played
fair and had refused to be party to
the movement in the campaign of 1906
to steal" the state convention. Ev-
erybody likes Murphy, standpatters
and progressives alike, and the pro-
gressives recognized that he was emil
nently fitted for the position Of presid-
ing officer of the senate. While there
are number Of progressives who
have been mentioned as possible
candidates for lieutenant governor,
there are none that seem to be hum
gering for the position. and the only
thing that would deter progressives
from supporting Murphy was standpat
complexion he might give the senate
in making up the committees. There
-were"hupes ON the part Of republicans
OF both sides that truce might be
arranged SO that Murphy, standpat-
ter, would have easy shedding for the
position of lieutenant governor, and
Senator Hopkins, progressive, have
easy shedding for auditor. All the
other state officers will be reelected.
Announcement Of Senator Bleakley
may spoil the dream of harmony
Rleakley is a standpatter. He was
elected as progressive and was elect
ed from progressive district. He has
served one term of three sessions In
the senate and worked with the stand
patters thru all that time. Previous to
the announcement OF Bleakley for au-
ditor Jim Wilson, of Adair county,
was announced for lieutenant COVER
nor. But Wilson is a standpatter, as
is Murphy, and in the scheme for har-
mony 1t was expected that the stand
patters would look after Wilson, at
least the progressives could not be
expected to do SO.
Az to the head of the ticket, the onlys
thing asked by either progressives or
standpatters was that there be no
factional alignment on governor. Lieu
tenant Governor Garst and his friends
only asked that there be no more pro-
nounced standpatter be brought out
for governor than Auditor Carroll, and
that the republicans be allowed to
choose between Garst and Carroll at
the primary on their merits without
any factional fight being injected into
the campaign.
1t is more than likely that II Mr..
Murphy's friends had been consulted
they would have endeavored to keep
Bleakley out Of the race. But Bleak
lev Is in the race and is not a man of
the type that can be easily influenced
to withdraw his candidacy. The situ-
alton in Iowa furthermore is such that
the announcement of one candidate,
carving with it evidence that there Is
TO be scramble, may precipitate
many other candidates for that office,
as well as for lieutenant governor and
governor.
James H. Wilson of Adair county
has been formally announced as a
candidate for lieutenant governor by
his home paper, the Fontanelle OBJ
server, published by former Represen-
tative w. H. Mcclure of Adair coun-
ty.
"Almost everybody in Adair county
saws the Observer, knows Prairie
Jim as he has been a resident of JEFF
ferson. township since the early six
ties, and during the most of that time
has been active in public life"