Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-21
General Good Feeling Over
State Towards Candidacy
of Adel Man
RECORD AS SPEAKER
Twice Unanimously Selected to Preside
Over House Deliberations = Stand
patters Lining Up to Accept Result.
Of Primary Sullivan and the DEM
ocrats.
speciar to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
| Des Moines, March 21-Hon. George
w. Clarke, of Adel, will be a candl-
| date for lieutenant governor of Iowa,
and his candidacy. it is believed meets
a widespread desire. Rarely has any
republican in Iowa entered the contest
! for a nomination with such 81 wide
spread good feeling in his behalf.
Mr. Clarke has been frequently men,
toned for the position of lieutenant
governor since the first of this year.
He was also mentioned for governor
not to enter the campaign as a candi-
date for any office. There has been
! a desire on the part Of many republic
cans of all factions that he should en-
ter the race. During two sessions of
the house he was speaker. At each
! session he was the unanimous choice
OF both parties He received the un-
animous nomination in the republican
caucus and the unanimous election oe
| the house. the democrats not making
any nomination.
This is record Of which no other
speaker can boast. During the two
/; terms he made a record for fairness
and courtesy in the chair that won for
him much praise. Mr.. Clarke IS
| classed as a progressive He made an
address before the Grant Club of this
city recently and in commenting on
| it the Des Moines Daily Capital,
srandpat newspaper, declared that Mr..
Clarke was the type of man that was
wanted for political office. The Sioux
, City Journal, another standpat news
paper, spoke of him in much the same
way. 1t is known that many standpat
politicians of the state look upon Mr..
Clarke in the same spirit and consider
him one of the highest and best type
of citizens of the state.
During the state convention repub-
licans from every section Of the state
were assembled in Des Moines and the
desire to have Mr.. Clarke in the field
for lieutenant governor crystalized. A
number Of politicians sent messages to
Mr.. Clarke asking hiW to come to Des
NIoines to meet them. On the evening
Of the state convention he met them
in the Savery and the request was then
made that he enter the race. 1t was
only after this universal demand that
he consented to enter the race. AS the
presiding officer of the senate Mr.
Clarke's friends are sure that he will
make as enviable record as he made
in the house, a record against which
no one republican or democrat, stand
patter or progressive, can complain.
sss
While they were in Des Moines this
week Senator Charles G. Saunders, of
Council Bluffs, and Representative
William P. Alfred, of Wayne county.
each expressed their Interpretation Of
the meaning of the primary election
law as applied to United States senator
that the nomination would be deter
mined by the majority vote of the re-
pubicans of the state at large and the
vote of the state would be instructions
to the representatives regardless of the
results in any particular legislative
district
Both Mr.. Saunders and Mr. Alfred
favor Senator Allison. Mr.. Saunders
was one of the senators who had a
considerable part in the framing of the
primary law and he said he had never
had any doubts as to the meaning of
the law in that respect and had always
understood that the vote of the state
at large would govern the matter. He
further states that if Cummins got
more votes in the state than Allison
he would vote for Cummins regardless
of the action of PottaWattamie county.
Mr.. Alfred said practically the same
thing as to Wayne county.
Hon. Jerry Sullivan of this city will
in all probability be one of the demo-
cratic delegates large to the ma
tional convention. If the radical Bryan
men control the state convention, and
there is every reason to believe now
that they will, Bryan will be one Of
the men named Democrats from the
Seventh congressional district are also
discussing the name of John 7. Null
vaney of Des Moines as a district
delegate. Mulvaney ran against Con-
gressman Hull in this district and
made an excellent showing.
Immediately after the city election
in this city it is proposed to organ
ize a Recall Club" One of the pro-
visions of the commission form of gov
ernment which has been adopted in
this city is that when a certain per
cent Of the people object to the policy
of any official they can on petition Sc
cure an election to determine whether
the man will continue in the office or
whether there shall be an election to
elect a successor To him. This pro-
vision makes it possible TO hold clubs
over the heads of the city officials in
a manner that is calculated to compel
them to be good.
One of the propositions in this city