Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-05
Settled to a Certainty That Con-
gressman Hull Will Have
Strong Opposition
pRourY MAY ENTER CONTEST
DowelIs Candidacy Likely to Bring
Strong Progressive Into the Field
Announcement of Mckeen Duren in
Hardin Reveals Standpat Tactics to
Force Candidates to Pledge Them
selves.
spec,a, to r,mes-Repuplican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, March 5.-Senator {. Z.
Dowell will be a candidate for con-
gress from the Seventh district against
Congressman j. A. r. Hull, and 1T Is
thus settled that Hull is to have op-
position 1t is practically certain that
Judge s. F.. Prouty will also be can
didatc
1t was first indicated some days ago
that Senator Dowel would likely en-
ter the race. His candidacy has been
discussed for some weeks but 1t was
| thought for long time that the pc
culiar condition of affairs in this dls-
!, trict would result in no candidate en-
| tering the field against Hull. 1t is
| now learned that Senator DoWell mas
made up his mind to be a candidate
and unless the political conditions here
should change materially within the
next few weeks his announcement
will shortly follow.
There are various predictions as to
| the possible success of opposition to
/ Congressman j. A. +. Hull. Des Moines
people have had much at the hands OF
CONGRESSMAN Hull and many of the
! business men whose only interest IN
politics is as it affects business, are
! oath to make any change A new post
office. the foundation of which is now
being laid; an army post completed
and promises that it will be made three
times as big; promises to dredge the
Des Moines river and make 1t navi-
gable to say nothing Of other possi-
BILE promises vet to be made, look good
to Des Moines business men. OF course
the business vote is only part of 1t and
Hull must have votes in other counties
as WELL but Madison and Warren are
as benightedly standpat as the worst
counties of Blythes territory in the
reservation south of the Burlington
tracks and Dallas and Marion contain
some standpat votes.
| There are various estimates as to
Dowells strength. Some make it al
most nothing. Others believe he will
poll a fair vote and his friends believe
ne will probably poll good strong
gets into the race, as he probably will.
eh will probably poll a good strong
| vote in Story and his friends believe
| he will be as strong as ever in POLK
county, where about half the votes ars
nominally with him. 1t must not be
forgotten that Marion has candi-
date in the person Of Senator Warren,
who is making determined campaign
and who is sure to poll a considerable
vote.
In the announcement of McKeen
Duren, of Hardin county, candidate
for the republican nomination to the
Legislature, that he will vote for that
candidate for United States senator
who receives the largest vote in Har-
din county, there is disclosed the first
move Of the standpatters not to stand
by the primary vote of the state, as
Senator Allison in an interview prom
ised to do. Mr.. Duren is in progress
sive county but his friends are stand
patters Pregressives see in the move
| a sharp trick of the standpatters. By
going to a progressive county and get
| ting candidate to make such a pledge
they think they can establish a prece-
/ dent for other standpat counties to do
the same.
| Duren is close friend of Ellis Robb
who has recently been appointed state.
bank examiner by Auditor Carroll.
| Down in Burlington it was dis
| %I,o{
| the millionaire lumberman who was
| indicted some months ago in connec-
ton with western lumber frauds, is
anxious to be delegate to the ma
tional convention from the First dis
trict of Iowa. He is a close political
friend of j. w. Blythe. Rand and his
friends have been characterzing some
of the leading progressives in Bur-
lington as ward heelers." The other
day it was learned that Rand visited
negro saloon in Burlington, the pro-
prietor of which is a prominent figure
in local politics, and solicited his aid
as a candidate for delegate from the
First district to the national repub-
lican convention. He didn't get the
support, either.
P w. Madden, of this city. whose
only claim to being a state politician
is the fact that he was once warden at
.cne of the penitentiaries, is a candidate
for sheriff from Polk county. He is
now jailer of the county Jail here. Mr..
Madden is lauded very highly in the
columns OF the Des Moines Capital.
Recently when the Allison people tried
| to make a showing in the Polk county
caucuses. Madden was one of the Alli-
son delegates from the fourth precinct
of the First ward for the county con-
vention There were eight delegates
to be selected from that precinct. and
Madden was one. In the precinct eau
Gus the ticket got nine votes. or just
one more than there We're candidates