Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-28
POLITICAL sTRAWs INDICATE
Carroll MAY HAVE CONTEST
EXPERIMENTATION.
CONFERENCES OF POLITICIANS
FOR NEXT WEDNESDAY
Some Of the Big Men Of Iowa Depre-
cate the Idea of Opposing CAROLS
Re-election-Possibiiity That Garst
Would Consent to Run Asain-car.
rolls Appointments Cause Soreness"
special to Times-Republican.

Special to mes-Republican.
Des Moines, Aug. 2S.-Des Moines
will be filled with politicians and near
politicians and would be- politicians
next Wednesday when all high public
officials of the state are expected to
stand in line and receive the guests at
the administration building on the
state fair grounds. That person who
says there will be no political confer
ences does not understand the ways OF
the politician.
There will be conferences in every
other room at the Slavery hotel. There
will be buttonholing around the corner
ol every building on the fair grounds.
Come For information
Many of the politicians who will be
In the city On that day will be here to
find out what they can learn. They
will come for information solely. Some
others. with the insipient buzzing of
bees in their bonnets, will be here to
see how the land lays and to find out
If they can't start something In their
own behalf. Everybody will be here
to find out whether or not the great
state of Iowa is to go thru one entire
campaign with no fight anywhere ex-
cept on state superintendent Of public
instruction.
Clarke May Not Run.
One of the first things all politicians
are going to learn when they reach the
city is that Lieut.. Gov. George Clarke.
of Abel, will not be candidate for the
republican nomination against Carroll.
This is if-and but. Probably no
one in Iowa has more friends than
Lieutenant Governor Clarke and they
are determined that he shall be gov
ernor one Of these days and have set
1T down on their calendars to make
him governor in 1912 He is not averse
to being governor in 1910 but sees no
reason for hurrying things. Nothing
short of widespread demand that
would be such that Governor Carroll
would withdraw will induce Lieutenant
Governor Clarke to enter the race next
year.
Some Want Candidate.
They will find that there is some
sentiment for bringing out a candidate
and they ought not have a great deal
of difficulty in locating just where this
sentiment comes from. First they will
find that practically all the really big
men of the state from Senators Dolli-
yer and Cummins down thru all the
standpat and progressive congressman
and all the state officials deprecate
the idea of any opposition to Governor
Carroll. They point out that it is an
unusually severe indictment OF man
to defeat him for the precedented Sec
ond term in office and if state Off
cial has made a reasonably good record
in office should be reelected.
Anti-CarroIi Talk.
But there is a movement on foot to
bring out some candidate and it makes
it none the less movement to ignore
IT. When the politicians get here next
Wednesday they will come In contact
with the opposition. The opposition is
not unified and organized. On the 9TH
err hand it is much scattered and much
disorganized. 1t is of that nature that
it might develop into something and
again it is entirely possible will in time
disappear and amount to nothing 1t is
| just at present such as to create talk
here and there In every group of politi-