Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-31
MAJORITY OF STATE OFFICES
WILL BE FILLED BY PRESENT
lNcUMsENTs.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
WILL BE CONTESTED FOR
May Be No Opposition to Present
Governor and Lieutenant Governor,
Altho Clarke May Be Forced to Try
for CAROLS PIace-Palmer to Retire
From Railroad Commission.
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Des Moines, July 31.-Republicans
will have to select thirteen candidates
on the state ticket next June, but as
matter of fact there is no certainty
that they will have any choice between
candidates except for one office with a
possible choice between candidates on
three other positions.
Precedent comedies denomination to
Secretary of State Hayward Auditor
Bleakley, Treasurer Morrow, Attorney
General Byers, Clerk of the Supreme
Court Bousquet, Railroad Commissioner
Eaton, Supreme Court Reporter Corn
wall, and TO Supreme Judges Evans
ana Deemer. There is every reason to
believe now that there will be no oppo-
sitlon to any of these and they will all
be renominated, unless they should in
dictate that they will not again be cam
didates, but there is no reason to be-
lieve they will do that
This leaves four offices to be filed
One is that of state superintendent.
Mr.. Riggs has had three terms which
is the precedent in his office and there
will be a. number of candidates for the
position. 1t is in fact the only position
that there is a certainty that there will
lie a fight over.
The other three positions are gov
ernor, lieutenant governor, and railroad
commissioner to succeed Col. D. J. Pal
mer. Colonel Palmer will have held
the position of railroad commissioner
within three months of fourteen years
when his term expires, which breaks
| all precedent and gives him the honor
of having held office longer than any
| other elective state officer in Iowa. 1t
is intimated that he may not be cam
| didate again but there has been no
word from Colonel Palmer to that Ell
| feet.
| This being a free country any man
can be a candidate any time he wants
to and the precedent of the party may
mean but little in a primary election.
| 1t is quite certain to mean less than
| it did in the old convention system.
In case of governor precedent would
give Governor Carroll one more term
at least But there is so much talk
of opposition going on under the sur
face of things that it is impossible to
tell now what will be done. Candidates
will not begin to announce themselves
for four or five months yet and possibly
more. But when it comes time for can
didates to announce themselves The
work of deciding who will be candi-
dates will all be over with. That work
is going on now in CORES ondence and
i conferences.
H 1t is known that unusual pressure is
being brought to bear on Lieutenant
II to run for governor against Carroll
Clarke has told his friends that he
will not run but will be a candidate
II for denomination as lieutenant COVER
nor 1t is remembered, however, tina:
he said he would not be a candidate
for lieutenant governor last year but
found he had so many friends who
would not take mo- for an answer that
he was forced into the race and nomi-
mated and elected. He may be induced
to change his mind again on the gov
ernorship.
Political affairs can never be fore
casted with certainty but the friends OF
Mr.. Clarke have for some time had il
their mind that he should some day bt
made governor. He has a host O
friends in all elements of the repub-
lean party and his friends were deter
mined to make him a candidate in 1911:
but had no thought of making him
candidate next year.
Politics is not altogether a simpl
| matter and one of the elements in tn
political situation just now is the ope'
secret that Governor Carroll would lik
| to succeed Senator Dolliver. If Carol
| is reelected governor his term am
| that of Senator Dolliver would eXpir
! at the same time. The Dolliver peopl
| think that the best way to defeat Car
| roll for senator is to discredit him b
! defeating him for his second term "a
governor The other lines of opposf
ton to Governor Carroll are from som
of the members of that element in tn
party who in the old days of factional
ism Were called standpatters. Some Q
these didn't succeed in getting the po
sitions at the hands of Governor Car
roll that they expected. Progressive
expected nothing, got nothing and ar
not disappointed and are inclined
leave things as they are and not dis
posed to break down the precedent c
4 two terms in the governors offic
They want a progressive governc
again some day and do not want hir
to have to fight to retain his office f1
II a second term.
Iowa members of the Corn Belt Mea
! Producers Association, and the asso
\ citation is largely an Iowa concern, ar
reioiced over the action Of the court
\ in Kansas. which recently gave
- Judgment of $4,000 against the Liy
Stock Exchange of that place in fave
of the cooperative commission com
pany of the farmers When the Cor
Belt Meat Producers Associate
found that the commission men in tn
. live stock markets were going to rails
the commission arbitrarily they OF
ganized cooperative commission com
panies in all the live stock center
: Then there was begun a systemat
E boycott of the cooperative by til
= larger commission companies wNhic
were members of the exchange.
The exchange members went to til
Y large buyers and forced them to cor
fine their buying to members of the Ell
change The fight was a swift an
merry one for time Then the CO
- onerativoc s+arfed sniff The first GIL