Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-19
aovERNoR CARROLL DECIDES TO
NOT APPOINT SUCCESSOR TO
poLLIvER.
NAMING OF sENAroR NOW
MIGHT JEoPARpizE TICKET
Next Legislature Probably Will Be
Progressive and viii Select a Sue.
esseor Whose Views Are in Line
With Those Held by Dei'ivsr and
Nhs Majority Of Iowa Voters.
speu,s, TO Cimes-RepubMcan.

epeuial to Times-Repubican.
Dee Moines, Oct. Ex-Governor Car
roll viii not make any appointment OF
n United States,senator to succeed Dol
liver. An announcement to that effect
viii h made soon after the funeral. 1t
VIM not be worth while to present to
HIM taa> names of this or that available
until after election, and then the mat
tar Will be passed up to the legislature
TOR 1ks action.
The only possible hitch in this pro-
gram = that some agreement can be
reaof1ed for q senatorial referendum so
that In this case as two years ago 1t
A2oAil b pHt up equazely to the repub-
1i0an poteEs Of the state to decide who
shall 10 to the senate. This would, of
couxBA coxEespond to the spirit and IN
xant OE the primary law and be in fun
aoooeA with the general tendency to
haze eenators who are directly re-
spo0atble to the people. 1t Is conceded,
hoDovBr. that the obstacles in the way
Of <his plan are many, and It can only
BE- A0oounpltsaed by general agreement
VI khe politicians and a willingness on
tAea4 part to forego the advantage OF
IN unexpected sftuaIfon.
Might Jeopardixs Ticket.
The precipitation of this matter 1t
II feared by some of the republican
leadecs may have the effect of lessenins
the chances OF some of the republican
candidates for the legislature. The fact
Is pointed out that because of the peo-
pie having taken the senatorial ques-
ton out Of the legislature there are
1 mr. ran1fhlioon nd; in
standpat counties and vice versa, and
wherever this condition Is found there
Is danger IN the present situation. It is
learned, for instance, that in one of the
counties Of the First district where
there Is q progressive legislator the
party leaders on Monday got together
and started a movement to pledge him
to vote On the legislature in accordance
with the majority sentiment of his
county.
A short time ago a number of per-
sons interested in legislation went over
the list of nominees for the legislature
and tried to figure out the probabilities
of the situation. They made an esti-
mate of about fifty democrats in the
two houses, which would leave 1OS in
the republican joint caucus. Their es-
innate was that in this Gaseous there
Wouid De q small progressive majority
possibly twel1ty. But it is confessed
that nobody Is in position to do very
much good guessing on the legislature.
There are among the candidates a very
much larger number Of those who are
wholly unknown as to their tendencies
than is usual
The discussion Of individuals who
are considered available for the SEN
atorshtp has already become common.
"A great many names have been men
toned and considered in private. But
1t is only fair to say that the general
disposition is to defer any active dis
cussion OF personalities in this connec-
ton. 1t may be some time before SEN
tlment begins to crystalline around any
particular person or persons.