Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-02
PARTY IN IOWA GROWS oPTI-
MYSTIC AS CAMPAIGN OPEN
ING APPROACHES.
CONFIDENT OF ELECTION
OF SEVERAL. CANDIDATES
Hope to Land Several State Offices as
We'll as Increase Representation in
Legislature - Will Pick Strongest
Man for Candidate for Governor
Conference Next Tuesday.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, April 2.-Next Tuesday
the Iowa democrats will get together
and informally agree upon their pro-
gram for the coming primary. The
leaders say that 1t is intended that a
program be agreed upon that will com :
mand the respect of the voters in
November. They are confident that
they will be able to capture some of
this state offices and say frankly that
the prospect is excellent for getting a
much larger representation III the leg
islature than ever before. They be-
lieve the republicans will make mis-
takes and they want to be in position
to take advantage of the same. They
intend to bring out their strongest man
for governor, confident that he will
have an excellent chance of election
and in this they are encouraged by the
ti1reats and yelled insinuations of some
of the republican papers. But they Will
concentrate on railroad commission
and make an especially strong effort to
capture that organization. They say
that there is very small chance OF the
republicans doing anything that will
win the confidence of the shippers and
consumers and they will have an issue
there which will fetch the votes.
Walter Dewey, of Charlton, has been
already selected as one of the men 10
make the race for the democratic nom
inatIon for the railroad commission. Mr..
Dewey is bright and active young
lawyer of much public experience,
good speaker and well informed on all
matters. 1t is proposed that with MN
shall be either J. j. Dunn of Ma son
City or Nixon P. Jones of Des Moines,
either ore of whom would make an
excellent candidate.
The democrats are confident that
Colonel Palmer will be renominated
and say that there is not a possibility
of his being defeated. The publication
of the Salinger letter which shows that
the railroads are lined UP for him and
actively at work, the democrats say
means Palmer will have walk-away.
In this case Dewey would be picked TO
beat Palmer and the fight would be
made very warm.
letter from northeastern Iowa IN
dicates that possibly there will be some
trouble in lining up the standpatters OF
the district for D. D. Murphy for con-
gress and that some of the most radical
of the standpetters will refuse to go
into the deal as it was made here DUR
ing the week pf the good roads stand
pat conventiofs. ,Thet democrats feai
that the republicans will not be able Y
deliver the goods i'm that district, az
many of them link that Hart OF Ala
makee should hkve been permitted to
come out for the nomination as was
originally planned.
The democrats say that 1t Is now
all settled that DR.. DeArmond of Dav-
export is to be the democratic candi-
date in the SECOND distfist. He mane
a great record in the legislature.
All efforts to get out candidate
against Clint Price for the democratic
nom ination in the Seventh district nave
failed thus far.