Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-09
OVERTHROW OF HALE MACHINE
IN MAINE BY ASHER KINDS
PUTS HIM IN LISTS.
KINDS BEST PARLlAMENTARIAN
IN WHOLE UNITED STATES
House Insurgents Once Considered
Plan Of Elevatins Him to Speaker
ship From Civil Position of Speakers
Cierk-EIection to House Will Put
Him in Line for Place.
Especial Correspondence

Washington. July 7.-Old-time can
didates for the office OF the speaker OF
the house have a recruit in their midst
as result OF the overthrow of the
Hale political machine In Maine. Asher
c. Kinds, at present clerk at the
speakers table, and generally recog-
nized as the most able pariiamentarian
In the United States, is the man who
brought ruin to the political machine
which was built many years ago by
Senator Eugene Hale and main tanned
up to the time that Kinds was nomin-
ated by reclamation for congress in
the First district over Colonel Fred
Hale, son of the senator
In nominating Kinds the republicans
administered harder blow to the SEN
ator than is generally recognized. After
a long career in the public service
Senator Hale had set his heart on hav-
ing his son follow in his footsteps. He
had already succeeded in having
Chandler Hale, another son, made an
assistant secretary Of state. The OPP
position to his sons candidacy for the
house of representatives became so
future was seriously endangered. Be-
cause of his old age and a service in
congress OF more than thirty years the
senator sought to relieve his son of
much of the opposition and to save
himself from the possibility of humil-
iating defeat by announcing that he
would not be candidate for re-elec-
ton. He was thus enabled to concern
his fr,rcoS in Of Colonial
Hale. How we'll he succeeded was IL
lustrated on Thursday when Kinds
was nominated by reclamation. thereby
administering the first defeat of i'm
portance the Hale machine has known
during its existence.
Once Considered for Speaker.
When the insurgen, movement
against Speaker Cannon was at its
height during the last session of con-
gress and the leaders Of the movement
we're determined ta,unseat Uncle joe
there was a strong sentiment In favor
of electing Kinds 10 the speakership
There is nothing in the rules OF the
house which specifically provides that
the speaker must be member OF the
mouse and several Of the insurgents
were DESTROYS of taking advantage OF
the silence on this point by elevating
Kinds So far as handling the par
liamentary situation in the house Is
concerned Kinds has been the real
speaker ever since Me- Cannon was
elected 10 tina; office, There is but one
man in the house who pfesides over
the body without the assistance OF
Kinds and that man Is James E. Mann,
OF Illinois. himself a candidate for the
speakership in the next congress.
There has been no lessening in the
sentiment in favor of Kinds for the
speakershp-in fact 1t Is now regarded
as certain that he will be formidable
candidate not only because he Is popu-
lar with every member Of the house ir-
respective Of faction and party bu'
more especially because ne is peculiar
ly fitted TO fill thee Office The present
sentiment in the house Is to have the
speaker q mere presiding officer IN
much the same fashion as the speaker
OF the English house of commons ano
to restore to the house much OF the
power now invested in the speaker
Should this sentiment be crystalized II
the Sixty-Second congress Kinds, II II
believed. will be the logical choice. mol
only of the insurgents but also OF many
regulars to whom the speakershal
would lose its attractiyeness il 1t were
shorn of its power.
Kinds had his parliamentary train
inging in an excellent school. He mrs.
came 10 Washington as a clerk in Inc
office of the late Thomas B. Reed
whose arbitrary rulings gained for MIN
the title OF iczar,n title which is no:
frequently given to Speaker Cannon
AT that time Amos Alien, now mem
Der of the house from the First Maine
district, was Reeds private secretary
When Reed retired from congress ne
used his influence to have Allen elected
to his place MT Allen. becoming weary
of public life. desired that his seat be
occupied by another OF Mr.. Reeds in
Inmates and his sympathy was Win
Kinds. The parliamentarian Is not
good orator and it is expected that a
great deal of attention during MS nrst
term will be devoted to a discussion OF
the rules, in which event he VIII IN
doubtedly WELD considerable lnnuehce