Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-15
IN SPEECH IN DIES MONIES HE
ENDORSES ONLY TWO DEMO-
CRATIC CANDIDATES.
MAKES NO REFERENcEro
PLATFORM OR STATE ISSUES
Several Candidates Who Had Seats on
Platform Utterly Ignored by Ne
braskan-Carefu to Make Statement
That Might Give offsnse to Stand
patters-Franke Confident Of Result.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines, Oct. 15.-What meaning
was there to the evident deliberate
ness with which William j. Bryan
avoided any sweeping Endorsement Of
the democratic state ticket any mem
ton of any other than just two of the
many democratic candidates for office.
This is question that is bothering
some Of the leading democrats Of this
city. Mr.. Bryan paid high compli-
ment to Claude Porter, and said it IN
such a manner that everyone knew he
was sincere and honest in his belief.
His thought was, however. that Mr..
Porter is a man of such synpathies
that he would make a splendid gov
ernor, and that he had the moral cour-
age to act in accordance with his own
best judgment. He did not say to vote
for Porter because of the platform on
which he was running nor because
of any special thing he would adopt
in Iowa government.
Right then he turned aside and
stated that he did not care to go on
with his personal references, because
he could only speak from personal
knowledge, and he did not know other
candidates.
But at Creston be also spoke of Mr..
Maxwell, who is running for judge in
that district, and he spoke of Dewey
and Jones, who are running for rail-
road commissioner, and he commended
all these. And on the platform beside
Bryan in Des Moines was Farley Shell
don. of Ames, the candidate Of his
party for lieutenant governor, and two
or three Of the candidates for district
Judge, the candidate for state senator,
the two candidates for representatives,
and others Not a word of comfort for
them, even indirectly. He did not at
any place in Iowa commend the demo-
cratic candidate for attorney general
to the voters. Yet here is the hottest
fight of all.
He spoke in the Eighth district for
Frank Stuart and here he spoke per-
sonally for Clint Price. He undoubt-
edly would have spoken in the Ninth
against Smith, but 1t viii always re-
main unknown whether he would have
said personal word for Cleveland. He
was just on the border Of the Sixth dis
trict and said not a word in favor OF
Dan Hamilton. It is known that
under no circumstances would he
have been willing to speak for %. D.
Murphy, or for Pepper He probably
would have been glad Of chance to
say something for John DENIM son.
1t was evident. in short, that MI.
Bryan was over-nice in his selection OF
the candidates he would personally IN
dorse. He had just made 1t very plain
that he recognized the fact that there
are standpaters in the democratic
party, and some Of them run for Of
fee.
Another thing about his address In
Des Moines that seemed to have been
carefully studied out was that in no
place did he say a word that could be
offensive in any way to standpatter.
He never once alluded to Aldrich or
Cannon, hardly mentioned Taft and
Tawney, and strictly avoided any
references to Congressman Hull or
Judge Prouty. He had been advised
that 1t is the expectation that the DEM
ocrats will win this district by coax
ing a large number of standpat reg
ulars" to vote the democratic ticket.
But it is nevertheless true that MI.
Bryan had a fine audience and hum
dreds were turned away.
FRANKIE 10 Confident.
Having concluded the work of hold
ing a conference in each OF the eleven
congressional districts in the state,
Chairman c. F. FRANKIE, Of the repub-
lican committee, returned to Des
Moines yesterday. satisfied with this
part Of the campaign work.
The primary system, the greater in
telligence Of the voters and their IN
dependence have revolutionized in a
way the method Of conducting politi-
cal campaign. Chairman FRANKIE be-
lieves that for getting in direct touch
with the voters. the best results can
be had by and thru a complete organi-
cation.
Until the present time Mr.. FRANKIE
has declined to make any public state
ment, notwithstanding the publication
of some articles to the contrary. He
held that no intelligent opinion could
be formed without personal interview
with the leaders in the respective dis
tricts and counties. At the district
meetings which he called and which
were largely attended in each instance
the situations were gone over with the
county chairman, Legislative candidates,
congressional committeeman and con-
gressional nominees. 1t is upon the
knowledge gained at these meetings
that Mr.. FRANKIE bases the authorized
statement he made today. 1t follows:
Two years ago the committee re-
ceived the best kind of results from
these congressional district confer
ences. The conferences for this year
having all been held am pleased to
say that in not one instance was there
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