Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-18
Hepse 60 Enlist Clark Supporters ~
He Would Then Become 0evsrner-
Deadlock Holds Fast and Neither
Kenyon Nor pssmsr Can es Elected
Without Caucus, Leaders Say.
snedal TO oTimes-Republican.
Des Motnes, Feb. 18.-Todays Joint
ballot in the Iowa legislature resulted
m follows:

Only three changes were made
shankland changed from Kenyon to
Deemer, George from Deemer to Ken
yon. and jacobson, Of Audubon. from
Kenyon to Deemer. All other changes
were due to absentees or pairs. Only
aixty would have nominated q senator
cauous Call Out.
Another caucus call was started our
this morning, calling for republican
caucus for next Wednesday afternoon
10 decide who shall be the republican
candidate for the senate. The call Is foa
a caucus Of not less than eighty mem
bers. The call was in the hands OF the
kenyon men. and prior to the JONI
convention only about thirty-hve names
f,ad been assured. The leaders among
the xtandpatters have not signed the
call.
Carroll Has Senatorial Itch.
with q caucus call under way. there
4. also talk Of starting q movement
nert week for tho election OF Governor
carroll as senator. Those responsible
for It expect to gain some strength
from the friends Of Lieutenant Gov
ernor Clarke, who would thereby oe-
come governor.
prominent legislators now say thai
neither Deemer nor Kenyon can o<
elected without Q caucus.
National Politics Involved.
II tho whispered insinuations aoou'
the legislative corridors are any foun.
dation. national politics. and persona
nresidential politics at that. are be-
comins badly naixed up In the Iowa
.senaaorsal deadlock. There are more
reesonA than one why washington =
keeping close tab on the situation here
.Don't you begin to realize" asked
member yesterday. "that there are
ereat many angles to this little scrar
Of the boys over ono office. and 1t Is
frauRl,t with great possibilities In ma
tional way? Let's see about It. The
TAFT administration Is deeply concern
ed about iowa. Nobody will dispute
that. So long as It seemed to be
controversy between Young and Ken
Won not a hint came from tho east as
to any interest in the senatorial night
The very day that a new and danger.
ous element entered into the contest,
q high Official Of the Taft admfnistra- :
ton. one Of the finer circle Of confden-
tial Taft advisers. appears on the scene
He IL for Kenyon. But for three days
he has been directing desperate bat
tie to prevent tho election Of Judge n.
u, Deemer. He II not alone for Ken
yon; he Is against the other man. Ever
stop to figure out how that can be?
Taft Opposed 70 Dsemer-Whyf
..Now here IL the explanation. Judge
Deemer was backed by tho Iowa dele
CATION for q place on the supreme
bench and later for a place on the Unit
ed States circuit bench. The man who
above all others stood out loyalty and
earnestly for Deemer was Senator
Cummins. He had the endorsement of
the entire 'insurgent' section Of the
Kansas observation-disclosures. Bristow
and their friends. Including Gov.
Gtubbs. He had the endorsement Of the
.insurgents' OF Nebraska. Minnesota
ana Wisconsin. And these men put It
right up to Taft to name Deemer for
high Office and they showed his decis-
ions, In which he stood for the rights
Of the people, as guaranty that he
was a man Of the people.
There was immense pressure
brought to bear In some way. not alone
for other candidates. but against
Deesmer, ana the president reached over
into Georgia and into Wyoming and
took unknown men for the high bench.
and then, clinched what he meant by
going into the very congressional dis
tr3ct in which Deemer lives and pick
ing q man who is exactly the opposite
OF Deemer in everything. and made him
q Judge.
a Slap at cumm;ns.
when the judicial matter became
critical. President TAFT sent for A. B.
'Cumnins ana almost LETT the matter in
his hands for decision, at least as be-
tween the two Iowa men: but when he
lfosind that Senator Ct1mmins was firm
In his position that he was for Deemer
,lirst and all the time, he turned down
Cummlns and the progressives OF the
middle west ana by 30 doing narrowly
escaped having an ugly fight on his
hands.
President Taft knows, no matter
what others may know, that judge
:Deemef ana his friends IN Iowa have
real cause TO feel deep and abiding re-
sentiment over the treatment given the
eminent Iowa 5urist
4 sPresident Taft Knows perfectly well
that tho election Of Judge Dcemer to
the senate a. against ono Of his own
appointeeu 70 high office. would be rec
oSnised svssywhere - at least far from
being an Endorsement OF the Taft ad-
Gnsnistra15on IN ali it, phases.
proeidoney 70 In u.
~ And President TAFT knows that such
"a outcome Of the senatorial situation
"a YssrA een.ila s.a4 Ae nf any assistance
% him "a securing the Iowa delegation
'alxt year. while tho election OF one OF
lli1 cActals would peactically assure =